N.Y. Education Law § 370: Definitions

§ 370. Definitions. As used or referred to in this article, unless a

different meaning clearly appears from the context:

1. "Comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller.

2. "Director of the budget" shall mean the state director of the

budget.

3. "Dormitory" shall mean a housing unit or any emergency temporary

housing, with necessary and usual attendant and related facilities and

equipment, for the use of students, faculty and staff, and their

families, at a state-operated institution or statutory or contract

college under the jurisdiction of the state university.

4. "Facility" shall mean a classroom, lecture hall, library,

laboratory or other academic building, a dormitory, or any structure on

or improvement to real property of any kind or description, including

fixtures and equipment which are an integral part of any such building,

structure or improvement, a walkway or roadway, and improvements and

connections for water, sewer, gas, electrical, telephone, heating, air

conditioning and other utility services, at a state-operated institution

or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction of the state

university.

5. "Federal government" shall mean the United States of America, and

any officer, department, board, commission, bureau, division,

corporation, agency or instrumentality thereof.

6. "Fund" shall mean the state university construction fund created by

subdivision one of section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter.

6-a. "Large-scale construction project" shall mean any project for

which the total estimated cost of the contract or contracts is ten

million dollars or more that is:

(a) a project performed under the approved master plan of the state

university submitted pursuant to subdivision thirteen of section three

hundred fifty-five of this chapter; or

(b) which involves the construction, acquisition, reconstruction,

rehabilitation or improvement of academic buildings, dormitories and

other facilities, with respect to university-related economic

development projects authorized by law pursuant to section three hundred

seventy-two-a of this article.

7. "Letting agency" shall mean (i) the dormitory authority or other

state agency which by agreement with the fund is to award the contracts

for a particular construction, acquisition, reconstruction,

rehabilitation or improvement project, or (ii) the fund if it is to

award such contracts.

8. "Real property" shall mean lands, waters, rights in lands or

waters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including lands

under water and riparian rights, and any and all other things and rights

usually included within the same term and includes also any and all

interests in such property less than full title, such as easements

permanent or temporary, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all

other incorporeal hereditaments in every estate, interest or right,

legal or equitable.

9. "State" shall mean the state of New York.

10. "State agency" shall mean any officer, department, board,

commission, bureau, division, public benefit corporation, agency or

instrumentality of the state.

11. "State-operated institutions" shall mean institutions comprising

the state university as provided for in subdivision three of section

three hundred fifty-two of this chapter but not including statutory or

contract colleges.

12. "State retirement systems" shall mean (i) the New York state

teachers' retirement system provided for in section five hundred two of

this chapter and (ii) the New York state employees' retirement system

provided for in section ten of the retirement and social security law.

13. "State university" shall mean the state university of New York as

defined in section three hundred fifty of this chapter.

14. "Statutory or contract colleges" shall mean colleges furnishing

higher education, operated by private institutions on behalf of the

state pursuant to statute or contractual agreements; provided that an

institution not otherwise a statutory or contract college shall not

become a statutory or contract college because of its receipt of state

funds or financial assistance pursuant to section three hundred

fifty-eight of this chapter, or by entering into any contract pursuant

to that section.