California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 2 - Definitions

Section 50050.
Unless otherwise indicated by the context, the definitions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this division.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50051.
“Affirmative action” means any program created pursuant to rules and regulations of the agency to create greater job opportunities for members of disadvantaged racial, sexual,...
Section 50052.
“Affirmative marketing program” means any program approved by the agency that is designed to achieve greater access to housing opportunities created by this division for...
Section 50052.5.
(a) For any owner-occupied housing that receives assistance prior to January 1, 1991, and a condition of that assistance is compliance with this section, “affordable housing...
Section 50053.
(a) For any rental housing development that receives assistance prior to January 1, 1991, and a condition of that assistance is compliance with this section,...
Section 50054.
“Agency” means the California Housing Finance Agency.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610. Note: Conditional amendment by Stats. 1994, Ch. 94, was repealed by Stats. 1997,...
Section 50055.
“Assisted housing” means housing financed by a below-market interest rate mortgage insured or purchased, or a loan made, by the Secretary of the United States...
Section 50056.
“Below-market interest” means a below-market interest rate adequate to return to the agency sufficient income to meet its obligations, reserve requirements, and expenses connected with...
Section 50057.
“Board” means the board of directors of the agency.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50058.
“Bonds” means bonds, notes (including bond anticipation notes and construction loan notes), debentures, interim or other certificates, or other evidences of financial indebtedness issued by...
Section 50058.5.
“Buy-down mortgage plan” is a program by which the effective interest cost to the purchaser of a real property is reduced below market rates through...
Section 50059.
“Cause” means gross neglect of duties, fraud, or violation of Section 50904 or 50905.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50060.
“Citizen participation” means action by the local agency that is approved by the agency as sufficient to provide persons who will be affected by financing...
Section 50061.
“Commission” means the Commission of Housing and Community Development.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50061.5.
Any reference in this division to the Commission of Housing and Community Development shall be deemed to be to the Department of Housing and Community...
Section 50062.
“Concentrated rehabilitation area” means an area characterized by substantial deterioration of residential structures and which is designated by the agency pursuant to Section 51302.(Added by...
Section 50062.5.
“Congregate housing for the elderly” means a housing development, as defined by Section 50073.5, which is planned, designed, and managed to include facilities and common...
Section 50063.
“Construction loan” means a short-term loan secured by real property, made for development costs incurred in construction or rehabilitation of a housing development or residential...
Section 50064.
“Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50065.
“Development costs” means the aggregate of all costs incurred in connection with a housing development which are approved by the agency as reasonable and necessary,...
Section 50066.
“Development loan” means a loan, made prior to the granting of a construction loan, for planning, acquisition of land and improvements thereon, and site preparation...
Section 50067.
“Elderly” means a family in which the head of the household is 60 years of age or older, a single person who is 60 years...
Section 50068.
“Financial interest” has the same meaning as specified in Section 87103 of the Government Code.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50068.5.
“First-time home buyer” means a person who is a purchaser of an owner-occupied housing unit and who neither has, nor has had, a present ownership...
Section 50068.6.
“First-Time Home Buyers Fund” is a fund in the General Fund, distinguished from the California Housing Finance Fund, which is created by Section 52504.(Added by...
Section 50068.7.
“First-Time Home Buyers Policy Committee” or “policy committee” is the committee which performs certain policy functions and makes certain policy determinations pursuant to Part 6...
Section 50069.
“Fund” means the California Housing Finance Fund.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50070.
“Governmental agency” means the United States of America, the State of California, any city, county, or city and county within this state and any department,...
Section 50071.
“Guaranteed taxable bonds” means bonds secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit of the United States for the payment of the principal...
Section 50072.
“Handicapped” means a family in which the head of the household is suffering from an orthopedic disability impairing personal mobility or a physical disability affecting...
Section 50073.
“Housing development,” for the purpose of housing assisted by the department, means any work or undertaking of new construction or rehabilitation, or the acquisition of...
Section 50073.5.
“Housing development,” for the purpose of the California Housing Finance Agency, means any existing structure of five or more dwelling units or any work or...
Section 50074.
“Housing sponsor,” for the purpose of housing assisted by the department, means any individual, joint venture, partnership, limited partnership, trust, corporation, limited equity housing cooperative,...
Section 50074.5.
“Housing sponsor,” for the purpose of the California Housing Finance Agency, means any individual, joint venture, partnership, limited partnership, trust, corporation, cooperative, local public entity,...
Section 50075.
“Legislative body” means the city council, board of supervisors, or other legislative body of the local agency.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50076.
“Limited-dividend housing sponsor” means any sponsor which owns a housing development and whose profit or cash return is limited pursuant to Section 51202 and regulations...
Section 50076.5.
“Limited equity housing cooperative” means a corporation organized pursuant to Section 33007.5 of this code and Section 11003.4 of the Business and Professions Code. For...
Section 50076.6.
“Loan,” for purposes of provisions relating to the agency, means an obligation to repay funds advanced by the agency for the purpose of financing housing...
Section 50077.
“Local agency” means a city, county, or city and county and includes any governmental agency or local public entity to which such city, county, or...
Section 50078.
