As used in this Part, unless otherwise specified:

(1)        “Authority service area” means the area within the boundaries of the authority as provided for in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-45.4

(2)        “Board” means a public health authority board created under this Part.

(3)        “County” means the county which is, or is about to be, included in the territorial boundaries of a public health authority when created hereunder.

(4)        “County board of commissioners” means the legislative body charged with governing the county.

(5)        “Department” means the Department of Health and Human Services.

(6)        “Federal government” means the United States of America, or any agency, instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.

(7)        “Government” means the State and federal governments and any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them.

(8)        “Public health authority” means a public body and a body corporate and politic organized under the provisions of this Part.

(9)        “Public health facility” means any one or more buildings, structures, additions, extensions, improvements, or other facilities, whether or not located on the same site or sites, machinery, equipment, furnishings or other real or personal property suitable for providing public health services; and includes, without limitation, local public health departments or centers; public health clinics and outpatient facilities; nursing homes, including skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, adult care homes for the aged and disabled; public health laboratories; administration buildings, central service and other administrative facilities; communication, computer and other electronic facilities; pharmaceutical facilities; storage space; vehicular parking lots and other such public health facilities, customarily under the jurisdiction of or provided by public health departments, or any combination of the foregoing, with all necessary, convenient or related interests in land, machinery, apparatus, appliances, equipment, furnishings, appurtenances, site preparation, landscaping, and physical amenities.

(10)      “Real property” means lands, 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 judgment, mortgage or otherwise.

(11)      “State” means the State of North Carolina. (1997-502, s. 1.)

Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 130A-45.01

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • 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.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
  • United States: shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3