                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PARTICIPATION BY LOCALITIES IN CERTAIN LEASING PROGRAMS (§ 15.2-957)

Any locality may participate in a program under § 8 (Housing Assistance
Payments Program) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, on
behalf of eligible families or eligible persons leasing privately owned housing
directly from owners or private leaseholders. Any such locality may also
appropriate its own money for the same purposes for which federal funds may be
employed under the provisions of such federal legislation as well as for the
purpose of increasing the payments to eligible families or eligible persons
beyond federally approved levels when the fair market rent of the rental unit is
greater than that established by the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development.
		If any power granted in the foregoing paragraph is held invalid, the other
remaining power shall not be affected thereby. If the application of the power
granted in the foregoing paragraph to any persons or circumstances is held
invalid, the application of the power to other persons shall not be affected
thereby. Nothing in the foregoing powers granted localities includes the
authority to pledge the full faith and credit of such locality in violation of
Article X, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia.

HISTORY: 1975, c. 534, § 15.1-29.6; 1976, c. 154; 1978, c. 592; 1997, c. 587.