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NH Rev Stat § 203:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:2 - Finding and Declaration of Necessity.

    203:2 Finding and Declaration of Necessity. –||It is hereby declared: (a) that there exist in the state insanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations and that persons of low income are forced to reside in such insanitary or unsafe accommodations; that within the state there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations available at rents which persons of low income can afford and that such persons are forced to occupy overcrowded and congested dwelling accommodations; that the aforesaid conditions cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the state and impair economic values; that these conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, fire and accident protection, and other public services and facilities; (b) that these areas in the state cannot be cleared, nor can the shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons of low income be relieved, through the operation of private enterprise, and that the construction of housing projects for persons of low income (as herein defined) would therefore not be competitive with private enterprise; (c) that the clearance, replanning and reconstruction of the areas in which insanitary or unsafe housing conditions exist and the providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired and are governmental functions of state concern; (d) that it is in the public interest that work on projects for such purposes be commenced as soon as possible in order to relieve the acute housing shortage which now constitutes an emergency; and the necessity in the public interest for the provisions hereinafter enacted, is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.|||Source. 1941, 222:2. RL 169:2. 1947, 169:1, eff. May 29, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:4 - Creation of Housing Authority.

    203:4 Creation of Housing Authority. –||In each municipality, as herein defined, of the state there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the housing authority of the municipality; provided that such authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers as hereunder until the governing body of the municipality by resolution adopted by majority vote of those present at any regular or special meeting shall have declared that there is need for an authority to function in such municipality. In towns, such resolution must be adopted by majority vote of those present and voting, by use of ballot, if at an annual meeting; and if such resolution is to be acted upon at a special meeting, the procedure for adoption shall be the same as that prescribed for the making of appropriations at special meetings as provided in RSA 31:5. In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of or relating to any contract of the authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact business and exercise its powers hereunder upon proof of the creation of an authority and of the adoption of a resolution by the governing body declaring the need for the authority. Such resolution or resolutions shall be deemed sufficient if it declares that there is need for an authority. A copy of such resolution duly certified by the clerk shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action or proceeding.|||Source. 1941, 222:4. RL 169:4. 1947, 169:3, eff. May 29, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:6 - Interested Commissioners or Employees.

    203:6 Interested Commissioners or Employees. –||No commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project. If any commissioner or employee of an authority owns or controls an interest direct or indirect in any property included or planned to be included in any housing project, he immediately shall disclose the same in writing to the authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. Failure so to disclose such interest shall constitute misconduct in office. Upon such disclosure such commissioner or employee shall not participate in any action by the authority affecting such property.|||Source. 1941, 222:6. RL 169:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:7 - Removal of Commissioners.

    203:7 Removal of Commissioners. –||For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner of an authority may be removed by the mayor, but a commissioner shall be removed only after he shall have been given a copy of the charges at least 10 days prior to the hearing thereon and had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel. In the event of the removal of any commissioner, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed in the office of the clerk.|||Source. 1941, 222:7. RL 169:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:9 - Operation Not for Profit.

    203:9 Operation Not for Profit. –||It is hereby 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 such project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the municipality. 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 (a) to pay, as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority; (b) to 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 (c) to create (during not less than the 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 such bonds in any one year thereafter and to maintain such reserve.|||Source. 1941, 222:9. RL 169:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:10 - Rentals and Tenant Selection.

    203:10 Rentals and Tenant Selection. –||I. 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 may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only to persons of low income and at rentals within the financial reach of such persons of low income; (b) 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 thereof, without overcrowding; and (c) it shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have, at the time of admission, an aggregate annual net income, less an exemption of $100 for each minor member of the family other than the head of the family and his spouse, in excess of 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished such person or persons; in computing the rental for this purpose of admitting tenants, there shall be included in the rental the average annual cost (as determined by the authority) to occupants of heat, water, electricity, gas, cooking fuel and other necessary services or facilities, whether or not the charge for such services and facilities is in fact included in the rental; provided, that an authority may agree to conditions as to tenant eligibility or preferences required by the federal government pursuant to federal law in any contract for financial assistance with the authority.||II. Nothing contained in this section or in RSA 203:9 shall be construed as limiting the power of an authority, with respect to a housing project, to vest in an obligee the right, in the event of a default by the authority, to take possession thereof or cause the appointment of a receiver thereof, free from all the restrictions imposed by this section or RSA 203:9.||III. When an individual applies for Section 8 rental assistance or other public housing assistance, a housing authority shall provide the individual with application forms and information about the Link-Up New Hampshire and Lifeline Telephone Assistance programs, shall offer to assist the individual to apply for these programs, and shall provide such assistance.|||Source. 1941, 222:10. RL 169:10. 1950, 2:2. 2007, 263:171, eff. July 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:11 - Cooperation Between Authorities.

