2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10a - State System of Higher Education
Chapter 187 - Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority
Section 10a-178 - (Formerly Sec. 10-337). Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent:

(a) “Authority” means the State of Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority created by section 10a-179 or any board, body, commission, department or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers conferred upon the authority by this chapter shall be given by law;

(b) “Project”, in the case of a participating institution for higher education, means a structure suitable for use as a dormitory or other housing facility, including housing for staff members, employees or students at such institution of higher education, dining hall, student union, administration building, academic building, library, laboratory, research facility, classroom, athletic facility, health care facility, and maintenance, storage or utility facility and other structures or facilities related thereto or required or useful for the instruction of students or the conducting of research or the operation of an institution for higher education, including parking and other facilities or structures essential or convenient for the orderly conduct of such institution for higher education, also including equipment and machinery and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of a particular facility or structure in the manner for which its use is intended or for the operation of a participating institution for higher education, or any combination thereof, but shall not include such items as books, fuel, supplies or other items the purchase of which is customarily deemed to result in a current operating charge; in the case of a participating health care institution, means a structure suitable for use as a hospital, clinic, or other health care facility, laboratory, laundry, residence facility, including housing for nurses, interns, staff members, employees or students at such health care institution and their immediate families and for physically or mentally handicapped persons, administration building, research facility, and maintenance, storage or utility facility and other structures or facilities related thereto or required or useful for the operation of the project, including parking and other facilities or structures essential or convenient for the orderly operation of such project, also including equipment and machinery and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of the project in the manner for which its use is intended or for the operation of a participating health care institution, or any combination thereof, but shall not include such items as fuel, supplies or other items the purchase of which is customarily deemed to result in a current operating charge; in the case of a participating qualified nonprofit organization, means a structure or facility owned in its entirety by, or suitable for use in accordance with the charitable or nonprofit status of the qualified nonprofit organization, also including equipment and machinery and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of the project in the manner for which its use is intended or for the operation of a participating qualified nonprofit corporation; and, in the case of a participating nursing home, means a structure or facility suitable for use as a nursing home, residential care home, rest home, health care facility for the handicapped, mental health facility or independent living facility subject to the licensing requirements of chapter 368v and appurtenant facilities, equipment and machinery and other similar items necessary or convenient for the operation of a particular facility or structure in the manner for which its use is intended or for the operation of a participating nursing home;

(c) “Cost” as applied to a project or any portion thereof financed under the provisions of this chapter embraces all or any part of the cost of construction and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and interests acquired or used for a project, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during and for a period after completion of such construction, provisions for working capital, reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations and improvements, cost of engineering, financial and legal services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, administrative expenses, expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing the project and such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the construction and acquisition of the project, the financing of such construction and acquisition and the placing of the project in operation;

(d) “Bonds” means bonds of the authority issued under the provisions of this chapter, including refunding bonds, notwithstanding that the same may be secured by mortgage or the full faith and credit of the authority or the full faith and credit of a participating institution for higher education, a participating health care institution, a participating corporation, a participating nursing home or a participating qualified nonprofit organization or any other lawfully pledged security of a participating institution for higher education, a participating health care institution, a participating corporation, a participating nursing home or a participating qualified nonprofit organization;

(e) “Institution for higher education” means (1) an educational institution situated within this state which by virtue of law or charter is a nonprofit educational institution empowered to provide a program of education beyond the high school level; or (2) a public educational institution, which, shall be any constituent unit, as defined in section 10a-1;

(f) “Participating institution for higher education” means an institution for higher education which, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall undertake the financing and construction or acquisition of a project or shall undertake the refunding or refinancing of obligations or of a mortgage, or advances made or given for the costs of a project, as provided in and permitted by this chapter;

(g) “Health care institution” means (1) any nonprofit, state-aided hospital or other health care institution, including The University of Connecticut Health Center, which is entitled, under the laws of the state, to receive assistance from the state by means of a grant made pursuant to a budgetary appropriation made by the General Assembly, (2) any other hospital or other health care institution which is licensed, or any nonprofit, nonstock corporation which shall receive financing or shall undertake to construct or acquire a project which is or will be eligible to be licensed, as an institution under the provisions of sections 19a-490 to 19a-503, inclusive, or any nonprofit, nonstock, nonsectarian facility which is exempt from taxation under the provisions of section 12-81 or 38a-188 and which is a health care center under the provisions of sections 38a-175 to 38a-191, inclusive, or (3) any nonprofit corporation wholly owned by two or more hospitals or other health care institutions which operates for and on behalf of such hospitals or other health care institutions a project, as defined in subsection (b) of this section, or is a nursing home;

(h) “Nursing home” means any institution which is or will be eligible to be licensed as an institution under sections 19a-490 to 19a-503, inclusive, or a facility which (1) provides chronic and convalescent nursing care, (2) is a rest home with nursing facilities, (3) provides health care facilities for the handicapped, (4) is a home for elderly persons or physically handicapped or mentally handicapped persons or (5) is a continuing care facility registered with the Department of Social Services, pursuant to chapter 319f;

(i) “Participating nursing home” means a nursing home which, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, undertakes the financing and construction or acquisition of a project or undertakes the refunding or refinancing of obligations or of a mortgage, loans or advances made or given for the costs of a project as provided in and permitted by this chapter;

(j) “Participating health care institution” means a health care institution which, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, undertakes the financing and construction or acquisition of a project or undertakes the refunding or refinancing of obligations or of a mortgage, loan or advances made or given for the cost of a project as provided in and permitted by this chapter;

