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LA Rev Stat § 40:401 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401. Vesting of authority's powers in commissioners, voting

RS 401 - Vesting of authority's powers in commissioners, voting The powers of each local housing authority shall be vested in its commissioners. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its power and for all other purposes. Except for any matter with respect to which the resolution creating the authority or its bylaws requires a higher number or proportion of votes, action may be taken by the authority upon the vote of a majority of the commissioners present and voting. Amended by Acts 1979, No. 266, §1, eff. July 10, 1979; Acts 1982, No. 846, §1; Acts 1983, No. 564, §1; Acts 1986, No. 920, §1, eff. July 10, 1986; Acts 1990, No. 426, §1; Acts 1991, No. 289, §12; Acts 1993, No. 298, §1, eff. Oct. 1, 1993; Acts 1993, No. 546, §1; Acts 1995, No. 898, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.1. Housing authority of the parish of St. Landry; commissioners

RS 401.1 - Housing authority of the parish of St. Landry; commissioners In the parish of St. Landry, the board of commissioners shall be composed of no more than six members. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its power and for all other purposes. Acts 2006, No. 547, §1, eff. June 22, 2006; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 12, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.2. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.2 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.3. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.3 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.4 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.4. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.4 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.5 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.5. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.5 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.6 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.6. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.6 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.7 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.7. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.7 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.8 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.8. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.8 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:401.9 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§401.9. Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.

RS 401.9 - Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:402 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§402. Executive committees

RS 402 - Executive committees Housing authorities that have nine or more commissioners may, by resolution or by law, establish an executive committee of at least five commissioners. The committee shall have such powers over the management or operation of such housing authority as the commissioners of such authority shall specify and declare in the resolution establishing the executive committee. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:403 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§403. Responsibility for debts or liabilities of local housing authorities

RS 403 - Responsibility for debts or liabilities of local housing authorities Except to the extent the municipality or parish may expressly elect to undertake such liability, neither the municipality or parish with respect to which a local housing authority is established, nor any municipality or parish participating in a regional housing authority, nor the state, nor any other public agency of this state shall be responsible for the debts or liabilities of any local housing authority or regional housing authority. Added by Acts 1972, No. 293, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:404 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§404. Repealed by Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 12, §2, eff. June 12, 2011.

RS 404 - Repealed by Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 12, §2, eff. June 12, 2011.
LA Rev Stat § 40:404.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§404.1. Housing authorities of the cities of Gonzales and St. Martinville; per diem

RS 404.1 - Housing authorities of the cities of Gonzales and St. Martinville; per diem Each commissioner of the housing authorities of the cities of Gonzales and St. Martinville may receive a per diem, to be paid from funds of the respective housing authority, for a maximum of twenty-four days per year for attendance at meetings of the respective housing authority in amounts not to exceed the following: (1) Fifty dollars for the chairman of the authority. (2) Twenty-five dollars for all other members. Acts 1997, No. 438, §2; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 12, §1, eff. June 12, 2011.
LA Rev Stat § 40:405 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§405. Exemptions from levy and execution

RS 405 - Exemptions from levy and execution Except to the extent a local housing authority or its subsidiaries may otherwise expressly agree, all real and personal property of a local housing authority and its subsidiaries shall be exempt from execution, levy, and sale for the payment of debt or otherwise pursuant to any judicial or other process. Added by Acts 1983, No. 107, §1; Amended by Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:406 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§406. Exemptions from certain laws

RS 406 - Exemptions from certain laws A. All representatives of a local housing authority, acting within the scope of carrying out the business and conducting the affairs of a local housing authority, shall be exempt from all licensing requirements imposed by any law with respect to the sale, rental, or management of real property or the improvement or development thereof, including requirements imposing any fee or charge. B. The following provisions of law, and any regulations relating thereto, shall not apply to a local housing authority unless the legislation imposing such requirements is expressly and specifically applicable to local housing authorities or the local housing authority expressly elects to be governed by such legislation or regulations: (1) The Administrative Procedure Act. (2) Any law, ordinance, or regulation governing or otherwise applicable to the procurement of goods and services, or to the acquisition, operation, or disposition of property by public agencies of this state. Acts 1992, No. 1018, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:411 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§411. Creation

RS 411 - Creation A. If the governing body of each of two or more parishes in the same general geographical location, regardless of their population, declares by resolution that there is a need for one regional housing authority for both or all of such parishes, a public body corporate and politic known as a regional housing authority shall thereupon exist and exercise its powers and perform its functions in such parishes. B. If the governing body of each of two or more municipalities, whether or not in the same general geographical location, declares by resolution that there is a need for one consolidated housing authority for both or all of such municipalities, a public body corporate and politic known as a consolidated housing authority shall thereupon exist and exercise its powers and perform its functions within its area of operation. C. Regional and consolidated housing authorities may select appropriate corporate names for themselves. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:412 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§412. Area of operation

