§ 3. Definitions. The following terms, whenever used or referred to\nin this chapter, shall have the following meaning, unless a different\nmeaning clearly appears from the context:\n 1. The term "commissioner" means the state commissioner of housing and\ncommunity renewal. Reference in this chapter or in any other general,\nspecial or local law to state commissioner of housing shall be deemed to\nmean and refer to the state commissioner of housing and community\nrenewal which is hereby made the new title of such office.\n 2. The term "authority" means a public corporation which is a\ncorporate governmental agency (except a county or municipal corporation)\norganized pursuant to law to accomplish any or all of the purposes\nspecified in article eighteen of the constitution and includes the\nfollowing municipal housing authorities established prior to the first\nday of January, nineteen hundred thirty-nine pursuant to chapter four of\nthe laws of nineteen hundred thirty-four and amendments thereof, namely,\nBuffalo municipal housing authority, Lackawanna municipal housing\nauthority, New York city housing authority, Peekskill housing authority,\nPort Jervis housing authority, Schenectady municipal housing authority,\nSyracuse municipal housing authority, Tarrytown municipal housing\nauthority, Tuckahoe housing authority, municipal housing authority of\nthe city of Utica, New York, and Yonkers housing authority.\n 3. The term "housing company" means a limited profit or limited\ndividend housing corporation organized pursuant to articles two or four\nof the private housing finance law.\n 4. The term "multiple dwelling" means an existing building\naccommodating three or more families living independently of each other.\n 5. The terms "municipal corporation" and "municipality" mean a city,\ntown or village; and the term "municipal" shall be deemed to relate to a\ncity, town or village.\n 6. The term "mayor" means the chief executive officer of a\nmunicipality.\n 7. The term "local legislative body" means: (a) in a city, the board\nof aldermen, common council, council, commission or other board or body\nnow or hereafter vested by its charter or other law with jurisdiction to\nenact ordinances or local laws, except that in a city having a\npopulation of one million or more the term shall, as to such city, mean\nthe officer or agency vested with power under the charter of such city,\nor by other law, to act pursuant to this chapter; (b) in a town, the\ntown board; (c) in a village, the board of trustees.\n 7-a. The term "governing body of a district" means: (a) in a school\ndistrict, the board of education or board of trustees; in the case of\ncommon school districts having one trustee, such trustee; (b) in a fire\nalarm district or a fire protection district, the town board; (c) in a\nfire district, the board of fire district commissioners; (d) in an\nimprovement district, the town board, except that if there be a separate\nboard of commissioners, the term shall mean the town board acting with\nthe approval of the board of commissioners.\n 8. The term "state comptroller" means the comptroller of the state of\nNew York.\n 9. The term "municipal comptroller" means the comptroller in a\nmunicipality having a comptroller; in a municipality having no\ncomptroller, it means the chief financial officer of such municipality.\n 10. The term "state" means New York state.\n 11. The term "government" includes the state, a municipality and the\nfederal government, and any agency or instrumentality, corporate or\notherwise, of any of them acting for and on behalf of the state, a\nmunicipality or the federal government.\n 12. The term "area" means a section of the municipality wherein the\ncommissioner or an authority or a municipality finds that insanitary or\nsubstandard housing conditions exist. An area may include land whether\nimproved or unimproved, and buildings or improvements not in themselves\ninsanitary or substandard, the
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