As used in this chapter, the following words and terms have the following meanings, unless the context indicates another or different meaning or intent:
I. "Corporation" means the New Hampshire health and education facilities authority created and established as a corporation and constituted and established as a public body corporate and agency of the state under RSA 195-D:4, or any board, body, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers conferred upon the corporation by this chapter shall be given by law.
II. "Project."
(a) In the case of a participating educational institution, means any structure designed for use as a dormitory or other housing facility, dining facility, student union, academic building, administrative facility, library, classroom building, research facility, faculty office facility, athletic facility, health care facility, laboratory, maintenance, storage or utility facility, child day care facility, or other building or structure essential, necessary or useful for instruction in a program of education provided by a participating educational institution, or any multi-purpose structure designed to combine 2 or more of the functions performed by the types of structures enumerated above, and shall include all real and personal property, lands, improvements, driveways, roads, approaches, pedestrian access roads, rights-of-way, utilities, easements, machinery and equipment, and all other appurtenances and facilities either on, above or under the ground which are used or usable in connection with any of the aforementioned structures, and shall also include landscaping, site preparation, furniture, machinery, equipment 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, and;
(b) In the case of a participating health care institution means any structures designed for use as a hospital, clinic, nursing home providing sheltered care, intermediate care, life-care, continuing care or medical services, health maintenance organization, home health care provider, ambulatory care clinic or other health care facility, laboratory, laundry, nurses' or interns' residence or other multi-unit housing facility for staff, employees, patients or relatives of patients admitted for treatment in such health care facility, doctors' office building, appropriately designed housing facilities for the residence or care of the elderly, administration building, research facility, maintenance, storage, or utility facility or other structures or facilities related to any of the foregoing or required or useful for the operation of a participating health care institution, including parking and other facilities or structures essential or convenient for the orderly conduct of such participating health care institution, and shall include all real and personal property, lands, improvements, driveways, roads, approaches, pedestrian access roads, rights-of-way, utilities, easements, parking lots, machinery and equipment, and all other appurtenances and facilities either on, above or under the ground which are used or usable in connection with any of the aforementioned structures, and shall also include landscaping, site preparation, furniture, machinery and equipment 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.
(c) Subject to RSA 195-D:9 and RSA 195-D:21, a project, or any portion thereof, may be located within or outside the state.
III. "Cost" as applied to a project or any portion thereof financed under the provisions of this chapter shall mean the cost of construction, building, acquisition, equipping, alteration, enlargement, reconstruction and remodeling of a project and acquisition of all lands, structures, property, real or personal, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and interests acquired, necessary, used for, or useful for or in connection with a project and all other undertakings which the corporation deems reasonable or necessary for the development of a project, including but not limited to the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, 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 and during construction, and if judged advisable by the corporation, for a period after completion of such construction the cost of financing the project, including interest on bonds and notes issued by the corporation to finance the project; provisions for working capital, whether or not in connection with a project; reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions and improvements; cost of architectural, engineering, financial, legal or other special services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates of cost and revenues; administrative and operating expenses; expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing the project; and such other expenses 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 and all costs and expenses necessary or incidental to the acquisition of or commitment to acquire any federally guaranteed security and to the issuance and obtaining of any federally insured mortgage note.
IV. "Bonds" or the words "revenue bonds" means revenue bonds of the corporation issued under the provisions of this chapter, including revenue refunding bonds, notwithstanding that the same may be secured by the mortgage or the full faith and credit of a participating educational institution or of a participating health care institution or any other lawfully pledged security of a participating educational institution or of a participating health care institution.
V. "Institution for postsecondary education or higher education" means an educational institution which by virtue of law or charter is a public or other nonprofit educational institution empowered to provide a program of education beyond the high school level and awards a bachelor's or graduate degree or provides a program of not less than 2 years' duration which is accepted for full credit toward a bachelor's degree. Said definition shall include the university system of New Hampshire or any of its components when revenue bonds are to be issued for the acquisition, construction, renovation or refinancing of any structure designed for use as a dormitory or other housing facility, dining hall or other food service facility, student union, bookstore, or other revenue-producing facility of the university system of New Hampshire or any of its components, which revenue bonds are to be secured by the pledge of the revenue from such revenue-producing facilities, but not by the full faith and credit of the university system, any of its components, or the state of New Hampshire.
