Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-07-17
CHAPTER 562

CHAPTER 56s
AN ACT to add seven new sections 10
Article 44A of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, Flack s
Edition 1889, title Housing Authori-
ties" to be know as Sections "a to &c
inclusive, under the SUBTITLE Defense
Housing by Housing Authorities,
and to follow Immediately after Sec
ton % of said Article, to authorize
Housing Authorities established pur.
suant to Article 44A of the Code #
Public General Laws to undertake the
development or administration of
projects to assure the availability OF
safe and sanitary dwellings for per
sons engaged in national defense &C
tivities; to limit the initiation of the
development of such projects to De
cember 81, 1913; to authorize Housing
Authorities to cooperate with or act
as agent of the Federal Government il
the development and administration
of such projects of the Federal Gov
eminent, to acquire or lease such
projects and to sell certain low-cost
housing or slum clearance projects TO
the Federal Government; to authorize
public bodies to assist such projects
of Housing Authorities and of the
Federal Government; to make obliga-
lions issued for such projects of
Housing Authorities legal investments
and to declare valid all bonds, notes
anu ODASdtlUHS VI AuIHOTa-
ties issued for projects heretofore I'M
dertaken to assure the availability of
safe and sanitary dwellings for per-
sons engaged in national defense &C.
tivities.
WHEREAS, it is hereby found ana
declared that the national defense pro-
gram involves large increases in the
military forces and personnel in this
State, great increase in the number
or workers in already established manu-
featuring centers and the bringing of
large number of workers and their fam
lilies to new centers of defense indus
tries in the State; that there is an acute
shortage Of safe and sanitary dwellings
available to such persons and their
families in this State which impedes the
national defense Program; that it il
imperative that action be taken imme-
diately to assure the availability of safe
and sanitary dwellings for such persons
to enable the rapid expansion of ma
tiOnal- defense activities in this State
and to avoid large labor turn-o over IN
defense industries which would seri-
Ously hamper their production that the
provisions hereinafter enacted are neces-
sary to assure the availability of safe
and sanitary dwellings for persons en-
gagged in national defense activities
which otherwise would not be provided
at this time; and that such provisions
are for the public use and purpose of
facilitating the national defense pro,
gram in this State. 1t is further de-
clared to be the purpose of this Act to
authorize Housing Authorities to do any
and all things necessary or desirable &c
secure the financial aid of the Federal
Government, or to cooperate with or act
as agent of the Federal Government. in
the expeditions development and the
administration OF projects to assure the
availability when needed of safe and
sanitary dwellings for persons engaged
in natiOnal-defense activities.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of Maryland, That sever.
new sections be and the same are here
by added to Article 44A of the Code OF
Public General Laws of Maryland,
Flack's Edition 1899, title Housing Au-
to 80 inclusive, under the subtitle
Defense housing by Housing AuthOri.
ties" and to follow Immediately after
Section q Of said Article, to read as
follows:
"a. Any Housing Authority may
stration Of projects to assure the avail
ability of safe and sanitary dwellings
for persons engaged in national defens Sc
activities whom the Housing Authority
determines would not otherwise be able
to secure safe and sanitary dwellin gs,
but no Housing Authority shall initiate
the development Of any such project
pursuant to this Act after December
81, 1913.
In the ownership, development or ad
ministratiion Of such projects, a Hous
ing Authority shall have all the rights,
powers, privileges and immunities that
such Authority has under any provision
of law relating to the ownership, de-
yelopment or administration of slum
clearance and housing projects for per
sons of low income, in the same manner
as though all the provisions of law ap-
picable to slum clearance and housing
projects for persons of low income were
applicable to projects developed or ad.
m1nistered to assure the availability
of safe and sanitary dwellings for per
sons engaged In natiOnal-defense activi-
ties as provided in this sub title, and
housing projects developed or admin
stored hereunder shall constitute "hOus.
ing projects" under the sections of this
Article other than this subtitle. ak that
term Is used therein provided, that Our.
ngthat period therein called the Nation
al-Defepse PeriOd"l that a Housing Au-
thority finds (Which finding shall be
conclusive in any suit, action or pro-
ceeding) that within its area of opera
ton las defined in said Article, or any
part thereof, there Is an acute shortage
OF safe and sanitary dwellings, which
tmpedes the national defense program
in this State and that the necessary safe
and sanitary dwellings would not other.
wise be provided when needed for per
bOnS eukuBeu IN uullOnul-ueIeHSe hcTlVl
ties, any project developed or admin
stored by such Housing Authority (oI
by any Housing Authority cooperating
with 1t In such area pursuant to this
title, with the financial aid of the
Federal Government Tor as agent fol
the Federal Government as hereinafter
provided) shall not be subject to tn,
limitations provided in Section 10 ant
the second sentence of Section of thi,
Article; or any other limitation relating
to the amount of rentals or eligibility
OF tenants other than as provided
under this sub title: and provided fur
Their, that. during the National Defens,
Period, a Housing Authority may max,
payments In such amounts as 1t find
necessary or desirable for any services
facilities, works, privileges or improve
ments furnished for or in connection
with any such projects. After the Ma
tional- Defense Period, any such projects
owned and administered by a Housing
Authority shall he administered for tn
purposes and In accordance with tn
provisions of this Article other thai
this subtitle.
Is. A Housing Authority may exer
else any or all of its powers for tn
purpose Of cooperating with, or actin
as agent for, the Federal Government
in the development or administrator
of projects by the Federal Government
to assure the availability of safe an
sanitary dwellings for persons engage
in national-d defense activities and ma,
undertake the development or admin
stration of any such project for tn
Federal Government. In order to aesur
the availability Of safe and sanitar
housing for persons engaged In ma