Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

469.005 AREA OF OPERATION. § Subdivision 1.County and multicounty authorities. The area of operation of a county authority shall include all of the county for which it is created, and in case of a multicounty authority, it shall include all of the political subdivisions for which…

469.006 APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS, TENURE OF COMMISSIONERS. § Subdivision 1.County commissioners. When the governing body of a county adopts a resolution under section 469.004, the governing body shall appoint five persons or the number of commissioners for the governing body, …

469.007 POWERS OF COUNTY AND MULTICOUNTY AUTHORITIES. § Subdivision 1.Powers. A county or multicounty authority and its commissioners shall, within the area of operation of the authority, have the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and limitations as …

469.008 EFFECT UPON CITY HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES. Nothing in sections 469.004 to 469.008 shall alter or impair the powers and obligations of city housing and redevelopment authorities created under Minnesota Statutes 1969, chapter 462, prior to June 8, 1971, nor sha…

469.009 CONFLICT OF INTEREST; PENALTIES FOR FAILURE TO DISCLOSE. § Subdivision 1.Disclosure. Before taking an action or making a decision which could substantially affect the commissioner's or an employee's financial interests or those of an organization with which the commission…

469.010 REMOVAL; HEARING; NOTICE. For inefficiency or neglect of duty, or misconduct in office, a commissioner may be removed by the governing body of the municipality. The commissioner must be given a copy of the charges at least ten days prior to a hearing at which the commissi…

469.011 AUTHORITY OPERATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Powers in commissioners; quorum. The powers of each authority shall be vested in its commissioners in office at any time; a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for all purposes. § Subd. 2.Officers; bylaws. Each authority shall …

469.012 PUBLIC BODY; POWERS, DUTIES, PROGRAMS; TAXES LIMITED. § Subdivision 1. MS 2002 [Renumbered subds 1 to 2j] § Subdivision 1.All-purpose, other powers here. (a) An authority shall be a public body corporate and politic and shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to…

469.013 ACCOUNTING. § Subdivision 1.Annual reports, duties of state auditor. Each authority shall keep an accurate account of all its activities and of all its receipts and expenditures. The authority shall annually, in January for accounts kept on a calendar year basis, and with…

469.014 LIABLE IN CONTRACT OR TORT. Subject to the provisions of chapter 466, an authority shall be liable in contract or in tort in the same manner as a private corporation. The commissioners of an authority shall not be personally liable as such on its contracts, or for torts n…

469.015 LETTING OF CONTRACTS; PERFORMANCE BONDS. § Subdivision 1.Bids; notice. All construction work, and work of demolition or clearing, and every purchase of equipment, supplies, or materials, necessary in carrying out the purposes of sections 469.001 to 469.047, that involve e…

469.016 LOW-RENT HOUSING. An authority shall not initiate any low-rent housing project, and shall not enter into any contract with respect to it, until: (1) it has made findings, after an analysis of the local housing market, that (i) there is need for such low-rent housing which…

469.017 HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. Before carrying out a housing development project an authority must find that the project is necessary to alleviate a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing for persons of low or moderate income and their families as such income is de…

469.0171 HOUSING PLAN, PROGRAM, AND REVIEW. Prior to the issuance of bonds or obligations for a housing development project proposed by an authority under section 469.017, the authority shall prepare and submit for review a program as defined in section 462C.02, subdivision 3, in…

469.018 RENTALS. § Subdivision 1.Basis of charge. Each authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner to enable it to fix the rentals or payments for dwelling accommodations at rates consistent with its providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling…

469.019 RENTALS, TENANT ADMISSIONS. In the operation or management of housing projects an authority shall observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant admissions. (a) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations only to persons of low income and at rentals …

469.020 DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED, DISPLACED FAMILIES. There shall be no discrimination in the selection of tenants because of race or religious, political, or other affiliations, but, if the number of qualified applicants for dwelling accommodations exceeds the dwelling units av…

469.021 PREFERENCES. As between applicants equally in need and eligible for occupancy of a dwelling and at the rent involved, preference shall be given to disabled veterans, persons with disabilities, and families of service persons who died in service and to families of veterans…

469.022 ESTABLISHMENT OF INCOME RESTRICTION. The dwellings in public low-rent housing shall be available solely for families whose net family income does not exceed the maximum net family income falling within the lowest 20 percent by number of all family incomes in the area of o…

469.023 PERIODIC INVESTIGATION OF TENANT. An authority shall make periodic investigations of each family admitted to a low-rent housing project and, on the basis of the investigations, shall determine whether that family at the time of its admission (1) lived in an unsafe, unsani…

469.024 POWER OF AUTHORITY. Nothing contained in sections 469.016 to 469.024 shall be construed as limiting the power of an authority (1) with respect to a housing project to vest in an obligee the right, in the event of a default by the authority, to take possession or cause the…

469.025 DEMOLITION OF UNSAFE OR UNSANITARY BUILDINGS. No project for low-rent housing or the clearance of a blighted area involving the construction of new dwellings shall be undertaken by a housing authority unless, subsequent to the initiation of the project, there has been or …

469.026 EXISTING BUILDINGS; ACQUISITION, REPAIR. An authority may purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire existing buildings for rehabilitation into low-rent housing. The provisions of sections 469.001 to 469.047 relating to other low-rent housing projects shall apply to the projec…