VI. "Participating educational institution" means an institution for postsecondary education or higher education; an institution for secondary education; an institution providing an educational program; or a child care provider 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 bonds or other obligations or of a mortgage or of advances as provided in and permitted by this chapter.
VI-a. "Institution providing an educational program" means a not-for-profit or charitable institution, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which provides a program of education for the purpose of enhancing the knowledge or abilities of its members or the general public.
VII. "Hospital" means any nonprofit hospital licensed in the state in which the hospital is located.
VIII. "Participating health care institution" means a hospital; nursing home; health maintenance organization; home health care provider; an institution providing a health care program; or ambulatory care clinic 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 bonds or other obligations or of a mortgage or of advances as provided in and permitted by this chapter.
VIII-a. "Institution providing a health care program" means a not-for-profit or charitable institution, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which is either licensed to provide any health care service or function or provides a program involving or otherwise related to the delivery of healthcare by institutions or professionals, whether in the form of treatment, education, the provision or delivery of health care services or otherwise.
IX. "Refinancing of existing indebtedness" means (a) liquidation, with the proceeds of bonds or notes issued by the corporation, of any indebtedness of a participating institution incurred to finance or aid in financing a lawful purpose of such participating institution which would constitute a project had it been undertaken and financed by the corporation; or (b) consolidation of such indebtedness with indebtedness of the corporation incurred for a project of such participating institution; or (c) purchase of a federally guaranteed security issued with respect to the financing of a lawful purpose of a participating institution which would constitute a project had it been undertaken and financed by the corporation.
X. "Federally guaranteed security" means any security, investment or evidence of indebtedness which is issued pursuant to the national housing act or any successor provision of law, each as amended from time to time, and 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 instrumentality thereof.
XI. "Federally insured mortgage note" means any loan secured by a mortgage for any facility of a participating institution 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 instrumentality thereof, or any commitment by the United States of America or any instrumentality thereof to so insure or guarantee such a loan secured by a mortgage.
XII. "Nursing home," notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, means any nonprofit or charitable institution or organization, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to section 501 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended, and which is engaged in the operation of, or formed for the purpose of operating, a facility in which nursing care, sheltered care, intermediate care, life-care or continuing care, and medical services are prescribed by or performed under the general direction of persons licensed to practice medicine or surgery, and in whole or in part is, or shall be upon completion, licensed as a residential care facility under RSA 151:2, I(e) or licensed as a nursing home under the laws of New Hampshire or licensed by the state in which it is located.
XIII. "Health maintenance organization" means the same as defined in RSA 420-B which is nonprofit and whether or not it is affiliated with a hospital or any other association of medical practitioners.
XIV. "Institution for secondary education" means a nonprofit institution for education, which:
(a) Provides a program of education which is preparatory for postsecondary or higher education; or
(b) Is a residential facility which is licensed as a group home or child care institution by the state within which it is located.
XV. "Participating institution" means a participating educational institution or a participating health care institution.
XVI. "Home health care provider" means a home health care provider as defined in RSA 151:2-b which offers, and is licensed under RSA 151:2, I(b) or by the state within which it is located to offer health care services and which is a nonprofit or charitable institution or organization, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to section 501 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended.
XVII. "Ambulatory care clinic" means any nonprofit or charitable institution or organization, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to section 501 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended, and which is engaged in the operation of, or formed for the purpose of operating, an ambulatory health care facility in which health care services are offered to the public on an outpatient basis by or under the direction of licensed physicians and licensed health care professionals.
XVIII. "Child care provider" means a provider of child day care as defined in RSA 170-E:2, III, including a child day care agency as defined in RSA 170-E:2, IV, and any other not-for-profit or charitable institution, public or private, which is exempt from federal taxation pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended, 26 U.S.C. section 501 et seq., and which provides or otherwise assists in the provision of facilities, equipment, services, or economic assistance of any type to a child day care agency.
XIX. "Affiliate" means any entity which controls or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another entity. For purposes of this definition, an entity controls another entity when the first entity possesses or exercises directly, or indirectly through one or more other affiliates or related entities, the power to direct the management and policies of the other entity, whether through the ownership of voting rights, membership, or the power to appoint members, trustees, or directors, by contract or otherwise.