§ 9-a. Special provisions relating to mental health services\nfacilities improvement bonds and notes. 1. Definitions. For the purposes\nof this act:\n a. "Mental health services facility" shall mean a building, a unit\nwithin a building, a laboratory, a classroom, a housing unit, a dining\nhall, an activities center, a library, real property of any kind or\ndescription, or any structure on or improvement to real property of any\nkind or description, including fixtures and equipment which may or may\nnot be an integral part of any such building, unit, structure or\nimprovement, a walkway, a roadway or a parking lot, and improvements and\nconnections for water, sewer, gas, electrical, telephone, heating, air\nconditioning and other utility services, or a combination of any of the\nforegoing, whether for patient care and treatment or staff, staff family\nor service use, located at or related to any psychiatric center, any\ndevelopmental center, or any state psychiatric or research institute or\nother facility now or hereafter established under the state department\nof mental hygiene. A mental health services facility shall also mean and\ninclude a residential care center for adults, a community residence, a\n"community mental health and developmental disabilities facility", and a\nstate or voluntary operated treatment facility for use in the conduct of\nan alcoholism or substance abuse treatment program as defined in the\nmental hygiene law, unless such residential care center for adults,\ncommunity mental health and developmental disabilities facility or\nalcoholism or substance abuse facility is expressly excepted or the\ncontext clearly requires otherwise. The definition contained in this\nsubdivision shall not be construed to exclude therefrom a facility,\nwhether or not owned or leased by a voluntary agency, to be made\navailable under lease, or sublease, from the facilities development\ncorporation to a voluntary agency at the request of the commissioners of\nthe offices and directors of the divisions of the department of mental\nhygiene having jurisdiction thereof for use in providing services in a\nresidential care center for adults, community mental health and\ndevelopmental disabilities services, or for use in the conduct of an\nalcoholism or substance abuse treatment program. For purposes of this\nsection mental health services facility shall also mean mental hygiene\nfacility as defined in subdivision ten of section three of the\nfacilities development corporation act and shall also include facilities\nfor: (i) comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs and/or psychiatric\ninpatient programs or other similar programs, including but not limited\nto residential treatment facilities, under the auspice of municipalities\nand other public and not-for-profit agencies, licensed pursuant to\narticle thirty-one of the mental hygiene law and/or article twenty-eight\nof the public health law; and (ii) licensed or unlicensed permanent,\ntransitional, or emergency housing for mentally ill persons under the\nauspice of municipalities and other public and not-for-profit agencies,\napproved by the commissioner of the office of mental health, pursuant to\narticle forty-one of the mental hygiene law.\n b. "Mental health services facilities improvement bonds" and "mental\nhealth services facilities improvement notes" shall mean bonds and\nnotes, respectively, issued by the agency pursuant to subdivision two of\nthis section.\n c. "Mental health services facilities improvement program" shall mean\na program undertaken by the agency and the facilities development\ncorporation for the purpose of financing, refinancing, designing,\nconstructing, acquiring, reconstructing, rehabilitating or improving\nmental hygiene facilities and mental health services facilities or\ncausing such facilities to be financed, refinanced, designed,\nconstructed, acquired, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved.\n 2. Additional powers of the agency. a. T
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