Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 46 - Continuing Care Retirement Communities

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• agreements: shall mean continuing care at home or continuing care retirement contracts as defined in this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• certificate of authority: shall mean an authorization in writing, approved by the council and issued by the commissioner, for an operator to operate a continuing care retirement community and to enter into continuing care retirement contracts and continuing care at home contracts pertaining to such community. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of health. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• community: shall mean a facility or facilities established to provide a comprehensive, cohesive living arrangement for the elderly, oriented to the enhancement of the quality of life and which, pursuant to a contract, at a minimum:
  
  a. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• continuing care at home contract: shall mean a single contract to provide a person the services provided by a continuing care retirement community. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: shall mean the continuing care retirement community council, established pursuant to section forty-six hundred two of this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Entrance fee: shall mean an initial or deferred transfer to an operator of a sum of money, made or promised to be made by a person or persons entering into a continuing care retirement contract or continuing care at home contract, for the purpose of ensuring services pursuant to such a contract. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Facility: shall mean any place in which an operator undertakes to provide a resident with the services of a continuing care retirement community, pursuant to a contract, whether such place is constructed, owned, leased, rented, or otherwise contracted for by the operator. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Fee-for-service continuing care contract: shall mean a single continuing care retirement contract that provides long-term and other services on a per diem, fee-for-service or monthly rate. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Home resident: shall mean a continuing care at home contract holder who resides in a private residence off of the continuing care retirement community campus. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Life care contract: shall mean a single continuing care retirement contract or a continuing care at home contract to provide a person, for the duration of such person's life, the services provided by the continuing care retirement community, which services shall include unlimited services of the affiliated community's nursing facility or affiliated nursing home. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Living unit: shall mean an apartment, room, cottage, or other area within a community set aside for the exclusive use of one or more residents, or in the case of a continuing care at home contract, the contract holder's private residence. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Monthly care fee: shall mean the monthly cost to a resident for prepayment of any services, including rent, rendered pursuant to a contract, exclusive of entrance fees or other prepayments, and any other regular periodic charges to the resident, determined on a monthly basis, pursuant to the provisions of a contract. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Operator: shall mean a legal entity operating a continuing care retirement community pursuant to a certificate of authority. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Priority reservation agreement: shall mean a cancelable agreement between a prospective continuing care retirement community applicant, an applicant for a certificate of authority or an operator and a prospective resident, for the purpose of evaluating market demand for a proposed continuing care retirement community and for the purpose of guaranteeing to prospective residents an opportunity for priority placement in a continuing care retirement community, under which the prospective resident will pay a refundable priority reservation fee. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Priority reservation fee: shall mean the refundable sum of money paid by a prospective resident for deposit with the escrow agent for a prospective continuing care retirement community applicant, an applicant for a certificate of authority or an operator pursuant to a priority reservation agreement. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Resident: shall mean any person who, pursuant to a continuing care retirement contract or continuing care at home contract, is entitled to reside in and/or receive services from a continuing care retirement community. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Residential health care demonstration facility: shall mean a residential health care facility containing up to sixty beds, within the defined geographical boundary of each health systems agency established under the provisions of subdivision (c) of section twenty-nine hundred four of this chapter, provided that such residential health care facility is an integrated part of a comprehensive system of residential and support services for the elderly, providing either directly or through one or more affiliated entities, prior to the effective date of this subdivision, on or adjacent to the site of the proposed residential health care facility, independent living units, an adult care facility as defined in § 2 of the social services law and a range of health care and social services, which may include home health care, counselling, case management and information and referral. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Social services: shall mean those services which may include, but not be limited to counseling, case management, and information and referral. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Superintendent: shall mean the superintendent of financial services. See N.Y. Public Health Law 4601