Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Housing > Article 13 > Title 35 - Watertown Housing Authority

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Municipal legislative body: means the town board of a town, the board of trustees of a village; the board of aldermen, common council, council or commission of a city; and other elective governing board or body now or hereafter vested by state statute, charter or other law with jurisdiction to initiate and adopt local laws or ordinances. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Municipality: means a city, village, or that portion of a town located outside the limits of any city or village. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Region: means an area which encompasses a regional planning council. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Regional comprehensive plan: means the materials, written and/or graphic, including but not limited to maps, charts, studies, resolutions, reports and other descriptive material that identify the goals, objectives, principles, guidelines, policies, standards, devices and instruments for the immediate and long-range protection, enhancement, growth and development of the region, as may be prepared pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-i of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B
• Regional planning council: means a council established pursuant to section two hundred thirty-nine-h of this article. See N.Y. General Municipal Law 239-B