Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 195-D - New Hampshire Health and Education Facilities Authority

• Affiliate: means any entity which controls or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another entity. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• biennially: when applied to meetings and elections in towns, shall mean the biennial meetings and elections required by law to be holden in the month of November biennially, dating from the commencement of biennial elections in 1878; and the word "annual" when applied to meetings and elections in towns, shall mean the annual meetings and elections required by law to be holden in the month of March. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:7
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Child care provider: means a provider of child day care as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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 N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
• governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
• Health maintenance organization: means the same as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Home health care provider: means a home health care provider as defined in N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Hospital: means any nonprofit hospital licensed in the state in which the hospital is located. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• 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 N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• oath: shall include "affirmation" in all cases where by law an affirmation may be substituted for an oath; and, in like cases, the word "sworn" shall include the word "affirmed. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:24
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Participating institution: means a participating educational institution or a participating health care institution. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:21
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 195-D:3
• seal: shall include an impression of the official seal made upon the paper alone, as well as an impression thereof made by means of wax, or a wafer, affixed thereto. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:11
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4