2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 10 - New York City Educational Construction Fund › 452 - Definitions.

§ 452. 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 chancellor or deputy
  chancellor of the city school district of the city of New  York,  except
  for the purposes of section four hundred fifty-three of this chapter.
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 New York.
4.  "City  agency" shall mean any officer, administration, department,
  board, commission, bureau, division, agency or  instrumentality  of  the
  city of New York.
5.  "Combined  occupancy structure" shall mean any improvement on real
  property or any interests therein or thereto,  including  fee  interest,
  easements,  space rights or air rights, containing school accommodations
  or other facilities of the board of education of the city of New York 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  or  under  any  part of the school portion of the
  development.
6.  "Commissioner  of  education"  shall  mean  the  commissioner   of
  education of the state of New York.
7.  "Comptroller"  or "city comptroller" shall mean the comptroller of
  the city of New York.
8. "Corporation counsel" shall mean the  corporation  counsel  of  the
  city of New York.
9.   "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.
10.   "Director  of  management  and  budget"  or  "city  director  of
  management and budget" shall mean the director of management and  budget
  of the city of New York.
11.  "Finance  commissioner" or "city finance commissioner" shall mean
  the commissioner of finance of the city of New York.
12. "Fund" shall mean the corporate  governmental  agency  created  by
  section four hundred fifty-three of this article.
13. "Governor" shall mean the governor of the state of New York.
14.  "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.
14-a. "Maximum debt service reserve fund requirement" shall  mean  the
  amount  of money required to be deposited in a debt service reserve fund
  authorized by section four hundred sixty-two hereof established pursuant
  to a resolution of the fund.
15. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of New York.
15-a.  "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.
16.  "Planning  commission"  shall mean the planning commission of the
  city of New York.
17. "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.
18. "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.
19.  "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 the real property to
  be used in connection therewith together with incidental and appurtenant
  recreational and other facilities.
20. "State" shall mean the state of New York.