For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BONDS. Any bonds, notes, certificates, debentures or other obligations issued by the city pursuant to this chapter and payable exclusively from revenues as in this chapter defined and from any other funds specified in this chapter upon which such obligations may be made a charge and from which they are payable.
CITY. The City of Eureka, California.
COST. The total of all costs incurred by or on behalf of a participating health institution as are approved by the city as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incident to acquire, construct, or rehabilitate a health facility. COST shall include all such costs, including costs for construction or rehabilitation undertaken by a participating health facility as its own contractor, which under generally accepted accounting principles are not properly chargeable as an expense of operation and maintenance.
COUNCIL. The City Council of the City of Eureka, California.
HEALTH FACILITY.
(1) Any facility, place, or building within the city which is maintained and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention and treatment of human illness, physical or mental, 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.
(2)
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 structures or facilities related to any of the foregoing or required or useful for the operation of a HEALTH FACILITY.
(3)
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.
PARTICIPATING HEALTH INSTITUTION. A private nonprofit 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 and construction of a health facility or undertakes the refunding or refinancing of obligations incurred to finance the acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of a health facility.
REVENUES. Amounts received by the city as repayment of principal, interest, and all other charges with respect to a loan under this chapter, any proceeds received by the city from mortgage, hazard or other insurance on or with respect to such a loan, all other rents, charges, fees, income and receipts derived by the city from the financing of a health facility under this chapter, any amounts received by the city as investment earnings on moneys deposited in a reserve fund or any similar fund securing bonds, and such other moneys as the Council may, in its discretion lawfully designate as REVENUES.
('63 Code, § 2-8.103) (Ord. 318-C.S., passed 2-5-80)