Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 30 ILCS 105/24.3

  • 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
  • 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
     The item “telecommunication services”, when used in an appropriation act, means and includes all expenditures incurred for the lease, rental or purchase of telecommunications interconnection facility equipment, supplies, maintenance, services and space therefore, and related personal services but not including personal services for the operation of single agency systems. Telecommunications services shall include but is not limited to the interconnection of educational television, radio and computers but shall not include the preparation of or the content of the subject matter transmitted. Telecommunications equipment includes telephone, radio, teletype, teletypewriter, computer and other voice, data, or video interconnection facility systems.