Title 24 — Title 24

Housing Projects, Etc. Any housing authority created by or pursuant to this title may agree to make such payments to the city or county, the state or any political subdivision thereof, which payments such bodies are hereby authorized to accept, as such authority finds consistent …

Fraudulent Means; Misdemeanor; Penalty; Notice Requirement. (a) “Public housing” as used in this section shall mean housing which is constructed, operated, or maintained by the state, a county, a municipal corporation, a housing authority or by any other political subdivision or …

This article may be referred to as the “Supplemental Housing Authorities Law.” History: (Acts 1943, No. 541, p. 512, §17.)

The following terms, wherever used in this article, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) AUTHORITY or HOUSING AUTHORITY. Any corporate body created pursuant to this article or this chapter. (2) MUNICIPALITY…

If the governing body of each of two or more contiguous counties by resolution declares that there is a need for one housing authority to be created for all of such counties to exercise in such counties powers and other functions prescribed for a regional housing authority, a pub…

The area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority shall include, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this article, all of the counties for which such regional housing authority is created and established; provided, that a regional housing authority shall n…

The area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority shall be increased from time to time to include one or more additional contiguous counties not already within a regional housing authority, if the governing body of each of the counties then included in the area …

The area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority shall be decreased from time to time to exclude one or more counties from such area if the governing body of each of the counties in such area and the commissioners of the regional housing authority each adopt a …

Incorporation or Change in Area of Operation. The governing body of a county shall not adopt any resolution authorized by Sections 24-1-102, 24-1-104, or 24-1-105 unless a public hearing has first been held which shall conform, except as otherwise provided in this article, to the…

Filling of Vacancies; Certificate; Powers and Duties Generally; Quorum; Chairman and Other Officers. The governing body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one person as a commissioner of such authority, and each such commissioner to be first app…

Nothing contained in this article or in other acts shall prevent meetings of the commissioners of a housing authority anywhere within the perimeter boundaries of the area of operation or boundaries of the authority or within any additional area where the housing authority is auth…

Except as otherwise provided in this article, a regional housing authority and the commissioners thereof shall, within the area of operation of such regional housing authority, have the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and limitations provided for h…

If the governing body of each of two or more municipalities by resolution declares that there is a need for one housing authority for all of such municipalities to exercise in such municipalities the powers and other functions prescribed for a housing authority, a public body cor…

Operation. In addition to its other powers, any housing authority may exercise any or all of its powers within the territorial boundaries of any municipality not included in the area of operation of such housing authority, for the purpose of planning, undertaking, financing, cons…

Authority in Municipality. No governing body of a municipality shall adopt a resolution as provided in Sections 24-1-103 or 24-1-111 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority, other than a housing authority established by such municipality, to exercise its powers wit…

In any contract or amendatory or superseding contract for a loan and annual contributions heretofore or hereafter entered into between a housing authority and the federal government with respect to any housing project undertaken by said housing authority, any such housing authori…

The bonds and other obligations issued by any housing authority pursuant to this article or this chapter shall be security for public deposits and legal investments to the same extent and for the same persons, institutions, associations, corporations, public and private bodies, i…

Any municipality, county, or other public body shall have the same rights and powers to aid and cooperate in the development or administration of any housing project pursuant to this article or this chapter as such public body has under any provision of law relating to its aiding…

Any two or more authorities may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of their powers for the purpose of financing (including the issuance of bonds, notes, or other obligations and giving security therefor), planning, under…

The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and nothing contained in this article shall be construed as limiting any other powers of a housing authority. History: (Acts 1943, No. 541, p. 512, §18.)

It is hereby declared that unsanitary or unsafe dwelling and public school accommodations exist in various cities of the state and in the area surrounding such cities; that consequently persons of low income are forced to reside in and use such dwelling and public school accommod…

The following terms whenever used or referred to in this article, shall have the following respective meanings, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) HOUSING AUTHORITY. Any housing authority organized pursuant to this title. (2) CITY. Any city or incorp…

Authorities. (a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation by housing authorities of housing projects located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any city, county, municipal corporation, district, or other sub…

The exercise by any city, county, municipal corporation, district, or other subdivision or public body or agency of the state of the powers granted in this article may be authorized by resolution of its governing body adopted by a majority of the members of such governing body pr…

Reimbursement. Any city or town creating a housing authority shall have the power from time to time to lend or donate money to such authority or to agree to take such action. A housing authority, when it has money available therefor, shall make reimbursements for all such loans m…

In addition to all its other powers, any housing authority created by or pursuant to this title may, within its area of operation, undertake and carry out studies and analyses of the housing needs, and of the meeting of such needs, including data with respect to population and fa…

This article may be referred to as the Housing Authorities Law. History: (Acts 1935, No. 56, p. 126.)

