N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1676: Definitions

§ 1676. Definitions. As used or referred to in this title, unless a

different meaning appears from the context,

1. The term "authority" shall mean the corporation created by section

sixteen hundred seventy-seven of this chapter;

2. The term "dormitory" shall mean any of the following: (a) a housing

unit, including an emergency temporary dormitory constructed pursuant to

section sixteen hundred seventy-nine of this title, or any other

emergency temporary housing operated by the authority, including all

necessary and usual attendant and related facilities and equipment,

acquired, designed, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated and

improved, or otherwise provided under the jurisdiction of the dormitory

authority for the use of students at a state-operated institution or

statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction of the State

University of New York, as defined in section three hundred fifty of the

education law.

(b) It shall also include a housing unit for the use of students,

married students, faculty, staff and the families of such married

students, faculty and staff, an academic building, administration

building, library, laboratory, classroom, health facility or other

building or structure essential, necessary or useful in the academic,

cultural, health or research program, including all necessary and usual

attendant and related facilities and equipment at any institution for

higher education located in this state and authorized to confer degrees

by law or by the board of regents, other than a state-operated

institution or statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction of

the State University of New York, as defined in section three hundred

fifty of the education law, or at any non-profit institution or hospital

at which the training of nurses is provided by a program approved by the

department of education of the state of New York, or for New York

Academy of Sciences, or for any of the following:

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Incorporated.

Center for the Arts at Ithaca, Incorporated.

Affiliated Colleges and Universities, Inc.

Brookdale Hospital Center.

Albany Medical Center Hospital.

St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York.

Mount Vernon Hospital.

New York Medical College of New York, Incorporated.

Cortland Memorial Hospital.

Highland Hospital of Rochester, Incorporated.

Onondaga County Historical Museum.

Columbia Memorial Hospital.

St. Peter's Hospital of the city of Albany.

The department of health of the state of New York.

Beekman-Downtown Hospital.

Geneva General Hospital.

Optometric Center of New York.

Brookhaven Memorial Association, Incorporated, doing business as the

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital.

Calvary Hospital, Inc.

Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center.

The Saratoga Hospital.

Booth Memorial Medical Center, Queens, New York.

Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.

The improvement and modernization of the Dazian, Silver, Karpas and

Linsky buildings of the Beth Israel Medical Center and the vertical

expansion above the said Silver Building located between East sixteenth

and East seventeenth streets and between First Avenue and Nathan D.

Perlman Place in New York city; nothing in the foregoing shall be deemed

to authorize the said Beth Israel Medical Center to apply any funds or

credit obtained pursuant to this title toward the development of any

other property or properties it presently owns or controls or may own or

control in the future.

Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital, Inc.

St. Francis Hospital, Poughkeepsie.

The Staten Island Hospital.

Carthage Area Hospital, Inc.

Mount Sinai Hospital.

Hospital for Joint Diseases and Medical Center.

Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens, Incorporated.

The Clifton Springs Sanitarium Company.

Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center.

General Hospital of Saranac Lake.

The Church Charity Foundation of Long Island.

Buffalo General Hospital.

Crouse-Irving Memorial Hospital, Inc.

Misericordia Hospital Medical Center.

Samaritan Hospital of Brooklyn.

Benedictine Hospital.

The Society of the Home for Incurables.

The White Plains Hospital Association.

The Cornwall Hospital.

Memorial Hospital, Albany, New York.

The Rochester General Hospital.

Our Lady of Victory Hospital of Lackawanna.

Mercy Hospital Association.

The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, Inc.

Charles S. Wilson Memorial Hospital.

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital Society.

Retirement Home of Central New York Conference of the United Methodist

Church, Inc.

The Trustees of the Jones Fund for the Support of the Poor.

St. Mary's Hospital of Troy.

The Roosevelt Hospital in relation to the Smithers Alcoholism

Treatment and Training Center on a site known as 516 West 59th Street

and the Arthur J. Antenucci Research Building on a site known as 432

West 58th Street in New York City, nothing in the foregoing shall be

deemed to authorize the said Roosevelt Hospital to apply any funds or

credit obtained pursuant to this title toward the development of any

other property or properties it presently owns or controls or may own or

control in the future.

Queens Hospital Center of the borough of Queens, city of New York.

Franklin General Hospital.

St. Vincent's Medical Center of Richmond.

Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center.

Eastman Dental Center.

United Hospital.

The Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance (B.E.C.A.) when and if

incorporated by the Board of Regents of the University of the state of

New York.

St. Mary's Hospital at Amsterdam.

The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

The Village Nursing Home, Inc. for the acquisition, improvement and

modernization of the Village Nursing Home, located on the southwest

corner of the intersection of Twelfth Street and Hudson Street on a site

known as 607 Hudson Street in New York City; nothing in the foregoing

shall be deemed to authorize the said Village Nursing Home, Inc. to

apply any funds or credit obtained pursuant to this title toward the

development of any other property or properties it presently owns or

controls or may own or control in the future.

The Elizabeth A. Horton Memorial Hospital.

The Community Hospital of Brooklyn, Inc.

Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn.

Maimonides Medical Center.

Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn.

The Faxton Hospital in the city of Utica.

Lawrence Hospital.

The New Rochelle Hospital Medical Center.

Putnam Community Hospital.

New York Blood Center, Inc.

South Nassau Communities Hospital, in Oceanside, New York.

St. Joseph's Hospital, Yonkers, New York.

St. Elizabeth's Hospital at Utica.

Arden Hill Hospital, Goshen, New York

St. Luke's Hospital of Newburgh, New York.

Vassar Brothers Hospital

The Nyack Hospital, North Midland Avenue, Nyack, New York.

Yonkers General Hospital.

Nassau Hospital, Mineola, Long Island, New York.

Sheehan Memorial Emergency Hospital, Buffalo.

Good Samaritan Hospital, West Islip, New York.

The Community Hospital at Glen Cove.

Flushing Hospital and Medical Center.

St. John's Riverside Hospital at Yonkers.

Jamaica Hospital of Jamaica, New York

Ellis Hospital, Schenectady, New York.

The Moses Ludington Hospital.

Society of New York Hospital.

Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, Inc.

Dobbs Ferry Hospital, Dobbs Ferry, New York.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in relation to any construction within

the area bounded by the perimeter and elevation described by the plans

for the museum building and the new wings and courts contained in the

Metropolitan Museum of Art Master Plan Report dated July fifteenth,

nineteen hundred seventy-one prepared for the Department of Parks,

Recreation and Cultural Affairs of the city of New York.

New York state teachers' retirement system.

F.I.T. student housing corporation.

Community Memorial Hospital, Inc., Hamilton, New York.

The College Entrance Examination Board.

Museum of American Folk Art.

The Human Resources Center.

The Museums at Stony Brook.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Associated Universities, Inc.