RS 412 - Area of operation A. In the case of a regional housing authority, the authority's area of operation shall be an area equivalent to the total areas of operation which the local housing authorities, if created separately by political subdivisions establishing the regional housing authority, would have, when aggregated. The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall not include any area which lies within the territorial boundaries of any municipality or parish in which a local housing authority has been established and which municipality or parish is not a participant in said regional authority. However, the local housing authority of the municipality or parish and the governing body of the municipality or parish may consent to the operation of one or more developments by said regional housing authority within the municipality's or parish's territorial boundaries. B. In the case of a consolidated housing authority, the authority's area of operation consists of all of the territory within the boundaries of each municipality joining in its creation together with the territory within one mile of the boundaries of each municipality. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:413 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§413. Increasing area of operation

RS 413 - Increasing area of operation The area of operation of a regional or consolidated housing authority shall be increased from time to time to include one or more additional parishes or municipalities not already within a regional or consolidated housing authority and, in the case of parishes, in the same general geographical location, if the governing body of each of the parishes or municipalities then included in the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority, the commissioners of the authority, and the governing body of each such additional parish or municipality adopts a resolution declaring that there is a need for the inclusion of the additional parish or municipality in the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:414 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§414. Effect on local authorities of adoption of consolidated or regional authorities

RS 414 - Effect on local authorities of adoption of consolidated or regional authorities In the event that a municipality or parish that has an established local housing authority elects to participate in a regional housing authority, pursuant to R.S. 40:411, or a consolidated housing authority, pursuant to R.S. 40:413, it shall obtain the consent of the local housing authority. In the event of such consent, any such existing housing authority which embraces the municipality or parish within its area of operation may elect to cease to exist therein, except for the purpose of winding up its affairs and transferring its property to the consolidated or regional housing authority, as provided in R.S. 40:419. In the event that any such housing authority elects to continue in existence, then in such event, the jurisdiction of such regional or consolidated housing authority shall be exercised concurrently with that of the local housing authority within its area of operation. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:415 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§415. Prerequisites to adoption of resolution creating or expanding regional or consolidated authority

RS 415 - Prerequisites to adoption of resolution creating or expanding regional or consolidated authority A. The governing body of its respective parish or municipality shall adopt a resolution pursuant to R.S. 40:411 only if it finds that: (1) In the area of its respective parish or municipality, there are insanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations or there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations available to families of low income at rentals they can afford or that slum or blighted areas exist. (2) The regional or consolidated housing authority would be the most efficient and economical administrative unit to carry out the purposes of this Part in its parish or municipality. B. In the case of the expansion of the area of operation of a regional or consolidated authority, the governing body of any parish or municipality and the commissioners of the regional or consolidated housing authority shall adopt a resolution pursuant to R.S. 40:413 if both: (1) The governing body of each parish or municipality to be included finds that insanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist therein or that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations therein available to families of low income at rentals they can afford or that slum or blighted areas exist therein. (2) The governing body of the parishes or municipalities already included in the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority, the commissioners of the regional or consolidated housing authority and the governing body of each additional parish or municipality finds that the regional or consolidated housing authority would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit to carry out the purposes of this Part if the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority is increased to include the additional parish or municipality. Amended by Acts 1950, No. 401, §7; Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:416 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§416. Public hearings to create regional or consolidated authority or increase its area of operation

RS 416 - Public hearings to create regional or consolidated authority or increase its area of operation A. The governing body of a parish or municipality shall not adopt any resolution authorized by R.S. 40:411 or 413 unless a public hearing has first been held. The governing body shall give notice of the time, place, and purpose of the public hearing at least ten days prior to the day on which it is to be held, in a newspaper published in the parish or municipality, as the case may be, or, if there is no newspaper published therein, in a newspaper published in the state and having a general circulation in the parish or municipality. On the date fixed for the hearing, an opportunity to be heard shall be granted to all residents of the parish or municipality and to all other interested persons. B. In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or insanitary the governing body of a parish shall take into consideration the safety and sanitation of dwellings; the light and air space available to the inhabitants of such dwellings; the degree of overcrowding; the size and arrangement of the rooms; and the extent to which conditions exist in such dwellings which endanger life or property by fire or other causes. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:417 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§417. Consent of obligees and commissioners of local authority to substitution of regional or consolidated authority, transfer of rights, duties and property

