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Part II.
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<br /> Accredited: Approval by a recognized accrediting board or
<br />association on a regional, state, or national level, such as state board
<br />of education or health; the American Hospital Association; a
<br />regional or national accrediting association for universities, cniieges,
<br />or secondary schools; at another recognized accrediting association.
<br /> Approped: Recognition and approval by the State Department of
<br />Education, State Department of Health, or other appropriate
<br />authority. With respect to an educational institution, approval must
<br />relate to academic or instructional standards. An educational
<br />institution may be considered as approved if its credits are accepted
<br />by accredited or gata-approved institutions at if it meets the
<br />acadetnic or instructional standards prescribed for public schools in
<br />the state.
<br /> Child care center: A public or nonprofit facility where day ca~e
<br />services such aa educational, social, health, and nutritional services
<br />are provided to children through aga 14 and which is approved or
<br />licensed by the state or other appropriate authority.
<br /> Clinic: An approved. public or nonprofit facility organized and
<br />operated for the primary purpose of providing outpatient public
<br />health services including customary telated services such as labors-
<br />tortes and treatment rooms,
<br /> College: An appleveal or accredited public or nonprofit institu-
<br />tion of higher learning offering organized study courses and credits
<br />leading to a baccalaureate or higher degree.
<br /> Conservation: A program or prograins carried out or promoted.by
<br />a public agency l~r public purposes involving,directly at indirectly,
<br />the protection, mainlcnance~ d~vclopment, and restoration of tile
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<br />hul ;Ire n,t lintlied l, Ihc air. hind. forests, water. rivers, streams,
<br />lakes and ponds, minerals, and aninlais, fish, and other wiidbt~:.
<br /> Economic development: A program or proguns ccrried out or
<br />promoted by a public agency for public purposes which involv~
<br />directly or indixectly,cfforta to imptore the opportunities of a given
<br />political arcs for the successful establishment or expansion of
<br />industrial, commercial, or agricultural plants or facilities and which
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<br />Sties it~ the atca or primaxily bentlit the unemployed at those with
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<br /> Educational institution: An otherwise eligible public at nonprofit
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<br />programs, including research I~t any such prograins, such as a child
<br />care center, school, college, university, school for the mentally or
<br />physically handicapped, educational radio or television station,
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<br /> Educational radio stations: A radio station licensed by the
<br />Federal Communications Commission and operated exclusively for
<br />noncommercial educational purposes and which is public or
<br />nonprofit and tax exempt undct Section 501 of the Internal
<br />Revenue Code of 1954.
<br /> Educational television station: A television station licensed by the
<br />Federal Communications Commission and operated exclusively for
<br />noncommercial educational purposes and which is public or
<br />nonprofit and tax exempt under Section 501 of the Internal
<br />Revenue Code of 1954.
<br /> Health center: An approved public or nonprofit facility utilized
<br />by a health unit for the provision of public health services, including
<br />related facilities such as diagnostic and laboratory facilities and
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<br /> Hospital: An approved or accredited public or nonprofit instire-
<br />lion providing public health services primarily for inpatient medical
<br />or surgical care of the sick and injured, including related facilities
<br />such as laboratories, outpatient departments, training facilities, and
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<br />Zibrary: A public or nonprofit facility providing library services
<br />free to all residents of a community, district, state, or region.
<br /> Medical institution: An otherwise eligible public or nonprofit
<br />institution, facility, entity, o~ organization the primary function of
<br />which is the furnishing of health and medical services to the public
<br />at large or promoting public health through the conduct of research
<br />for any such purposes, experiments, training, or demonstrations
<br />related to tile cause. prevention, and methods of diagnosis and
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<br />Ibnitcd to .h~spitals. clinics. alcoholic and drug abuse treatment
<br />of,tats, public hcallh or trcahncnt centers, soscarols and health
<br />centers, geriatric center laboratories, medical schools, dental
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<br />HEFINITIONS ' :'
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<br /> schools, nursing schools, and similar institutions. The term does not
<br /> include institutions primarily engaged in linmiciliary care although a
<br /> separate medical facility within such a damSciliary institution may
<br /> qualify as a "medical institution."
