PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

S.B. 810

(3) Provides a method of controlling energy usage within its exterior
envelope but that, as designed, does not have a peak design rate of energy usage of less
than 3.5 B.T.U. per hour per square foot or 1 watt per square foot of floor area.

(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 BUSINESS AND Economic [and
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.

[6-303.] 6-403.

(a)     The Maryland Energy Financing Administration is hereby created as a unit of
the Department. 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)     (1) The Secretary, with the approval of the Governor, shall appoint the
Director of the Administration who shall serve at the pleasure of the Secretary and shall
be in the unclassified service of the State Personnel Management System.

(2)     Subject to the administrative supervision of the Secretary, the Director
shall operate and exercise the powers of the Administration in accordance with the
provisions of this subtitle and of the law relating to the establishment of the Department
of BUSINESS AND Economic [and Employment] Development.

(3)     The Director shall receive such salary as provided in the State budget.

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