(65 ILCS 5/11-24-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-24-1)

Sec. 11-24-1. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this Division 24, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, mean the following:

(1) "Public hospital" means any hospital established and supported by any city of this state having a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants.

(2) "Bonds" means bonds, interim certificates or other obligations of a municipality issued by its governing body pursuant to this Division 24.

(3) "Public works project" means any reconstruction, improvement or betterment of a public hospital.

(4) "To construct" means to reconstruct, to replace, to extend, to repair, to better, to equip, to develop, to embellish or to improve a public hospital.

(5) "Construction" means building, repairing, construction, reconstruction, replacement, extension, betterment, equipment, development, embellishment and improvement of a public hospital.

(6) "Federal agency" includes the United States of America, the President of the United States of America, the Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or any agency, instrumentality or corporations owned or controlled by the United States of America, which has heretofore been or may hereafter be designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts of the Congress of the United States of America, to make loans or grants.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)