    203:11 Cooperation Between Authorities. –||Any local authority or authorities may join or cooperate with each other, either jointly or otherwise, in the exercise of any of their powers for the purpose of financing, including the issuance of bonds, notes or other obligations and the giving of security therefor, planning, undertaking, owning, constructing, operating or contracting with respect to a housing project or projects located within the area within which one or more of such authorities are authorized to exercise their powers. For such purpose any cooperating authority may, by resolution, prescribe and authorize any authority so joining and cooperating with it to act in its behalf in the exercise of any of such powers or the cooperating authorities may, by resolution, appoint from among the commissioners of such authorities an executive committee with full powers to act on behalf of such authorities with respect to any of their powers as prescribed by resolution of such authority.|||Source. 1941, 222:11. RL 169:11. 1947, 169:6, eff. May 29, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:12 - Eminent Domain.

    203:12 Eminent Domain. –||I. 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 for its purposes under this chapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real property described therein is necessary for such purposes. An authority may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in RSA 234, or it may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by any other applicable statutory provisions for the exercise of the power of eminent domain. Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired in like manner, provided that no real property belonging to the municipality, the state or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired without its consent.||I-a. Property acquired through powers of eminent domain shall be put to public use, as defined in RSA 203:3, XIV.||II. Where it appears to the satisfaction of the court at any stage of the proceedings, upon the petition of the authority, that the public interest will be prejudiced by delay, the court may, after such notice to the parties in interest as it may prescribe, which notice, however, shall not be less than 8 days and may be by posting upon the property or by publication in such paper or papers at such time as the court may require, order that the authority be permitted to enter immediately upon the real property described in the petition, or any part thereof, and to demolish any structures located thereon, and to proceed with the construction of the project thereon, upon depositing with the court a sum of money or in lieu thereof, bonds or obligations of the United States of equivalent or greater value, not less than the last assessed valuation of the property, which the court shall find to be sufficient for the protection of the persons who may be entitled to the award. Such deposit or the proceeds thereof shall be applied so far as it may be necessary for that purpose, to the payment of any award that may be made, with interest thereon, costs and expenses, and the residue, if any, shall be returned to the authority; in the event of a deficiency in the sum deposited, the authority shall pay the balance to make up the award in accordance with the judgment.|||Source. 1941, 222:12. RL 169:12. 2006, 324:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:12-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:12-a - Vesting of Title to Property.

    203:12-a Vesting of Title to Property. –||At the time of the entry of any order under the provisions of RSA 203:12 that the authority be permitted to enter immediately upon the real property described in the petition, or any part thereof, or at any time thereafter, the court shall, upon petition of the authority enter an order vesting title to any such property in the authority.|||Source. 1961, 13:1, eff. Feb. 27, 1961.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:13 - Planning, Zoning and Building Laws.

    203:13 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 which the housing project is situated. In the planning and location of any housing project, an authority shall take into consideration the relationship of the project to any larger plan or long-range program for the development of the area in which the housing authority functions.|||Source. 1941, 222:13. RL 169:13.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:14 - Bonds.