New York Zoological Society

International House, Inc.

YM and YWHA of Mid-Westchester of the Associated YM-YWHA's of Greater

New York.

The New York Foundling Charitable Corporation located on the southeast

corner of the intersection of the Avenue of the Americas, formerly Sixth

Avenue, and Seventeenth Street on a site known as 578-590 Avenue of the

Americas in New York City; nothing in the foregoing shall be deemed to

authorize the said New York Foundling Charitable Corporation to apply

any funds or credit obtained pursuant to this title toward the

development of any other property or properties it presently owns or

controls or may own or control in the future.

New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc., Albany County

Chapter for the financing, construction and development of a day

programming facility and necessary ancillary and related facilities in

Albany county to replace the existing day programming facility now

operated by the New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc.,

Albany County Chapter at 155 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York.

March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.

Association for the Help of Retarded Children, Suffolk Chapter, for

the financing, construction and development of a seventy-five thousand

square foot adult training and treatment center for the severely

developmentally disabled on five acres of agency owned land located on

Scouting Blvd. (formerly Industrial Blvd.), West Yaphank, N.Y.

United Cerebral Palsy of Ulster County, Inc., for the construction of

a forty-six thousand square foot program services building at Lake Road

and Tuytenbridge Road in the Town of Ulster, Ulster County.

Hillside Children's Center for the financing, construction, and

equipping of a residential facility and an educational facility for

children with handicapping conditions, as such term is defined in

subdivision one of section forty-four hundred one of the education law,

on County House Road in the town of Sennett, county of Cayuga, New York;

and for the upgrading of the facilities and equipment owned and

controlled by the Hillside Children's Center, located at 1183 Monroe

Avenue in the city of Rochester, county of Monroe, New York.

United Way of Tri-State, Inc. for the acquisition and improvement of

office space and related facilities in New York county for use by the

following entities: United Way of Tri-State, United Way of New York

City, Greater New York Fund/United Way, and the United Way of America,

Northeast Regional Office.

New Dimensions in Living, Inc., as a real estate holding company

operated in conjunction with the New York State Association for Retarded

Children, Inc., Montgomery County Chapter, for the financing,

construction and development of a thirty-five thousand square foot day

treatment facility on land owned by New Dimensions in Living, Inc. on

Route 5-S in Amsterdam to replace an existing day treatment facility in

the former Tribes Hill School.

Associated Residential Centers, Inc., as a real estate holding company

operated in conjunction with the New York State Association for Retarded

Children, Inc. Rensselaer County Chapter, for the financing,

construction and development of a twenty-one thousand square foot day

treatment facility and necessary ancillary and related facilities in

Rensselaer county to replace existing day treatment facilities now

operated by the New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc.,

Rensselaer County Chapter in Pittstown and North Greenbush, New York.

New York Society for the Deaf for the financing, construction and

development of a six-story expansion of residential facilities for the

deaf and deaf-blind at Tanya Towers located at 620 East 13 Street, New

York city.

The Devereux Foundation for the financing, construction and equipping

of facilities subject to the approval of the commissioner of education,

the commissioner of social services and the commissioner of the office

for people with developmental disabilities for a residential and

educational program for children with handicapping conditions, as such

term is defined in subdivision one of section forty-four hundred one of

the education law, including, but not limited to, those students who

were publicly placed at the Rhinebeck Country School during the nineteen

hundred eighty-six--eighty-seven school year and in furtherance of the

state's overall goal of reducing the number of children with

handicapping conditions requiring out-of-state placements: nothing in

the foregoing shall be deemed to authorize The Devereux Foundation to

apply any funds or credit obtained pursuant to this section toward the

financing, construction or equipping of facilities on any other property

or properties it presently owns or controls or owns or controls in the

future.

New Hope Community, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, for the

financing, construction and development of residences for adults with a

developmental disability on forty acres of land purchased from Leon and

Dave Scharf, d.b.a. New Hope Rehabilitation Center, located on State

Route 52 in the Town of Fallsburg, to replace existing residential

facilities operated by New Hope Rehabilitation Center.

For the financing, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

renovation of or otherwise provided for United Cerebral Palsy of New

York City, Inc., for (1) an intermediate care facility for the

developmentally disabled at Avenue S and Lake Street, Brooklyn; (2) a

pre-school program service facility at Mason and Seaview Avenues, Staten

Island; (3) a children and adult program service facility at Stillwell

Avenue, Bronx; (4) a children and adult program service facility at

Lawrence Avenue, Brooklyn; (5) a pre-school program service building at

Lawrence Avenue, Brooklyn; (6) an adult program service building at Port

Richmond Avenue, Staten Island; (7) children's program services building

at Lawrence Avenue, Brooklyn; and for the leasehold improvements to

Manhattan and adult programs services sites.

Special act school districts listed in chapter five hundred sixty-six

of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended.

State-supported schools for the instruction of deaf and blind students

and children with other handicapping conditions pursuant to article

eighty-five of the education law and chapter one thousand sixty of the

laws of nineteen hundred seventy-four.

Westchester School for Special Children, Westchester county, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

improvement, renovation, development, expansion, furnishing, equipping

or otherwise providing for a new school building, provided that the

location within Westchester County is designated and bonds are issued on

or before July first, two thousand eight.

Guided Growth, Inc. of Hawthorne, Westchester county, for the

financing, construction and development of a new school building and

attendant facilities to be located at five Bradhurst Avenue, Hawthorne,

Westchester county.

Saint Christopher-Ottilie, Nassau County, for the renovation and

expansion of its Ottilie Campus Residential Treatment Facility on one

hundred forty-eighth street in Jamaica, County of Queens.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, for

the financing, construction and renovation of such center's existing

buildings at 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, New York, 10301, into

residences for artists.

The education department of the state of New York, including the New

York state school for the blind, the New York state school for the deaf,

and schools established by the commissioner of education pursuant to

section forty-one hundred one of the education law, for facilities

owned, operated by, or provided by the state for the use of, the

education department of the state of New York, including, but not

limited to, the premises commonly known as the state education building,

located at 89 Washington Avenue in the city of Albany, New York, the New

York state school for the blind, located at Richmond Avenue in the city

of Batavia, New York, the New York state school for the deaf, located at

401 Turin Street in the city of Rome, New York, schools established by

the commissioner of education pursuant to the provisions of subdivision

one of section four thousand one hundred one of the education law, and

the premises commonly known as the cultural education center located in

the empire state plaza in the city of Albany, New York, and attendant

and related facilities.

The National Center for the Study of Wilson's Disease, Inc., a

not-for-profit corporation for the financing, construction and equipping

of replacement laboratories, offices and clinical out-patient facilities

for the center at the Antenucci Institute of the Roosevelt St. Luke's

Hospital, 432 W. 58th Street, New York, New York, 10019; provided that

the location is designated and bonds are issued on or before July first,

nineteen hundred ninety-two.

