KRS 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 facil ities 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 re move 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 nece ssary, 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 purpos es 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, 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 it s 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, a s 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,

board of commissioners, board of aldermen, or other legislative body of the ci ty,

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 incl ude 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 equit able, 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 ventila tion, light, or sanitary facilities, or any

combination of these factors are detrimental to safety, health and morals; and

(13) "Low income" and "moderate income" shall have those meanings as from time to

time are promulgated by federal and state governmen tal agencies providing funding

for the then applicable housing program.