Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 8A - Slum Clearance, Urban Renewal, and Farm Housing

• adequate dwelling: means a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling unit. See 42 USC 1471
• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• development cost: shall include the packaging of loan and grant applications and actions related thereto by public and private nonprofit organizations tax exempt under title 26. See 42 USC 1471
• elderly or handicapped persons or families: means families which consist of two or more persons, the head of which (or his or her spouse) is at least sixty-two years of age or is handicapped. See 42 USC 1471
• farm: shall mean a parcel or parcels of land operated as a single unit which is used for the production of one or more agricultural commodities and which customarily produces or is capable of producing such commodities for sale and for home use of a gross annual value of not less than the equivalent of a gross annual value of $400 in 1944, as determined by the Secretary. See 42 USC 1471
• farm housing: shall include dwellings or other essential buildings of eligible applicants. See 42 USC 1471
• Indian tribe: means any Indian tribe, band, group, and nation, including Alaska Indians, Aleuts, and Eskimos, and any Alaskan Native Village, of the United States, which is considered an eligible recipient under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (Public Law 93-638) [25 U. See 42 USC 1471
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• mortgage: shall be deemed to include, respectively, the lessee of, and other security interest in, any leasehold interest which the Secretary determines has an unexpired term (A) in the case of a loan, for a period sufficiently beyond the repayment period of the loan to provide adequate security and a reasonable probability of accomplishing the objectives for which the loan is made, and (B) in the case of a grant for a period sufficient to accomplish the objectives for which the grant is made. See 42 USC 1471
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• rehabilitation: include measures to evaluate and reduce lead-based paint hazards, as such terms are defined in section 4851b of this title. See 42 USC 1471
• Rio Grande Compact: shall mean that certain compact executed on March 18, 1938, by commissioners representing the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas and consented to by the Congress of the United States of America by Act of May 31, 1939 (53 Stat. See 43 USC 620o
• rural resident: shall include a family or a person who is a renter of a dwelling unit in a rural area. See 42 USC 1471
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• Upper Colorado River Basin Compact: shall mean that certain compact executed on October 11, 1948 by commissioners representing the States of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and consented to by the Congress of the United States of America by Act of April 6, 1949 (63 Stat. See 43 USC 620o
• very low-income families or persons: means those families and persons whose incomes do not exceed the respective levels established for lower income families and very low-income families under the United States Housing Act of 1937 [42 U. See 42 USC 1471
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1