2018 New York Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 19-G - Office of Children and Family Services
Title 3-A - Youth Center Facility Program
527-A - Definitions.

§ 527-a. Definitions.  1.  For  purposes  of this title, the following
  terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Youth center" means any area,  building,  structure  or  facility
  owned  or  operated  by  a  not-for-profit  corporation  or  by or for a
  municipality for use by the youth of the community  which  promotes  the
  health,  safety  or  general  welfare  of  the youth community and which
  advances the physical,  mental  and  social  well-being  of  such  youth
  community,  including all necessary and attendant and related facilities
  and equipment.
(b) "Facility rehabilitation grants" or "rehabilitation grants"  means
  an  award  to  a  not-for-profit  corporation  or a municipality for the
  purpose  of   renovation,   rehabilitation,   repair,   remodeling,   or
  improvement  of  areas, buildings, structures or facilities intended for
  use as a youth center.
(c) "New facility project grant" means an award to a municipality or a
  municipality acting jointly with a not-for-profit  corporation  for  the
  purpose of construction, demolition, or acquisition of areas, buildings,
  structures, or facilities intended to be owned by a municipality for use
  as a youth center.
(d)  "Project  costs"  means  the  reasonable  and necessary costs for
  planning, demolition, acquisition of land or buildings and  construction
  of  new  buildings  or  the  reconstruction,  rehabilitation,  repair or
  remodeling of existing buildings to be used  as  a  youth  center.  Such
  costs  shall  also  include all or any portion of the cost necessary for
  the creation of a reserve fund required pursuant to section five hundred
  twenty-seven-h of this title.
(e) "New facility  operation  agreements"  or  "operation  agreements"
  means  the  award  of a contract to which the state and a not-for-profit
  corporation  or  a  municipality  are  parties,  for  the   purpose   of
  maintenance  and operation of areas, buildings, structures or facilities
  intended for use as a youth center and for which the state has  provided
  financing   of   acquisition,   demolition  or  construction  under  the
  provisions of this title and to which the state will hold title.
(f) "Not-for-profit corporation" means a  corporation  as  defined  in
  subparagraph  five  of  paragraph  (a) of section one hundred two of the
  not-for-profit corporation law which is engaged in one or  more  of  the
  youth center program activities specified in this title.
(g) "Municipality" means a county, city, town or village.
(h) "Program" means the youth center facility program.
(i) "Division" means the division for youth.
(j)   "Eligible   applicant"  means  (i)  a  municipality  or  (ii)  a
  not-for-profit corporation or (iii) a municipality and a  not-for-profit
  corporation applying jointly.