Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 43.180 - Housing Finance Commission.
43.180.300 - Definitions.

RCW 43.180.300
Definitions.

As used in RCW 43.180.310 through 43.180.360, the following terms have the meanings indicated unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Construction" or "construct" means construction and acquisition, whether by device, purchase, gift, lease, or otherwise.
(2) "Facilities" means land, rights in land, buildings, structures, equipment, landscaping, utilities, approaches, roadways and parking, handling and storage areas, and similar ancillary facilities.
(3) "Financing document" means a lease, sublease, installment sale agreement, conditional sale agreement, loan agreement, mortgage, deed of trust guaranty agreement, or other agreement for the purpose of providing funds to pay or secure debt service on revenue bonds.
(4) "Improvement" means reconstruction, remodeling, rehabilitation, extension, and enlargement. "To improve" means to reconstruct, to remodel, to rehabilitate, to extend, and to enlarge.
(5) "Nonprofit corporation" means a nonprofit organization described under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or similar successor provisions, any public development authority, or any organization identified in RCW 43.185A.040.
(6) "Nonprofit facilities" means facilities owned or used by a nonprofit corporation for any nonprofit activity described under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that qualifies such a corporation for an exemption from federal income taxes under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, or similar successor provisions provided that facilities which may be funded pursuant to chapter 28B.07, 35.82, or 70.37 RCW shall not be included in this definition.
(7) "Project costs" means costs of (a) acquisition, construction, and improvement of any facilities included in a nonprofit facility; (b) architectural, engineering, consulting, accounting, and legal costs related directly to the development, financing, and construction of a nonprofit facility, including costs of studies assessing the feasibility of a nonprofit facility; (c) finance costs, including discounts, if any, the costs of issuing revenue bonds, and costs incurred in carrying out any trust agreement; (d) interest during construction and during the six months after estimated completion of construction, and capitalized debt service or repair and replacement or other appropriate reserves; (e) the refunding of any outstanding obligations incurred for any of the costs outlined in this subsection; and (f) other costs incidental to any of the costs listed in this section.
(8) "Revenue bond" means a taxable or tax-exempt nonrecourse revenue bond, nonrecourse revenue note, or other nonrecourse revenue obligation issued for the purpose of providing financing to a nonprofit corporation on an interim or permanent basis.
(9) "User" means one or more persons acting as lessee, purchaser, mortgagor, or borrower under a financing document and may include a party who transfers the right of use and occupancy to another party by lease, sublease, or otherwise.

[ 2018 c 78 § 2; 1997 c 44 § 1; 1990 c 167 § 2.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 43 - State Government—Executive

Chapter 43.180 - Housing Finance Commission.

43.180.010 - Declaration of public policies—Purpose.

43.180.020 - Definitions.

43.180.030 - Bonds not debt of state.

43.180.040 - Commission created.

43.180.050 - Housing financing powers—Annual audit.

43.180.060 - No power of eminent domain or taxation.

43.180.070 - Housing finance plan.

43.180.080 - General powers.

43.180.090 - Selection of bond counsel—Written policies to be adopted.

43.180.100 - Selection of underwriters—Written policies to be adopted.

43.180.110 - Review of initial policies adopted under RCW 43.180.090 and 43.180.100—Adoption—Change.

43.180.120 - Rules for fair allocation of bond proceeds for nonrental single-family housing.

43.180.130 - Protection of bondholders—Mortgage insurance.

43.180.140 - Rules for energy efficiency.

43.180.150 - Bond issues—Terms—Issuance—Purchase, etc.

43.180.160 - Debt limitation—Washington works housing program.

43.180.170 - Bond issues—Disposition of proceeds—Special fund.

43.180.180 - Bond issues—Disposition of revenues—Special trust fund.

43.180.190 - Legal investments.

43.180.200 - Internal revenue code.

43.180.220 - Housing finance program—Mortgage financing—Investments—Flexible loan underwriting guidelines.

43.180.230 - Housing finance program—Program elements.

43.180.240 - Housing finance program—Report to legislature annually—Implementation.

43.180.245 - Condominium conversion tenant-to-homeowner program.

43.180.250 - Veteran homeownership downpayment assistance program—Rules.

43.180.260 - Sustainable energy trust program.

43.180.265 - Aviation biofuels facilities and production—Bond issuance—Financing powers—Definitions.

43.180.290 - Beginning farmer financing program.

43.180.295 - Renewable energy systems—Report—Financing tool.

43.180.300 - Definitions.

43.180.310 - Commission powers.

43.180.320 - Revenue bonds.

43.180.330 - Revenue refunding bonds.

43.180.340 - Trust agreements.

43.180.350 - Lessees or assignees.

43.180.360 - Default.

43.180.900 - Conflict with federal requirements.

43.180.901 - Liberal construction.

43.180.902 - Captions not part of law.

43.180.904 - Effective dates—1983 c 161.

43.180.905 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.