163.55 Additional payments to displaced person displaced from dwelling owned 90 days or more.
163.55 Additional payments to displaced person displaced from dwelling owned 90 days or more.
(A) In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by sections 163.51 to 163.62 of the Revised Code, the head of a displacing agency shall make a payment to or for any displaced person displaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a payment under section 163.54 of the Revised Code which dwelling was actually and lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than ninety days prior to the initiation of negotiations for acquisition of such dwelling, or in any case in which displacement is not a direct result of acquisition, not less than ninety days prior to such other event as the head of the lead agency shall prescribe. The payment shall consist of the amount necessary to enable the displaced person to lease or rent for a period not to exceed forty-two months, a comparable replacement dwelling, but not to exceed five thousand two hundred fifty dollars. At the discretion of the head of the displacing agency, a payment under this division may be made in periodic installments. Computation of a payment under this division to a low-income displaced person shall take into account the person’s income.
(B) Any person eligible for a payment under division (A) of this section may elect to apply the payment to a down payment on, and other incidental expenses pursuant to, the purchase of a decent, safe, and sanitary replacement dwelling. The person may, under criteria established by the head of the displacing agency, be eligible under this division for the maximum payment allowed under division (A) of this section, except that, in the case of a displaced homeowner who has owned and occupied the displacement dwelling for at least ninety days but not more than one hundred eighty days immediately prior to the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of such dwelling, the payment shall not exceed the payment the person would otherwise have received under section 163.54 of the Revised Code had the person owned and occupied the displacement dwelling one hundred eighty days immediately prior to the initiation of the negotiations.
Effective Date: 03-21-1989