Vesta Community Housing Development Board, Inc. of Altamont for the

financing, construction and equipping of facilities for persons

recovering from an addiction to alcohol or a controlled substance.

The Utica College Foundation, for the financing, refinancing,

reimbursement and development of student dormitory and academic

facilities at its Utica campus, including Burrstone House to serve as a

dormitory for students residing at the college; provided, however, that

the aggregate sum of such issuance of bonds shall not exceed thirty-five

million dollars.

Gateway Youth and Family Services for the financing, construction and

development of new facilities for a diagnostic and evaluation program

and a pre-independent living program, and to expand existing facilities

in a special education school on real property located on Main Street,

Williamsville, county of Erie.

Orleans County Chapter-New York State Association for Retarded

Children, Inc. for the financing, construction and development, of a

preschool facility and necessary ancillary and related facilities in

Orleans county to replace the existing preschool facility now operated

by the Orleans County Chapter-New York State Association for Retarded

Children, Inc. at 151 Platt Street, Albion, N.Y. 14411.

New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc., Westchester

County Chapter for the financing, construction and development, of a

preschool facility and necessary ancillary and related facilities in

Westchester county to replace the existing preschool facilities now

operated by the New York State Association for Retarded Children, Inc.,

Westchester County Chapter at 12 Green Street, Mt. Kisco, New York and

50 Washington Avenue, New Rochelle, New York.

New York State Association for Retarded Children,

Inc.-Livingston-Wyoming County Chapter for the financing, acquisition

and rehabilitation, of a preschool facility and necessary ancillary and

related facilities in Livingston county to expand existing preschool

facilities now operated by the New York State Association for Retarded

Children, Inc.-Livingston-Wyoming County Chapter located at 18 Main

Street, Mount Morris, N.Y. 14510.

Orange County Cerebral Palsy Association, Inc. for the improvement of

its headquarters facilities on Fletcher Street in the village of Goshen.

New York Association for the Learning Disabled, Capital District

Chapter, Inc., renamed Wildwood Programs, Inc., for the acquisition,

financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

renovation, development, expansion, furnishing, equipping or otherwise

providing for facilities for Wildwood Programs, Inc.

AMDA INC./The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, for the

financing, refinancing, reimbursement and development of a dormitory for

students residing at the academy and an academic facility.

Private not-for-profit schools.

For the financing, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

renovation of or otherwise provide for United Cerebral Palsy of

Westchester County, Inc., for (1) a twelve bed intermediate care

facility for the developmentally disabled and (2) for expansion of the

day program service facility at Rye Brook, New York.

Hospice, Buffalo, for the financing, construction and development of

new and renovated facilities for the care and treatment of terminally

ill individuals.

The National Sports Academy at Lake Placid, for the financing,

refinancing, reimbursement and development of a dormitory for students

residing at the academy and an academic facility.

Ferncliff Manor as a not-for-profit residential school serving

children who are severely mentally disabled and medically involved, who

will also on a not-for-profit basis operate an intermediate care

facility, for the financing, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

renovation and development of five twelve bed dormitories in Westchester

County for such children.

The Leake and Watts Children's Home (Incorporated), Yonkers, New York

for the financing, construction, reconstruction, improvement, renovation

or otherwise for (1) a new school building for the junior high and high

school vocational programs including a field house; (2) a new children's

cottage and renovation and reconstruction of eight existing children's

cottages to provide more efficient heating and cooling systems, more

secure supervision and to increase the number of beds; (3) renovation

and reconstruction of the main building to provide new electrical and

plumbing systems and internal rehabilitation; and (4) renovation and

reconstruction of the old school building for multiple use.

Oxford University and the Oxford University Press, Incorporated; or

either of them for the financing, acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, renovation and rehabilitation of facilities to be

located in the borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York.

Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth, Canaan, New York for the

financing, construction, reconstruction, improvement, renovation,

equipping or otherwise providing for a dining facility on the existing

campus of Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth in Canaan, New

York.

A public library.

South Street Seaport Museum, Inc.

United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Capital District, Inc., for

the financing, construction, reimbursement, and development of

residences and program facilities on lands owned by the Center, at

locations within Albany county.

Phoenix House Foundation, Inc., New York, New York, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion and equipping of

facilities, excluding general hospitals as defined in article

twenty-eight of the public health law, located in the county of New

York, or at sites owned, leased or operated by Phoenix House at the

following locations: 34-01, 34-11 and 34-25 Vernon Boulevard, Long

Island City, New York; 480 East 185th Street and 2329 Bassford Avenue,

Bronx, New York; 43-44 and 46-50 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York; and

Shrub Oak, Westchester county, New York; for the provision of drug abuse

prevention and treatment, medical, psychiatric and clinic services,

remedial education, secondary education, vocational training and

recreational facilities for adolescent and adult substance and

polysubstance abusers, mentally ill chemical abusers, and their

families, and related administrative and support services.

Irish American Heritage Museum, a not-for-profit corporation, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, design, construction, improvement,

renovation, equipping, furnishing or otherwise providing for facilities

within the city of Albany, New York.

The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council, Inc. a not-for-profit

corporation, for the financing, refinancing, acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, renovation, rehabilitation of, furnishing, equipping and

otherwise providing for buildings to serve as dormitories for students

enrolled in various professional or post-secondary educational

institutions.

The Rosalind and Joseph Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center of Long Island,

Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, for the financing, refinancing,

construction, reconstruction, furnishing, equipping, improvement,

renovation or otherwise providing for facilities to serve the aged,

disabled and chronically impaired persons.

Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences.

The DePaul Group, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion and equipping of certain

educational, administrative and residential facilities, to be located in

the state of New York.

The Roswell Park Cancer Institute corporation and its subsidiary

corporations.

University Heights Association, Inc.

Little Flower Children's Services of New York, Brooklyn, New York for

the financing, construction, reconstruction, improvement, renovation,

equipping or otherwise providing for four residential facilities for

learning disabled children.

The department of audit and control of the state of New York.

The New York state and local employees' retirement system.

The New York state and local police and fire retirement system.

The office of general services of the state of New York.

Public school districts receiving aid for the financing of eligible

school construction projects for rebuilding schools to uphold education

(RESCUE).

Harlem Dowling-West Side Center for Children and Family Services, a

not-for-profit corporation for the financing, refinancing, construction,

reconstruction, furnishing, equipping, improvement, renovation or

otherwise providing for facilities to serve and assist children and

their families in crisis and distress.

Yeshiva Beis Leivy.

Roberson Memorial, Inc., doing business as Roberson Museum and Science

Center.

