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14-169-319. Procedures to create authority or change area.
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14-169-319. Procedures to create authority or change area.
(a)(1) The governing body of a county shall not adopt any resolution authorized by §§ 14-169-304, 14-169-315, or 14-169-317 unless a public hearing has first been held.
(2) The clerk of the county shall give notice of the time, place, and purpose of the public hearing at least ten (10) days prior to the day on which the hearing is to be held, in a newspaper published in the county, or if there is no newspaper published in the county, then in a newspaper published in the state and having a general circulation in the county.
(3) Upon the date fixed for the public hearing, an opportunity to be heard shall be granted to all residents of the county and to all other interested persons.
(b) In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, the governing body of a county shall take into consideration:
(1) The safety and sanitation of dwellings;
(2) The light and air space available to the inhabitants of the dwellings;
(3) The degree of overcrowding;
(4) The size and arrangement of the rooms; and
(5) The extent to which conditions exist in the dwellings which endanger life or property by fire or other causes.
(c) In connection with the issuance of bonds, a regional housing authority may covenant as to limitations on its right to adopt resolutions relating to the increase or decrease of its area of operation.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-319
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14-169-319. Procedures to create authority or change area.
(a)(1) The governing body of a county shall not adopt any resolution authorized by §§ 14-169-304, 14-169-315, or 14-169-317 unless a public hearing has first been held.
(2) The clerk of the county shall give notice of the time, place, and purpose of the public hearing at least ten (10) days prior to the day on which the hearing is to be held, in a newspaper published in the county, or if there is no newspaper published in the county, then in a newspaper published in the state and having a general circulation in the county.
(3) Upon the date fixed for the public hearing, an opportunity to be heard shall be granted to all residents of the county and to all other interested persons.
(b) In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, the governing body of a county shall take into consideration:
(1) The safety and sanitation of dwellings;
(2) The light and air space available to the inhabitants of the dwellings;
(3) The degree of overcrowding;
(4) The size and arrangement of the rooms; and
(5) The extent to which conditions exist in the dwellings which endanger life or property by fire or other causes.
(c) In connection with the issuance of bonds, a regional housing authority may covenant as to limitations on its right to adopt resolutions relating to the increase or decrease of its area of operation.
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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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14-169-315. Increase of area.
(a) The area of operation of a regional housing authority may be increased from time to time to include one (1) or more additional contiguous counties not already within a regional housing authority if the governing body of each of the counties then included in the area of operation of the regional housing authority, the commissioners of the regional housing authority, and the governing body of each additional county each adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for the inclusion of the additional county in the area of operation of the regional housing authority.
(b) Upon the adoption of these resolutions, the county housing authority created for each additional county 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.
(c) The resolution shall not be adopted if there is a county housing authority created for any additional 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 lieu of the county housing authority as the obligor on them; and
(2) The commissioners of the county housing authority adopt a resolution consenting to the transfer of all the rights, contracts, obligations, and real and personal property of the county housing authority to the regional housing authority as provided in this section.
(d) When the conditions of subsection (c) of this section are complied with and the area of operation of the regional housing authority is increased to include the additional county, as provided in this section:
(1) All rights, contracts, agreements, obligations, and real and personal property of the
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-315
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 14-169-315. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-317. Decreasing operational area — Detachment of counties.
(a)(1) The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall be decreased from time to time to exclude one (1) or more counties from the area if the governing body of each of the counties in the area and the commissioners of the regional housing authority each adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding a county from the area. However, no action may be taken pursuant to this section if the regional housing authority has outstanding any bonds or notes unless all holders of the bonds and notes consent, in writing, to the action.
(2)(A) If such action decreases the area of operation of the regional housing authority to only one (1) county, the authority shall thereupon constitute and become a housing authority for the county, in the same manner, and with the same rights, powers, and immunities, as though the authority were created by and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers pursuant to § 14-169-207.
(B) The commissioners of such authority shall be thereupon appointed as provided in § 14-169-208 for the appointment of commissioners of a housing authority created for a county.
(b) 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 shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding a county from the area only if:
(1) Each governing body of the counties to remain in the area of operation of the regional housing authority and the commissioners of the regional housing authority find that, because of facts arising or determined subsequent to the time when the area first included the county to be excluded, the regional housing authority w
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-317
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 14-169-317. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.