(k) “Participating corporation” means any nonprofit corporation created by a participating health care institution or a participating institution for higher education, or by one or more of them in combination, and to which there has been or will be transferred all right, title and interest in a project for the sole purpose of operating such project on behalf of such participating institution or institutions for the life of the bonds issued to finance such project, provided upon retirement of all of such bonds, all right, title and interest in the project shall revert to and vest in the participating institution for higher education or the participating health care institution or jointly in both such institutions;

(l) “Federally guaranteed security” means any security, investment or evidence of indebtedness which is either directly or indirectly insured or guaranteed, in whole or in part, as to the payment of principal and interest, by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof;

(m) “Federally insured mortgage loan” means any loan secured by a mortgage from any participating institution for higher education or participating health care institution or participating nursing home 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 any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any commitment by the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof to so insure or guarantee;

(n) “Qualified nonprofit organization” means any private, nonprofit organization qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as the same may be amended from time to time, other than a health care institution, nursing home or institution for higher education;

(o) “Participating qualified nonprofit organization” means a qualified nonprofit organization which, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall undertake the financing and construction or acquisition of a project or shall undertake the refunding or refinancing of obligations, or of a mortgage, loan or advances made or given to it to finance, in anticipation of permanent financing or donation from an outside source, the cost of a project, as provided in and permitted by this chapter;

(p) “Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority” means the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority established as a subsidiary of the authority with powers granted pursuant to chapter 187b;

(q) “Connecticut Student Loan Foundation” means the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation established pursuant to chapter 187a that is a subsidiary of the authority as provided in section 10a-203a, and that is deemed a quasi-public agency for purposes of chapter 12.

(February, 1965, P.A. 170, S. 3; 1967, P.A. 368, S. 3; 1969, P.A. 586, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 104; 773; P.A. 75-64; P.A. 77-569, S. 1; P.A. 79-62, S. 1, 4; 79-568, S. 2, 3, 11; 79-610, S. 26; P.A. 80-483, S. 47, 186; P.A. 82-16, S. 2–6, 19; P.A. 87-487, S. 2, 7; P.A. 92-261, S. 2, 17; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; P.A. 95-230, S. 30, 45; P.A. 97-112, S. 2; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1, S. 25; P.A. 05-255, S. 4; P.A. 06-196, S. 225; P.A. 11-70, S. 12; P.A. 12-149, S. 1, 2; P.A. 14-217, S. 38.)

History: 1967 act redefined “authority”, “project” and “bonds” to reflect inclusion of hospitals, included replacements and renovations under Subsec. (c), allowed securing of bonds by full faith and credit of the authority in Subsec. (d) and added Subsecs. (g) and (h) defining “hospital” and “participating hospital”; 1969 act included hospitals for mental illness in Subsec. (g); 1971 acts included nonprofit corporations wholly owned by two or more hospitals which operate projects on their behalf and nonprofit, nonstock, nonsectarian facilities which provide chronic and convalescent nursing care or which are rest homes with nursing facilities or homes for the elderly in Subsec. (g); P.A. 75-64 included nonprofit, nonstock corporations “which shall receive financing or shall undertake to construct or acquire a project which is or will be eligible to be licensed” in Subsec. (g); P.A. 77-569 included nonprofit, nonstock, nonsectarian facilities which provide health care for the handicapped in Subsec. (g); P.A. 79-62 added Subsecs. (i) and (j), (codified as (j) and (k)), defining “federally guaranteed security” and “federally insured mortgage loan”; P.A. 79-568 included equipment costing more than $100,000 to purchase or lease with estimated useful life of eight years or more in definition of “project” and added Subsec. (i) defining “participating corporation”; P.A. 79-610 substituted Secs. 19-576 to 19-586 for Sec. 17-227 in Subsec. (g); P.A. 80-483 made technical changes; P.A. 82-16 changed “hospital” to “health care institution” where applicable and changed definition of “hospital” as necessary to be applicable as definition of “health care institution”, including any hospital or health care center; Sec. 10-337 transferred to Sec. 10a-178 in 1983 pursuant to reorganization of higher education system; P.A. 87-487 amended definition of “project” to include housing for staff members, employees or students at institutions of higher education, to decrease minimum price or rental value of equipment from $100,000 to $25,000 and the minimum useful life from eight years to four years and to include structures, facilities, equipment and machinery for participating qualified nonprofit organizations, and added definition of “qualified nonprofit organization” and “participating qualified nonprofit organization”; P.A. 92-261 added definitions of “nursing home” and “participating nursing home” and amended various definitions to include the specific references to nursing homes and amended the definition of “institution for higher education” to clarify the definition of a public educational institution; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department on aging, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-230 redefined “institution for higher education” to delete reference to The University of Connecticut, effective June 7, 1995; P.A. 97-112 replaced “home for the aged” with “residential care home”; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-1 amended Subsec. (b) to delete certain limitations in the definition of “project” re purchase of equipment, to include purchase of machinery or similar items, and to include participating nursing homes, effective June 8, 2004; P.A. 05-255 amended Subsec. (g) to include The University of Connecticut Health Center in definition of “health care institution”, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsec. (g), effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 11-70 amended Subsec. (d) to redefine “bonds”, effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 12-149 amended Subdiv. (e) to redefine “institution for higher education” and added Subdiv. (p) defining “Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority”, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 14-217 added Subsec. (q) defining “Connecticut Student Loan Foundation”, effective July 1, 2014.