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14-169-318. Housing authority for county excluded or detached.
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14-169-318. Housing authority for county excluded or detached.
(a) At any time after the exclusion or detachment of any county from the area of operation of a regional housing authority, as provided in this subchapter, the governing body of any such county may adopt a resolution or enter an order declaring that there is need for a housing authority in the county if the governing body shall find such need according to the provisions of § 14-169-207. Thereupon, a public body corporate and politic to be known as the housing authority of the county shall exist for that county, the five (5) commissioners of which shall be appointed by the governing body of that county and may transact business and exercise its powers in the same manner, and shall have the same rights, powers, and immunities, as though created by § 14-169-207.
(b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as preventing that county from thereafter being included within the area of operation of a regional housing authority as provided in this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-318
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14-169-318. Housing authority for county excluded or detached.
(a) At any time after the exclusion or detachment of any county from the area of operation of a regional housing authority, as provided in this subchapter, the governing body of any such county may adopt a resolution or enter an order declaring that there is need for a housing authority in the county if the governing body shall find such need according to the provisions of § 14-169-207. Thereupon, a public body corporate and politic to be known as the housing authority of the county shall exist for that county, the five (5) commissioners of which shall be appointed by the governing body of that county and may transact business and exercise its powers in the same manner, and shall have the same rights, powers, and immunities, as though created by § 14-169-207.
(b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as preventing that county from thereafter being included within the area of operation of a regional housing authority as provided in this subchapter.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
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
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 14-169-207. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.