473.20 - ENERGY LOAN PROGRAM.
473.20 ENERGY LOAN PROGRAM. 1. An energy loan program is established and shall be administered by the office. 2. The office may facilitate the loan process for political subdivisions of the state, school districts, area education agencies, community colleges, and nonprofit organizations for implementation of energy management improvements identified in an energy analysis. Loans shall be facilitated for all cost-effective energy management improvements. For political subdivisions of the state, school districts, area education agencies, community colleges, and nonprofit organizations to receive loan assistance under the program, the office shall require completion of an energy management plan including an energy analysis. The office shall approve loans facilitated under this section. 3. a. Cities and counties shall repay the loans from moneys in their debt service funds. Area education agencies shall repay the loans from any moneys available to them. b. School districts and community colleges may enter into financing arrangements with the office or its duly authorized agents or representatives obligating the school district or community college to make payments on the loans beyond the current budget year of the school district or community college. Chapter 75 shall not be applicable. School districts shall repay the loans from moneys in either their general fund or debt service fund. Community colleges shall repay the loans from their general fund. Other entities receiving loans under this section shall repay the loans from any moneys available to them. 4. For the purpose of this section, "loans" means loans, leases, or alternative financing arrangements. 5. Political subdivisions of the state, school districts, area education agencies, and community colleges shall design and construct the most energy cost-effective facilities feasible and may use financing facilitated by the office to cover the incremental costs above minimum building code energy efficiency standards of purchasing energy-efficient devices and materials unless other lower cost financing is available. As used in this section, "facility" means a structure that is heated or cooled by a mechanical or electrical system, or any system of physical operation that consumes energy to carry out a process. 6. The office shall not require the state, state agencies, political subdivisions of the state, school districts, area education agencies, and community colleges to implement a specific energy management improvement identified in an energy analysis if the entity which prepared the analysis demonstrates to the office that the facility which is the subject of the energy management improvement is unlikely to be used or operated for the full period of the expected savings payback of all costs associated with implementing the energy management improvement, including without limitation, any fees or charges of the office, engineering firms, financial advisors, attorneys, and other third parties, and all financing costs including interest, if financed.
Section History: Recent Form 86 Acts, ch 1167, § 3 C87, § 93.20 87 Acts, ch 209, § 2; 90 Acts, ch 1252, § 12; 90 Acts, ch 1253, § 120; 91 Acts, ch 253, §8 C93, § 473.20 94 Acts, ch 1029, §30; 2001 Acts, ch 60, §1; 2008 Acts, ch 1126, §27--29, 33; 2009 Acts, ch 108, §35, 41 Referred to in § 279.53, 298.3, 469.3, 473.19, 473.20A