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AR Code § 14-169-233 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 a specified amount in bonds or holding a lease the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in the resolution or instrument, by suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction to:   (1) Cause possession of any housing project, or any part of it, to be surrendered to any such obligee;  (2)  (A) Obtain the appointment of a receiver of any housing project of the authority, or any part of it, and of the rents and profits from it.  (B) If a receiver is appointed, he may:  (i) Enter and take possession of the housing project or any part of it;  (ii) Operate and maintain the project; and  (iii) Collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues, or other charges thereafter arising from the project.    (C) The receiver shall keep the moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply them in accordance with the obligations of the authority, as the court shall direct; and    (3) Require the authority and its commissioners to account as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust.
AR Code § 14-169-234 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 other judicial process shall issue against it, nor shall any judgment against the authority be a charge or lien upon its real property.  (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to or limit the right of obligees to foreclose or otherwise enforce any mortgage of any authority or the right of obligees to pursue any remedies for the enforcement of any pledge or lien given by an authority on its rents, fees, or revenues.
AR Code § 14-169-235 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 property and the authority shall be exempt from all taxes and special assessments from the state or any state public body.  (b) Any property of an authority used for commercial, business, or industrial purposes shall be assessed and ad valorem taxes paid on it in the manner provided by law for the assessment and payment of taxes on other property, and the authority shall furnish the assessor with a certified statement, in writing, of the value at which the property was originally acquired to assist the assessor in arriving at the assessable value of it as provided by law.  (c) An authority may agree to make payments in lieu of taxes to a state public body for the benefit of a public housing project. However, in no event shall such payments exceed the estimated cost to the state public body of the improvements, services, or facilities to be so furnished.
AR Code § 14-169-236 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any project for profit or as a source of revenue to the city or the county.  (b) To this end, an authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income, and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived, will be sufficient to:  (1) Pay, as they become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority;  (2) Meet the cost of, and to provide for, maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance, and the administrative expenses of the authority; and  (3) Create, during not less than the six (6) years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on the bonds in any one (1) year thereafter, and maintain the reserve.
AR Code § 14-169-237 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 tenant selection:   (1) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in them only to persons of low income;  (2) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in them only at rentals within the financial reach of persons of low income;  (3) It may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting of the number of rooms, but no greater number, which it deems necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed occupants without overcrowding;  (4)  (A) It shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have an annual income in excess of five (5) times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished the persons. However, in the case of families with three (3) or more minor dependents, the ratio shall not exceed six (6) to one (1).  (B) In computing the rental for the purpose of selecting tenants, there shall be included in the rental the average annual cost to the occupants, as determined by the authority, of heat, water, electricity, gas, cooking range, and other necessary services or facilities, whether or not the charge for those services and facilities is in fact included in the rental.
AR Code § 14-169-238 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 the right, in the event of a default by the authority, to take possession of a housing project, or cause the appointment of a receiver of it, or acquire title to it, free from all the restrictions imposed by those statutes.
AR Code § 14-169-239 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 or of the state, of a market value equal at all times to the amount of the deposits; or  (2) Any securities in which savings banks may legally invest funds within their control; or  (3) An undertaking, with such sureties as shall be approved by the authority, faithfully to keep and pay over upon the order of the authority any such deposits and agreed interest on them.    (b) All banks and trust companies are authorized to give any such security for the deposits.
AR Code § 14-169-240 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 2 - Housing Authorities in Cities and Counties|§ 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 make recommendations with reference to such additional legislation or other action as it deems necessary in order to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-169-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-301. Provisions controlling

 Insofar as the provisions of this act are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this act shall be controlling.
AR Code § 14-169-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-302. Functions, etc., of authority generally

 Except as otherwise provided in this act, a regional housing authority and its commissioners shall have within the area of operation of the regional housing authority the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities, and limitations provided for housing authorities created for cities of the first class or counties and the commissioners of those housing authorities in the same manner as though all the provisions of law applicable to housing authorities created for cities of the first class or counties were applicable to regional housing authorities.
AR Code § 14-169-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-303. Powers supplemental

 The powers conferred by this act shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.
AR Code § 14-169-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-304. Creation generally

 (a)  (1) If the governing body of each of two (2) or more contiguous counties, by resolution, declares that there is a need for one (1) housing authority to be created for all of the contiguous counties to exercise in those counties powers and other functions prescribed for a regional housing authority, then a public body corporate and politic to be known as a regional housing authority shall thereupon exist for all of the counties and exercise its powers and other functions in the counties.  (2) Thereupon each county housing authority created for each of these counties shall cease to exist except for the purpose of winding up its affairs and executing a deed to the regional housing authority as provided in this section.    (b) The governing body of each of two (2) or more contiguous counties shall, by resolution, declare that there is a need for one (1) regional housing authority to be created for all of the counties to exercise in those counties the powers and other functions prescribed for a regional housing authority only if the governing body finds that:  (1) Unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the county or there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and  (2) A regional housing authority would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit than the housing authority of the county.    (c) The governing body of a county shall not adopt a resolution as prescribed in this section if there is a county housing authority created for the county which has any bonds or notes outstanding unless:  (1) All holders of the bonds and notes consent, in writing, to the substitution of the regional housing authority in lieu of the county housing authority on all such bonds and notes; and  (2) The commissioners of the county housing authority adopt a resolution consenting to the transfer of all the rights, contracts, obligations, and property, real and personal, of the county housing authority to the regional housing authority as provided in this section.    (d) When the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are complied with and the regional housing authority is created and authorized to exercise its powers and other functions:  (1) All rights, contracts, agreements, obligations, and real and personal property of the county housing authority shall be in the name of, and vest in, the regional housing authority;  (2) All obligations of the county housing authority shall be the obligations of the regional housing authority; and  (3) All rights and remedies of any person against the county housing authority may be asserted, enforced, and prosecuted against the regional housing authority to the same extent as they might have been asserted, enforced, and prosecuted against the county housing authority.
AR Code § 14-169-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-305. Creation — Deed from county to regional authority

