Hawaii Revised Statutes
39A. Special Purpose Revenue Bonds
39A-31 Definitions.

§39A-31 Definitions. Whenever used in this part, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
"Department" means the department of budget and finance.
"Health care facility", "facility", or "project" means any facility for each single project or multiproject program of a project party and includes any structure or building suitable for use as a hospital, clinic, nursing home, home for the aged or infirm, or other health care facility; laboratory; laundry; nurses' or [interns'] residences; administration building; research facility; maintenance, storage, or utility facility; auditorium; dining hall; food service and preparation facility; mental or physical health care facility; dental care facility; nursing school; medical or dental school or teaching facility; mental or physical health facilities related to any such structure or facility; equipment; software; or any other structure, facility, equipment, or software required or useful for the operation of a health care facility, including, but not limited to, offices, parking lots and garages, and other supporting service structures and all necessary, useful, and related equipment, furnishings, and appurtenances and including the acquisition, preparation, and development of all real and personal property necessary or convenient as a site or sites for any such structure or facility, and including the refinancing of outstanding obligations of a project party relating to any of the foregoing. "Health care facility", "facility", or "project" does not include any property used or to be used primarily for sectarian instruction or study or as a place for devotional activities or religious worship or any property used or to be used primarily in connection with any part of a program of a school or department of divinity of any religious denomination.
"Project agreement" means any agreement entered into under this part by the department with a project party providing for the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to finance facilities of a project party or for a project party or to loan the proceeds of the bonds to assist not-for-profit corporations that provide health care facilities to the general public, including without limitation any loan agreement, lease, sublease, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or any combination thereof, entered into by the department with a project party and, where necessary or appropriate, with a lender, lessor, or other third party.
"Project party" means a not-for-profit corporation that provides health care facilities to the general public.
"Refinancing of outstanding obligations" or "refinancing" means the liquidation, retirement, or provision for retirement with the proceeds of bonds issued by the State, of any indebtedness of a project party incurred to finance or aid in financing a lawful purpose of such project party not financed pursuant to this part which constitutes a health care facility or consolidation of such indebtedness with indebtedness of the State incurred for a health care facility related to the purpose for which the indebtedness of the project party was initially incurred.
"Special purpose revenue bonds" or "bonds" means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of the State issued pursuant to this part. [L 1980, c 255, pt of §2; am L 2005, c 77, §1]
Revision Note
Numeric designations deleted.

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