* Not-for-profit members of the New York State Rehabilitation

Association and the New York Alliance for Inclusion and Innovation and

any successor in interest to any such organization, for the acquisition,

financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction, renovation,

development, improvement, expansion and equipping of certain

educational, administrative, residential, clinical, day programming, job

training and workforce development facilities to be located in the state

of New York.

* NB Repealed December 31, 2028

* NYSARC, Inc. for the acquisition, financing, refinancing,

construction, reconstruction, renovation, development, improvement,

expansion, and equipping of clinical, day programming and residential

facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities throughout the

state.

* NB Repealed December 31, 2028

Educational Housing Services Inc., a not-for-profit corporation, for

the acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion, and equipping of

housing for students and/or faculty at institutions of higher education

located within the five boroughs of the city of New York and Westchester

county either by directly or by creation of a wholly-owned

not-for-profit subsidiary corporation or controlled corporations,

limited liability companies or partnerships, that are not subject to

federal income taxation (except with respect to any unrelated business

income).

* Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center for the financing,

refinancing, construction, reconstruction, renovation, development,

improvement, expansion, and equipping of facilities to serve aged,

disabled, and chronically impaired, and persons who have a developmental

disability.

* NB Repealed December 31, 2028

United States Military Academy for the purpose of providing

construction related services in connection with the construction,

reconstruction, improvement, renovation, development or expansion of

facilities owned by the United States Military Academy located at West

Point, New York.

The Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, a

not-for-profit corporation located in Sands Point, New York, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion and equipping of

facilities.

The Green Chimneys Children's Services, Inc., Brewster, New York for

the financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

renovation, equipping or otherwise for new children's cottages.

The state university construction fund or any other public or private

entity in connection with financing, refinancing, acquisition, design,

construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing

and equipping of, or otherwise providing for, a pharmaceutical research,

development, which may also include a manufacturing facility at the

state university of New York college of technology at Farmingdale. The

authority shall exercise only those powers or duties set forth in this

section as shall be set forth in an agreement by and between the state

university construction fund, the authority and any such public or

private entity.

MSMC realty corporation, a support organization of the Mount Sinai

hospital, Mount Sinai school of medicine of the city university of New

York and the Mount Sinai medical center, inc. (collectively, "Mount

Sinai"), for the purpose of providing facilities and equipment for Mount

Sinai. As used in this paragraph and for purposes of chapter five

hundred fifty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-nine, MSMC

Realty Corporation shall be deemed to include any other entity that is

created by MSMC Realty Corporation or Mount Sinai for the purpose of

entering into an agreement with the dormitory authority pursuant to this

paragraph.

The state university construction fund or any other public or private

entity in connection with financing, refinancing, acquisition, design,

construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing

and equipping of, or otherwise providing for approved university-related

economic development facilities authorized by section three hundred

seventy-two-a of the education law. The authority shall exercise only

those powers or duties set forth in this section as shall be set forth

in an agreement by and between the state university construction fund,

the authority and any such public or private entity.

The Capital District YMCA and related branches, administrative offices

and satellite facilities located in New York state including: Albany

YMCA, Camp Chingachgook, Guilderland YMCA, Parkside Family YMCA,

Schenectady YMCA, Southern Saratoga YMCA, Troy Family YMCA and any

successor in interest to any such organization for the financing and/or

refinancing of the acquisition, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of a

facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities.

UCPA of the Capital District, Inc., UCPA of Cayuga County, Inc.,

United Cerebral Palsy and Handicapped Children's Association of Chemung

County, Inc., Finger Lakes United Cerebral Palsy, Inc., United Cerebral

Palsy Associations of Fulton and Montgomery Counties, Inc., United

Cerebral Palsy Association of the Tri-Counties, Inc., Franziska Racker

Centers, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County, Inc.,

United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy

Association of Niagara County, Inc., Orange County Cerebral Palsy

Association, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy of Queens, Inc., United

Cerebral Palsy Association of the Rochester Area, Inc., Jawonio, Inc.,

The Handicapped Children's Association of Southern New York, Inc.,

United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Suffolk, Inc., SDTC - The

Center for Discovery, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy and Handicapped

Children's Association of Syracuse, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy of

Ulster County Inc., United Cerebral Palsy and Handicapped Person's

Association of the Utica Area, Inc., United Cerebral Palsy Association

of Westchester, Inc. and Unified Creative Programs, Inc., United

Cerebral Palsy Association of Western New York, Inc., United Cerebral

Palsy Association of Putnam and Southern Dutchess Counties, Inc., United

Cerebral Palsy Association of the North Country, Inc., United Cerebral

Palsy Associations of New York State, Inc., any not-for-profit

affiliates or members of Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State,

Inc., and any successor in interest to any such organization for the

financing and/or refinancing of the acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, renovation, development, improvement, expansion and/or

equipping of a facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and

related facilities throughout the state of New York, including

educational, residential, administrative, clinical, and day programming

facilities used in the provision of services to individuals with

disabilities.

The university at Albany foundation, or an associated not-for-profit

corporation controlled by the university at Albany foundation which has

been formed or is formed within one year of the effective date of this

paragraph, for the purpose of financing or refinancing the acquisition,

design, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement,

furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise providing for a facility to

serve as an incubator and research facility located at the east campus

of the university at Albany; and Fuller road management corporation, for

the purpose of financing or refinancing the design, construction,

improvement, furnishing and equipping of incubator and research

facilities at the center for environmental sciences and technology

management.

Baker Hall, Lackawanna, New York for the financing, acquisition,

construction, reconstruction, renovation and improvement for facilities

in Lackawanna, New York.

The Abyssinian Cultural Building Corporation, a New York

not-for-profit corporation, with respect to the financing and/or

refinancing of the acquisition, design, construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing, purchasing and equipping of, or

otherwise providing for, an educational facility for the Thurgood

Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change to be leased to the New

York city school construction authority or to the board of education of

the city school district of the city of New York for school purposes.

Any school district in the state with respect to the financing or

refinancing of all or a portion of school district capital facilities

and school district capital equipment for such school districts,

provided, however, that financing of such projects shall be limited to

financing of projects eligible for an apportionment pursuant to

subparagraph three of paragraph e of subdivision six of section

thirty-six hundred two of the education law.

A qualified zone academy located in a city having one hundred

twenty-five thousand or more inhabitants for the purpose of issuing

qualified zone academy bonds in accordance with section 1397E of the

internal revenue code, as the same may be amended.

The NDC housing and economic development corporation and its

affiliates for the financing, refinancing, acquisition, design,

construction, reconstruction, renovation, rehabilitation, improvement,

expansion, furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise providing for one

building to be located at 160 East 24th Street, New York, N.Y. to serve

as a dormitory for students attending institutions of higher education

within the city of New York.

School Districts having Eligible School District Projects

Political subdivisions financing eligible wireless 911 capital

equipment.

Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks.

