Ch. 311

LAWS OF MARYLAND

(1) "Industrial process" means:

(1)  A process used to produce or manufacture goods or
products; or

(2)  The storage or shipment of materials, goods, or
products.

(m) "Person" means any natural person, company, firm,
cooperative, partnership, corporation, association, consortium,
unincorporated organization, trust, estate, any entity organized
for a common business purpose, or any federal, State, or local
government and any agency or instrumentality of those
governments.

(n) "Revenues" means, but is not limited to, all revenues
and moneys received by the Administration from or in connection
with any energy project, including proceeds of loans or bonds,
grants, insurance, investments, rentals, rates, fees, and charges
for the use of the services furnished or made available, and. any
other income inuring to the Administration, as the term
"revenues" may be applied to a particular project, financing, or
other matter.

(o) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Economic and
[Community] EMPLOYMENT Development.

(p) (1) "Solar energy project" means, with respect to any
commercial or industrial building, any addition, alteration, or
improvement that is designed to utilize wind energy, energy
produced by a wood burning appliance, or solar energy, either of
the active type based on mechanically forced energy transfer or
of the passive type based on convective, conductive, or radiant
energy transfer (or some combination of these types), to reduce
the energy requirements of the building.

(2) "Solar energy project" includes a solar process
heat device, solar electric device, or any earth sheltered'
building in which the sheltering substantially reduces the
consumption of energy by the building.

[13-403.] 6-303.

(a)  The Maryland Energy Financing Administration is hereby
created as a [division] UNIT of the Department [of Economic and
Community Development]. The Administration is constituted as a
public instrumentality of the State of Maryland. The exercise by
the Administration of the power conferred by this subtitle shall
be considered to be the performance of an essential public
function.

(b)  The Secretary, with the approval of the Governor, shall
appoint the director of the administration who shall serve at the

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