Title 14, Local Government

(a) Funds for the acquisition of surplus federal properties may be provided from general revenue sources, general mortgage loans, or revenue bonds which may be issued by the county, city, or town to provide funds. (b) (1) The revenue bonds may bear interest at such rate or rates …

(a) Bonds provided for in this subchapter shall be issued in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient funds to pay all costs of acquisition. (b) (1) Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the opera…

(a) (1) There is created a statutory mortgage lien upon the property acquired from the proceeds of bonds authorized to be issued under this subchapter which shall exist in favor of the holder of the bonds and each of them and to and in favor of the holder of the coupons attached …

Counties, cities, or incorporated towns acquiring properties under this subchapter may operate them, lease them to private industry or operators, or dispose of them through sale.

(a) In the event any county or municipality acquires surplus federal properties and subsequently sells or leases them, the proceeds from the sale or leasing shall first be applied to the payment of the debt created by the acquisition of the property, if any, in accordance with th…

(1) As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Municipality” means any city, town, or other municipality in the state;(2) “Bonds” means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, debentures, obligations, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by a housing aut…

Counties or municipalities acquiring property under this subchapter and electing to operate them shall do so on a basis permitting the maintenance and operation, including administrative overhead, insurance, payments in lieu of taxes, amortization of capital costs, debt service, …

No property acquired under the provisions of this subchapter shall be used for slum clearance or to provide subsidized housing for persons of low income.

(a) The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. (b) Nothing contained in this act shall affect the term of office of any commissioner of a housing authority heretofore appointed. (c) The enactment of this act sh…

Nothing contained in the Housing Authorities Act or the Supplemental Housing Authorities Act shall be construed to prevent meetings of the commissioners of a housing authority anywhere within the perimeter boundaries of the area of operation of the authority or within any additio…

(a) (1) In addition to its other powers, any housing authority created by or pursuant to the Housing Authorities Act or the Supplemental Housing Authorities Act may exercise any or all of its powers within the territorial boundaries of any municipality not included in the area of…

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 of a housing authority established pursuant to the Supplemental Housing Authorities Act as such public body has, u…

The bonds and other obligations issued by any housing authority established pursuant to the Supplemental Housing Authorities Act shall be legal investments, security for public deposits, and negotiable to the same extent and for the same persons, institutions, associations, corpo…

(a) Upon the request of a public housing authority, a municipal police department may perform a criminal background check on an adult applicant to the public housing authority. The municipal police department shall require the signature of the applicant on an acceptable form perm…

(a) This section is:(1) Intended to encourage and permit a public housing authority to give priority to a person who cooperates with the Office of Child Support Enforcement over a person who does not cooperate with the office;(2) Not intended to permit a public housing authority …

(a) This section is intended to ensure that an individual who is able to work is required to work, train, or volunteer to qualify for and receive public housing benefits and is intended to preserve limited resources for truly needy Arkansans. (b) As used in this section:(1) “Able…

This subchapter shall be known as the “Targeted Neighborhood Enhancement Plan Act.”

This subchapter, being necessary for the public health, safety and welfare, shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of it.

Any municipality may, upon fulfillment of the following requirements, declare an area of the municipality as a targeted neighborhood. There is no limit on the number of targeted neighborhoods that a municipality may create. Once a targeted neighborhood area has been designated, a…

It is hereby found by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas that certain areas within any municipality are either suffering from neglect, abandonment, or are about to become urban blight. This subchapter is necessary to recapture or rehabilitate these neighborhoods, creat…

(a) Before a municipality may designate an area as a targeted neighborhood, it must first complete each of the following steps:(a) The municipality must pass a resolution, containing a proposed map, noting its intent to designate a particular area as a targeted neighborhood. The …

(a) A municipality may contract with a person who agrees to participate in a targeted neighborhood enhancement plan. This contract may be for an amount not to exceed twenty percent (20%) of the cost of building or rehabilitating a residential structure within the designated area,…

(a) If an individual under contract with the municipality fails to fulfill the commitment to live within the residential structure for the contract period, the municipality after proper notice may file a lien against the real property in the amount of the contract plus costs of f…

If the municipality wishes to continue the program in a particular targeted neighborhood at the conclusion of five (5) years, it may do so by completing the steps set forth in this subchapter, provided that no area may be maintained as a targeted neighborhood for more than an agg…

This subchapter may be referred to as the “Housing Authorities Act.”

(1) It is declared that:(1) There exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that persons of low income are forced to reside in insanitary or unsafe accommodations; within the state there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations available…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Authority” or “housing authority” means any of the public corporations created by § 14-169-207;(2) “City” means any city of the first or second class or any incorporated town. “The city” means the particul…

Insofar as the provisions of this subchapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this subchapter shall be controlling.

(a) All housing projects of a housing 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. (b) In the planning and location of any housing project, an auth…

(a) The establishment and organization of housing authorities pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, together with all proceedings, acts, and things heretofore undertaken, performed, or done with reference thereto, are validated, ratified, confirmed, approved, and declare…

(a) (1) In each city and in each county of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “housing authority” of the city or county.(2) (A) An authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers under this subchapter until or unless…

(a) (1) When the governing body of a city adopts a resolution as prescribed in § 14-169-207, it shall promptly notify the mayor of the adoption.(2) (A) Upon receiving the notice, the mayor shall appoint five (5) persons as commissioners of the housing authority created for the ci…

(a) No commissioner or employee of a housing 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 cont…

(a) A commissioner of a city or county housing authority may be removed from office for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office only by the vote of the majority of the city council or county quorum court, as the case may be. (b) Removal shall occur only after the …

(1) A housing authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising exclusively public and essential governmental functions and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this subchapter, including…

(1) A housing authority shall have the power, within its area of operation:(1) To investigate into living, dwelling, and housing conditions and into the means and methods of improving these conditions;(2) To determine where slum areas exist or where there is a shortage of decent,…

(1) A housing authority shall have the power, acting through one (1) or more commissioners or other persons designated by the authority:(1) To conduct examinations and investigations and to hear testimony and take proof under oath at public or private hearings on any matter mater…

A housing authority shall have the power to make available to appropriate agencies, including those charged with the duty of abating or requiring the correction of nuisances or like conditions or of demolishing unsafe or insanitary structures within its area of operation, its fin…

(1) A housing authority shall have the power:(1) To lease or rent any dwellings, houses, accommodations, lands, buildings, structures, or facilities embraced in any housing project and, subject to the limitations contained in this subchapter, to establish and revise the rents or …

(a) A housing authority shall have the power within its area of operation to prepare, carry out, acquire, lease, and operate housing projects, and to provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, or repair of any housing project or any part thereof. (b) N…

(a) A housing authority shall have the power to arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works or facilities for, or in connection with, a housing project or the occupants thereof. (b) Notwithstanding anything to …

(1) A housing authority shall have the power to:(1) Purchase promissory notes, and the mortgages or trust deeds securing them, issued by any builder or developer engaged in constructing dwelling units to be sold or leased to the authority as part of any housing project;(2) Make l…

(a) A housing authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it may deem necessary for its purposes under this subchapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real property…

(a) (1) (A) A housing authority shall have power to issue bonds, from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes.(B) An authority shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it.(2) (A) An …

(a) (1) Bonds of a housing authority shall be authorized by its resolution upon a vote of at least three (3) commissioners.(2) Bonds may be issued in one (1) or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in…

(1) In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of the bonds or obligations, a housing authority, in addition to its other powers, shall have power to:(1) Pledge all or any part of its gross or net rents…