Title 14, Local Government

(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…

(a) (1) The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies; and all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other pe…

(a) Any two (2) or more housing authorities created pursuant to this subchapter 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 obliga…

(a) (1) In addition to the powers conferred upon a housing authority by other provisions of this subchapter, the authority is empowered to:(A) Borrow money or accept grants or other financial assistance from the federal government for, or in aid of, any housing project within its…

(a) (1) In any contract or amendatory or superseding contract for a loan and annual contributions entered into between any housing authority and the federal government or any of its agencies, with respect to any housing project undertaken by the authority, the authority is author…

(a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of housing projects, including projects of the federal government, located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may, upon such terms, with or …

(1) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of housing projects, including housing projects of the federal government, located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may, in addition to ot…

(a) (1) When any housing authority which is created for any city or county becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers in it, the governing body of the city or county, as the case may be, shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money necessary for …

(a) (1) The exercise by a state public body of the powers granted in this subchapter may be authorized by resolution of the governing body of the state public body adopted by a majority of the members present at a meeting of the governing body.(2) The resolution may be adopted at…

(a) In connection with any housing project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may contract with a housing authority or the federal government with respect to the sums, if any, which the housing authority or federal government may agree…

(1) An obligee of a housing authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on the obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon the obligee:(1) By mandamus, suit, action, or proceeding, at law or in equity, to compel th…

(1) A housing authority shall have power, by its resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other contract, to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds or holding a lease the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred…

(a) All real property of a housing authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against it, nor shall any judgment against the authority be a charge or lien upon its real property. (b) The provision…

(a) The property of a housing authority used exclusively for public purposes and not for profit is declared to be public property, and this property and the authority shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments from the state or any state public body. (b) Any property …

(a) It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, …

(1) In the operation or management of housing projects, a housing authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:(1) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in them only to persons of low income;(2) It may rent or l…

Nothing contained in § 14-169-236 or § 14-169-237 shall be construed as limiting the power of a housing authority to vest in an obligee the right, in the event of a default by the authority, to take possession of a housing project, or cause the appointment of a receiver of it, or…

(a) A housing authority, by resolution, may provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured by:(1) Obligations of the United States or of the state, of a market value equal at all times to the amount of the deposits; or(2) Any securities in which savings banks may legall…

At least once a year, a housing authority shall file with the clerk a report of its activities for the preceding year and shall make recommendations with reference to such additional legislation or other action as it deems necessary in order to carry out the purposes of this subc…

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

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

The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.

(a) (1) If the governing body of each of two (2) or more contiguous counties, by resolution, declares that there is a need for one (1) housing authority to be created for all of the contiguous counties to exercise in those counties powers and other functions prescribed for a regi…

(a) When any real property of a county housing authority vests in a regional housing authority, as provided in this section, the county housing authority shall execute a deed of such property to the regional housing authority, which thereupon shall file the deed in the office pro…

(a) In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of the regional housing authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become created as a public body corporate and politic and to have become established…

Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, all the provisions of law applicable to housing authorities created for counties and the commissioners of these authorities shall be applicable to regional housing authorities and their commissioners, unless a different meaning cle…

(a) The governing body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one (1) person as a commissioner of the authority. (b) Each commissioner to be first appointed by the governing body of a county may be appointed at or after the time of the adoption of t…

(a) (1) When the area of operation of a regional housing authority is increased to include an additional county as provided in § 14-169-304, the governing body of each county shall thereupon appoint one (1) additional person as a commissioner of the regional housing authority.(2)…

(a) For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of a regional housing authority may be removed by the governing body appointing him or, in the case of the commissioner appointed by the commissioners of the regional housing authority, by such commis…

A majority of the commissioners of a regional housing authority shall constitute a quorum of the authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes.