80.010 Definitions for chapter.

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