A. "Bonds" shall mean any bonds, notes, certificates, debentures or other obligations issued by the City pursuant to this chapter.

B. "City" shall mean the City of Berkeley.

C. "Cost" shall mean the total of all costs incurred by or on behalf of a participating institution necessary or incident to acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement or operation of a project or the refunding or refinancing of obligations incurred to finance such acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement. "Cost" shall include all such costs which under generally accepted accounting principles are properly chargeable to a capital account (whether or not actually so charged), including, without limitation, the cost of all lands, structures, real or personal property, franchises, rights and interests acquired or used in connection with a project, the cost of demolishing or removing any structures (including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such structures may be moved), the cost of engineering, architectural, financial and legal services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates, administration expenses or other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility of or to acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, improving or financing a project, including all costs of issuance of bonds for such purposes, reserves for debt service and for repairs, replacements, additions and improvements, and capitalized bond interest for such period as the City may determine.

D. "Council" shall mean the City Council of the City of Berkeley.

E. "Health facility" shall mean any facility, place or building which is maintained and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention and treatment of human illness, physical or mental, including convalescence, rehabilitation and care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of these services, and which provides and will continue providing to residents of the City essential health care services designated as such in an agreement between the City and the participating health institution providing or operating such facility, place or building. "Health facility" also includes retirement centers and medical office buildings.

Health facility includes a portion of one of the above types of facilities and includes the following facilities if operated in conjunction with one of the above types of facilities: a laboratory, a laundry, a nurses’ or interns’ residence, a housing facility for patients, staff or employees and the families of any of them, an administration building, a research, maintenance, storage, utility or parking facility and all real and personal property, land, buildings, structures, facilities, equipment, fixtures and furnishings related to any of the foregoing or required or useful for the operation of a health facility.

Health facility shall not include any facility, place or building used or to be used primarily for sectarian instruction or study or as a place for devotional activities or religious worship.

F. "Participating health institution" shall mean a private corporation or association authorized by the laws of the state to provide or operate a health facility as defined in this chapter and which, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, undertakes the financing of the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement of a health facility or undertakes the refunding or refinancing of obligations incurred to finance such acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or improvement.

G. "Participating institution" shall mean a participating health institution or a participating recreation and sports institution.

H. "Participating recreation and sports institution" shall mean a corporation, or other state authorized entity, qualifying as an exempt person under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

I. "Project" shall mean a health facility or a recreation and sports facility.

J. "Recreation and sports facility" shall mean recreation and sports facilities available (either for fee or otherwise) for use by residents of the City and the general public either as participants or spectators and functionally related and subordinate residential housing facilities, including residential facilities for employees of the persons or entities owning or operating such recreation and sports facilities and facilities located in proximity to and in connection with recreation and sports facilities providing treatment, therapy, or recreational opportunities for mentally and physically handicapped persons and families of such persons. Recreation and sports facility shall not include any facility, place or building used or to be used primarily for sectarian introduction or study or as a place for devotional activities or religious worship.

K. "Revenues" shall mean amounts received by the City as repayment of principal, interest, and all other charges with respect to a loan, lease, sub-lease or sale agreement under this chapter, any proceeds received by the City from mortgage, hazard or other insurance on or with respect to rents, charges, fees, income and receipts derived by the City from the financing of a project under this chapter, any amounts received by the City as investment earnings on moneys deposited in any fund or account securing bonds, and such other moneys as the council may, in its discretion lawfully designate as revenues. (Ord. 6153-NS §§ 4, 5, 1992: Ord. 5491-NS § 1 (part), 1982)