As used in sections 215.340 to 215.349, the following terms mean:

1. (1) "Agency", the participating city's administering agency of the workfare renovation project;
2. (2) "City", any city not within a county or any city with at least three hundred fifty thousand inhabitants which is located in more than one county;
3. (3) "Commission", the state housing development commission authorized pursuant to sections 215.010 to 215.250;
4. (4) "Federal poverty level", the first poverty income guidelines published in the calendar year by the United States Department of Health and Human Services;
5. (5) "Low income", a household income which does not exceed two hundred percent of the federal poverty level;
6. (6) "Project", the renovation of one or more properties on the urban core of the city which have been determined to be of substandard quality or condition and the subsequent sale of such property following renovation;
7. (7) "Renovate" or "renovation", the reconstruction, remodeling, repairing, weatherizing, installation of energy conservation measures or devices, and similar work necessary to make urban core city property safe, sanitary and decent, and make such property meet the minimum building code requirements and occupancy requirements of a city, as the term city is defined in this section.

(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 9)

Effective 12-23-97