§ 36-58. Defense housing by housing authorities
Any housing authority may undertake the development or administration, or both, of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national-defense activities whom the housing authority determines would not otherwise be able to secure safe and sanitary dwellings within the vicinity thereof, but no housing authority shall initiate the development of any such project pursuant to this chapter after December 31, 1946.
In the ownership, development or administration of such projects, a housing authority shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities that such authority has under any provision of law relating to the ownership, development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income, in the same manner as though all the provisions of law applicable to slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income were applicable to projects developed or administered to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national-defense activities as provided in this chapter; provided, that during the period (herein called the "national-defense period") that a housing authority finds (which finding shall be conclusive in any suit, action or proceeding) that within its area of operation, or any part thereof, there is an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings which impedes the national-defense program in this Commonwealth and that the necessary safe and sanitary dwellings would not otherwise be provided when needed for persons engaged in national-defense activities, any project developed or administered by such housing authority (or by any housing authority cooperating with it) in such area, with the financial aid of the federal government (or as agent for the federal government as hereinafter provided), shall not be subject to the limitations provided in § 36-22 and the second sentence of § 36-21 of the Housing Authorities Law; and provided further, that, during the national-defense period, a housing authority may make payments in such amounts as it finds necessary or desirable for any services, facilities, works, privileges or improvements furnished for or in connection with any such project. In the development or the administration of projects hereunder or in otherwise carrying out the purposes hereof, any housing authority of any city, town or county may exercise its powers within the territorial boundaries of such city, town or county, and in any area within ten miles from such boundaries, with the approval of the governing body of the area affected thereby, exclusive of any area within the territorial boundaries of any other city, town or county in which there is a housing authority. After the national-defense period, any such projects owned and administered by a housing authority shall be administered for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law, except as otherwise provided in the preceding sentence of this section. This chapter shall constitute an independent authorization for a housing authority to undertake the development or administration of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national-defense activities as provided in this chapter and for a housing authority to cooperate with, or act as agent for, the federal government in the development or administration of similar projects by the federal government.
(1942, p. 571; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(28); 1944, p. 145.)
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