RS 417 - Consent of obligees and commissioners of local authority to substitution of regional or consolidated authority, transfer of rights, duties and property A. The governing body of a parish or municipality shall not adopt a resolution pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 40:411 or 413 if there is an existing housing authority therefor which has any obligations outstanding unless: (1) All obligees of the existing housing authority and the parties to its obligations consent in writing to the substitution of the regional or consolidated housing authority therefor on all such obligations. (2) The commissioners of the existing housing authority adopt a resolution consenting to the transfer of all the rights, obligations and property thereof to the regional or consolidated housing authority. B. When the two conditions in Subsection A are complied with and the regional or consolidated housing authority is created and authorized to exercise its powers and perform its functions, all rights, obligations and property of the former housing authority shall vest in the regional or consolidated housing authority and be in its name. All rights and obligations of the former housing authority shall be the rights and obligations of the regional or consolidated housing authority and may be asserted and enforced by or against the regional or consolidated housing authority as they might have been asserted and enforced by or against the former housing authority. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:418 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§418. Notification of mayor of adoption of consolidated authority

RS 418 - Notification of mayor of adoption of consolidated authority When the governing body of a municipality adopts a resolution declaring that there is a need within it for a consolidated housing authority, it shall promptly notify the mayor of the municipality of that adoption. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:419 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§419. Transfer of property to regional or consolidated authority; registration

RS 419 - Transfer of property to regional or consolidated authority; registration When any immovable property of a housing authority vests in a regional or consolidated housing authority under the provisions of R.S. 40:417, it shall execute an act transferring the property to the regional or consolidated authority. The regional or consolidated authority shall thereupon register the act as provided by law in the case of sales. However, nothing contained in this Section affects the vesting of property in the regional or consolidated housing authority as provided in R.S. 40:417. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:420 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§420. Time of official creation; contents of resolution; resolution as evidence

RS 420 - Time of official creation; contents of resolution; resolution as evidence In any proceeding relating in any way to any contract of a regional or consolidated housing authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers upon proof of the adoption of a resolution declaring the need of such authority by the governing body of each of the parishes or municipalities originally within the authority. This resolution is sufficient if it declares that there is a need for the authority and finds in substantially the terms used in R.S. 40:415(A) that the conditions enumerated as Paragraphs (1) and (2) therein exist. Copies of these resolutions duly certified by the presiding officers or secretaries or the clerks of the respective governing bodies are admissible in evidence in any proceeding. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:421 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§421. Decreasing area of operation; conversion to parish or municipal authority

RS 421 - Decreasing area of operation; conversion to parish or municipal authority A. The area of operation of a regional or consolidated housing authority shall be decreased from time to time to exclude one or more parishes or municipalities if the governing body of each of the parishes or municipalities in the area and the commissioners of the regional or consolidated housing authority each adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding the parish or municipality from the area. B. If this action decreases the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority to only one parish or municipality, regardless of its population, the authority shall thereupon become a housing authority for that parish or municipality. Such an authority has the same powers, duties and functions of a regular parish or municipal authority and is subject to all the provisions of this Part applicable thereto. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:422 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§422. Prerequisites to adoption of resolution decreasing area of operation

RS 422 - Prerequisites to adoption of resolution decreasing area of operation A. The governing body of each of the parishes or municipalities in the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority and the commissioners of the authority shall adopt a resolution pursuant to R.S. 40:421 if both: (1) The governing body of each of the parishes to remain in the area of operation of the authority and the commissioners of the authority find that, because of facts arising or determined subsequent to the time when the area first included the parish or municipality to be excluded, the regional or consolidated housing authority would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit to carry out the purposes of this Part if the parish or municipality was excluded from the area of operation thereof. (2) The governing body of each parish or municipality to be excluded and the commissioners of the authority each also find that, because of the changed facts, the purposes of this Part could be carried out more efficiently or economically if the area of operation of the regional or consolidated housing authority did not include it. B. However, no such resolution shall be adopted unless and until R.S. 40:423 and 424 have been complied with. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:423 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§423. Public hearing necessary before decrease

RS 423 - Public hearing necessary before decrease The governing body of a parish or municipality shall not adopt the resolution authorized in R.S. 40:421 unless a public hearing has been held in the manner described in R.S. 40:416. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:424 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§424. Creditors of agency must consent to decrease

RS 424 - Creditors of agency must consent to decrease No action may be taken pursuant to R.S. 40:421 if the regional or consolidated housing authority has outstanding bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, unless all the holders thereof first consent in writing to that action. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:425 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§425. Disposal of property held in eliminated area

RS 425 - Disposal of property held in eliminated area Any property held by regional or consolidated housing authority within a parish or municipality excluded from the area of operation of the particular authority shall be disposed of by the authority in the public interest as soon as practicable after the exclusion. Acts 1997, No. 1188, §1.