Women's Interart Center, Inc. of New York City, for the acquisitions,

financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction, improvement,

renovation, development, expansion, furnishing, equipping or otherwise

providing for facilities for the Interart Rehearsal Studio and Cultural

Center Complex located at 543-551 West 52nd Street in the Clinton Urban

Renewal area of Manhattan.

The Center for Jewish History, Inc., for the acquisition, financing,

refinancing, construction, reconstruction, improvement, renovation,

development, expansion, furnishing, equipping or otherwise providing for

facilities as a centralized location for preserving and advancing

scholarship, art, history, and culture through its archival collection,

in a one hundred twenty thousand square foot facility located at 15 West

16th Street in Manhattan.

The Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Inc., for the acquisition,

financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction, renovation,

development, improvement, expansion, furnishing and equipping or

otherwise providing for a professional creative residence and

performance facility on one hundred fifty-three rural acres in Tivoli,

New York.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc., for the acquisition, financing, refinancing,

construction, reconstruction, improvement, renovation, development,

expansion, furnishing, equipping or otherwise providing for facilities

devoted to the collaboration of art and technology in New York state and

the construction of a new ninety thousand square foot building located

in the Chelsea area of New York city.

Youth Environmental Services, d/b/a Yes Community Counseling, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion, furnishing and

equipping or otherwise providing for the purchase of a building for such

not-for-profit group located in Massapequa, New York.

The New York military academy, an education corporation chartered by

the board of regents located in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, for the

acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction,

renovation, development, improvement, expansion and equipping of

facilities.

Preventive Medicine Institute, doing business as Strang Cancer

Prevention Center.

Any residential institution for children as defined in subdivision

forty-four of this section for the financing, refinancing, design,

replacement (including acquisition and construction), reconstruction,

rehabilitation, improvement, renovation, and equipping of existing

residential facilities.

The Museum of African American Cinema, Inc., a New York not-for-profit

educational corporation created by a provisional charter from the board

of regents of the state university of New York, with respect to the

financing, refinancing, acquisition, design, construction,

reconstruction, otherwise providing for facilities as a centralized

location for preserving and advancing scholarship, art, history, and

culture through its archival collection, in a building located in

Harlem, New York city.

34th Street Cancer Center, Inc., with respect to the financing and/or

refinancing of the acquisition, purchasing and equipping of a certain

building located at 160 East 34th Street, New York, New York, for use as

a cancer center.

The Beacon Institute, Inc., a domestic not-for-profit corporation

formerly known as the Rivers and Estuaries Center on the Hudson, Inc.,

for the acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction,

reconstruction, renovation, development, improvement, expansion,

furnishing and equipping or otherwise providing for facilities for

conducting a program of research and education that advances the

understanding of rivers and estuaries and develops policies and

practices that benefit the human and natural communities that depend

upon these ecosystems, located at Beacon Harbor and Denning's Point in

Beacon, New York, The Upper Hudson Research Center at Troy, located at

the waterfront in Troy, New York and the Center for Tributary Study,

located at Creek Road in Beacon, New York, and the Old Main Building at

Clarkson University located in Potsdam, New York.

The Rochester school construction board for the financing of projects

authorized pursuant to the city of Rochester and the board of education

of the city school district of the city of Rochester school facilities

modernization program act.

Albany Convention Center Authority

The YMCA of Greater Syracuse and related branches, administrative

offices and satellite facilities located in New York state including:

Downtown YMCA, East Area YMCA, North Area YMCA, Northwest YMCA, Camp

Iroquois and any successor in interest to any such organization for the

financing and/or refinancing of the acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of

a facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities.

The United States Maritime Resource Center for the purpose of

financing, refinancing, construction, reconstruction, renovation,

development, expansion and equipping of a facility to serve as a

classroom and student residence building in support of professional

education and training programs to be located on the campus of the

United States Merchant Marine Academy located in Kings Point, New York.

Not-for-profit members of the Alliance of Long Island Agencies, Inc.,

for the acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction,

reconstruction, renovation, development, improvement, expansion and

equipping of certain educational, administrative, clinical, day program

and residential facilities to be located in the state of New York.

Fordham Preparatory School, Inc., for the financing or refinancing, or

reimbursement of the costs of the acquisition, design, construction,

reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping

of, or otherwise providing for construction of additional educational

facilities located on Fordham University Rose Hill Campus, the Bronx,

New York.

The Reece School, for the financing or refinancing, or reimbursement

of the costs of, the acquisition, design, construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise

providing for, additional floors or facilities for education and therapy

at their facility located at twenty-five East One Hundred Fourth Street

in the city of New York, to serve as a school for special education

students; provided, however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds issued

for such purpose shall not exceed thirty-five million dollars.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Reece School shall have

full power and authority to assign and pledge to the dormitory

authority, any and all public funds to be apportioned or otherwise made

payable by the United States, any agency thereof, the state, any agency

thereof, a political subdivision, as defined in section one hundred of

the general municipal law, any social services district in the state or

any other governmental entity in an amount sufficient to make all

payments required to be made by the Reece School to any lease, sublease

or other agreement entered into between the Reece School and the

dormitory authority. All state and local officers are hereby authorized

and required to pay all such funds so assigned and pledged to the

dormitory authority or, upon the direction of the dormitory authority,

to any trustee of any dormitory authority bond or note issued, pursuant

to a certificate filed with any such state or local officer by the

dormitory authority pursuant to the provisions of this section.

Friends Academy, Glen Cove, Nassau County, for the financing or

refinancing, or reimbursement of the costs of the acquisition, design,

construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing

and equipping of, or otherwise providing for, the complete renovation of

the lower school located on the campus at Glen Cove, Nassau County,

provided however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds issued for such

purpose shall not exceed six million five hundred thousand dollars.

Not-for-profit members of InterAgency Council of Developmental

Disabilities Agencies, Inc., for the acquisition, financing,

refinancing, construction, reconstruction, renovation, development,

improvement, expansion and equipping of certain educational,

administrative, clinical, day program and residential facilities to be

located in the state of New York.

Broad Channel Volunteers, Inc. doing business as Broad Channel

Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps for the purpose of

providing construction related services in connection with the

construction, reconstruction, improvement, renovation, development or

expansion of facilities owned by Broad Channel Volunteers, Inc. doing

business as Broad Channel Volunteer Fire Department and Ambulance Corps

located at 305 Crossbay Boulevard, County of Queens, block 15304, lot

450, New York 11693.

The Convent of the Sacred Heart School, for the financing or

refinancing, or reimbursement of the costs of, the acquisition, design,

construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing

and equipping of, or otherwise providing for, the Convent of the Sacred

Heart School at their facility located at: 406 East 91st Street in the

city of New York, to serve as a school for students in grades

pre-kindergarten through twelve; provided, however, that the aggregate

sum of any bonds issued for such purpose shall not exceed fifty-five

million dollars.