<br /> Mtatam: A public or nonprofit facility which is artended by the
<br /> public free or at a nominal charge and which provides museum
<br /> services including the preservation and exhibition of artistic,
<br /> cultural, historical, or scientific objects.
<br /> Nonprofit institution: An educational at public health institution
<br /> oz organization, no part of the net earnings of which inures or may .
<br /> lawfully inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual
<br /> and which has been held to be tax exempt under the provisions of
<br /> Sectinh S01 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
<br /> Park and recreation: A program or programs carried out at
<br /> promoted by a public agency for public purposes which involve
<br /> directly or indirectly the acquisition, development, improvement,
<br /> maintenance, and protection of park and recreational facilities fat
<br /> the iresidents of a given political axec. These facilities include but are
<br /> not broiled to paxks, phygrounds and athletic fields, swimming
<br /> pools, golf courses, nature facilities, and vaturn trails.
<br /> Public agency: Any state; any pohtical subdivision thereofj
<br /> including any unit of local government or economic development
<br /> district; any department, agency, instrumentality thereof, including
<br /> ingrumentMities created by compact or other agreement between a
<br /> state and another state, a political snbdividison, a multijurisdictional
<br /> subsate district established by or pursuant to gate law, or any
<br /> Indian tribe, band, group, putbin, or community Iocat~l on a state
<br /> reservation.
<br /> Public health: A program or programs to promote, maintain, and
<br /> conserve the pubiic's health by providing health services to
<br /> individuals and by the conduct of research, investigations, examina-
<br /> tion, training, and demonstrations. Public health services may
<br /> include but ate not limited to immunization, maternal and child
<br /> health programs, sanitary engineering, sewage treatment and
<br /> disposal, sanitation inspection and supervision, water purification
<br /> and distribution, air pollution control, garbage and trash disposal,
<br /> the control and elimination of disease-carrying animals and insects,
<br /> and the control of communicable discare.%
<br /> Public safety: A program or programs catrind out or promoted by
<br /> a public agency for public purposes involving, directly or thdiscetly,
<br /> the protection, safety, and law enforcement activities and the
<br /> cdminal justice system of a given political area. Public safety
<br /> programs may include but are not limited to those carried out by
<br /> public police departments, sheriffs' offices, the courts, penal and
<br /> correctional institutions including juvenile facilities, state and civil
<br /> defense organizations, and fire departDents and rescue squads
<br /> including volunteer fire departments and rescue squads supported in
<br /> whole or in part with public funds.
<br /> School (except schools for the mentally or physically handi-
<br /> capped): A public or nonprofit, approved or accredited organiza-
<br /> tional entity devoted primarily to approved academic, vocational, or
<br /> professional study and instruction, which operates primarily for
<br /> educational purposes on a full-time basis for a minimum school year
<br /> and employs a full-time staff of qualified instructors.
<br /> School for the mentally handicapped: A facllily or institution
<br /> operated primarily to provide specialized instruction to students of
<br /> limited mental capacity. It must be public or nonprofit and must
<br /> operate on a full-time basis for the equivalent of a minimum school
<br /> year prescribed for public school instruction of the mentally
<br /> handicapped, have a staff of quatiled instructors, and demonstrate
<br /> that the facility meets state and local health and safety standards.
<br /> School ~o~ the physically handicapped: A school organized
<br /> primarily to provide specialized instruction to students whose
<br /> physical handicaps necessitate inilividual or group instruction. The
<br /> schools must be public or nonprofit and operate on a full-time basis
<br /> for the equivalent of a minimum schoc~ year ptescribed for public
<br /> school instruction fat the physically handicapped, have a staff of
<br /> qualified instructors, and demonstrate that the facility meets state
<br /> and local health and safety standards.
<br /> Tax-supported organization: One which receives a major portion
<br /> of its financial support from moneys derived from state at local
<br /> government revenues,
<br /> University: A public or nonprofit, approved Or accredited
<br /> institution of higher education empowered to confer degtce~ in
<br /> special departments or colleges.
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