New York Laws
Title 4 - Dormitory Authority
1676 - Definitions.

(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 mentally
retarded and developmentally disabled adults 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, 2023
* 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, 2023
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, chronically impaired, mentally retarded and developmentally
disabled persons.
* NB Repealed December 31, 2023
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.

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