Pennsylvania Code › Title 22 - EDUCATION › Part IX - State Library and Advisory Council on Library Development › Subpart B - Advisory Council on Library Development › Chapter 142 - GRANTS FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY FACILITIES › Section 142.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
					 have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Acquisition
-The purchase or lease with an
					 option to purchase of land or buildings for public library uses.
Act
-The Keystone Recreation, Park and
					 Conservation Fund Act (32 P. S. §§
											2011-2024).
Administrative expenses
-An expenditure of
					 funds, including expenditures of Commonwealth agencies for personnel and other
					 operating costs necessary to accomplish the purposes of the act.
Agency
-The Department of Education.
Commonwealth Libraries
-The State Library
					 of Pennsylvania, part of the Department of Education.
Development
-New construction, improvement,
					 alteration or renovation required for and compatible with the physical
					 development, improvement of land or buildings for public library
					 purposes.
Fund
-The Keystone Recreation, Park and
					 Conservation Fund established by the act.
Indirect costs
-Costs including
					 administration or utilities that are not readily identifiable as particular,
					 eligible costs directly related to the project.
Land
-Real property, including improvements
					 thereon, right-of-ways, water, riparian and other rights, easements, privileges
					 and any other physical property or rights of interest of any kind or
					 description relating to or connected with real property.
Library
-A free, public, nonsectarian
					 library, whether established and maintained by a municipality or by a private
					 association, corporation or group, which serves the informational, educational
					 and recreational needs of the residents of the area for which its governing
					 body is responsible by providing free access, including free lending and
					 reference services, to an organized and currently useful collection of printed
					 items and other materials and to the services of a staff trained to recognize
					 and provide for these needs.
Minor civil division
-A city, borough,
					 incorporated town, township, home rule municipality or other local government
					 within a county for which the Department of Labor and Industry provides
					 unemployment statistics.
Municipality
-A county, city, borough,
					 incorporated town, township, home rule municipality or an official agency
					 created by the foregoing units of government under the laws of the
					 Commonwealth. Actions of an authority or other official agency taken under the
					 act shall be first approved by the participating local governing bodies in that
					 authority or other official agency.
Planning
-Master site development plans,
					 feasibility studies, maintenance, management plans, and other plans and
					 documents, including long-range plans for the allocation of grants, useful to
					 municipalities and State agencies in the planning, development, operation,
					 protection and management of their public library facilities and programs.
					 Planning may be performed by State agency staff or by outside
					 consultants.
Public library
-A library, as defined in
					 section 3 of the act (32 P. S. §
											2013), or library system, as defined in §
										141.24(b)(1)
					 (relating to library systems).
Rehabilitation
-The improvement or
					 restoration, excluding routine maintenance of existing public library
					 facilities.
Routine maintenance
-Recurring upkeep
					 needed on a regular basis for physical facilities, including cleaning, minor
					 repair of fixtures or structures, painting, regular servicing of heating, air
					 conditioning or other equipment and landscape maintenance such as lawn care or
					 pruning.
Technical assistance
-The provision of
					 grant and professional service to municipalities, organizations and citizens,
					 including publications, video tapes, workshops, meetings, phone consultation
					 and written and electronic communication.
Third-party in-kind contributions
-Property
					 or services that benefit a grant-supported project and that are contributed
					 without charge to the grant recipient by a third-party other than a
					 municipality, a school district or a public library.
Third-party costs
-Direct expenditures for
					 property or services that benefit a grant-supported project and that are
					 contributed without charge to the grant recipient by a third-party other than a
					 municipality, a school district or a public library.