Okla. Stat. tit. 63, §§ 1054, 1062, 1063, 1065 § 1054

The following terms, wherever used or referred to in
this act, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
(a) "Authority" means any public body corporate and
politic created by this act.
(b) "City" means any incorporated city or town in the
state. "County" means any county in the state.
(c) "Governing body" means, in the case of a city,
the council or other governing body of the city in which is vested legislative
authority customarily imposed on the city council, and, in the case of a county,
the board of county commissioners.
(d) "Mayor" means the mayor of the city or the
officer thereof charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or
executive head of a city.
(e) "Clerk" means the city clerk or the county clerk,
as the case may be.
(f) "Area of operation" means:
(1) in the case of an authority of a city, the city
and the area within one (1) mile of the territorial boundaries thereof, except
that the area of operation of an authority of any city shall not include any
area which lies within the territorial boundaries of some other city;
(2) in the case of an authority of a county, all of
the county for which it is created: Provided, that a county authority shall not
undertake any project within the boundaries of any city unless a resolution
shall have been adopted by the governing body of the city and by any authority
which shall have been theretofore established and authorized to exercise its
powers in the city declaring that there is need for the county authority to
exercise its powers within that city. No authority shall operate in any area in
which an authority already established is operating without the consent by
resolution of the authority already operating therein.
(g) "Federal government" includes the United States
of America, the Public Housing Administration, or any other agency or
instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of
America.
(h) "Slum" means any area where dwellings predominate
which by reason of dilapidation, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design,
lack of ventilation, light, or sanitary facilities, or any combination of these
factors, are detrimental to safety, health and morals.
(i) "Housing project" or "project" means any work or
undertaking on contiguous or noncontiguous sites:
(1) to demolish, clear, or remove buildings from any
slum area;
(2) to provide or assist in providing (by any
suitable method, including but not limited to: rental; sale of individual units
in single or multifamily structures under conventional, condominium, or
cooperative sales contract; lease-purchase agreement; loans; or subsidizing of
rentals or charges) decent, safe and sanitary urban or rural dwellings,
apartments, or other living accommodations for persons of low income;
or
(3) to accomplish a combination of the foregoing.
Such work or undertaking may include buildings, land,
equipment, facilities, and other real or personal property
for necessary, convenient or desirable appurtenances; streets, sewers,
water service, utilities, parks, site preparation, and landscaping; and
facilities for administrative, community, health, recreational, welfare, or
other purposes. The term "housing project" or "project" also may be
applied to the planning of the buildings and improvements,
the acquisition of property or any interest therein, the demolition of
existing structures, the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation,
alteration or repair of the improvements and all other work in connection
therewith; and the term shall include all other real and personal
property and all tangible or intangible assets held or used
in connection with the housing project.
(j) "Persons of low income" shall mean persons or
families who lack the amount of income which is necessary (as determined by the
authority undertaking the housing project) to enable them, without financial
assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, without
overcrowding, however, the local housing authority shall not exceed the
guidelines in establishing incomes set forth by the Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
(k) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, interim
certificates, debentures, or other obligations issued by an authority pursuant
to this act.
(l) "Real property" includes all lands, including
improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant
thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every estate, interest and right,
legal or equitable, therein including terms for years.
(m) "Obligee of an authority" or "obligee" includes
any bondholder, agent or trustee for any bondholder, or lessor demising to the
authority property used in connection with a project, or any assignee or
assignees of such lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the federal
government when it is a party to any contract with the authority.
(n) "Persons engaged in national defense activities"
means persons in the Armed Forces of the United States; employees of the
Department of Defense; and workers engaged or to be engaged in activities
connected with national defense. The term also includes the families of the
persons, employees, and workers who reside with them.
(o) "Major disaster" means any flood, drought, fire,
hurricane, tornado, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe which, in the
determination of the governing body, is of sufficient severity and magnitude to
warrant the use of available resources of the federal, state, and local
governments to alleviate the damage, hardship, or suffering caused
thereby.
(p) "State public body" means any city, county,
municipal corporation, commission, district, authority, agency, subdivision, or
public body of the state.