Terms Used In New York Laws > Private Housing Finance > Article 8 - Loans to Owners of Existing Multiple Dwellings

• agency: shall mean any officer, board, commission, department, or other agency of the municipality, or the authority or any other public authority, designated by the local legislative body to carry out the functions vested in the agency under this article or delegated to the agency by the local legislative body in order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this article. See N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law 401
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• existing multiple dwelling: shall mean any dwelling classified as a multiple dwelling pursuant to the multiple dwelling law including class A and class B multiple dwellings, and in existence on the date upon which an application for a loan pursuant to this article is received by the agency. See N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law 401
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• loan: shall include any grant made by a municipality pursuant to this article, provided, however, that any provision of this article concerning the repayment or forgiveness of, or security for, a loan shall not apply to any grant made pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law 402
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• occupancy date: shall mean the date defined in the contract for a loan pursuant to this article between the owner of an existing multiple dwelling and a municipality as the date upon which such multiple dwelling is to be deemed ready for occupancy, or if such term is not defined in such contract, the date of issuance of the temporary certificate of occupancy. See N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law 401
• owner: shall mean a person having record or beneficial title in fee simple to real property or the lessee thereof under a lease having an unexpired term of at least thirty years. See N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law 401
• persons or families of low income: shall mean "persons of low income" or "families of low income" as defined in section two of this chapter. See N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law 401
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.