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 […]
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 […]
As used in this article, the term: “Federal government” means the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. “Housing authority” means any housing authority created pursuant to Article 1 of this chapter, the “Housing Authorities Law.” “Housing project” means any work or undertaking of […]
For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of housing projects located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: Dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its property to a […]
In connection with any housing project located wholly or partly 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 sum or sums, if any, which the housing authority or the federal government may agree to pay, […]
When any housing authority which is created for any city or county becomes authorized to transact business and exercises its powers therein, the city council or the county commissioners, as the case may be, shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the administrative expense and overhead of such housing authority […]
The exercise by a state public body of the powers granted by this article may be authorized by resolution of the governing body of such state public body. The resolution shall be adopted by a majority of the members of the governing body present at a meeting of said governing body, which resolution may be […]
