Section 3552. Definitions

As used or referred to in this title, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
    1. "Board" shall mean the board of directors  of  the  corporation  as
  established by section thirty-five hundred fifty-three of this title.
    2.  "Bonds"  shall  mean  the  bonds,  notes  or  other  evidences  of
  indebtedness issued by the corporation pursuant to this title,  and  the
  provisions  of  this title relating to bonds and bondholders shall apply
  with equal force and effect  to  notes  and  noteholders,  respectively,
  unless the context otherwise clearly requires.
    3.  "Corporation" shall mean the public corporation created by section
  thirty-five hundred fifty-three of this title, known as the Roswell Park
  Cancer Institute corporation.
    4. "County" shall mean the county of Erie.
    5.  "Department"  shall  mean the department of health of the state of
  New York.
    6. "Director" shall mean a voting director appointed to the  board  of
  directors  of  the  corporation  pursuant to section thirty-five hundred
  fifty-three of this title.
    7. "Health facility" shall mean a building, structure or unit  or  any
  improvement   to  real  property,  including  all  necessary  and  usual
  attendant and related equipment, facilities or fixtures, or any part  or
  parts  thereof,  or  any combination or combinations thereof, including,
  but not limited to, a general hospital,  ambulatory  clinic  or  center,
  chronic  disease hospital, dispensary or laboratory or any other related
  facility, or any combination of the foregoing, constructed, acquired  or
  otherwise  provided by or for the use of the corporation or the state in
  providing basic medical research, health and  medical  services  to  the
  public.
    8. "President" shall mean the president of the corporation selected by
  the board of directors.
    9.  "Transfer"  shall  mean the effective date of the contract between
  the  corporation  and  the  commissioner  of  health  as  authorized  by
  subdivision two of section four hundred three of the public health law.