§ 476. Definitions. As used or referred to in this article, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Board" or "board of education" shall mean the board of education\nof the city of Yonkers.\n 2. "Bonds" and "notes" shall mean bonds and notes respectively, issued\nby the fund pursuant to this article.\n 3. "City" shall mean the city of Yonkers.\n 4. "City agency" shall mean any officer, administration, department,\nboard, commission, bureau, division, agency or instrumentality of the\ncity of Yonkers.\n 5. "Combined occupancy structure" shall mean any improvement on real\nproperty or any interests therein or thereto, including fee interests,\neasements, space rights or air rights, containing school accommodations\nor other facilities of the board of educa
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§ 476. Definitions. As used or referred to in this article, unless a\ndifferent meaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. "Board" or "board of education" shall mean the board of education\nof the city of Yonkers.\n 2. "Bonds" and "notes" shall mean bonds and notes respectively, issued\nby the fund pursuant to this article.\n 3. "City" shall mean the city of Yonkers.\n 4. "City agency" shall mean any officer, administration, department,\nboard, commission, bureau, division, agency or instrumentality of the\ncity of Yonkers.\n 5. "Combined occupancy structure" shall mean any improvement on real\nproperty or any interests therein or thereto, including fee interests,\neasements, space rights or air rights, containing school accommodations\nor other facilities of the board of education of the city of Yonkers in\ncombination with other compatible and lawful non-school uses designed\nand intended to increase, from both a planning and an economic\nviewpoint, the efficient utilization of available land areas. A combined\noccupancy structure shall also include a structure in a project or\ndevelopment under the auspices of the fund wherein non-school portions\nof structures placed upon the overall site are not built in space rights\nover the school portion, so long as some part of the non-school portion\nis constructed over the school.\n 6. "Commissioner of education" shall mean the commissioner of\neducation of the state of New York.\n 7. "Corporation counsel" shall mean the corporation counsel of the\ncity of Yonkers.\n 8. "Developer" shall mean and include any private individual,\npartnership, trust or private or public corporation approved by the\nboard of education as being qualified and eligible to enter into one or\nmore leases, subleases or other agreements with the fund providing for\nthe construction, acquisition, reconstruction, rehabilitation or\nimprovement of one or more combined occupancy structures; which\nagreements shall be subject to approval by the board of education.\n 9. "Commissioner of finance" shall mean the commissioner of finance of\nthe city of Yonkers.\n 10. "Fund" shall mean the corporate governmental agency created by\nsection four hundred seventy-seven of this article.\n 11. "Governor" shall mean the governor of the state of New York.\n 12. "Letting agency" shall mean and include the board of education or\nany other city agency which by agreement with the fund is to award the\ncontracts for a particular construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation\nor improvement; or the fund itself, if it is to award such contracts.\n 13. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of Yonkers.\n 14. "Owner" shall mean and include any private individual,\npartnership, trust or private or public corporation, taking possession\nof the non-school portion of a combined occupancy structure pursuant to\na lease, sub-lease, conveyance or other agreement, or acquiring fee\ntitle to or a leasehold or other interest in such non-school portion.\n 15. "Planning commission" shall mean the planning commission of the\ncity of Yonkers.\n 16. "Real property" shall mean lands, waters, rights in lands or\nwaters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including air or\nspace rights, and any and all other things and rights usually included\nwithin the same term and includes also any and all interests in such\nproperty less than full title, such as easements permanent or temporary,\nrights-of-way, uses, leases, licenses and all other incorporeal\nhereditaments in every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.\n 17. "School building" shall mean a separate structure entirely devoted\nto use and occupancy for public school purposes; including incidental\nand appurtenant recreational and other facilities.\n 18. "School portion" or "school portion of combined occupancy\nstructure" shall mean that portion of a combined occupancy structure\ndesigned, constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved for use\nand occupancy for public school purposes; including incidental and\nappurtenant recreational and other facilities.\n 19. "State" shall mean the state of New York.\n