Oklahoma § 63-1054 - Definitions

§ 63-1054. Definitions

The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this act,

shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different

meaning clearly appears from the context:

(a) "Authority" means any public body corporate and politic

created by this act.

(b) "City" means any incorporated city or town in the state.

"County" means any county in the state.

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(c) "Governing body" means, in the case of a city, the council

or other governing body of the city in which is vested legislative

authority customarily imposed on the city council, and, in the case

of a county, the board of county commissioners.

(d) "Mayor" means the mayor of the city or the officer thereof

charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or

executive head of a city.

(e) "Clerk" means the city clerk or the county clerk, as the

case may be.

(f) "Area of operation" means:

(1) in the case of an authority of a city, the city and the area

within one (1) mile of the territorial boundaries thereof, except

that the area of operation of an authority of any city shall not

include any area which lies within the territorial boundaries of

some other city;

(2) in the case of an authority of a county, all of the county

for which it is created: Provided, that a county authority shall not

undertake any project within the boundaries of any city unless a

resolution shall have been adopted by the governing body of the city

and by any authority which shall have been theretofore established

and authorized to exercise its powers in the city declaring that

there is need for the county authority to exercise its powers within

that city. No authority shall operate in any area in which an

authority already established is operating without the consent by

resolution of the authority already operating therein.

(g) "Federal government" includes the United States of America,

the Public Housing Administration, or any other agency or

instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of

America.

(h) "Slum" means any area where dwellings predominate which by

reason of dilapidation, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design,

lack of ventilation, light, or sanitary facilities, or any

combination of these factors, are detrimental to safety, health and

morals.

(i) "Housing project" or "project" means any work or undertaking

on contiguous or noncontiguous sites:

(1) to demolish, clear, or remove buildings from any slum

area;

(2) to provide or assist in providing (by any suitable method,

including but not limited to: rental; sale of individual units in

single or multifamily structures under conventional, condominium, or

cooperative sales contract; lease-purchase agreement; loans; or

subsidizing of rentals or charges) decent, safe and sanitary urban

or rural dwellings, apartments, or other living accommodations for

persons of low income; or

(3) to accomplish a combination of the foregoing. Such work or

undertaking may include buildings, land, equipment, facilities, and

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other real or personal property for necessary, convenient or

desirable appurtenances; streets, sewers, water service, utilities,

parks, site preparation, and landscaping; and facilities for

administrative, community, health, recreational, welfare, or other

purposes. The term "housing project" or "project" also may be

applied to the planning of the buildings and improvements, the

acquisition of property or any interest therein, the demolition of

existing structures, the construction, reconstruction,

rehabilitation, alteration or repair of the improvements and all

other work in connection therewith; and the term shall include all

other real and personal property and all tangible or intangible

assets held or used in connection with the housing project.

(j) "Persons of low income" shall mean persons or families who

lack the amount of income which is necessary (as determined by the

authority undertaking the housing project) to enable them, without

financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary

dwellings, without overcrowding, however, the local housing

authority shall not exceed the guidelines in establishing incomes

set forth by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

(k) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, interim certificates,

debentures, or other obligations issued by an authority pursuant to

this act.

(l) "Real property" includes all lands, including improvements

and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant

thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every estate, interest

and right, legal or equitable, therein including terms for years.

(m) "Obligee of an authority" or "obligee" includes any

bondholder, agent or trustee for any bondholder, or lessor demising

to the authority property used in connection with a 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 contract with

the authority.

(n) "Persons engaged in national defense activities" means

persons in the Armed Forces of the United States; employees of the

Department of Defense; and workers engaged or to be engaged in

activities connected with national defense. The term also includes

the families of the persons, employees, and workers who reside with

them.

(o) "Major disaster" means any flood, drought, fire, hurricane,

tornado, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe which, in the

determination of the governing body, is of sufficient severity and

magnitude to warrant the use of available resources of the federal,

state, and local governments to alleviate the damage, hardship, or

suffering caused thereby.

(p) "State public body" means any city, county, municipal

corporation, commission, district, authority, agency, subdivision,

or public body of the state.

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Added by Laws 1965, c. 251, § 4, emerg. eff. June 18, 1965. Amended

by Laws 1967, c. 339, § 1; Laws 1969, c. 281, § 1; Laws 1971, c.

218, § 1, emerg. eff. June 11, 1971.