2013 New York Consolidated Laws
EXC - Executive
Article 41 - (894 - 907) OFFICE OF URBAN REVITALIZATION
895 - Definitions.

 
    * § 895. Definitions. When used in this article:
    1.  "Office"  means the office of urban revitalization created by this
  article.
    2. "Director" means  the  executive  director  of  the  urban  affairs
  cabinet  and  chief  administrative  officer  of  the  office  of  urban
  revitalization.
    3. "State agency" means any  department,  board,  bureau,  commission,
  division,  office,  council  or agency of the state, or a public benefit
  corporation or authority authorized by the laws of the state.
    4. "Federal agency" means any department, office, council or agency of
  the federal government, or any public benefit corporation  or  authority
  authorized by federal statute.
    5.  "Local  agency"  means  any community organization created for the
  purposes of enhancing the revitalization of distressed urban areas.
    6. "Distressed urban area" means communities within  cities  or  urban
  counties  of  the state characterized by blight, stagnating or declining
  tax base, an unemployment rate in excess of the  statewide  average,  an
  aged  housing  stock,  a  stagnating  or  declining  population  or  the
  existence of ten per centum or more of the population at  or  below  the
  poverty level.
    7.  "Cabinet"  means  the urban revitalization affairs cabinet created
  pursuant  to  an  executive  order  to  assist  the  governor   in   the
  coordination of state policies and programs affecting urban areas.
    * NB Expired March 31, 1985