Definitions

For the purposes of sections 8-45-2 to 8-45-7, inclusive, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Authority" means a housing authority under chapter 128 of the general statutes. (2) "Project" means a state-aided rental housing project. (3) "Family" means (a) a cohesive social unit consisting of two or more persons usually related by blood or marriage who have lived together in the past and who may customarily be expected to live together for a sustained future period and whose incomes may be expected to be shared for purposes of meeting the expenses of maintaining the household; (b) a single male sixty years of age or over; (c) a single female fifty-five years of age or over, or (d) the remaining member of a tenant family. (4) "Dependent" means a member of a family, except a wife living with her husband, whom one or more of the remaining members are legally or morally obligated to support and over one-half of whose support is being furnished by such remaining members. (5) "Family income" means the aggregate annual income of all members of a family from whatever source derived before taxes or other deductions excluding ***: (a) Seventy-five per cent of the total annual income of each working member of the family, other than the principal wage earner and spouse, who has not reached his or her twenty-first birthday anniversary at the beginning of the calendar year under consideration; (b) Total annual income of each working member of the family, other than the principal wage earner and spouse, enrolled in, and regularly attending as a full-time day, evening or night student, for a period of at least four months during the calendar year under consideration, any duly accredited, public or private university, college, school or institution of learning, training or education; (c) Total annual income of each working member of the family, other than the principal wage earner, but including the spouse, who, during the calendar year under consideration, has expended for the benefit and care of any member of the "Family" as defined in these regulations more than thirty per cent of said total annual income for medical expenses, including hospital and convalescent home costs, doctors, dentists and nurses' bills and amounts paid for medicine and drugs; (d) Aggregate annual income of all working members of the family, other than the principal wage earner, up to a maximum of fifteen hundred dollars, subject to the following conditions: (1) This exclusion shall be effective and operative only in respect to those aggregate annual incomes of family members which are not included in any other of the exclusions provided for under this subdivision; and (2) this exclusion shall be considered and construed to be established and provided in the place of and in lieu of all aggregate annual family income allowances of a similar nature up to the same dollar amount as heretofore approved by the state for a local housing authority; however, all dollar allowances in excess of that provided for herein for the same purpose shall be considered and construed to be in addition to and not in lieu of the fifteen hundred dollar limitation set forth in this exclusion. (See G.S. §§ 8-47, 8-72; 1969 Supp. § 8-45)