§ 62 — Definitions

* § 62. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to\nin this article, shall have the following meaning, unless a different\nmeaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. The term "authority" shall mean a municipal housing authority\nestablished pursuant to this article by any county, city or first class\nvillage of the state.\n 2. The term "board" shall mean the state board of housing.\n 3. The term "municipality" shall mean the county, city or first class\nvillage establishing the authority.\n 3-a. The term "county" means a county not wholly included within a\ncity.\n 3-b. The term "mayor" also includes the mayor of a first class village\nestablishing the authority.\n 3-c. The term "village" means a village of the first class as defined\nin the village law.\n 3-d. The term "local legislative body" (a) in a city, means the local\nlegislative board or body of such city as defined in the city home rule\nlaw; (b) in a county, means the board of supervisors or other\nlegislative governing board or body of such county, and (c) in a\nvillage, means the board of trustees of the village.\n 3-e. The term "county executive" means the chairman of the board of\nsupervisors or other administrative head of the county.\n 4. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller in cities having\na comptroller. In cities, counties and villages having no comptroller it\nshall mean the chief financial officer of such municipality.\n 5. The term "state" shall mean New York state.\n 6. The term "government" shall include the state and the federal\ngovernment and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or\notherwise, of either of them.\n 7. The term "areas" shall mean a section of the municipality wherein\nthe authority finds that unsanitary or substandard housing conditions\nexist. An area may include land whether improved or unimproved, and\nbuildings or improvements not in themselves unsanitary or substandard,\nthe inclusion of which is deemed necessary by the authority for the\neffective clearance, replanning or reconstruction of the section or any\npart thereof.\n 8. The term "project" shall mean a plan or undertaking (a) for the\nclearance, replanning, or reconstruction of an area or areas, or part or\nparts thereof and/or (b) for the providing for persons of low income, of\nhousing accommodations in any section of the municipality, whether or\nnot such section has unsanitary substandard housing conditions. The term\nshall include the lands, buildings and improvements acquired, owned,\nconstructed, managed or operated hereunder, to provide dwelling\naccommodations for persons of low income, and such stores, offices and\nother commercial or non-housing facilities as well as social,\nrecreational or communal facilities, as may be deemed by the authority\nto be incidental or appurtenant to such plan or undertaking.\n The term "federal project" shall mean a project aided or financed in\nwhole or in part, by the federal government, where such government\nreserves the right to approve or supervise the construction or operation\nof the project.\n The term "non-federal project" shall mean a project other than a\nfederal project.\n 9. The term "bonds" shall include notes, debentures or other written\nevidences of indebtedness.\n 10. The term "mortgage" shall include deeds of trust, building and\nloan contracts or other instruments creating a lien.\n 11. The term "real property" shall include lands, lands under water,\nstructures, and any and all easements, franchises and incorporeal\nhereditaments and every estate and right therein, legal and equitable,\nincluding terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or\notherwise.\n 12. "Obligee" shall include any bondholder, trustee or trustees for\nany bondholders, any lessor demising property to an authority used in\nconnection with a project or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's\ninterest, and the federal government, when it is a party to any contract\nwith the authority.\n * NB The text of Article 5 of the former State Housing Law (cited\nherein as the "Municipal Housing Authorities Law"), as such article\nexisted immediately prior to its repeal pursuant to section 227 of\nChapter 808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of reference\nand historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for the\nNew York City Housing Authority pursuant to the provisions of section\n401 of the current Public Housing Law.\n