The item “equipment,” when used in an appropriation act, shall mean and include all expenditures for library books, and expenditures, having a unit value exceeding $100, for the acquisition, replacement or increase of visible tangible personal property of a non-consumable nature, including livestock, whether by purchase, lease-purchase or installment purchase contract. In addition, the “option price” under a bona fide lease with option to purchase is properly payable from the item “equipment”.
     The item “equipment” does not include expenditures pursuant to multi-year lease, lease-purchase or installment purchase contracts for duplicating equipment authorized by Section 5.1 of “The Illinois Purchasing Act”, approved July 11, 1957, as now or hereafter amended, and does not include any expenditure in connection with the repair, maintenance or improvement of real property.

Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 30 ILCS 105/20

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
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