2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-A - State University Construction Fund › 370 - Definitions.

§ 370. Definitions.   As used or referred to in this article, unless a
different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller.
2. "Director of the budget" shall  mean  the  state  director  of  the
budget.
3.  "Dormitory"  shall  mean a housing unit or any emergency temporary
housing, with necessary and usual attendant and related  facilities  and
equipment,  for  the  use  of  students,  faculty  and  staff, and their
families, at a  state-operated  institution  or  statutory  or  contract
college under the jurisdiction of the state university.
4.   "Facility"   shall  mean  a  classroom,  lecture  hall,  library,
laboratory or other academic building, a dormitory, or any structure  on
or  improvement  to  real property of any kind or description, including
fixtures and equipment which are an integral part of any such  building,
structure  or  improvement,  a  walkway or roadway, and improvements and
connections for water, sewer, gas, electrical, telephone,  heating,  air
conditioning and other utility services, at a state-operated institution
or  statutory  or  contract  college under the jurisdiction of the state
university.
5. "Federal government" shall mean the United States of  America,  and
any   officer,   department,   board,   commission,   bureau,  division,
corporation, agency or instrumentality thereof.
6. "Fund" shall mean the state university construction fund created by
subdivision one of section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter.
* 6-a. "Large-scale construction project" shall mean any  project  for
which  the  total  estimated  cost  of  the contract or contracts is ten
million dollars or more that is:
(a) a project performed under the approved master plan  of  the  state
university  submitted  pursuant to subdivision thirteen of section three
hundred fifty-five of this chapter; or
(b) which  involves  the  construction,  acquisition,  reconstruction,
rehabilitation  or  improvement  of  academic buildings, dormitories and
other  facilities,   with   respect   to   university-related   economic
development projects authorized by law pursuant to section three hundred
seventy-two-a of this article.
* NB Effective January 1, 2025
7.  "Letting  agency"  shall mean (i) the dormitory authority or other
state agency which by agreement with the fund is to award the  contracts
for    a    particular    construction,   acquisition,   reconstruction,
rehabilitation or improvement project, or (ii) the  fund  if  it  is  to
award such contracts.
8.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands,  waters,  rights in lands or
waters, structures, franchises and interests in  land,  including  lands
under water and riparian rights, and any and all other things and rights
usually  included  within  the  same  term and includes also any and all
interests in such property less  than  full  title,  such  as  easements
permanent  or  temporary,  rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all
other incorporeal hereditaments in  every  estate,  interest  or  right,
legal or equitable.
9. "State" shall mean the state of New York.
10.   "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  officer,  department,  board,
commission, bureau, division,  public  benefit  corporation,  agency  or
instrumentality of the state.
11.  "State-operated  institutions" shall mean institutions comprising
the state university as provided for in  subdivision  three  of  section
three  hundred  fifty-two of this chapter but not including statutory or
contract colleges.
12. "State retirement systems" shall  mean  (i)  the  New  York  state
teachers'  retirement system provided for in section five hundred two of
this chapter and (ii) the New York state  employees'  retirement  system
provided for in section ten of the retirement and social security law.
13.  "State university" shall mean the state university of New York as
defined in section three hundred fifty of this chapter.
14. "Statutory or contract colleges" shall  mean  colleges  furnishing
higher  education,  operated  by  private  institutions on behalf of the
state pursuant to statute or contractual agreements;  provided  that  an
institution  not  otherwise  a  statutory  or contract college shall not
become a statutory or contract college because of its receipt  of  state
funds   or  financial  assistance  pursuant  to  section  three  hundred
fifty-eight of this chapter, or by entering into any  contract  pursuant
to that section.