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
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interest or any part thereof, and the federal government when it is a party to any
contract with the authority.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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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