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 section 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 section 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 section 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 section 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 section 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.

(P.A. 82-369, S. 19, 28; P.A. 83-501, S. 7, 12; P.A. 85-170, S. 1, 4; P.A. 86-416, S. 1, 4; P.A. 87-499, S. 16, 34; P.A. 93-376, S. 3, 13; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)

History: P.A. 83-501 amended Subsec. (c) to clarify limitations for eligible expenditures adding provision that average daily membership count will be that for the fiscal year three years prior to the grant year and authorizing school districts which have entered into cooperative arrangements to participate in grant program; P.A. 85-170 deleted definitions of “eligible costs of vocational education equipment” and “eligible expenditures”, added definition of “net purchase price of vocational education equipment” and increased maximum reimbursable amount for some smaller school districts and districts entering into cooperative arrangements; P.A. 86-416 deleted the applicability of this section to Sec. 10-265c(b) and substituted “educational” for “education” in the term “regional educational service center”; P.A. 87-499 in Subsec. (b) provided that beginning with applications submitted during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1986, the cost not be limited to that to be paid from funds from local tax sources and made a technical change; P.A. 93-376 redefined “vocational education equipment” to substitute “personal property” for “an item of equipment”, to decrease the purchase price from $1,000 to $500 and to substitute a new list of fields for the use of the property and redefined “net purchase price of vocational education equipment” to exclude leasing charges and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 98-252 repealed section, effective July 1, 1998; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 amended P.A. 98-252 to remove section from list of those to be repealed, effective June 24, 1998.