It is hereby declared that unsanitary or unsafe dwelling and public school accommodations exist in various cities of the state and that such unsafe or unsanitary conditions arise from overcrowding and concentration of population, the obsolete and poor condition of the buildings, …

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) AUTHORITY or HOUSING AUTHORITY. A public body organized as a body corporate and politic in accordance with the provisions of this article for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the r…

of Petition for Incorporation; Resubmission of Petition After Denial. Any 25 residents of a city or of the area within 10 miles from the territorial boundaries thereof may file a petition with the city clerk setting forth that there is a need for an authority to function in the c…

Officers and Employees; Delegation of Powers and Duties. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), an authority shall consist of five commissioners appointed by the mayor, who shall designate the first chair. None of the commissioners may be city officials. The commissioners who …

Assistance Recipient. To the extent required by federal law, one member of a municipal housing authority shall be a resident of public housing or a recipient of housing assistance in a Section 8 tenant-based program of the housing authority. If the commissioner ceases to reside i…

No commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or proposed contract for ma…

(a) An authority shall constitute a public body and a body corporate and politic exercising public powers having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article, including the following powers in addition to others gr…

(a) The authority may acquire by eminent domain any property, real or personal, which it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this article, after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public intere…

The authority may acquire by purchase, or by the exercise of its power of eminent domain as provided in Section 24-1-28, any property, real or personal, which it may deem necessary for any housing project being constructed or operated by a government. The authority upon such term…

(a) Until a purchaser makes full payment for a dwelling which is constructed by a county or regional housing authority in a rural area, such dwellings shall continue to be the property of such authority, regardless of the title to the land on which it is constructed, and such dwe…

Laws. All housing projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the housing project is situated. History: (Acts 1935, No. 56, p. 126; Code 1940, T. 25, §17.)

Generally; Liability on Bonds. An authority shall have power to issue bonds, from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. An authority shall also have power to issue or exchange refunding bonds for the purpose of paying, retiring, extending or renewing…

of Interim Certificates, Etc. The bonds of the authority shall be authorized by its resolution and shall be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, not exceeding 60 years from their respective dates, bear interest at such rate…

In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of any obligation under a lease and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the authority shall have power: (1) To pledge by resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, subject to the limitations hereinafte…

Housing Projects. In addition to the powers conferred upon the authority by other provisions of this article, the authority is empowered to borrow money or accept grants from the federal government for or in aid of the construction of any housing project which such authority is a…

Financed Projects. In connection with any project financed in whole or in part by a government, the authority shall also have power to mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired, and thereby: (1) To vest in a government the right…

Authorities. Notwithstanding any restrictions on investments contained in any laws of this state, the state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions other than county and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institut…

An obligee of the authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee: (1) By mandamus, or civil action, both of which may be joined in one action, to compel…

Mortgage, Etc. Any authority shall have power by its trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other contract to confer upon any obligee holding, or representing, a specified amount in bonds, lease, or other obligations, the right upon the happening of an “event of default” as defined…

All the rights and remedies conferred by this article shall be cumulative and in addition to all other rights and remedies that may be conferred upon such obligee of the authority by law or by any contract with the authority. History: (Acts 1935, No. 56, p. 126; Code 1940, T. 25,…

Secure Federal Contributions. In addition to the powers conferred upon a housing authority created for a city or county or a regional housing authority by other provisions of law, such authority, in any contract for annual contributions with the federal government, may obligate i…

Execution and Judgment Liens. No interest of the authority in any property, real or personal, shall be subject to sale by the foreclosure of a mortgage thereon, either through judicial proceedings or the exercise of a power of sale contained in such mortgage, except in the case o…

Circumstances. (a) All of the following shall be exempt from all state taxes: (1) A municipal housing authority and the authority’s property and income. (2) Bonds issued by the authority. (3) Income from bonds issued by the authority. (4) Conveyances to or from the authority. (5)…