Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 10, Chapter 169, Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties

• § 14-169-201 - Title.
  This subchapter may be referred to as the "Housing Authorities Act."
• § 14-169-202 - Legislative Declarations.
  It is declared that: (1) There exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that persons of low income are forced to...
• § 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 §...
• § 14-169-204 - Provisions Controlling.
  Insofar as the provisions of this subchapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this subchapter shall be controlling.
• § 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...
• § 14-169-206 - Validating Provisions.
  (a) The establishment and organization of housing authorities pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, together with all proceedings, acts, and things heretofore undertaken,...
• § 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...
• § 14-169-208 - Appointment, Etc., of Commissioners, Employees.
  (a) (1) When the governing body of a city adopts a resolution as prescribed in § 14-169-207, it shall promptly notify the mayor of...
• § 14-169-209 - Commissioner or Employee Interest Prohibited.
  (a) No commissioner or employee of a housing authority shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any housing project or in any property...
• § 14-169-210 - Removal of Commissioners.
  (a) A commissioner of a city or county housing authority may be removed from office for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in...
• § 14-169-211 - Powers of Authority Generally.
  A housing authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising exclusively public and essential governmental functions and having all the powers necessary...
• § 14-169-212 - Investigations, Studies, Etc.
  A housing authority shall have the power, within its area of operation: (1) To investigate into living, dwelling, and housing conditions and into the...
• § 14-169-213 - Examinations and Investigations -- Conduct, Oaths, Subpoenas, Etc.
  A housing authority shall have the power, acting through one (1) or more commissioners or other persons designated by the authority: (1) To conduct...
• § 14-169-214 - Examinations and Investigations -- Findings and Recommendations.
  A housing authority shall have the power to make available to appropriate agencies, including those charged with the duty of abating or requiring the...
• § 14-169-215 - Powers of Authority Regarding Property Generally.
  A housing authority shall have the power: (1) To lease or rent any dwellings, houses, accommodations, lands, buildings, structures, or facilities embraced in any...
• § 14-169-216 - Acquisition, Operation, Construction, Etc., of Housing Projects.
  (a) A housing authority shall have the power within its area of operation to prepare, carry out, acquire, lease, and operate housing projects, and...
• § 14-169-217 - Contracts for Services, Works, Etc.
  (a) A housing authority shall have the power to arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency, public or private, of...
• § 14-169-218 - Financing of Project.
  A housing authority shall have the power to: (1) Purchase promissory notes, and the mortgages or trust deeds securing them, issued by any builder...
• § 14-169-219 - Power of Eminent Domain.
  (a) A housing authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it...
• § 14-169-220 - Authority to Issue Bonds.
  (a) (1) (A) A housing authority shall have power to issue bonds, from time to time, in its discretion, for any of its corporate...
• § 14-169-221 - Issuance of Bonds.
  (a) (1) Bonds of a housing authority shall be authorized by its resolution upon a vote of at least three (3) commissioners. (2) Bonds...
• § 14-169-222 - Powers in Issuing Bonds or Incurring Obligations.
  In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of the bonds...
• § 14-169-223 - Bonds and Obligations As Legal Investments.
  (a) (1) The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies; and all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and...
• § 14-169-224 - Joining or Cooperating by Authorities.
  (a) Any two (2) or more housing authorities created pursuant to this subchapter may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either...
• § 14-169-225 - Federal Aid or Cooperation.
  (a) (1) In addition to the powers conferred upon a housing authority by other provisions of this subchapter, the authority is empowered to: (A)...
• § 14-169-226 - Agreement to Sell Project As Security for Federal Obligations.
  (a) (1) In any contract or amendatory or superseding contract for a loan and annual contributions entered into between any housing authority and the...
• § 14-169-227 - Aid and Cooperation by State Public Bodies.
  (a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of housing projects, including projects of the federal government,...
• § 14-169-228 - Additional Powers of Public Bodies to Aid or Cooperate.
  For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of housing projects, including housing projects of the federal government,...
• § 14-169-229 - Public Appropriations and Loans.
  (a) (1) When any housing authority which is created for any city or county becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers in...
• § 14-169-230 - Authority to Exercise Powers.
  (a) (1) The exercise by a state public body of the powers granted in this subchapter may be authorized by resolution of the governing...
• § 14-169-231 - Contracts for Services Furnished by Public Body.
  (a) In connection with any housing project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may contract...
• § 14-169-232 - Statutory Remedies of Obligee.
  An obligee of a housing authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on the obligee, subject...
• § 14-169-233 - Additional Remedies Conferrable on Obligees.
  A housing authority shall have power, by its resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other contract, to confer upon any obligee holding or representing...
• § 14-169-234 - Exemption of Property From Execution.
  (a) All real property of a housing authority shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or...
• § 14-169-235 - Tax Exemption of Certain Property.
  (a) The property of a housing authority used exclusively for public purposes and not for profit is declared to be public property, and this...
• § 14-169-236 - Fixing of Rental Rates.
  (a) It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an...
• § 14-169-237 - Rentals and Tenant Selection.
  In the operation or management of housing projects, a housing authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and...
• § 14-169-238 - Right to Possession, Etc.
  Nothing contained in § 14-169-236 or § 14-169-237 shall be construed as limiting the power of a housing authority to vest in an obligee...
• § 14-169-239 - Security for Funds Deposited.
  (a) A housing authority, by resolution, may provide that all moneys deposited by it shall be secured by: (1) Obligations of the United States...
• § 14-169-240 - Reports and Recommendations.
  At least once a year, a housing authority shall file with the clerk a report of its activities for the preceding year and shall...

Last modified: November 15, 2016