2023 New York Laws › MHA - Municipal Housing Authority (Article 5 of the former State Housing Law) › Article 5 - Municipal Housing Authorities › 62 - Definitions.

* § 62. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to
  in  this  article,  shall have the following meaning, unless a different
  meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. The term "authority"  shall  mean  a  municipal  housing  authority
  established  pursuant to this article by any county, city or first class
  village of the state.
2. The term "board" shall mean the state board of housing.
3. The term "municipality" shall mean the county, city or first  class
  village establishing the authority.
3-a.  The  term  "county"  means a county not wholly included within a
  city.
3-b. The term "mayor" also includes the mayor of a first class village
  establishing the authority.
3-c. The term "village" means a village of the first class as  defined
  in the village law.
3-d.  The term "local legislative body" (a) in a city, means the local
  legislative board or body of such city as defined in the city home  rule
  law;  (b)  in  a  county,  means  the  board  of  supervisors  or  other
  legislative governing board or  body  of  such  county,  and  (c)  in  a
  village, means the board of trustees of the village.
3-e.  The  term  "county executive" means the chairman of the board of
  supervisors or other administrative head of the county.
4. The term "comptroller" shall mean the comptroller in cities  having
  a comptroller. In cities, counties and villages having no comptroller it
  shall mean the chief financial officer of such municipality.
5. The term "state" shall mean New York state.
6.  The  term  "government"  shall  include  the state and the federal
  government and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate  or
  otherwise, of either of them.
7.  The  term "areas" shall mean a section of the municipality wherein
  the authority finds that unsanitary or  substandard  housing  conditions
  exist.  An  area  may  include  land whether improved or unimproved, and
  buildings or improvements not in themselves unsanitary  or  substandard,
  the  inclusion  of  which  is  deemed necessary by the authority for the
  effective clearance, replanning or reconstruction of the section or  any
  part thereof.
8.  The  term  "project"  shall mean a plan or undertaking (a) for the
  clearance, replanning, or reconstruction of an area or areas, or part or
  parts thereof and/or (b) for the providing for persons of low income, of
  housing accommodations in any section of the  municipality,  whether  or
  not such section has unsanitary substandard housing conditions. The term
  shall  include  the  lands,  buildings and improvements acquired, owned,
  constructed,  managed  or  operated  hereunder,  to   provide   dwelling
  accommodations  for  persons of low income, and such stores, offices and
  other  commercial  or  non-housing  facilities  as   well   as   social,
  recreational  or  communal facilities, as may be deemed by the authority
  to be incidental or appurtenant to such plan or undertaking.
The term "federal project" shall mean a project aided or  financed  in
  whole  or  in  part,  by  the  federal government, where such government
  reserves the right to approve or supervise the construction or operation
  of the project.
The term "non-federal project" shall  mean  a  project  other  than  a
  federal project.
9.  The  term "bonds" shall include notes, debentures or other written
  evidences of indebtedness.
10. The term "mortgage" shall include deeds  of  trust,  building  and
  loan contracts or other instruments creating a lien.
11.  The  term "real property" shall include lands, lands under water,
  structures, and  any  and  all  easements,  franchises  and  incorporeal
  hereditaments  and  every estate and right therein, legal and equitable,
  including terms for years and liens by  way  of  judgment,  mortgage  or
  otherwise.
12.  "Obligee"  shall  include any bondholder, trustee or trustees for
  any bondholders, any lessor demising property to an  authority  used  in
  connection  with a project or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's
  interest, and the federal government, when it is a party to any contract
  with the authority.
* NB The text of Article 5 of the  former  State  Housing  Law  (cited
  herein  as  the  "Municipal  Housing  Authorities Law"), as such article
  existed immediately prior to its  repeal  pursuant  to  section  227  of
  Chapter  808 of the Laws of 1939, is provided here for ease of reference
  and historical purposes as such text continues to be applicable for  the
  New  York  City  Housing Authority pursuant to the provisions of section
  401 of the current Public Housing Law.