                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 15.2-5301)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Authority&#8221; or &#8220;hospital authority&#8221; means a body
corporate organized in accordance with the provisions of this chapter for the
purposes, with the powers and subject to the restrictions hereinafter set forth.
		&#8220;Bonds&#8221; means any bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures,
or other obligations of the authority issued pursuant to this chapter.
		&#8220;City,&#8221; means both cities and counties, and city-specific terms
such as &#8220;mayor&#8221; shall be deemed to also include the equivalent
county term.
		&#8220;Commissioner&#8221; means one of the members of an authority appointed
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
		&#8220;Contract&#8221; means any agreement of an authority with or for the
benefit of an obligee whether contained in a resolution, trust indenture,
mortgage, lease, bond or other instrument.
		&#8220;Cost,&#8221; as applied to a hospital project, means all or any part of
the cost of acquisition, construction, alteration, enlargement, reconstruction
and remodeling of a hospital project, including all lands, structures, real or
personal property, interest in land and air rights, 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 labor, materials, machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest on
all bonds prior to, during and for a period of time not to exceed two years
after completion, provisions for working capital, the cost of architectural
engineering, financial and legal services, plans, specifications, studies,
surveys, estimates of cost and revenues, administrative expenses, expenses
necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of
acquiring or constructing the hospital project and such other expenses as may be
necessary or incidental to the acquisition and construction of such project, the
financing of such acquisition and construction and the placing of the project in
operation.
		&#8220;Federal government&#8221; means the United States of America or any
agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of
America.
		&#8220;Government&#8221; means the Commonwealth and the federal government and
any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of
them.
		&#8220;Hospital project&#8221; or &#8220;project&#8221; means any and all
medical facilities and approaches thereto and appurtenances thereof. Medical
facilities shall include any and all facilities suitable for providing adequate
hospital facilities and medical care for concentrated centers of population, and
also includes any and all structures, buildings, improvements, additions,
extensions, replacements, appurtenances, lands, rights in land, franchises,
machinery, equipment, furnishings, landscaping, approaches, roadways and other
facilities necessary or desirable in connection therewith or incidental thereto,
including, without limitation, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living
facilities, continuing care facilities, self-care facilities, medical office
facilities, clinics, out-patient surgical centers, alcohol, substance abuse and
drug treatment centers, laboratories, research facilities, sanitariums,
hospices, facilities for the residence or care of elderly or chronically ill
individuals or individuals with disabilities, residential facilities for nurses,
interns, and physicians and any other kind of facility for the diagnosis,
treatment, rehabilitation, prevention or palliation of any human illness,
injury, disorder, or disability; together with all related and supporting
facilities and equipment necessary and desirable in connection therewith or
incidental thereto; or equipment alone, including, without limitation, parking
facilities, kitchen, laundry, laboratory, pharmaceutical, administrative,
communications, computer and recreational facilities and equipment, storage
space, mobile medical facilities, vehicles, and other equipment necessary or
desirable for the transportation of medical equipment or the transportation of
patients.
		&#8220;Obligee of the authority&#8221; or &#8220;obligee&#8221; includes any
bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, any lessor demising
property to the authority used in connection with a hospital project or any
assignee or assignees of such lessor&#8217;s interest or any part thereof, and
the United States of America when it is a party to any contract with the
authority.
		&#8220;Real property&#8221; includes lands under water, structures, and any
and all easements, franchises and incorporeal hereditaments and every estate and
right therein, legal and equitable, including terms for years and liens by way
of judgments, mortgage or otherwise.
		&#8220;Trust indenture&#8221; includes instruments pledging the revenues of
real or personal properties but not conveying such properties or conferring a
right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 32-214; 1973, c. 462, § 15.1-1534; 1979, c. 719; 1997,
c. 587; 2006, c. 658; 2014, c. 502; 2023, cc. 148, 149.