Mercy Flight, Inc., of Western New York, for the financing and/or

refinancing of equipment or the acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of

a facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities.

The Trevor Day School, for the financing or refinancing, or

reimbursement of the costs of, the acquisition, design, construction,

reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping

of, or otherwise providing for, the Trevor Day School at their facility

located at 312-318 East 95th Street in the city of New York, to serve as

a school for students in grades seven through twelve; provided, however,

that the aggregate sum of any bonds issued for such purpose shall not

exceed seventy-five million dollars.

Richardson Center Corporation.

Williamsburg Infant & Early Childhood Development Center, Inc. at 22

Middleton Street, Brooklyn, New York.

Randolph Academy union free school district for the financing,

acquisition, construction, reconstruction, renovation and improvement

for facilities located in Erie county, New York.

Medical Missions for Children, Inc.

Primary Care Development Corporation for the acquisition, financing,

refinancing, construction, reconstruction, renovation, development,

improvement, expansion, and equipping of facilities offering primary

health care services and related ambulatory care and ancillary services

in the state of New York.

Poly Prep Country Day School, for the refinancing of outstanding

indebtedness, the financing or refinancing, or reimbursement of the

costs of, the acquisition, design, construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise

providing for, the Poly Prep Country Day School at its facilities

located at 9216 Seventh Avenue and/or 50 Prospect Park West in Brooklyn,

New York, to serve as a school for students in grades Nursery through

twelve; provided, however, that the aggregate sum of any bonds issued

for such purpose shall not exceed fifteen million dollars.

St. Andrew's Foundation, the Scottish Society of Hudson's Valley,

Ltd., a not-for-profit corporation, for the acquisition, financing,

refinancing, design, construction, improvement, renovation, equipping,

furnishing or otherwise providing for facilities within the Hudson

Valley.

Xavier High School, for the financing or refinancing, or reimbursement

of the costs of the aquisition, design, construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping of, or otherwise

providing for, Xavier High School at its facility located at 30 West

16th Street in the city of New York, to serve as a school for students

in grades nine through twelve; provided, however, that the aggregate sum

of any bonds issued for such purpose shall not exceed fifty-five million

dollars.

Mercy Flight Central, Inc., of Central New York, for the financing

and/or refinancing of equipment or the acquisition, construction,

reconstruction, development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of

a facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities.

Young Men's Christian Association-Women's Community Center of Rome,

New York Incorporated, for the financing and/or refinancing of equipment

or the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, development,

improvement, expansion and/or equipping of a facility or facilities and

necessary ancillary and related facilities.

Dancewave, Inc., for the financing, acquisition, construction,

development, improvement, expansion and/or equipping of a facility or

facilities and necessary ancillary and related facilities.

Summit Educational Resources, Inc., a not-for-profit organization, for

the acquisition, financing and/or refinancing, design, construction,

renovation, reconstruction, development, improvement, furnishing,

expansion and/or equipping of a facility or facilities and necessary

ancillary and related facilities.

An authorized agency as defined by subdivision ten of section three

hundred seventy-one of the social services law, or a local probation

department as defined by sections two hundred fifty-five and two hundred

fifty-six of the executive law for the provision of detention facilities

certified by the office of children and family services or by such

office in conjunction with the state commission of correction or for the

provision of residential facilities licensed by the office of children

and family services including all necessary and usual attendant and

related facilities and equipment.

The office of children and family services of the state of New York.

North Country School, Lake Placid, New York, for the acquisition,

financing and/or refinancing, design, construction, renovation,

reconstruction, development, improvement, furnishing, expansion and/or

equipping of a facility or facilities and necessary ancillary and

related facilities.

New York Military Academy

Any not-for-profit corporation formed pursuant to an inter-municipal

agreement among two or more counties within this state to assist said

counties in acquiring, financing, constructing, reconstructing,

remodeling, enlarging, altering, repairing, operating, managing,

leasing, selling or otherwise disposing of a joint county detention

facility established in accordance with section two hundred eighteen-a

of the county law.

The New York Racing Association, Inc. for capital projects.

The New York Academy of Medicine.

The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association (dba 92nd Street

Y)

Masonic Medical Research Laboratory, a not-for-profit corporation, for

the design, acquisition, financing, refinancing, construction,

reconstruction, renovation, rehabilitation, development, improvement,

expansion, furnishing, equipping or otherwise providing for a facility

and/or facilities, including any necessary or ancillary facilities, for

the purpose of conducting scientific research or conducting testing for

public health in the city of Utica.

Mary Cariola Children's Center, Inc.

Sandy Ground Historical Museum at 1538 Woodrow Road, Staten Island,

New York for the restoration or replacement of the museum building

located at such address.

the office of cannabis management.

the cannabis control board.

the private debt or equity fund in which the state or any state

agency, public authority or public benefit corporation, or division

thereof, has invested and is selected pursuant to subdivision thirty-two

of section one thousand six hundred seventy-eight of this title to the

extent authorized in subdivision thirty of such section.

Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, New York.

Dutchess Community College Association, Inc. for the purpose of

financing or refinancing the acquisition, design, construction,

reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, furnishing and equipping

of, or otherwise providing for residential housing located on the campus

of Dutchess Community College.

SB Clinical Practice Management Plan, Inc., for the purpose of

financing or refinancing for up to four advanced specialty care centers.

(c) It shall also include, a laboratory, which may include academic

facilities, together with all necessary and usual attendant and related

facilities and equipment, erected for rental to the state of New York or

the government of the United States of America for research, laboratory

or other related operations at any institution for higher education

located in this state, and authorized to confer degrees by law or by the

board of regents, other than a state-operated institution or statutory

or contract college under the jurisdiction of the State University of

New York, as defined in section three hundred fifty of the education

law.

(d) It shall also include, a board of cooperative educational services

school facility, any building, library, laboratory, classroom or other

building or structure essential, necessary or useful for instruction in

a program of any board of cooperative educational services and located

in the state of New York.

(e) It shall also include, facilities, which may include a combined

occupancy or multi-use building or portion thereof, for the Gananda

educational facilities corporation, a not-for-profit corporation, and

used in whole or in part by the Gananda school district pursuant to a

lease or other agreement entered into under the provisions of chapter

nine hundred twenty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred seventy-two,

as amended.

(f) It shall also include, a facility for the aged.

(g) It shall also include a child care facilities development project.

(h) It shall also include equipment, intellectual property or other

intangible property, including information technology and software,

eligible for tax-exempt financing under the United States internal

revenue code.

