§ 45-30-2. Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this chapter, have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(1) "Administration" means any and all undertakings necessary for management, operation, or maintenance, in connection with any project, and includes the leasing of any project (in whole or in part) from the federal government.
(2) "Development" means any and all undertakings necessary for the planning, land acquisition, demolition, financing,
construction, or equipment in connection with a project (including the negotiation or award of contracts), and includes the acquisition of any project (in whole or in part) from the federal government.
(3) "Federal government" means the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America.
(4) "Housing authority" means any housing authority created or established or hereafter created or established under the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law, chapters 25 - 27 of this title, or under the provisions of §§ 45-30-7 - 45-30-9.
(5) The development of a project is deemed to be "initiated" if a housing authority has issued any bonds, notes, or other obligations with respect to financing the development of that project of the housing authority, or has contracted with the federal government with respect to the exercise of powers under this chapter in the development of that project of the federal government.
(6) "National defense period" means the period, as determined by a housing authority (which determination is conclusive in any suit, action, or proceeding), during which there exists or impends in the locality an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities.
(7) "Persons engaged in national defense activities" include: persons in the military service of the United States; employees of the Department of Defense; and workers engaged or to be engaged in activities connected with and essential to national defense; and the families of those persons who are living with them.
History of Section. (P.L. 1951, ch. 2763, § 7; G.L. 1956, § 45-30-2.)
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