N.Y. New York City health and hospitals corporation act 1016/69 § 3: Definitions

§ 3. Definitions. As used or referred to in this act, unless a

different meaning clearly appears from the text:

1. "Administrator" or "Health service administrator" shall mean the

administrator of health services of the city of New York.

2. "Administration" shall mean the health services administration of

the city of New York.

3. "Board" shall mean the board of directors of the corporation as

such board is constituted pursuant to section four of this act.

4. "Bonds" and "notes" shall mean bonds and notes respectively,

authorized and issued by the corporation pursuant to this act.

5. "City" shall mean the city of New York.

6. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the city of New York.

7. "Construction" shall mean site acquisition, planning, design,

erection, building, alteration, reconstruction, renovation, improvement,

extension, enlargement, replacement or modification and the inspection

or modification thereof.

8. "Corporation" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by

section four of this act.

9. "Corporation counsel" shall mean the corporation counsel of the

city of New York.

10. "Council" shall mean the agency or body designated as the health

planning agency pursuant to article twenty-nine of the public health law

or public law 89-749 and which is authorized to approve construction of

health facilities in the city of New York.

11. "Director of management and budget" shall mean the director of

management and budget of the city of New York.

12. "Health facility" shall mean a building, structure or unit or any

improvement to real property, including all necessary and usual

attendant and related equipment, facilities or fixtures, or any part or

parts thereof, or any combination or combinations thereof, including,

but not limited to, a general hospital, psychiatric hospital,

tuberculosis hospital, ambulatory clinic or center, chronic disease

hospital, nursing home, extended-care facility, dispensary or laboratory

or any other related facility, or any combination of the foregoing,

constructed, acquired or otherwise provided by or for the use of the

corporation or the city in providing health and medical services to the

public.

13. "Health and medical services" shall mean items or services

provided by or under the supervision of a physician or other person

trained or licensed to render health care necessary for the prevention,

care, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity

or other physical or mental condition including, but not limited to,

pre-admission, out-patient, in-patient and post-discharge care, home

care, physicians' care, nursing care, medical care provided by interns

or residents-in-training and other paramedical care, ambulance service,

bed and board, drugs, biologicals, supplies, appliances, equipment,

laboratory services and x-ray, radium and radio-active-isotope therapy.

14. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of New York.

15. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and

interests in land, waters, lands under water, riparian rights and air

rights, and any and all things and rights usually included within the

said term and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and

all lesser interests such as easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases,

licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate,

interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and

liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages, or otherwise.

16. "Reimbursement allowance" shall mean any money paid by any

government, or any agency or subdivision thereof or by a social services

district or by any private institution or organization or person

including, but not limited to, payments authorized by and made pursuant

to the federal social security act and the state social services law, to

the corporation for the costs of health and medical services furnished

to beneficiaries thereof provided by the corporation directly or through

agreement with the city.

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

18. "Subsidiary corporation" shall mean a corporation created pursuant

to subdivision twenty of section five of this act.

19. "Non-profit hospital" shall mean an organization authorized by law

to provide health and medical services, organized exclusively for

charitable purposes on a non-profit basis, which does not devote more

than an insubstantial part of its total activities to activities not in

furtherance of its charitable purposes, does not participate or

intervene (including publishing or distributing statements), directly or

indirectly, in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to

any candidate for public office, and no substantial part of the

activities of which is devoted to attempting to influence legislation by

propaganda or otherwise and no part of the net earnings of which inures

to the benefit of a private shareholder or individual.