2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 4 - Dormitory Authority › 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.
(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.
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.