469.027 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN. Any person may submit a redevelopment plan to an authority, or an authority may consider a redevelopment plan on its own initiative. An authority shall immediately transmit the plan to the planning agency of the city in which the area to be redeveloped…

469.028 MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODY. § Subdivision 1.Findings, notice, determination. When an authority determines that a redevelopment project should be undertaken, it shall apply to the governing body of the city in which the project is located for approval. The application shall …

469.029 DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY. § Subdivision 1.Sale, lease, or development. In accordance with a redevelopment plan, an authority may make any of its land in a redevelopment project available for use by private individuals, firms, corporations, partnerships, insurance companies, o…

469.030 TEMPORARY RELOCATION OF DISPLACED FAMILIES. Prior to its approval of any redevelopment plan, the authority shall be satisfied that there is a feasible method for the temporary relocation of families to be displaced from the project area, and that there are available or wi…

469.0305 REPORT ON LOSS OF HOUSING. § Subdivision 1.Effects of welfare reform. A public agency administering a public housing program or a rent subsidy program shall report to the commissioner of the Housing Finance Agency by February 1, each year, beginning in 1998, the reductio…

469.031 PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY AUTHORITY OF FUND, PROPERTY. As an aid in the acquisition of the real property of a project area, the authority may accept a fund, or, at an agreed value, any parcel or property within the area, from any partnership or individual. Acceptance shal…

469.032 USE VALUE. § Subdivision 1.Determination. Prior to lease or sale of land in a project area, the authority shall, as an aid in determining the rentals and other terms upon which it will lease or the price at which it will sell the area or parts of it, place an estimated fa…

469.033 PUBLIC REDEVELOPMENT COST; PROCEEDS; FINANCING. § Subdivision 1.Financing plans authorized. The entire cost of a project as defined in section 469.002, subdivision 12, including administrative expense of the authority allocable to the project and debt charges and all othe…

469.034 BOND ISSUE FOR CORPORATE PURPOSES. § Subdivision 1.Authority and revenue obligations. An authority may issue bonds for any of its corporate purposes. The bonds may be the type the authority determines, including bonds on which the principal and interest are payable exclus…

469.035 MANNER OF BOND ISSUANCE; SALE. Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution. They may be issued in one or more series and shall bear the date or dates, mature at the time or times, bear interest at the rate or rates, be in the denomination or denominations,…

469.036 WHEN BOND ALLOCATION ACT APPLIES. Sections 474A.01 to 474A.21 apply to any issuance of obligations under sections 469.001 to 469.047 that are subject to limitation under a federal tax law as defined in section 474A.02, subdivision 8. History: 1987 c 291 s 36; 2000 c 260 s…

469.037 ENFORCEMENT BY OBLIGEE OF CONTRACTS. An obligee of an authority shall have the right, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon the obligee: (1) by mandamus, suit, action, or proceeding at law or in equity to compel the authority and its commissioners, off…

469.038 BONDS, A LEGAL INVESTMENT. When bonds issued by an authority or bonds issued by any public housing authority or agency in the United States are secured by a pledge of annual contributions to be paid by the United States government or any agency thereof, all banks, bankers…

469.039 EXEMPTION FROM PROCESS. All real property of an authority shall be exempt from levy and sale under execution, and no execution or other judicial process shall issue against such property, nor shall any judgment against an authority be a charge or lien against its real pro…

469.040 TAX STATUS. § Subdivision 1.Declaration, essential public and governmental purposes. The property of an authority is public property used for essential public and governmental purposes. The property and the authority shall be exempt from all real and personal property tax…

469.041 STATE PUBLIC BODIES, POWERS AS TO PROJECTS. For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of projects, any state public body may upon the terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (1) dedicate, sell, co…

469.042 AGREEMENT ON TAX INCREMENTS; EQUIVALENTS. § Subdivision 1.General. Any city or other state public body within the limits of which a project of an authority is wholly or partially located may agree with the authority with respect to payment by the authority of sums in lieu…

469.044 BOND PENDING LITIGATION. When any action or proceeding at law or in equity is commenced, drawing in question the right, power, or authority of a public corporation created and operating under sections 469.001 to 469.047 to do any act or to make or perform any contract or …

469.045 APPEARANCE OF PUBLIC CORPORATION; BOND. If the public corporation is not a party to the litigation described in section 469.044 it may appear specially for the purpose of making and being heard on such a motion. Three days' notice of hearing on the motion shall be given. …

469.046 ADVANCE OF LITIGATION ON CALENDAR. In any litigation described in sections 469.044 and 469.045, in which a bond has been required and given or the court has denied a motion to require a bond, the court shall advance the case on its calendar for trial at the earliest feasi…

469.047 SUIT FOR CIVIL DAMAGES. Nothing in sections 469.044 to 469.047 shall affect the rights of any person to bring a suit for civil damages. No bond shall be required in such a suit except as otherwise provided by law. History: 1987 c 291 s 47

469.048 DEFINITIONS. § Subdivision 1.Generally. In sections 469.048 to 469.068, the terms defined in this section have the meanings given them herein, unless the context indicates a different meaning. § Subd. 2.Port authority. "Port authority" or "authority" means a port authorit…

469.049 ESTABLISHMENT; CHARACTERISTICS. § Subdivision 1.Saint Paul, Duluth; establishment. The Port Authority of Saint Paul and the seaway port authority of Duluth are established. The Seaway Port Authority of Duluth may also be known as the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. § Subd. …