    203:14 Bonds. –||An authority shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. An authority shall also have power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. An authority may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) bonds on which the principal and interest are payable: (a) exclusively from the income and revenues of the housing project financed with the proceeds of such bonds; (b) exclusively from the income and revenues of certain designated housing projects whether or not they are financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; or (c) from its revenues generally including a pledge of tax receipts paid to it by the municipality in which it is located pursuant to an agreement made pursuant to RSA 205:4-c or in any other lawful manner. All such bonds may be additionally secured by mortgages upon the property held or to be held by it, by a pledge of a grant of contributions from the federal government, the state, a municipality or municipalities included in its area of operations, or other source. In connection with the incurrence of any indebtedness, an authority may covenant that it shall not thereafter mortgage the whole or any specified part of its property, pledge the whole or any specified part of its revenues, or pledge the whole or any specified part of tax receipts paid to it as aforesaid. Neither the commissioners of an authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance thereof. The bonds and other obligations of an authority (and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face) shall not be a debt of the municipality, the state or any political subdivision thereof and neither the municipality, the state or any political subdivision thereof shall be liable thereon, nor in any event shall such bonds or obligations be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of said authority. The bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any debt limitation or restriction. Bonds of an authority are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose and to be public instrumentalities and, together with interest thereon and income therefrom, shall be exempt from taxes.|||Source. 1941, 222:14. RL 169:14. RSA 203:14. 1977, 276:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1977.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:15 - Form and Sale.

    203:15 Form and Sale. –||I. Bonds of an authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such a rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption (with or without premium) as such resolution, its trust indenture or mortgage may provide.||II. The bonds may be sold at public or private sale at not less than par.||III. In case any of the commissioners or officers of the authority whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such commissioners or officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such commissioners or officers had remained in office until such delivery. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable.||IV. In any suit, action or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any bond of an authority or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the authority to aid in financing a housing project to provide dwelling accommodations for persons of low income shall be conclusively deemed to have been issued for a housing project of such character and said project shall be conclusively deemed to have been planned, located and constructed in accordance with the purposes and provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 1941, 222:15. RL 169:15. RSA 203:15. 1974, 4:1. 1976, 20:1. 1981, 338:1, eff. June 17, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:16 - As Legal Investment and Security for Deposits.

    203:16 As Legal Investment and Security for Deposits. –||The state and all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, investment companies, insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on a banking or insurance business, and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, money or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority created by or pursuant to the housing authorities law and any acts amendatory or supplemental thereto or issued by any public housing authority or agency in the United States, when such bonds or any other obligations are secured by a pledge of annual contributions to be paid by any state government or the United States government or any agency thereof, and such bonds and other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits; it being the purpose of this section to authorize any of the foregoing to use any funds owned or controlled by them, including (but not limited to) sinking, insurance, investment, retirement, compensation, pension and trust funds, and funds held on deposit, for the purchase of any such bonds or other obligations; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed as relieving any person, firm or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities. The provisions of this section shall apply notwithstanding any restrictions on investments contained in other laws.|||Source. 1947, 169:10, eff. May 29, 1947.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:18 - Remedies of an Obligee of Authority.

    203:18 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 any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee:||I. By mandamus, suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity to compel said authority and the commissioners, officers, agents or employees thereof to perform each and every term, provision and covenant contained in any contract of said authority with or for the benefit of such obligee, and to require the carrying out of any or all such covenants and agreements of said authority and the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon said authority by this chapter.||II. By suit, action or proceeding, in equity, to enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful, or the violation of any of the rights of such obligee of said authority.|||Source. 1941, 222:17. RL 169:17.|
NH Rev Stat § 203:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XVII - Housing and Redevelopment|Title 203 - Housing Authorities Law|Section 203:19 - Additional Remedies Conferrable by Authority.

    203:19 Additional Remedies Conferrable by Authority. –||An 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 such resolution or instrument, by suit, action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction:||I. To cause possession of any housing project or any part thereof to be surrendered to any such obligee.||II. To obtain the appointment of a receiver of any housing project of said authority or any part thereof and of the rents and profits therefrom. If such receiver be appointed, he may enter and take possession of such housing project or any part thereof and operate and maintain same, and collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues, or other charges thereafter arising therefrom, and shall keep such moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of said authority as the court shall direct.||III. To require said authority and the commissioners thereof to account as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust.|||Source. 1941, 222:18. RL 169:18.|