Section 11.2. Definitions

The following terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

Act—53 Pa.C.S. § § 8001—8271 (relating to the Local Government Unit Debt Act).

Complainant—A local government unit, a taxpayer of the local government unit or other interested party authorized by the act to file a complaint under section 8211 of the act (relating to petitions for declaratory orders and complaints to department) asserting the validity or invalidity of proceedings for the incurring of debt or for the issuance of tax anticipation notes or for the exclusion of debt as self-liquidating or subsidized.

Office of the Department—For purposes of the receipt of filings, documents and other materials, the issuance and entry of orders, and other matters related to adjudicatory proceedings filed under section 901 of the act, the Department of Community and Economic Development, Office of Chief Counsel, Commonwealth Keystone Building, 400 North Street, 4th Floor, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120.

Local government unit—An entity as defined in section 8002(c) of the act (relating to definitions).

Petitioner—A local government unit, a taxpayer of the local government unit or other interested party as authorized by the act to file a petition for declaratory order asserting the validity or invalidity of proceedings for the incurring of debt or for the issuance of tax anticipation notes, or for the exclusion of debt as self-liquidating or subsidized, as authorized by section 8211 of the act.

Respondent—A local government unit, an official of a local government unit or another person named, or the real party in interest, in a complaint or petition filed under section 8211 of the act.

Secretary—The Secretary of the Department.