“Local housing agent” means a city, county, city and county, or combination thereof acting jointly, or the duly constituted governing body of an Indian reservation...
Section 50079.
“Local public entity” means any county, city, city and county, the duly constituted governing body of an Indian reservation or rancheria, redevelopment agency organized pursuant...
Section 50079.5.
(a) “Lower income households” means persons and families whose income does not exceed the qualifying limits for lower income families as established and amended from...
Section 50080.
“Market interest” means the interest rate determined by the agency to be the interest rate generally available in the private market for similar housing loans.(Amended...
Section 50081.
“Market rent” means the monthly rent established by the agency as competitive according to its own regulations, except where federal regulations provide a required method...
Section 50082.
“Metropolitan area” means a standard metropolitan statistical area as established by the United States Office of Management and Budget.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50082.7.
“Mobilehome park” shall have the same meaning as such term is defined in Section 18214.(Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1136.)
Section 50083.
“Mortgage” means a mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument that may be a lien on real property. “Mortgage” includes the note secured by such...
Section 50084.
“Mortgage deficient area” means an area where private lenders have failed to provide sufficient mortgage credit for financing or refinancing of new, existing, or rehabilitated...
Section 50085.
“Mortgage assistance area” means an area characterized by a deficiency of available mortgage financing but in which general deterioration of residential structures has not occurred,...
Section 50086.
“Mortgage loan” means a loan that is secured by a mortgage and is made for financing, including refinancing of existing mortgage obligations, to create or...
Section 50087.
“Mutual self-help housing” means assisted housing for which persons and families of low or moderate income contribute their own labor in individual or group efforts...
Section 50089.
“Neighborhood preservation area” means any concentrated rehabilitation area, scattered-site rehabilitation area, or mortgage assistance area.(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 610.)
Section 50090.
“Nonmetropolitan area” means an area not included in a metropolitan area.(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 96.)
Section 50091.
“Nonprofit housing sponsor” or “nonprofit corporation” means a nonprofit corporation incorporated pursuant to Division 2 (commencing with Section 5000) of Title 1 of the Corporations...
Section 50092.
“Owner-occupied housing development”, for the purpose of housing assisted by the department, means a housing development containing not more than four residential units, one of...
Section 50092.1.
“Owner-occupied housing unit”, for the purpose of Part 6 (commencing with Section 52500), means a single-family dwelling situated in California which is occupied by the...
Section 50093.
“Persons and families of low or moderate income” means persons and families whose income does not exceed 120 percent of area median income, adjusted for...
Section 50093.5.
“Public transit corridor” means that area within one-quarter mile of a route on which the level of service is at or above the average for...
Section 50093.6.
“Property improvement loan” means an advance of money, evidenced by a note, to finance rehabilitation and general repairs and improvements to a residence consistent with...
Section 50094.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), “qualified mortgage lender” means a mortgage lender certified by the agency, pursuant to rules and regulations thereof,...
Section 50095.
“Real property” means all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto or used in connection therewith, and every estate,...
Section 50096.
“Rehabilitation” means repairs and improvements to a substandard residential structure necessary to make it meet rehabilitation standards. As used in this section, “substandard residential structure”...
Section 50097.
“Rehabilitation standards” means applicable state or local building or housing standards adopted pursuant to the State Housing Law, Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 17910) of...
Section 50098.
“Rents” means the charges paid by the persons and families of low or moderate income for occupancy in a housing development assisted under this division...
Section 50099.
“Residential structure”, for the purpose of housing assisted by the department, means a real property improvement used, or intended to be used, for residential or...
Section 50099.5.
“Residential structure,” for the purpose of the California Housing Finance Agency, means any existing structure of one to four units or any work or undertaking...
Section 50100.
“Rules”, “regulations”, or “rules and regulations” mean regulations as defined in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title...
Section 50101.
“Rural area” means any open country or any place, town, village, or city which by itself and taken together with any other places, towns, villages,...
Section 50102.
“Rural mortgage area” means an area outside any city, metropolitan area or urban county, as such terms are defined by Section 102 of the Housing...
Section 50103.5.
“Statistical area” means an area established by action of the policy committee for purposes of determining the maximum acquisition costs for an owner-occupied housing unit...
Section 50104.
“Subsidy” means any financial assistance specifically provided by a governmental agency for the benefit of persons and families of low or moderate income, which is...
Section 50104.5.
“Systematic enforcement” means the enforcement of rehabilitation standards in accordance with a systematic program of making inspections of dwelling structures in accordance with objective criteria...
Section 50104.6.
“Targeted area”, for the purposes of Part 6 (commencing with Section 52500), means a census tract as designated by the United States Secretary of Commerce,...
Section 50104.6.5.
“Tribally designated housing entity” means an entity as defined in Section 4103 of Title 25 of the United States Code. For the purposes of determining...
Section 50104.7.
“Urban area” means any portion of a county or the state which is not a rural area.(Added by renumbering Section 50104.5 (as added by Stats....
Section 50105.
(a) “Very low income households” means persons and families whose incomes do not exceed the qualifying limits for very low income families as established and...
Section 50106.
“Extremely low income households” means persons and families whose incomes do not exceed the qualifying limits for extremely low income families as established and amended...

Last modified: October 22, 2018