476 - Definitions.

§ 476. Definitions.   As used or referred to in this article, unless a  different meaning clearly appears from the context:    1. "Board" or "board of education" shall mean the board  of  education  of the city of Yonkers.    2. "Bonds" and "notes" shall mean bonds and notes respectively, issued  by the fund pursuant to this article.    3. "City" shall mean the city of Yonkers.    4.  "City  agency" shall mean any officer, administration, department,  board, commission, bureau, division, agency or  instrumentality  of  the  city of Yonkers.    5.  "Combined  occupancy structure" shall mean any improvement on real  property or any interests therein or thereto, including  fee  interests,  easements,  space rights or air rights, containing school accommodations  or other facilities of the board of education of the city of Yonkers  in  combination  with  other  compatible and lawful non-school uses designed  and  intended  to  increase,  from  both  a  planning  and  an  economic  viewpoint, the efficient utilization of available land areas. A combined  occupancy  structure  shall  also  include  a  structure in a project or  development under the auspices of the fund wherein  non-school  portions  of structures placed upon the overall site are not built in space rights  over  the school portion, so long as some part of the non-school portion  is constructed over the school.    6.  "Commissioner  of  education"  shall  mean  the  commissioner   of  education of the state of New York.    7.  "Corporation  counsel"  shall  mean the corporation counsel of the  city of Yonkers.    8.  "Developer"  shall  mean  and  include  any  private   individual,  partnership,  trust  or  private  or  public corporation approved by the  board of education as being qualified and eligible to enter into one  or  more  leases,  subleases or other agreements with the fund providing for  the  construction,  acquisition,   reconstruction,   rehabilitation   or  improvement   of  one  or  more  combined  occupancy  structures;  which  agreements shall be subject to approval by the board of education.    9. "Commissioner of finance" shall mean the commissioner of finance of  the city of Yonkers.    10. "Fund" shall mean the corporate  governmental  agency  created  by  section four hundred seventy-seven of this article.    11. "Governor" shall mean the governor of the state of New York.    12.  "Letting agency" shall mean and include the board of education or  any other city agency which by agreement with the fund is to  award  the  contracts  for a particular construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation  or improvement; or the fund itself, if it is to award such contracts.    13. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of the city of Yonkers.    14.  "Owner"  shall  mean  and   include   any   private   individual,  partnership,  trust  or private or public corporation, taking possession  of the non-school portion of a combined occupancy structure pursuant  to  a  lease,  sub-lease,  conveyance  or  other agreement, or acquiring fee  title to or a leasehold or other interest in such non-school portion.    15. "Planning commission" shall mean the planning  commission  of  the  city of Yonkers.    16.  "Real  property"  shall  mean  lands,  waters, rights in lands or  waters, structures, franchises and interests in land, including  air  or  space  rights,  and any and all other things and rights usually included  within the same term and includes also any and  all  interests  in  such  property less than full title, such as easements permanent or temporary,  rights-of-way,   uses,   leases,  licenses  and  all  other  incorporeal  hereditaments in every estate, interest or right, legal or equitable.17. "School building" shall mean a separate structure entirely devoted  to use and occupancy for public school  purposes;  including  incidental  and appurtenant recreational and other facilities.    18.   "School  portion"  or  "school  portion  of  combined  occupancy  structure" shall mean that portion of  a  combined  occupancy  structure  designed,  constructed, reconstructed, rehabilitated or improved for use  and occupancy for  public  school  purposes;  including  incidental  and  appurtenant recreational and other facilities.    19. "State" shall mean the state of New York.