Definitions

The following definitions apply to Sections 8-218c-13 through 8-218c-24 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies: (a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Housing. (b) "Department" means the Connecticut Department of Housing. (c) "Developer" means (1) A community housing development corporation (CHDC) incorporated and organized pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 600 and Section 8-217 of the Connecticut General Statutes, having as one of its purposes the financing, acquisition, construction or rehabilitation of housing, and having articles of incorporation approved by the Commissioner; (2) A nonprofit corporation; incorporated pursuant to Chapter 600 of the Connecticut General Statutes, having as one of its purposes the construction, rehabilitation, ownership, or operation of housing, and having articles of incorporation approved by the Commissioner; (3) A business corporation incorporated pursuant to Chapter 599 of the Connecticut General Statutes, having as one of its purposes the construction, rehabilitation, ownership, or operation of housing, and having articles of incorporation approved by the Commissioner; (4) A housing partnership, limited partnership, joint venture, trust or association having basic documents of organization approved by the Commissioner, and having as one of its purposes the construction, rehabilitation, ownership, or operation of housing; (5) A housing authority established in accordance with Section 8-40 of the Connecticut General Statutes; (6) A family or person approved by the Commissioner as qualified to own, construct, rehabilitate, or operate housing under a mortgage loan made or insured under an agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 128 of the Connecticut General Statutes and these regulations; (7) A municipal developer, which means a municipality which has not declared by resolution a need for a housing authority pursuant to Section 8-40 of the Connecticut General Statutes, acting by and through its legislative body, except that in any town in which a town meeting or representative town meeting is the legislative body, "Municipal Developer" means the governing body authorized to act as the Municipal Developer by the town meeting or representative town meeting. (d) "Families of Low and Moderate Income" means families who lack the amount of income necessary to rent or purchase decent, safe and sanitary housing without financial assistance, as determined by the Commissioner. (e) "Family" means a household consisting of one or more persons. (f) "Financial Assistance" means any grant, loan, deferred loan, advance or any combination thereof provided for the purpose of developing housing for families of low and moderate income for which a contract is entered into by the state with a developer. (g) "Housing Development" or "Development" means any work or undertaking to provide decent, safe and sanitary dwelling units for families of low and moderate income, which may include expenses of acquisition, the planning of buildings and improvements, site preparation, the demolition of existing structures, construction, rehabilitation or renovation of existing buildings, including accessibility modifications. (h) "Mortgage" means an interest in real property created by a written instrument providing a security on such property for repayment of a debt or obligation. (i) "Adaptable" means those features of housing units which are constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Connecticut State Building Code and Public Act 90-300, as well as those units constructed for first occupancy after March 1991, as required by the Federal Fair Housing Amendment Act of 1988. (j) "Medical Expenses" means those non-reimburseable medical expenses paid in the previous twelve (12) months for: (1) services of physicians and other health care professionals; (2) services of health care facilities; (3) medical insurance premiums; (4) prescription and nonprescription medicines; (5) transportation to and from treatment; (6) dental expenses; (7) eyeglasses or other corrective eyewear; (8) hearing aides and batteries; (9) prosthetic devices; (10) attendant care and auxiliary apparatus; (11) periodic medical attendant care; (12) home health care services; (13) payments on accumulated medical bills; (14) medical care of a permanently institutionalized family member if his or her income is included in family's gross annual income; and (15) other medical expenses, as determined by the commissioner.