3. The term "bond" shall mean bonds or notes issued by the authority

pursuant to this title;

5. The term "board" shall mean the members of the authority.

6. The term "facility for the aged" shall mean any real property,

building, unit within a building, or any structure on or improvement to

real property of any kind or description essential, necessary or useful

in a program to provide facilities for the aged, including all usual

attendant and related facilities, fixtures, equipment and connections

for utility services or any combinations thereof, acquired, designed,

constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated and improved, or otherwise

provided by the dormitory authority for persons sixty years of age or

older, and any other person who is the spouse of and resides with a

person sixty years of age or older.

7. The term "locally sponsored community college" shall mean a college

established and administered pursuant to article one hundred twenty-six

of the education law;

8. The term "city university" shall mean the city university of New

York, comprised of the senior colleges and community colleges governed

and administered by the board of higher education in the city of New

York pursuant to article one hundred twenty-five of the education law;

9. The term "facility", when used with respect to a locally sponsored

community college, shall mean a dormitory as defined in subdivision two

(b) of this section.

10. The term "federally guaranteed security" means any security,

investment or evidence of indebtedness which is issued pursuant to the

national housing act or any successor provision of law, each as amended

from time to time, and which is either, directly or indirectly, insured

or guaranteed, in whole as to the repayment of principal and interest by

the United States of America or any instrumentality thereof.

11. The term "federally insured mortgage note" means any loan secured

by a mortgage for any hospital or health care institution facility which

is either, directly or indirectly, insured or guaranteed, in whole or in

part, as to the repayment of principal and interest by the United States

of America or an instrumentality thereof, or any commitment by the

United States of America or an instrumentality thereof to so insure or

guarantee such a loan secured by a mortgage.

12. The term "direct loan" shall mean a loan by the authority to a

student or the parents of a student or both for the purpose of financing

the cost of attendance by the student at a public institution for higher

education located in this state, recognized and approved by the regents

of the university of the state of New York, which provides a course of

study leading to the granting of a post-secondary degree, which is

serviced and administered by a financial institution, the New York state

higher education services corporation or other qualified loan

origination and servicing organization pursuant to the supplemental

higher education loan financing program authorized by section sixteen

hundred seventy-nine of this title.

13. The term "education loan" shall mean a loan by the authority to an

independent institution for higher education located in this state,

recognized and approved by the regents of the university of the state of

New York, which provides a course of study leading to the granting of a

post-secondary degree pursuant to the supplemental higher education loan

financing program authorized by section sixteen hundred seventy-nine of

this title.

14. The term "student loan" shall mean a loan by an independent

institution for higher education located in this state, recognized and

approved by the regents of the university of the state of New York,

which provides a course of study leading to the granting of a

post-secondary degree to a student or the parents of a student or both

for the purpose of financing the cost of attendance by the student at

such institution pursuant to the supplemental higher education loan

financing program authorized by section sixteen hundred seventy-nine of

this title.

15. The term "cost of attendance" shall mean, for the period for which

the loan is sought, the tuition and fees applicable to the student,

together with the estimate of the institution for higher education of

other expenses reasonably related to attendance at such institution,

including, but not limited to, the cost of room and board, reasonable

commuting costs and costs for books, and, in the case of a student who

receives or has received a HEAL direct loan or a HEAL student loan, the

amount of the insurance premium and the interest due and payable on any

such loan.

16. The term "borrower" shall mean a student or a parent who has

received or agreed to pay a student loan or a direct loan.

17. The term "student loan series portfolio" shall mean student loans

made by a specific institution for higher education which are funded

from the proceeds of an education loan to such institution out of the

proceeds of a related specific bond issue through the authority or which

is purchased, acquired or taken by assignment or otherwise by the

authority.

18. The term "student" shall mean any full-time or half-time student,

as such terms are defined by the commissioner of education, enrolled as

an undergraduate or graduate student in a public or independent

institution for higher education located in this state, recognized and

approved by the regents of the university of the state of New York,

which provides a course of study leading to the granting of a

post-secondary degree.

19. The term "parent" shall mean one or both of the birth parents,

step-parents or adoptive parents or the spouse of an adoptive parent or

the legal guardian or guardians of a student.

20. The term "HEAL direct loan" shall mean a loan by the authority to

a student for the purpose of financing the cost of attendance by the

student at a public or independent institution for higher education

located in this state where such loan is insured by the United States of

America pursuant to title IV, part C, of the "Health Professions

Educational Assistance Act of 1976", as now or hereafter amended, with

respect to the health education assistance loan program authorized

thereunder.

21. The term "HEAL education loan" shall mean a loan by the authority

to an independent institution for higher education located in this

state, which is designated as a HEAL school pursuant to title IV, part

C, of the "Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976", as

now or hereafter amended with respect to the health education assistance

program authorized thereunder.

22. The term "HEAL student loan" shall mean a loan by an independent

institution for higher education in this state, to a student for the

purpose of financing the cost of attendance by the student at such

institution which is insured by the United States of America pursuant to

title IV, part C, of the "Health Professions Educational Assistance Act

of 1976", as now or hereafter amended, with respect to the health

education assistance loan program authorized thereunder.

23. The term "HEAL student loan series portfolio" shall mean HEAL

student loans made by a specific institution for higher education which

are funded from the proceeds of a HEAL education loan to such

institution out of the proceeds of a related specific bond issue through

the authority or which is purchased, acquired or taken by assignment or

otherwise by the authority.

24. The term "judicial facilities" means facilities, in any county,

within the tenth judicial district, that does not contain a city,

designed for the use of the judiciary, including without limitation,

civil and criminal courts, administrative tribunals and government

offices and facilities for the administration of justice, and all

necessary and usual attendant and related facilities and equipment and

the acquisition of land necessary therefor.

25. The term "court facilities" shall mean facilities suitable and

sufficient for the transaction of business by the state-paid courts and

court-related agencies of the unified court system and the judicial and

nonjudicial personnel thereof, including rooms and accommodations for

the courts of the unified court system, the judges, justices and the

clerical, administrative and other personnel thereof, law libraries,

conference rooms or centers, facilities for the temporary detention of

persons in connection with appearance or production in court when the

court is in session, any other necessary or desirable facilities

incidental to the operation or administration of the unified court

system, fixtures, furnishings or equipment in connection therewith and

buildings and improvements used for the foregoing.

26. The term "participating municipality" means a political

subdivision of the state identified in paragraph (a) of subdivision two

of section thirty-nine of the judiciary law.

27. The term "combined occupancy structure" shall mean any building or

other improvement on real property or an interest therein, containing

both court facilities and facilities intended to be used for purposes

not directly or indirectly related to the court facilities and occupied

by one or more public officials, public bodies or not-for-profit

corporations, together with any other necessary or desirable facilities

incidental to such purposes. Not more than forty-nine percent of a

combined occupancy structure shall be used for purposes unrelated to the

function of the court facilities therein.

