Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 41 > Subchapter II - Planned Areawide Development

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Areawide agency: means an official State, metropolitan, regional, or district agency empowered under State or local laws or under an interstate compact or agreement to perform comprehensive planning in an area, an organization of the type referred to in section 701(g) ¹ of the Housing Act of 1954. See 42 USC 3338
• Areawide development: means all projects or programs for the acquisition, use, and development of open-space land. See 42 USC 3338
• Areawide development project: means a project assisted or to be assisted under section 702 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 [42 U. See 42 USC 3338
• Comprehensive planning: includes the following, to the extent directly related to area needs or needs of a unit of general local government: (A) preparation, as a guide for long-range development, of general physical plans with respect to the pattern and intensity of land use and the provision of public facilities, including transportation facilities. See 42 USC 3338
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Hospital: means any public health center or general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, or other type of hospital and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses' home and training facilities, and central service facilities normally operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care. See 42 USC 3338
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Metropolitan area: means a standard metropolitan statistical area as established by the Office of Management and Budget, subject however to such modifications and extensions as the Secretary may determine to be appropriate for the purposes of this subchapter. See 42 USC 3338
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. See 42 USC 3338
• Special purpose unit of local government: means any special district, public-purpose corporation, or other limited-purpose political subdivision of a State, but shall not include a school district. See 42 USC 3338
• State: means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, or an agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing. See 42 USC 3338
• Unit of general local government: means any city, county, town, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of a State. See 42 USC 3338