Florida Statutes Part I - Housing Authorities (Ss. 421.001-421.52)

• 421.001 - State Role In Housing And Urban Development.
  The role of state government required by part I of chapter 421 (Housing Authorities Law), chapter 422 (Housing Cooperation Law), and chapter 423 (Tax Exemption...
• 421.01 - Short Title.
  Part I of this chapter may be referred to as the “Housing Authorities Law.”History.—s. 1, ch. 17981, 1937; CGL 1940 Supp. 7100(3-a).
• 421.02 - Finding And Declaration Of Necessity.
  It is hereby declared that:(1) There exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that persons of low income are forced to reside in...
• 421.03 - Definitions.
  The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this part, shall have the following respective meanings for the purposes of this part, unless a...
• 421.04 - Creation Of Housing Authorities.
  (1) In each city, as herein defined, there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “Housing Authority” of the...
• 421.05 - Appointment, Qualifications, And Tenure Of Commissioners; Hiring Of Employees.
  (1) When the governing body of a city adopts a resolution as aforesaid, the mayor, with the approval of the governing body, shall promptly appoint no...
• 421.06 - Commissioners Or Employees Prohibited From Acquiring Interests In Housing Projects And Required To Disclose Interests In Specified Properties; Exception.
  Except for the leasehold interest held by a tenant-commissioner in the housing project in which he or she is a tenant, no commissioner or employee...
• 421.07 - Removal Of Commissioners.
  For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the mayor with the concurrence of...
• 421.08 - Powers Of Authority.
  An authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic, exercising the public and essential governmental functions set forth in this chapter, and having all...
• 421.09 - Operation Not For Profit.
  (1) It is the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to...
• 421.091 - Financial Accounting And Investments; Fiscal Year.
  (1) A complete and full financial accounting and audit in accordance with federal audit standards of public housing agencies shall be made biennially by a certified...
• 421.10 - Rentals And Tenant Selection.
  (1) In the operation or management of housing projects an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:(a) It...
• 421.101 - False Representations To Obtain Lower Rent In Housing Accommodations; Penalty.
  Whoever makes a false statement or representation, knowing it to be false, or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact in order to obtain a...
• 421.11 - Cooperation Of Authorities.
  (1) Any two or more housing authorities may join or cooperate with one another in the exercise, either jointly or otherwise, of any or all of...
• 421.12 - Eminent Domain.
  An authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it may deem necessary...
• 421.13 - Planning, Zoning And Building Laws.
  All housing projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in...
• 421.14 - Debentures.
  (1) An authority may issue debentures from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. An authority may also issue refunding debentures...
• 421.15 - Form And Sale Of Debentures.
  (1) Debentures of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such dates, mature...
• 421.16 - Provisions Of Debentures And Trust Indentures.
  In connection with the issuance of debentures or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of such indentures or...
• 421.17 - Validation Of Debentures And Proceedings.
  (1) A housing authority shall have the right, if it deems it expedient, to determine its authority to issue any debentures, and the legality of all...
• 421.18 - Remedies Of An Obligee Of Authority.
  An obligee of an authority shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only to...
• 421.19 - Additional Remedies Conferrable By Authority.
  An authority shall have power by its resolution, trust indenture, lease or other contract to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount...
• 421.21 - Aid From Federal Government; Tax Exemptions.
  (1) In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by other provisions of this chapter, an authority is empowered to borrow money or accept grants...
• 421.22 - Reports.
  At least once a year, an authority shall file with the clerk a report of its activities for the preceding year, and shall make recommendations...
• 421.23 - Liabilities Of Authority.
  The liabilities, whether ex contractu or ex delicto, of an authority arising from the operation of its housing projects, may not be paid from any...
• 421.24 - Organization And Establishment.
  The establishment and organization of housing authorities in the state under the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law of this state, together with all proceedings,...
• 421.25 - Contracts And Undertakings.
  All contracts, agreements, obligations, and undertakings of such housing authorities heretofore entered into relating to financing or aiding in the development, construction, maintenance, or operation...
• 421.26 - Notes And Bonds.
  All proceedings, acts and things heretofore undertaken, performed or done in or for the authorization, issuance, execution and delivery of notes and bonds by housing...
• 421.261 - Continuance Of Municipal Housing Authorities When Municipality Abolished; Counties In Excess Of 400,000.
  Whenever a municipality in any county having a population in excess of 400,000 according to the most recent official census has been or hereafter shall...
• 421.27 - Housing Authorities In Counties.
  (1) In each county of the state there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “housing authority” of the...
• 421.28 - Creation Of Regional Housing Authority.
  (1) If the governing body of each of two or more contiguous counties by resolution declares that there is a need for one housing authority to...
• 421.29 - Area Of Operation Of Regional Housing Authority.
  (1) The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall include all of the counties for which such regional housing authority is created and established...
• 421.30 - Commissioners Of Regional Authorities.
  (1) When a regional housing authority has been created as provided above, the Governor shall thereupon appoint one qualified elector from each county included in such...
• 421.31 - Powers Of Regional Housing Authority; Definitions.
  Except as otherwise provided herein, a regional housing authority and the commissioners thereof shall, within the area of operation of such regional housing authority, have...
• 421.32 - Rural Housing Projects.
  County housing authorities and regional housing authorities are specifically empowered and authorized to borrow money, accept grants and exercise their other powers to provide housing...
• 421.321 - Execution Of Mortgages.
  County and regional housing authorities organized under this chapter are authorized to execute mortgages encumbering real property as security for loans made for providing facilities...
• 421.33 - Housing Applications By Farmers.
  The owner of any farm operated, or worked upon, by farmers of low income in need of safe and sanitary housing may file an application...
• 421.34 - Additional Definitions.
  (1) “Farmers of low income,” as used in this law, shall mean persons or families who at the time of their admission to occupancy in a...
• 421.35 - Supplemental Nature Of Sections.
  The powers conferred by ss. 421.27-421.34 shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.History.—s. 2, ch. 20220, 1941.
• 421.36 - Short Title.
  Sections 421.27-421.35 may be cited and referred to as the “Rural Housing Authorities Law of Florida.”History.—s. 1, ch. 20220, 1941.
• 421.46 - Organization And Establishment Of Housing Authorities Validated.
  The establishment and organization of housing authorities under the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law of this state together with all proceedings, acts and things...
• 421.47 - Contracts And Undertakings Of Housing Authorities Validated.
  All contracts, agreements, obligations, and undertakings of such housing authorities heretofore entered into relating to financing or aiding in the development, construction, maintenance, or operation...
• 421.48 - Notes And Bonds Of Housing Authorities Validated.
  All proceedings, laws and things heretofore undertaken, performed or done in or for the authorization, issuance, execution and delivery of notes and bonds by housing...
• 421.49 - Area Of Operation Of Housing Authorities For Defense Housing.
  In the development or the administration of projects, under ss. 421.46-421.48, to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national...
• 421.50 - Decreasing Area Of Operation Of Regional Authority.
  (1) The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall be decreased from time to time to exclude one or more counties from such area...
• 421.51 - Authority For County Excluded From Regional Authority.
  At any time after a county or counties is excluded from the area of operation of a regional housing authority as provided above, the governing...
• 421.52 - Authorities; Creation, Obligations, Etc., Validated.
  (1) The creation, establishment and organization of housing authorities under the provisions of chapter 17981, Laws of Florida, 1937, as amended, or chapter 20220, Laws of...

Last modified: September 23, 2016