2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 10-B - City of Yonkers Educational Construction Fund › 476 - Definitions.

§ 476. Definitions.   As used or referred to in this article, unless a
  different meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Board" or "board of education" shall mean the board  of  education
  of the city of Yonkers.
2. "Bonds" and "notes" shall mean bonds and notes respectively, issued
  by the fund pursuant to this article.
3. "City" shall mean the city of Yonkers.
4.  "City  agency" shall mean any officer, administration, department,
  board, commission, bureau, division, agency or  instrumentality  of  the
  city of Yonkers.
5.  "Combined  occupancy structure" shall mean any improvement on real
  property or any interests therein or thereto, including  fee  interests,
  easements,  space rights or air rights, containing school accommodations
  or other facilities of the board of education of the city of Yonkers  in
  combination  with  other  compatible and lawful non-school uses designed
  and  intended  to  increase,  from  both  a  planning  and  an  economic
  viewpoint, the efficient utilization of available land areas. A combined
  occupancy  structure  shall  also  include  a  structure in a project or
  development under the auspices of the fund wherein  non-school  portions
  of structures placed upon the overall site are not built in space rights
  over  the school portion, so long as some part of the non-school portion
  is constructed over the school.
6.  "Commissioner  of  education"  shall  mean  the  commissioner   of
  education of the state of New York.
7.  "Corporation  counsel"  shall  mean the corporation counsel of the
  city of Yonkers.
8.  "Developer"  shall  mean  and  include  any  private   individual,
  partnership,  trust  or  private  or  public corporation approved by the
  board of education as being qualified and eligible to enter into one  or
  more  leases,  subleases or other agreements with the fund providing for
  the  construction,  acquisition,   reconstruction,   rehabilitation   or
  improvement   of  one  or  more  combined  occupancy  structures;  which
  agreements shall be subject to approval by the board of education.
9. "Commissioner of finance" shall mean the commissioner of finance of
  the city of Yonkers.
10. "Fund" shall mean the corporate  governmental  agency  created  by
  section four hundred seventy-seven of this article.
11. "Governor" shall mean the governor of the state of New York.
12.  "Letting agency" shall mean and include the board of education or
  any other city agency which by agreement with the fund is to  award  the
  contracts  for a particular construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation
  or improvement; or the fund itself, if it is to award such contracts.
13. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of Yonkers.
14.  "Owner"  shall  mean  and   include   any   private   individual,
  partnership,  trust  or private or public corporation, taking possession
  of the non-school portion of a combined occupancy structure pursuant  to
  a  lease,  sub-lease,  conveyance  or  other agreement, or acquiring fee
  title to or a leasehold or other interest in such non-school portion.
15. "Planning commission" shall mean the planning  commission  of  the
  city of Yonkers.
16.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands,  waters, rights in lands or
  waters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including  air  or
  space  rights,  and any and all other things and rights usually included
  within the same term and includes also any and  all  interests  in  such
  property less than full title, such as easements permanent or temporary,
  rights-of-way,   uses,   leases,  licenses  and  all  other  incorporeal
  hereditaments in every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.
17. "School building" shall mean a separate structure entirely devoted
  to use and occupancy for public school  purposes;  including  incidental
  and appurtenant recreational and other facilities.
18.   "School  portion"  or  "school  portion  of  combined  occupancy
  structure" shall mean that portion of  a  combined  occupancy  structure
  designed,  constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved for use
  and occupancy for  public  school  purposes;  including  incidental  and
  appurtenant recreational and other facilities.
19. "State" shall mean the state of New York.