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(a) In this subtitle, the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) “Auction” means a public sale at which property or items are sold to the highest bidder.

(c) 

(1) “Business property” means WSSC-owned property that includes:

(i) Capital movable assets and scrap metal; and

(ii) Controlled assets.

(2) Business property does not include real property.

(d) 

(1) “Capital movable asset” means business property with:

(i) A unit cost of $10,000 or more; and

(ii) A useful life of more than one year.

(2) “Capital movable asset” includes:

(i) Equipment and machinery;

(ii) Motor vehicles;

(iii) Furniture and fixtures; and

(iv) Information technology hardware.

(e) 

(1) “Controlled asset” means business property with a unit cost of less than $10,000;

(2) “Controlled asset” includes:

(i) Computers and computer-related equipment;

(ii) Audio-visual equipment;

(iii) Cell phones;

(iv) Machinery;

(v) Tools; and

(vi) Handguns and other law enforcement weapons.

(f) “Custodial business unit” means the area in which the business property or scrap metal was purchased or maintained or both.

(g) “Donation” means an act or instance of presenting something as a gift, grant or contribution to local governments or nonprofit organizations.

(h) “Firearms Custodian/Armorer” means the controller who issues, repairs, accounts for and ensures the security of WSSC police and homeland security firearms and ammunition.

(i) “Goods” means supplies, inventory, equipment, material, and all tangible personal property, excluding real property.

(j) “Gun manufacturer” means a person who possesses a federal license to engage in the business of manufacturing firearms or ammunition for sale or distribution.

(k) “Handgun” means a short-barreled firearm that can be held, carried and fired with one hand.

(l) “Real property” means real estate, generally land and permanent structures.

(m) “Residual value” means the estimated value of an asset after the asset has fully depreciated.

(n) “Sale” means the exchange of business property or scrap metal for an amount of money or its equivalent.

(o) “Scrap metal” means unusable items of metallic composition such as pipe, castings, bronze meters, sheet metal, steel plates, engine blocks and auto body parts which are suitable for recycling. Examples of scrap metal include:

(1) Metal from automobile, truck, and equipment repairs: small internal combustion engines, engine blocks, brake drums, exhaust components, vehicle body parts;

(2) Fire hydrants, valves, used ductile iron pipe and fittings;

(3) Manhole covers, frames, water meter covers, valve boxes, curb boxes and other cupola, cast or forged iron;

(4) Lamp post, street signs, barrels;

(5) Used industrial equipment, motors, conveyors, bearings, pumps and process piping, vessels, equipment platforms and bases;

(6) Duct work, machine shop tailings, cutting sheet metals.

(p) “Surplus” means any business property or scrap metal owned by WSSC that is no longer needed by the business unit to which the business property or scrap metal was assigned.

(q) “Trade-in” means an asset that is used to defray the cost of a new item and is accepted as partial payment of a new purchase. (Res. 2023-2341; REG-PRM-LO-2014-001 § II. Formerly 13.80.020)