California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 4 - Powers and Duties of Housing Authorities

• Section 34310.
  An authority constitutes a corporate and politic public body, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having all the powers necessary or convenient to carry...
• Section 34311.
  An authority may:(a)  Sue and be sued. (b)  Have a seal and alter it. (c)  Have perpetual succession. (d)  Make and execute contracts and other...
• Section 34312.
  Within its area of operation, an authority may undertake any of the following:(a) Prepare, carry out, acquire, lease, and operate housing projects for persons of low...
• Section 34312.3.
  (a)  Subject to the requirements of this section and of Article 5 (commencing with Section 34350), an authority may do any of the following:(1)  Issue...
• Section 34312.4.
  (a)  Subject to the requirements of Article 5 (commencing with Section 34350), for purposes of implementing a home financing program an authority has the following...
• Section 34312.5.
  (a)  An authority may provide leased housing to persons of low income throughout the county in which it operates, except: (1)  No commitment to provide...
• Section 34312.6.
  The same notice requirements as specified in Section 65863.10 of the Government Code shall apply to multifamily rental housing that receives financial assistance pursuant to...
• Section 34312.7.
  (a)  (1)  When refunding revenue bonds for multifamily housing which were previously issued pursuant to Section 34312.3, the authority shall ensure that rental units required,...
• Section 34313.
  Except where there existed on September 15, 1945, contracts for financial assistance between a housing authority and the Federal Government, no low-rent housing or slum-clearance...
• Section 34314.
  An authority may arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works, or facilities for, or...
• Section 34315.
  An authority may:(a)  Lease or rent any dwellings, houses, accommodations, lands, buildings, structures, or facilities embraced in any housing project, or a project assisted pursuant...
• Section 34315.3.
  An authority may accept financial or other assistance from any public or private source, and expend any funds so received for the purposes of this...
• Section 34315.5.
  An authority may transfer real property not needed by the authority to a fire protection district for fire protection purposes without consideration if the board...
• Section 34315.7.
  Real property owned by an authority which the authority determines is not required for its foreseeable needs and which is not transferred pursuant to Section...
• Section 34316.
  An authority may:(a)  Invest any money held in reserves or sinking funds, or any money not required for immediate disbursement, in property or securities in...
• Section 34316.1.
  The provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 53630) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code...
• Section 34316.2.
  An authority may deposit the money of the authority with the county treasurer. The county treasurer shall deposit those funds in the county treasury and...
• Section 34316.5.
  The proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this part to finance housing as provided in subdivision (d) of Section 34312, Section 34312.3, and subdivision (g)...
• Section 34317.
  Within its area of operation, an authority may:(a)  Investigate into living, dwelling, and housing conditions and into the means and methods of improving such conditions....
• Section 34318.
  Acting through one or more commissioners or other person or persons designated by it, an authority may:(a)  Conduct investigations, hear testimony, and take proof under...
• Section 34319.
  An authority may exercise all or any part or combination of powers granted in Sections 34311 to 34318, inclusive.(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 710.)
• Section 34320.
  No law concerning the acquisition, operation, or disposition of property by other public bodies is applicable to an authority unless the Legislature specifically so states.(Added...
• Section 34320.5.
  An authority shall provide relocation assistance and shall make all of the payments required by Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 7260) of Division 7 of...
• Section 34321.
  It is declared to be the policy of the State that each authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so...
• Section 34322.
  Except as provided by Section 34312.3, in the operation or management of housing projects, an authority shall:(a)  Rent or lease the dwelling accommodations only to...
• Section 34322.2.
  Each authority shall adopt and promulgate regulations establishing a plan for selection of applicants to assure equal opportunity and nondiscrimination on grounds of race, color,...
• Section 34322.5.
  No authority shall require occupants of any project to be citizens of the United States, provided, however, that in the event there are insufficient housing...
• Section 34323.
  Nothing contained in Sections 34321 and 34322 shall be construed as limiting the power of an authority to vest in an obligee the right, in...
• Section 34324.
  Any two or more authorities may join or co-operate with one another in the exercise either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of their...
• Section 34325.
  An authority may acquire by eminent domain any real property which it deems necessary for its purposes under this chapter. Real property belonging to the...
• Section 34326.
  All housing projects are subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which the housing project...
• Section 34327.
  An authority may:(a)  Borrow money or accept grants or other financial assistance from the federal government for or in aid of any housing project within...
• Section 34327.3.
  County public housing agencies may apply for, process, and distribute, to the extent that federal funds are available, housing certificates issued pursuant to Section 8...
• Section 34327.5.
  Whether or not the type, amount, and manner of expenditure of any funds received by an authority from the Federal Government, or any funds derived...
• Section 34327.6.
  All funds of housing authorities not subject to audit by a federal agency shall be audited at least once each year at the expense of...
• Section 34328.
  At least once a year, an authority shall file with the clerk of the respective city or county and with the Department of Housing and...
• Section 34328.1.
  (a)  Every housing authority shall file on the first day of October of each year with the Department of Housing and Community Development a complete...
• Section 34328.2.
  The mayor or any member of the governing body of the city in the case of a city authority or any member of the governing...
• Section 34330.
  An authority shall have the power to:(a)  Assist in relocating in suitable housing accommodations at rentals within their means persons of low income who have...
• Section 34331.
  In the operation or management of housing projects an authority shall not do any of the following:(a)  Evict any tenant without reasonable cause and unless...
• Section 34332.
  An authority shall do all of the following:(a)  Expressly covenant in all of its leases and rental agreements to repair the premises to comply with...
• Section 34333.
  Any attempted waiver in any lease or rental agreement entered into by the authority of any of the rights granted tenants as against the authority...
• Section 34334.
  No responsibility of a private landlord of leased housing, or duty of a housing authority to impose a responsibility upon a private landlord of leased...

Last modified: October 22, 2018