28. The term "state university educational facility" shall mean an

academic building, administrative building, housing unit for the use of

faculty and staff and the families of such faculty and staff who are

living with such faculty or staff, library, laboratory, classroom,

lecture hall, health facility, or other building or structure essential,

necessary or useful in the academic, cultural, health or research

program, including all necessary and attendant and related facilities

and equipment, at any state-operated institution or statutory or

contract college under the jurisdiction of the state university of New

York, as defined in section three hundred fifty of the education law.

29. The term "state university athletic facility" shall mean an

athletic facility which includes an outdoor stadium for athletic

competitions at the state university of New York at Buffalo. Such

facility shall not be considered for any purpose to be a state

university educational facility within the meaning of this chapter; nor

shall any bonds issued in connection with a state university athletic

facility be considered for any purpose to have been issued in connection

with a state university educational facility.

30. The term "private not-for-profit schools" shall mean those private

not-for-profit schools approved by the commissioner of education

pursuant to article eighty-nine of the education law as set forth in

this chapter.

31. The term "ambulatory care training facility" shall mean a facility

at the health sciences center at state university of New York at Stony

Brook which is to be used for the provision of on-site ambulatory care

services and the instruction and training of medical students, resident

physicians and fellows and other health sciences students in attendance

at the health sciences center. Such facility shall not be considered for

any purpose to be a state university educational facility within the

meaning of this chapter; nor shall any bonds issued in connection with

such facility be considered for any purpose to have been issued in

connection with a state university educational facility.

32. The term "public library" shall mean those libraries set forth in

section five of the chapter of the laws of nineteen hundred ninety-three

which added this subdivision, as defined as a public library or as an

association library pursuant to section two hundred fifty-three of the

education law.

33. The term "equipment loan" shall mean a loan made by the authority

to any private entity for the benefit of which the dormitory authority

is authorized to issue bonds or other obligations of the dormitory

authority.

34. The term "private entity" shall mean any corporation formed other

than for profit, including any institution of higher education.

35. "Eligible school construction project" means a project for the

design, planning, construction, acquisition, reconstruction,

rehabilitation or improvement of a public school building used primarily

for instruction that is an accessibility project, an educational

technology project, a health and safety project, and/or a physical

capacity expansion project, that has been approved by the voters of the

school district, or approved by the trustees or board of education for

school districts where voter approval is not required, or, a

construction emergency project. Each of the types of projects included

within this definition shall have the same meaning ascribed thereto

pursuant to subdivision ten of section thirty-six hundred forty-one of

the education law.

* 36. The term "child care facilities development project" shall mean

any project that provides for rehabilitation or construction to

establish, expand, or develop a licensed child care center or a

registered school-age program which is intended to serve the needs of

low-income working families or an area with demonstrated child care need

or to provide care for children through the age of twelve years and

enrolled in school following the completion of the school day or the

school year. Such projects shall be used as licensed or registered

forms of child care for a period of at least ten years with an average

of twenty-five percent of its available child care slots set aside for

families eligible for low-income child care subsidies or for referrals

of low-income or public assistance families from local social services

districts.

* NB There are 2 sub. 36's

* 36. "Eligible capital facility program project" shall mean a project

for the design, acquisition, construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, or improvement of research and development facilities,

including equipment, or for the reconstruction, rehabilitation, or

improvement of existing laboratory facilities, as specified in

subdivision four of section two hundred nine-p of article ten-B of the

executive law.

* NB There are 2 sub. 36's

38. "Eligible biomedical facilities program project" shall mean a

project for the design, acquisition, construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, or improvement of biomedical facilities, including the

reconstruction and expansion by the state university construction fund

of an academic incubator facility for use as a pharmaceutical

technology/manufacturing building under section three hundred

seventy-two-a of the education law.

39. "Eligible courthouse improvements" shall mean a project for the

design, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement of

courthouse facilities as set forth in an agreement between the authority

and the director of the budget providing for the financing of such

improvements.

* 40. The term "school district" shall mean a common school district,

a consolidated school district, a union free school district, a central

school district, a central high school district, or a city school

district in a city having a population of less than one hundred twenty

thousand inhabitants or a city acting on behalf of a city school

district in a city having a population in excess of one hundred

twenty-five thousand but less than one million inhabitants according to

the latest federal census. Provided, however, that for the purposes of

subparagraph four of paragraph e of subdivision six of section

thirty-six hundred two of the education law, such term shall not include

special act school districts listed in chapter five hundred sixty-six of

the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended. Provided, further,

that for the purposes of section sixteen hundred eighty-nine-i of this

title, such term shall also include a city acting on behalf of a city

school district in a city having a population in excess of one million

inhabitants according to the latest federal census.

* NB Effective until December 31, 2029

* 40. The term "school district" shall mean a common school district,

a consolidated school district, a union free school district, a central

school district, a central high school district, or a city school

district in a city having a population of less than one hundred twenty

thousand inhabitants or a city acting on behalf of a city school

district in a city having a population in excess of one hundred

twenty-five thousand but less than one million inhabitants according to

the latest federal census. Provided, however, that for the purposes of

subparagraph four of paragraph e of subdivision six of section

thirty-six hundred two of the education law, such term shall not include

special act school districts listed in chapter five hundred sixty-six of

the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-seven, as amended.

* NB Effective December 31, 2029

41. The term "school board" shall mean the board of education, trustee

or board of trustees of a school district, or, for purposes of any

lease, sublease or other agreement entered into pursuant to subdivisions

thirty-eight and thirty-nine of section sixteen hundred eighty of this

article, a city acting on behalf of a city school district in a city

having a population in excess of one hundred twenty-five thousand

inhabitants but less than one million inhabitants according to the

latest federal census.

42. The term "school district capital facilities" shall mean any

school district project for the construction, reconstruction or

acquisition of a school facility for which a cost allowance or

incidental cost allowance would be available pursuant to subdivision six

of section thirty-six hundred two of the education law, a laboratory,

library, classroom, lecture hall, or other building or structure

essential, necessary or useful in an educational program of any school

district, including all necessary and attendant and related facilities

and equipment.

43. The term "school district capital equipment" shall mean any type

of capital equipment essential, necessary or useful in an educational

program of any school district and telecommunication systems, computer

systems, local area networks or wide-area networks, including the

original purchase and installation of computer hardware, conduit,

wiring, in-building elements of networks and equipment for powering of

hardware installation in buildings.

44. The term "residential institution for children" shall mean any

not-for-profit corporation that operates a residential facility for

thirteen or more foster children and/or children placed by the committee

on special education of a school district for which the office of

children and family services establishes a payment rate pursuant to the

social services law or the education law.

* 45. "EXCEL project" shall mean capital projects eligible for an

expanding our children's education and learning (EXCEL) grant aid

apportionment pursuant to subdivision fourteen of section thirty-six

hundred forty-one of the education law.

* NB Repealed December 31, 2029