Section 370. Definitions

As used or referred to in this article, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. "Comptroller" shall mean the state comptroller.
    2. "Director of the budget" shall  mean  the  state  director  of  the
  budget.
    3.  "Dormitory"  shall  mean a housing unit or any emergency temporary
  housing, with necessary and usual attendant and related  facilities  and
  equipment,  for  the  use  of  students,  faculty  and  staff, and their
  families, at a  state-operated  institution  or  statutory  or  contract
  college under the jurisdiction of the state university.
    4.   "Facility"   shall  mean  a  classroom,  lecture  hall,  library,
  laboratory or other academic building, a dormitory, or any structure  on
  or  improvement  to  real property of any kind or description, including
  fixtures and equipment which are an integral part of any such  building,
  structure  or  improvement,  a  walkway or roadway, and improvements and
  connections for water, sewer, gas, electrical, telephone,  heating,  air
  conditioning and other utility services, at a state-operated institution
  or  statutory  or  contract  college under the jurisdiction of the state
  university.
    5. "Federal government" shall mean the United States of  America,  and
  any   officer,   department,   board,   commission,   bureau,  division,
  corporation, agency or instrumentality thereof.
    6. "Fund" shall mean the state university construction fund created by
  subdivision one of section three hundred seventy-one of this chapter.
    7. "Letting agency" shall mean (i) the dormitory  authority  or  other
  state  agency which by agreement with the fund is to award the contracts
  for   a   particular    construction,    acquisition,    reconstruction,
  rehabilitation  or  improvement  project,  or  (ii) the fund if it is to
  award such contracts.
    8. "Real property" shall  mean  lands,  waters,  rights  in  lands  or
  waters,  structures,  franchises  and interests in land, including lands
  under water and riparian rights, and any and all other things and rights
  usually included within the same term and  includes  also  any  and  all
  interests  in  such  property  less  than  full title, such as easements
  permanent or temporary, rights-of-way, uses, leases,  licenses  and  all
  other  incorporeal  hereditaments  in  every  estate, interest or right,
  legal or equitable.
    9. "State" shall mean the state of New York.
    10.  "State  agency"  shall  mean  any  officer,  department,   board,
  commission,  bureau,  division,  public  benefit  corporation, agency or
  instrumentality of the state.
    11. "State-operated institutions" shall mean  institutions  comprising
  the  state  university  as  provided for in subdivision three of section
  three hundred fifty-two of this chapter but not including  statutory  or
  contract colleges.
    12.  "State  retirement  systems"  shall  mean  (i) the New York state
  teachers' retirement system provided for in section five hundred two  of
  this  chapter  and  (ii) the New York state employees' retirement system
  provided for in section ten of the retirement and social security law.
    13. "State university" shall mean the state university of New York  as
  defined in section three hundred fifty of this chapter.
    14.  "Statutory  or  contract colleges" shall mean colleges furnishing
  higher education, operated by private  institutions  on  behalf  of  the
  state  pursuant  to  statute or contractual agreements; provided that an
  institution not otherwise a statutory  or  contract  college  shall  not
  become  a  statutory or contract college because of its receipt of state
  funds  or  financial  assistance  pursuant  to  section  three   hundred

  fifty-eight  of  this chapter, or by entering into any contract pursuant
  to that section.