 (a) When any real property of a county housing authority vests in a regional housing authority, as provided in this section, the county housing authority shall execute a deed of such property to the regional housing authority, which thereupon shall file the deed in the office provided for in the filing of deeds.  (b) However, nothing contained in this section shall affect the vesting of property in the regional housing authority as provided in § 14-169-304.
AR Code § 14-169-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-306. Creation — Proof of validity

 (a) In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of the regional housing authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become created as a public body corporate and politic and to have become established and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers under this subchapter upon proof of the adoption of a resolution by the governing body of each of the counties creating the regional housing authority declaring the need for the regional housing authority.  (b) Each such resolution shall be deemed sufficient if it declares that there is need for the regional housing authority and finds in substantially the foregoing terms, no further detail being necessary, that the conditions enumerated in § 14-169-304(b)(1) and (2) exist.  (c) A copy of the resolution of the governing body of a county, duly certified by the clerk of the county, shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action, or proceeding.
AR Code § 14-169-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-307. Applicability of housing authorities law

 Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, all the provisions of law applicable to housing authorities created for counties and the commissioners of these authorities shall be applicable to regional housing authorities and their commissioners, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
AR Code § 14-169-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-308. Commissioners generally

 (a) The governing body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one (1) person as a commissioner of the authority.  (b) Each commissioner to be first appointed by the governing body of a county may be appointed at or after the time of the adoption of the resolution declaring the need for a regional housing authority or declaring the need for the inclusion of the county in the area of operation of the regional housing authority.  (c)  (1) The commissioners of a regional housing authority shall be appointed for terms of five (5) years. However, all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms.  (2) When the term of office of a commissioner expires or any other vacancy occurs in the commission, the vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as provided for commissioners of housing authorities under § 14-169-208.  (3) Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor has been appointed and has qualified, except as otherwise provided in this section.    (d)  (1) A certificate of the appointment of any commissioner shall be filed with the clerk of the county.  (2) The certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of the commissioner.    (e) If any county is excluded from the area of operation of a regional housing authority, the office of the commissioner of the regional housing authority appointed by the governing body of the county shall be abolished.
AR Code § 14-169-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-309. Additional commissioners

 (a)  (1) When the area of operation of a regional housing authority is increased to include an additional county as provided in § 14-169-304, the governing body of each county shall thereupon appoint one (1) additional person as a commissioner of the regional housing authority.  (2) If the area of operation of a regional housing authority consists at any time of an even number of counties, the commissioners of the regional housing authority appointed by the governing bodies of the counties shall appoint one (1) additional commissioner, whose term of office shall be as provided in this section for a commissioner of a regional housing authority except that such term shall end at any earlier time that the area of operation of the regional housing authority shall be changed to consist of an odd number of counties.    (b)  (1) The term of office of such person begins during the terms of office of the commissioners appointing him.  (2) The commissioners of the authority appointed by the governing bodies of the counties shall likewise appoint each person to succeed the additional commissioners.    (c) A certificate of the appointment of any additional commissioner of the regional housing authority shall be filed with the other records of the regional housing authority and shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of the additional commissioner.
AR Code § 14-169-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-310. Commissioners — Removal

 (a) For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of a regional housing authority may be removed by the governing body appointing him or, in the case of the commissioner appointed by the commissioners of the regional housing authority, by such commissioners.  (b) A commissioner shall be removed only after he shall have been given a copy of the charges against him at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing on them and if the commissioner shall have had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel.  (c)  (1) In the event of the removal of a commissioner by the governing body appointing him, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings on them, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county.  (2) In the case of the removal of the commissioner appointed by the commissioners of the regional housing authority, the record shall be filed with the other records of the regional housing authority.
AR Code § 14-169-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-311. Commissioners — Quorum

 A majority of the commissioners of a regional housing authority shall constitute a quorum of the authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes.
AR Code § 14-169-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-312. Commissioners — Power and authority

 The commissioners shall constitute the regional housing authority, and the powers of the authority shall be vested in the commissioners in office from time to time.
AR Code § 14-169-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-313. Chairman, officers, and employees of authority

 The commissioners of a regional housing authority shall elect a chairman from among the commissioners and shall have power to select or employ such other officers and employees as the regional housing authority may require.
AR Code § 14-169-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 10 - Economic Development And Tourism Generally|Chapter 169 - Housing Authorities And Urban Renewal Agencies|Subchapter 3 - Regional Housing Authorities|§ 14-169-314. Area of operation

 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the area of operation of a regional housing authority shall include all of the counties for which the authority is created and established except that portion of the counties which lies within the territorial boundaries of any city of the first class.  (b) The governing body of each of the counties in the regional housing authority, the commissioners of the regional housing authority, and the governing body of each additional county shall, by resolution, declare that there is a need for the inclusion of the county in the area of operation of the regional housing authority only if:  (1) The governing body of each additional county finds that unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the county or there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and  (2) The governing body of each of the counties then included in the area of operation of the regional housing authority, the commissioners of the regional housing authority, and the governing body of each additional county finds that the regional housing authority would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit if the area of operation of the regional housing authority is increased to include the additional county.