§ 8-3-135. Aid and Cooperation by State Public Bodies in Development and Administration of Projects
With respect to projects undertaken by a housing authority or the federal government to provide housing for persons engaged or to be engaged in national defense industries or activities, any state public body, as defined in Code Section 8-3-152, shall have all the rights and powers to aid and cooperate in the development or administration […]
§ 8-3-203. Unlawful Denial of or Discrimination in Membership or Participation in Service or Organization Relating to Selling or Renting Dwellings
It shall be unlawful to deny any person access to or membership or participation in any multiple-listing service, real estate brokers’ organization, or other service, organization, or facility relating to the business of selling or renting dwellings or to discriminate against such person in the terms or conditions of such access, membership, or participation on […]
§ 8-3-136. Issuance of Bonds, Notes, and Other Obligations by an Authority
The development of a project shall be deemed to have been initiated under this part if a housing authority has issued any bonds, notes, or other obligations to finance the cost thereof. Bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority for a project developed or administered under this part shall be security for public […]
§ 8-3-137. Authorization for an Authority to Undertake Projects and to Cooperate With or Act as Agent for Federal Government; Applicability of Limitations, Restrictions, and Requirements in Other; Scope of Powers
This part shall constitute an independent authorization for a housing authority to undertake the development or administration of projects to provide housing for persons engaged or to be engaged in national defense industries or activities and to cooperate with, or act as agent for, the federal government in the development or administration of projects undertaken […]
§ 8-3-150. Short Title
This article shall be known and may be cited as the “Housing Cooperation Law.” History. Ga. L. 1937, p. 697, § 1; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 8/SB 429. The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “shall be known and may be […]
§ 8-3-151. Legislative Findings and Declaration of Necessity
It has been found and declared in Article 1 of this chapter, the “Housing Authorities Law,” that there exist in the state unsafe and insanitary housing conditions and a shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income; that these conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention […]
§ 8-3-113. Addition of Counties to an Authority — Conditions Precedent to Adoption of Resolution Declaring Need for Expansion of Authority
The governing body of each of the counties in the area of operation of the regional housing authority, the commissioners of the regional housing authority, and the governing body of each such additional county or counties may by resolution declare that there is a need for the inclusion of such county or counties in the […]
§ 8-3-114. Exclusion of Counties From Regional Authority — Procedure Generally; Effect of Reducing Area of Operation to One County
The area of operation of a regional housing authority which has undertaken the development of one or more housing projects may 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 […]
§ 8-3-115. Exclusion of County From Regional Authority — Conditions Precedent to Adoption of Resolution Declaring Need for Exclusion
The governing body of each of the counties in the area of operation of the regional housing authority and the commissioners of the regional housing authority may adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding a county or counties from such area only if: Each such governing body of the counties to […]
§ 8-3-116. Detachment of a County by Its Own Resolution; Assumption of Regional Authority’s Bonds, Notes, and Other Obligations by an Authority Thereafter Established for County
Notwithstanding Code Sections 8-3-114 and 8-3-115, the governing body of any county may by resolution detach the county from the area of operation of its regional housing authority if such housing authority has undertaken no housing projects and, upon the adoption of such resolution, the county shall cease to be included in the area of […]