§ 3. Definitions. As used or referred to in this act, unless a
different meaning clearly appears from the text:

1. "Administrator" or "Health service administrator" shall mean the
administrator of health services of the city of New York.

2. "Administration" shall mean the health services administration of
the city of New York.

3. "Board" shall mean the board of directors of the corporation as
such board is constituted pursuant to section four of this act.

4. "Bonds" and "notes" shall mean bonds and notes respectively,
authorized and issued by the corporation pursuant to this act.

5. "City" shall mean the city of New York.

6. "Comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of the city of New York.

7. "Construction" shall mean site acquisition, planning, design,
erection, building, alteration, reconstruction, renovation, improvement,
extension, enlargement, replacement or modification and the inspection
or modification thereof.

8. "Corporation" shall mean the public benefit corporation created by
section four of this act.

9. "Corporation counsel" shall mean the corporation counsel of the
city of New York.

10. "Council" shall mean the agency or body designated as the health
planning agency pursuant to article twenty-nine of the public health law
or public law 89-749 and which is authorized to approve construction of
health facilities in the city of New York.

11. "Director of management and budget" shall mean the director of
management and budget of the city of New York.

12. "Health facility" shall mean a building, structure or unit or any
improvement to real property, including all necessary and usual
attendant and related equipment, facilities or fixtures, or any part or
parts thereof, or any combination or combinations thereof, including,
but not limited to, a general hospital, psychiatric hospital,
tuberculosis hospital, ambulatory clinic or center, chronic disease
hospital, nursing home, extended-care facility, dispensary or laboratory
or any other related facility, or any combination of the foregoing,
constructed, acquired or otherwise provided by or for the use of the
corporation or the city in providing health and medical services to the
public.

13. "Health and medical services" shall mean items or services
provided by or under the supervision of a physician or other person
trained or licensed to render health care necessary for the prevention,
care, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity
or other physical or mental condition including, but not limited to,
pre-admission, out-patient, in-patient and post-discharge care, home
care, physicians' care, nursing care, medical care provided by interns
or residents-in-training and other paramedical care, ambulance service,
bed and board, drugs, biologicals, supplies, appliances, equipment,
laboratory services and x-ray, radium and radio-active-isotope therapy.

14. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of New York.

15. "Real property" shall mean lands, structures, franchises and
interests in land, waters, lands under water, riparian rights and air
rights, and any and all things and rights usually included within the
said term and includes not only fees simple absolute but also any and
all lesser interests such as easements, rights-of-way, uses, leases,
licenses and all other incorporeal hereditaments and every estate,
interest or right, legal or equitable, including terms for years and
liens thereon by way of judgments, mortgages, or otherwise.

16. "Reimbursement allowance" shall mean any money paid by any
government, or any agency or subdivision thereof or by a social services
district or by any private institution or organization or person
including, but not limited to, payments authorized by and made pursuant
to the federal social security act and the state social services law, to
the corporation for the costs of health and medical services furnished
to beneficiaries thereof provided by the corporation directly or through
agreement with the city.

17. "State" shall mean the state of New York.

18. "Subsidiary corporation" shall mean a corporation created pursuant
to subdivision twenty of section five of this act.

19. "Non-profit hospital" shall mean an organization authorized by law
to provide health and medical services, organized exclusively for
charitable purposes on a non-profit basis, which does not devote more
than an insubstantial part of its total activities to activities not in
furtherance of its charitable purposes, does not participate or
intervene (including publishing or distributing statements), directly or
indirectly, in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to
any candidate for public office, and no substantial part of the
activities of which is devoted to attempting to influence legislation by
propaganda or otherwise and no part of the net earnings of which inures
to the benefit of a private shareholder or individual.