The Florida Senate

421.44  Defense housing; definitions.--

(1)  "Persons engaged in national defense activities," as used in this law, shall include: Enlisted personnel in the military and naval services of the United States and employees of the War and Navy Departments assigned to duty at military or naval reservations, posts or bases; and workers engaged or to be engaged in any industries connected with and essential to the national defense program; and shall include the families of the aforesaid persons who are living with them.

(2)  "Persons of low income," as used in this law, shall mean persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary, as determined by the housing authority undertaking the housing project, to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding.

(3)  "Development," as used in this law, shall mean 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 therefor, and shall include the acquisition of any project, in whole or in part, from the Federal Government.

(4)  "Administration," as used in this law, shall mean any and all undertakings necessary for management, operation or maintenance, in connection with any project, and shall include the leasing of any project, in whole or in part, from the Federal Government.

(5)  "Federal Government," as used in this law, shall mean the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States.

(6)  The development of a project shall be deemed to be "initiated," within the meaning of this law, if a housing authority has issued any bonds, notes or other obligations with respect to financing the development of such project of the authority, or has contracted with the Federal Government with respect to the exercise of powers hereunder in the development of such project of the Federal Government for which an allocation of funds has been made prior to the termination of the existing war by the signing of a definitive treaty of peace, or by the proclamation of the President of the United States that hostilities have ceased or that the emergency in justification of extraordinary wartime powers no longer exists, whichever shall first occur.

(7)  "Housing authority," as used in this law, shall mean any housing authority established or hereafter established pursuant to the Housing Authorities Law.

History.--s. 8, ch. 20221, 1941; s. 2, ch. 21697, 1943; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 24, ch. 57-1; s. 89, ch. 97-103.