Ohio Administrative Code › Title 164 - Ohio Public Works Commission › Chapter 164-1 - General Provisions › Section 164-1-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
For the purposes of Chapter 164-1 of the Administrative
				Code:
(A) "Administrator" means the
			 administrator of the Ohio small government capital improvements commission
			 appointed under section
			 164.05 of the Revised
			 Code.
(B)
								"Change order" means a modification of a construction
			 agreement to provide material or services to the project that were not
			 specifically delineated in the project agreement or the project
			 application.
(C)
								"Commission" means the Ohio public works
			 commission.
(D)
								"Construction activities" include, but are not limited
			 to, activities necessary for the erection, demolition, or rehabilitation of the
			 facilities constituting the project including but not limited to: material
			 handling (including off-site prefabrication), excavation, land clearance,
			 demolition, utility relocation, grading, footings, form work, backfill, pipe
			 installation, facility construction, repair, demolition, and associated
			 necessary personal services. The work performed may include new work,
			 additions, alterations, and repairs.
(E)
								"Construction
			 costs" are the costs for construction activities.
(F)
			 "Director" means the director of the Ohio public works commission appointed
			 under section 164.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(G) "District" means a
			 division of the state created under section
			 164.03 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H) "District
			 committee" means a district public works integrating committee established
			 under division (A)(1), (A)(2), (A)(3), (A)(4), (A)(5), or (A)(6) of section
			 164.04 of the Revised
			 Code.
(I)
								"Engineering costs" are the costs for professional design
			 and oversight of the project, including related services necessary for
			 completing the design and assisting the applicant with construction of the
			 project.
(J) "Executive
			 committee" means an executive committee of a district public works integrating
			 committee established under division (A)(7) of section
			 164.04 of the Revised
			 Code.
(K) "Expansion project
			 cost" means the cost entailed in a project, or those elements of a project,
			 that would replace existing infrastructure with infrastructure that has a
			 designed service capacity substantially greater than the designed service
			 capacity of the existing infrastructure, regardless of the relative physical
			 dimensions of the existing or replacing infrastructure.
(L)
			 "Infrastructure" means roads and bridges, waste water treatment systems, water
			 supply systems, solid waste disposal facilities, and storm water and sanitary
			 collection, storage, and treatment facilities, including real property,
			 interests in real property, facilities, and equipment related or incidental to
			 those facilities.
(M)
								"Local match" are the funds provided by the applicant
			 to meet its required participation percentage which may not consist of public
			 works funds, but may consist of applicant funds, funds received from other
			 governmental agencies, private lenders, or consist of credits for project
			 related expenses that the applicant paid or the value of work completed on the
			 project by the applicant, also referred to as "local subdivision share of the
			 cost of a capital improvement".
(N)
								"Mark-up costs"
			 are costs above what was incurred by the supplier for personal property or
			 services purchased from a third-party and invoiced to the
			 subdivision.
(O) "New project cost"
			 means the cost entailed in a project, or those elements of a project, that
			 would add infrastructure to a subdivision's existing infrastructure.
(P)
			 "Project" means the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement,
			 planning, and equipping of infrastructure pursuant to sections
			 164.01 to
			 164.16 of the Revised Code. In
			 the case of funds allocated under division (B)(1) of section
			 164.08 of the Revised Code,
			 "project" also includes resurfacing and improving of roads. For purposes of
			 sections 164.20 to
			 164.27 of the Revised Code, this
			 definition of project does not apply.
(Q)
								"Project
			 agreement" is an agreement provided for in division (A)(1) of section
			 164.05 of the Revised Code or
			 division (B)(1) of section
			 164.051 of the Revised
			 Code.
(R) "Project applicant"
			 or "applicant" means the subdivision or group of subdivisions which submitted a
			 request for financial assistance to a district that a district has subsequently
			 formally submitted to the director of the Ohio public works commission or to
			 the administrator of the Ohio small government capital improvements commission
			 under section 164.06 of the Revised
			 Code.
(S) "Project
			 application" means a request for financial assistance formally submitted by a
			 district to the director of the Ohio public works commission or to the
			 administrator of the Ohio small government capital improvements commission
			 pursuant to section 164.06 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Public works commission" or "PWC" means the Ohio
			 public works commission created by section
			 164.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(U)
								"Reimbursable prepaids" are project expenses paid by the
			 applicant within one year of the date of the project agreement.
(V)
			 "Repair project cost" means the cost entailed in a project, or those elements
			 of a project, that would repair existing infrastructure without substantially
			 increasing designed service capacity.
(W) "Replacement
			 project cost" means the cost entailed in a project, or those elements of a
			 project, that would replace existing infrastructure with infrastructure that
			 has a designed service capacity substantially equivalent to the designed
			 service capacity of the existing infrastructure, regardless of the
			 relative physical dimensions of the existing or
			 replacing infrastructure.
(X)
								"Scope change"
			 means a substantive alteration of the proposed project.
(Y)
			 "Small government commission" or "SGC" means the Ohio small government capital
			 improvements commission created by section
			 164.02 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Z) "Small government
			 subcommittee" means a subcommittee of a district public works integrating
			 committee appointed under division (D) of section
			 164.06 of the Revised Code to
			 represent interests of villages and townships.
(AA) "State capital
			 improvements fund" means the fund created by division (A) of section
			 164.08 of the Revised
			 Code.
(BB) "Subdivision",
			 relative to any project pursuant to sections
			 164.01 to
			 164.16 of the Revised Code,
			 means a county, municipal corporation, township, sanitary district, or regional
			 water and sewer district.
(CC)
								"Workswise portal" is the online access maintained by
			 the commission for processing applications and all appurtenant information
			 relating to the programs administered by the
			 commission.