§ 18-b. Definitions. When used in this article:

1. The term "person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships,
associations, corporations, legal representatives, trustees, trustees in
bankruptcy and receivers or other fiduciaries.

2. The term "housing accommodation" includes any building, structure,
or portion thereof which is used or occupied or is intended, arranged or
designed to be used or occupied, as the home, residence or sleeping
place of one or more human beings, but shall not include any
accommodations operated by a religious or denominational organization as
part of its religious or denominational activities.

3. The term "publicly assisted housing accommodation" includes any
housing accommodation within the state of New York

(a) which, after July first, nineteen hundred fifty, is granted
exemption in whole or in part from taxes levied by the state or any of
its political subdivisions;

(b) which is constructed after July first, nineteen hundred fifty, on
land sold below cost by the state or any of its political subdivisions
or any agency thereof, pursuant to the federal housing act of nineteen
hundred forty-nine;

(c) which is constructed after July first, nineteen hundred fifty, in
whole or in part on property acquired or assembled by the state or any
of its political subdivisions or any agency thereof through the power of
condemnation or otherwise for the purpose of such construction;

(d) for the acquisition, construction, repair or maintenance of which
the state or any of its political subdivisions or any agency thereof
supplies, after July first, nineteen hundred fifty, funds or other
financial assistance;

(e) (1) which is located in a multiple dwelling; and (2) the
acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair or maintenance of
which is, after July first, nineteen hundred fifty-five, financed in
whole or in part by a loan, whether or not secured by a mortgage, the
repayment of which is guaranteed or insured by the federal government or
any agency thereof, or the state or any of its political subdivisions or
any agency thereof, provided that such a housing accommodation shall be
deemed to be publicly assisted only during the life of such loan and
such guaranty or insurance; or

(f) which is offered for sale by a person who owns or otherwise
controls the sale of ten or more housing accommodations located on land
that is contiguous (exclusive of public streets), if (1) the
acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair or maintenance of such
housing accommodations is, after July first, nineteen hundred
fifty-five, financed in whole or in part by a loan, whether or not
secured by a mortgage, the repayment of which is guaranteed or insured
by the federal government or any agency thereof, or the state or any of
its political subdivisions or any agency thereof, provided that such a
housing accommodation shall be deemed to be publicly assisted only
during the life of such loan and guaranty or insurance, or (2) a
commitment, issued by a government agency after July first, nineteen
hundred fifty-five, is outstanding that acquisition of such housing
accommodations may be financed in whole or in part by a loan, whether or
not secured by a mortgage, the repayment of which is guaranteed or
insured by the federal government or any agency thereof, or the state or
any of its political subdivisions or any agency thereof.

4. The term "owner" includes the lessee, sub-lessee, assignee,
managing agent, or other person having the right of ownership or
possession or the right to rent or lease housing accommodations and
includes the state and any of its political subdivisions and any agency
thereof.

5. The term "discriminate" includes to segregate or separate.

6. The term "multiple dwelling", as herein used, means a dwelling
which is occupied, as a rule, for permanent residence purposes and which
is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied as the
residence or home of three or more families living independently of each
other. A "multiple dwelling" shall not be deemed to include a hospital,
convent, monastery, asylum or public institution, or a fireproof
building used wholly for commercial purposes except for not more than
one janitor's apartment and not more than one penthouse occupied by not
more than two families. The term "family," as used herein, means either
a person occupying a dwelling and maintaining a household, with not more
than four boarders, roomers or lodgers, or two or more persons occupying
a dwelling, living together and maintaining a common household, with not
more than four boarders, roomers or lodgers. A "boarder," "roomer" or
"lodger" residing with a family means a person living within the
household who pays a consideration for such residence and does not
occupy such space within the household as an incident of employment
therein.