2005 Idaho Code - 39-1443 — DEFINITIONS

                                  TITLE  39
                              HEALTH AND SAFETY
                                  CHAPTER 14
                              HEALTH FACILITIES
    39-1443.  DEFINITIONS. In this act, unless the context otherwise clearly
requires, the terms used herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them as
follows:
    (a)  "Authority" means the Idaho health facilities authority created by
this act.
    (b)  "Bonds," "notes" or "bond anticipation notes" and "other obligations"
means any bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates or other evidences of
financial indebtedness, respectively, issued by the authority pursuant to this
act.
    (c)  "Health institution" means any:
    (i)   private not for profit hospital, corporation or institution, or
    (ii)  public hospital or institution,
authorized by law to provide or operate health facilities whether directly or
indirectly through one (1) or more affiliates in the state of Idaho; and
"participating health institution" means a health institution which, pursuant
to the provisions of this act, shall undertake the financing and construction
or acquisition of health facilities or shall undertake the refunding or
refinancing of outstanding obligations as provided in and permitted by this
act.
    (d)  "Health facilities" or "facilities," in the case of a participating
health institution, means a structure or building suitable for use as a
hospital, clinic, nursing home, or other health care facility, laboratory,
laundry, nurses', doctors' or interns' residence, administration building,
research facility, maintenance, storage or utility facility, auditorium,
dining hall, food service and preparation facility, mental and physical health
care facility, dental care facility, nursing school, medical teaching
facility, or other structures or facilities related to any of the foregoing or
required or useful for the operation of a health facility, including, without
limitation, offices, parking lots and garages and other supporting service
structures, and all necessary, useful and related equipment, furnishings and
appurtenances and including without limitation the acquisition, preparation
and development of all lands, real and personal property, necessary or
convenient as a site or sites for any of the foregoing; but shall not include
such items as food, fuel, supplies or other items which are customarily
considered as a current operating charge; facilities shall not include any
property used or to be used primarily for sectarian instruction or study or as
a place for devotional activities or religious worship.
    (e)  "Costs" as applied to facilities financed in whole or in part under
the provisions of this act means and includes the sum total of all reasonable
or necessary costs incidental to the acquisition, construction,
reconstruction, repair, alteration, equipment, enlargement, improvement and
extension of such facilities and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or
personal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements and interest
acquired, necessary, used for or useful for or in connection with a facility
and all other undertakings which the authority deems reasonable or necessary
for the development of a facility including, but not limited to, the cost of
demolishing or removing any building or structures on land so acquired, the
cost of acquiring any lands to which such building or structures may be moved,
the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to
and during construction, and if judged advisable by the authority, for a
period after completion of such construction, the cost of financing
facilities, including interest on bonds and notes issued by the authority to
finance facilities; reserves for principal and interest and for extensions,
enlargements, additions and improvements; including without limitation the
cost of studies and surveys; the costs for land title and mortgage guaranty
policies; plans, specifications, architectural and engineering services;
legal, organization, marketing or other special services; financing,
acquisition, demolition, construction, equipment and site development of new
and rehabilitated buildings; rehabilitation, reconstruction, repair or
remodeling of existing buildings and all other necessary and incidental
expenses to the construction and acquisition of facilities, the financing of
such construction, and acquisition and the placing of facilities in operation.
    (f)  "Revenues" means, with respect to facilities, the rents, fees,
charges, interest, principal repayments and other income received or to be
received by the authority from any source on account of such facilities.
    (g)  "Refinancing of outstanding obligations" means liquidation, with the
proceeds of bonds or notes issued by the authority, of any indebtedness of a
participating health institution incurred to finance or aid in financing a
lawful purpose of such health institution not financed pursuant to this act
which would constitute a facility had it been undertaken and financed by the
authority, or consolidation of such indebtedness with indebtedness of the
authority incurred for a facility related to the purpose for which the
indebtedness of the health institution was incurred.