215.345. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

215.345. As used in sections 215.340 to 215.349, the following termsmean:

(1) "Agency", the participating city's administering agency of theworkfare renovation project;

(2) "City", any city not within a county or any city with at leastthree hundred fifty thousand inhabitants which is located in more than onecounty;

(3) "Commission", the state housing development commission authorizedpursuant to sections 215.010 to 215.250;

(4) "Federal poverty level", the first poverty income guidelinespublished in the calendar year by the United States Department of Healthand Human Services;

(5) "Low income", a household income which does not exceed twohundred percent of the federal poverty level;

(6) "Project", the renovation of one or more properties on the urbancore of the city which have been determined to be of substandard quality orcondition and the subsequent sale of such property following renovation;

(7) "Renovate" or "renovation", the reconstruction, remodeling,repairing, weatherizing, installation of energy conservation measures ordevices, and similar work necessary to make urban core city property safe,sanitary and decent, and make such property meet the minimum building coderequirements and occupancy requirements of a city, as the term city isdefined in this section.