N.Y. EDN Law § 370

§ 370. Definitions. As used or referred to in this article, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller.\n 2. "Director of the budget" shall mean the state director of the\nbudget.\n 3. "Dormitory" shall mean a housing unit or any emergency temporary\nhousing, with necessary and usual attendant and related facilities and\nequipment, for the use of students, faculty and staff, and their\nfamilies, at a state-operated institution or statutory or contract\ncollege under the jurisdiction of the state university.\n 4. "Facility" shall mean a classroom, lecture hall, library,\nlaboratory or other academic building, a dormitory, or any structure on\nor improvement to real property of any kind or description, including\nfixtures and equipment which are an integral part of any such building,\nstructure or improvement, a walkway or roadway, and improvements and\nconnections for water, sewer, gas, electrical, telephone, heating, air\nconditioning and other utility services, at a state-operated institution\nor statutory or contract college under the jurisdiction of the state\nuniversity.\n 5. "Federal government" shall mean the United States of America, and\nany officer, department, board, commission, bureau, division,\ncorporation, agency or instrumentality thereof.\n 6. "Fund" shall mean the state university construction fund created by\nsubdivision one of section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter.\n 6-a. "Large-scale construction project" shall mean any project for\nwhich the total estimated cost of the contract or contracts is ten\nmillion dollars or more that is:\n (a) a project performed under the approved master plan of the state\nuniversity submitted pursuant to subdivision thirteen of section three\nhundred fifty-five of this chapter; or\n (b) which involves the construction, acquisition, reconstruction,\nrehabilitation or improvement of academic buildings, dormitories and\nother facilities, with respect to university-related economic\ndevelopment projects authorized by law pursuant to section three hundred\nseventy-two-a of this article.\n 7. "Letting agency" shall mean (i) the dormitory authority or other\nstate agency which by agreement with the fund is to award the contracts\nfor a particular construction, acquisition, reconstruction,\nrehabilitation or improvement project, or (ii) the fund if it is to\naward such contracts.\n 8. "Real property" shall mean lands, waters, rights in lands or\nwaters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including lands\nunder water and riparian rights, and any and all other things and rights\nusually included within the same term and includes also any and all\ninterests in such property less than full title, such as easements\npermanent or temporary, rights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all\nother incorporeal hereditaments in every estate, interest or right,\nlegal or equitable.\n 9. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n 10. "State agency" shall mean any officer, department, board,\ncommission, bureau, division, public benefit corporation, agency or\ninstrumentality of the state.\n 11. "State-operated institutions" shall mean institutions comprising\nthe state university as provided for in subdivision three of section\nthree hundred fifty-two of this chapter but not including statutory or\ncontract colleges.\n 12. "State retirement systems" shall mean (i) the New York state\nteachers' retirement system provided for in section five hundred two of\nthis chapter and (ii) the New York state employees' retirement system\nprovided for in section ten of the retirement and social security law.\n 13. "State university" shall mean the state university of New York as\ndefined in section three hundred fifty of this chapter.\n 14
ement systems" shall mean (i) the New York state\nteachers' retirement system provided for in section five hundred two of\nthis chapter and (ii) the New York state employees' retirement system\nprovided for in section ten of the retirement and social security law.\n 13. "State university" shall mean the state university of New York as\ndefined in section three hundred fifty of this chapter.\n 14. "Statutory or contract colleges" shall mean colleges furnishing\nhigher education, operated by private institutions on behalf of the\nstate pursuant to statute or contractual agreements; provided that an\ninstitution not otherwise a statutory or contract college shall not\nbecome a statutory or contract college because of its receipt of state\nfunds or financial assistance pursuant to section three hundred\nfifty-eight of this chapter, or by entering into any contract pursuant\nto that section.\n