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14-169-606. Local approval and assistance.
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14-169-606. Local approval and assistance.
(a) An authority shall not initiate any redevelopment project under this subchapter until the governing body or agency designated by it or empowered by law so to act of each city or town, i.e., “municipalities,” in which any of the area to be covered by the project is situated, has approved a plan, to be called the “redevelopment plan,” which provides an outline for the development or redevelopment of the area and is sufficiently complete to indicate:
(1) Its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements;
(2) Proposed land uses and building requirements in the area; and
(3) The method for the temporary relocation of persons living in such areas; and also the method for providing, unless already available, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings substantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from the area, at rents within the financial reach of the income groups displaced from the substandard dwellings.
(b) Municipalities are authorized to approve redevelopment plans through their governing body or agency designated by it for that purpose.
(c) Any state public body, as defined in § 14-169-203, shall have the same rights and powers to cooperate with and assist housing authorities with respect to redevelopment projects that such state public body has pursuant to the Housing Authorities Act, §§ 14-169-201 — 14-169-205, 14-169-207 — 14-169-225, 14-169-227, 14-169-229 — 14-169-240, and 14-169-804, for the purpose of assisting the development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects in the same manner as though the provis
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-606
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14-169-606. Local approval and assistance.
(a) An authority shall not initiate any redevelopment project under this subchapter until the governing body or agency designated by it or empowered by law so to act of each city or town, i.e., “municipalities,” in which any of the area to be covered by the project is situated, has approved a plan, to be called the “redevelopment plan,” which provides an outline for the development or redevelopment of the area and is sufficiently complete to indicate:
(1) Its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements;
(2) Proposed land uses and building requirements in the area; and
(3) The method for the temporary relocation of persons living in such areas; and also the method for providing, unless already available, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings substantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from the area, at rents within the financial reach of the income groups displaced from the substandard dwellings.
(b) Municipalities are authorized to approve redevelopment plans through their governing body or agency designated by it for that purpose.
(c) Any state public body, as defined in § 14-169-203, shall have the same rights and powers to cooperate with and assist housing authorities with respect to redevelopment projects that such state public body has pursuant to the Housing Authorities Act, §§ 14-169-201 — 14-169-205, 14-169-207 — 14-169-225, 14-169-227, 14-169-229 — 14-169-240, and 14-169-804, for the purpose of assisting the development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects in the same manner as though the provisions of the Housing Authorities Act were applicable to redevelopment projects undertaken under this subchapter.
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14-169-201. Title.
This subchapter may be referred to as the “Housing Authorities Act.”
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-201
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14-169-203. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Authority” or “housing authority” means any of the public corporations created by § 14-169-207;
(2) “City” means any city of the first or second class or any incorporated town. “The city” means the particular city or town for which a particular housing authority is created;
(3) “County” means any county in the state. “The county” means the particular county for which a particular housing authority is created;
(4) “State public body” means any city, town, county, municipal corporation, commission, district, authority, other subdivision, or other public body of the state;
(5) “Governing body” means:
(A) In the case of a city, the city council or other legislative body thereof;
(B) In the case of a county, the county court or other legislative body thereof; and
(C) In the case of other state public bodies, the council, commissioners, board, or other body having charge of the fiscal affairs of the state public body;
(6) “Mayor” means the mayor of the city or the officer thereof charged with the duties customarily imposed on the mayor or executive head of the city;
(7) “Clerk” means the clerk of the city or the clerk of the county, as the case may be, or the officer of the city or the county, charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk;
(8) “Area of operation” means:
(A) In the case of a housing authority of a city having a population of less than ten thousand (10,000), the city and the area within five (5) miles of its territorial boundaries;
(B) In the case of a housing authority of a city having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or more, the city and the area within fifteen (15) miles of its territorial boundaries.
However, the area
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-203
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 14-169-203. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-205. Planning, etc., laws applicable.
(a) All housing projects of a housing authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which the housing project is situated.
(b) In the planning and location of any housing project, an authority shall take into consideration the relationship of the project to any larger plan or long-range program for the development of the area in which the authority functions.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-205
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 14-169-205. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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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
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.