As used in sections 8-355 to 8-359, inclusive:

1. (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Housing.
2. (2) “Community housing development corporation” means a corporation which has qualified for assistance under section 8-217.
3. (3) “Homeless person” means any person who does not have overnight shelter or sufficient income or resources to secure such shelter.
4. (4) “Nonprofit corporation” shall be construed as defined in section 8-39.
5. (5) “Utility allowance” means the average monthly amount a person or family spends for heat and other utilities, excluding telephone, which is not supplied or paid for by the owner of the dwelling unit rented by the person or family.

(P.A. 85-485, S. 1; P.A. 87-309, S. 1; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 87-309 made a technical change in the reference contained in Subdiv. (4); P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing in Subdiv. (1), effective June 19, 2013.