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80.010 Definitions for chapter.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Housing" means a building or buildings containing rooms to be provided as
living quarters, together with shops, stores, garages, laundries, doctors' and
dentists' offices, and other facilities and appurtenances deemed reasonably
necessary by the housing authority to the successful and economical operation
of the project. It also means any work or undertaking of a housing authority or
of the federal government to:
(a) Demolish, clear, or remove a building or buildings from any slum area,
including the adaptation of such area to recreational, community, or other
public purposes;
(b) Provide decent, safe, and sanitary living accommodations for persons
who lack the amount of income that is necessary, as determined by the
authority undertaking the project, to enable them, without financial
assistance, to obtain such accommodations; such work or undertaking
may include buildings, land equipment, facilities, and other real or
personal property for necessary, convenient, or desirable appurtenances,
streets, sewers, water service, parks, site preparation, gardening,
administrative, community, health, recreational, welfare, or other
purposes;
(c) Accomplish a combination of the foregoing and any purposes and
objectives permitted of public housing authorities authorized by the United
States Housing Act of 1937, 42 U.S.C., sec. 1401, as amended from time
to time.
(2) "Housing authority" or "authority" means any housing authority created
pursuant to this chapter.
(3) "Public body" means any city, village, county, commission, district, authority, or
other public body or political subdivision of the Commonwealth.
(4) "Federal government" includes the United States of America, the United States
housing authority and its successor agencies, and any other agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America.
(5) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other
obligations.
(6) "Clerk" means the clerk of the city or the clerk of the county, as the case may
be, or the officer charged with the duties customarily imposed on such clerk.
(7) "Governing body" means, in the case of a city, the city council, the
commission, the board of trustees or other legislative body of the city, and in
the case of a county, the fiscal court.
(8) "Mayor" means the mayor of the city or the officer thereof charged with the
duties customarily imposed on the mayor or executive head of the city.
(9) "Obligee of the authority" or "obligee" shall include any bondholder, trustee or
trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the authority property used
in connection with a housing project, or any assignee or assignees of such
lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the federal government when it is a
party to any contract with the authority.
(10) "Persons of low income" means persons or families who lack the amount of
income which is necessary, as determined by the housing authority
undertaking the housing development, to enable them, without financial
assistance, to live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, without
overcrowding.
(11) "Real property" includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures
thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto, or used in connection
therewith, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein,
including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise
and the indebtedness secured by such liens.
(12) "Slum" means any area where dwellings predominate which, by reason of
dilapidation, overcrowding, lack of ventilation, light, or sanitary facilities, or any
combination of these factors are detrimental to safety, health and morals.
(13) "Low income" and "moderate income" shall have those meanings as from time
to time are promulgated by federal and state governmental agencies providing
funding for the then applicable housing program.
Effective:July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 237, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984. --Amended
1964 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 927a-3, 2741x-3, 2741x-18.
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