36-22 - Rentals and tenant selection.
§ 36-22. Rentals and tenant selection.
In the operation or management of housing projects an authority shall at alltimes observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenantselection: (a) it may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein onlyto persons of low income and at rentals within the financial reach of suchpersons of low income; (b) it may rent or lease to a tenant dwellingaccommodations consisting of the number of rooms (but no greater number)which it deems necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to theproposed occupants thereof, without overcrowding; (c) it shall not accept anyperson as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who wouldoccupy the dwelling accommodations have an aggregate annual income in excessof the maximum income limits established by the authority for the purpose ofdetermining what persons or families are of low income; and (d) at leastthirty days before establishing or changing the aggregate annual maximumincome limits for the purpose of determining what persons or families arepersons of low income, an authority shall notify the governing body of thecity or county thereof.
Nothing contained in this section or § 36-21 shall be construed as limitingthe power of an authority to vest in an obligee the right, in the event of adefault by the authority, to take possession of a housing project or causethe appointment of a receiver thereof, free from all the restrictions imposedby this section or § 36-21.
(1938, p. 452; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(10); 1958, c. 116; 1972, cc. 466,782.)