Section 25.01. Definitions

(a) As used herein:
    1. "Local  agency"  shall mean a county governmental unit for a county
  not wholly within a city, and a city governmental unit for a city having
  a population of one million or more, designated by such county  or  city
  as responsible for substance abuse services in such county or city.
    2. "Operating  costs" shall mean expenditures, excluding capital costs
  and debt service, subject to the approval of the  office,  incurred  for
  the maintenance and operation of substance abuse programs, including but
  not  limited  to  expenditures for treatment, administration, personnel,
  contractual  services,  rental,  depreciation  and   interest   expenses
  incurred,  in  connection  with  the  design, construction, acquisition,
  reconstruction, rehabilitation  or  improvement  of  a  substance  abuse
  program  facility,  and  payments  made  to  the  facilities development
  corporation for substance abuse program facilities; provided that  where
  the   rent,  financing  or  refinancing  of  the  design,  construction,
  acquisition,  reconstruction,  rehabilitation  or   improvement   of   a
  substance  abuse  program facility is through the facilities development
  corporation, operating costs shall include the debt service to  be  paid
  to amortize obligations, including principal and interest, issued by the
  New  York  State  medical  care  facilities finance agency to finance or
  refinance the capital costs of such facilities.
    3. "Debt service" shall mean amounts, subject to the approval  of  the
  office,  as  shall  be  required  to  be  paid  to  amortize obligations
  including principal and interest issued by the New  York  state  housing
  finance  agency,  the  New  York  State  medical care facilities finance
  agency or by or on behalf of a substance abuse program or a local agency
  to finance capital costs for substance abuse program facilities.
    4. "Capital costs" shall mean expenditures, subject to the approval of
  the office, as shall be obligated to  acquire,  construct,  reconstruct,
  rehabilitate or improve a substance abuse program facility.