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14-169-107. Criminal background checks on applicants to public housing authorities — Definitions.
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14-169-107. Criminal background checks on applicants to public housing authorities — Definitions.
(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 permitting the public housing authority to secure the required background check.
(b) The municipal police department shall not release the criminal background records of the applicant, but shall notify the public housing authority whether or not the applicant meets the occupancy policy requirements of the public housing authority.
(c) A municipal police department may perform the criminal background check at a cost of no more than fifteen dollars ($15.00) to the public housing authority.
(d) As used in this section:
(1) “Criminal background check” means retrievable data from the criminal information system of the Arkansas Crime Information Center;
(2) “Public housing authority” means a housing authority established under § 14-169-207, a regional housing authority established under § 14-169-304, or a consolidated housing authority established under § 14-169-401; and
(3) “Occupancy policy” means legal rules and regulations for a public housing authority which outline application and residency requirements.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-107
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14-169-107. Criminal background checks on applicants to public housing authorities — Definitions.
(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 permitting the public housing authority to secure the required background check.
(b) The municipal police department shall not release the criminal background records of the applicant, but shall notify the public housing authority whether or not the applicant meets the occupancy policy requirements of the public housing authority.
(c) A municipal police department may perform the criminal background check at a cost of no more than fifteen dollars ($15.00) to the public housing authority.
(d) As used in this section:
(1) “Criminal background check” means retrievable data from the criminal information system of the Arkansas Crime Information Center;
(2) “Public housing authority” means a housing authority established under § 14-169-207, a regional housing authority established under § 14-169-304, or a consolidated housing authority established under § 14-169-401; and
(3) “Occupancy policy” means legal rules and regulations for a public housing authority which outline application and residency requirements.
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14-169-207. Creation of authorities.
(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 the governing body of the city or the county, as the case may be, by proper resolution shall declare at any time that there is need for an authority to function in the city or county.
(B) The determination as to whether there is a need for an authority to function:
(i) May be made by the governing body on its own motion; or
(ii) Shall be made by the governing body upon the filing of a petition signed by twenty-five (25) residents of the city or the county, as the case may be, asserting that there is need for an authority to function in the city or county and requesting that the governing body so declare.
(b)(1) The governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is need for a housing authority in the city or county, as the case may be, if it shall find that:
(A) Insanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the city or county; or
(B) There is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the city or county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford.
(2) In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or insanitary, the governing body may take into consideration:
(A) The degree of overcrowding;
(B) The percentage of land coverage;
(C) The light, air, space, and access available to the inhabitants of the dwelling accommodations;
(D) The size and arrangement of the rooms;
(E) The sanitary facilities; and
(F) The extent to which conditions exist in the buildings
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-207
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14-169-304. Creation generally.
(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 regional housing authority, then a public body corporate and politic to be known as a regional housing authority shall thereupon exist for all of the counties and exercise its powers and other functions in the counties.
(2) Thereupon each county housing authority created for each of these counties shall cease to exist except for the purpose of winding up its affairs and executing a deed to the regional housing authority as provided in this section.
(b) The governing body of each of two (2) or more contiguous counties shall, by resolution, declare that there is a need for one (1) regional housing authority to be created for all of the counties to exercise in those counties the powers and other functions prescribed for a regional housing authority only if the governing body finds that:
(1) Unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the county or there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and
(2) A regional housing authority would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit than the housing authority of the county.
(c) The governing body of a county shall not adopt a resolution as prescribed in this section if there is a county housing authority created for the county which has any bonds or notes outstanding unless:
(1) All holders of the bonds and notes consent, in writing, to the substitution of the regional housing authority in
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-304
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-304. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-401. Creation and authority generally.
(a)(1)(A) If the governing body of each of two (2) or more municipalities declares, by resolution, that there is a need for one (1) housing authority for all of the municipalities to exercise in the municipalities the powers and other functions prescribed for a housing authority, a public body corporate and politic to be known as a consolidated housing authority, with such corporate name as it selects, shall thereupon exist for all of the municipalities and exercise its powers and other functions within its area of operation, as defined in this section, including the power to undertake projects in it. Thereupon, any housing authority created for any of the municipalities shall cease to exist except for the purpose of winding up its affairs and executing a deed of its real property to the consolidated housing authority.
(B) The creation of a consolidated housing authority and the finding of need for it shall be subject to the same provisions and limitations of §§ 14-169-101 — 14-169-106, 14-169-223, 14-169-224, 14-169-226, 14-169-228, 14-169-237, 14-169-238, 14-169-301 — 14-169-319, 14-169-401, and 14-169-501 — 14-169-503 applicable to the creation of a regional housing authority, and all of these provisions applicable to regional housing authorities and their commissioners shall be applicable to consolidated housing authorities and their commissioners.
(2)(A) The area of operation of a consolidated housing authority shall include all of the territory within the boundaries of each municipality joining in the creation of the authority, together with the territory within five (5) miles of the boundaries of each municipality.
(B)(i) An area of operation may be changed to include or exclude any municipality with its surro
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-401
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-401. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.