For purposes of this section and sections 10-265b to 10-265d, inclusive:

(a) “Vocational education equipment” means personal property with an estimated useful life of five or more years and an initial purchase price of five hundred dollars or more for use in (1) vocational, technical or technological education; (2) business office education; (3) health occupations education; (4) marketing education; (5) consumer and occupational home economics education; and (6) cooperative work education. “Vocational education equipment” may include rebuilt and reconditioned machines.

(b) “Net purchase price of vocational education equipment” means, commencing with the grant applications submitted during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1986, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the documented cost of all eligible equipment, reimbursable under this section and § 10-265b, including installation and freight charges, but excluding finance and leasing charges or interest costs incurred for such purchase. The cost of any vocational education equipment included in a grant pursuant to § 10-286 shall not be included in the net purchase price of vocational education equipment. For a local or regional board of education with an average daily membership, as defined in subsection (a) of § 10-261, of less than five thousand for the fiscal year three years prior to the fiscal year in which payment is to be made pursuant to § 10-265c, the net purchase price of vocational education equipment in any one fiscal year shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. For a local or regional board of education with an average daily membership, as defined in § 10-261, equal to or greater than five thousand, a regional educational service center or school districts entering into cooperative arrangements, the net purchase price of vocational education equipment in any one fiscal year shall not exceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars.