                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INCREASING AREA OF OPERATION OF REGIONAL HOUSING AUTHORITY (§ 36-41)

The area of operation of a regional housing authority shall be increased from
time to time to include one or more additional contiguous counties not already
within a regional housing authority if the board of supervisors of each of the
counties then included in the area of operation of such regional housing
authority, the commissioners of the regional housing authority and the board of
supervisors of each such additional county or counties each adopt a resolution
declaring that there is a need for the inclusion of such additional county or
counties in the area of operation of such regional housing authority. Upon the
adoption of such resolutions, the county housing authority created for each such
additional county shall cease to exist except for the purpose of winding up its
affairs and executing a deed to the regional housing authority as hereinafter
provided; provided, however, that such resolutions shall not be adopted if there
is a county housing authority created for any such additional county which has
any obligations outstanding unless first, all obligees of any such county
housing authority and parties to the contracts, bonds, notes, and other
obligations of any such county housing authority consent in writing to the
substitution of such regional housing authority in lieu of such county housing
authority on all such contracts, bonds, notes, or other obligations; and second,
the commissioners of such county housing authority adopt a resolution consenting
to the transfer of all the rights, contracts, obligations, and property, real
and personal, of such county housing authority to such regional housing
authority as hereinafter provided; and provided further that when the above two
conditions are complied with and the area of operation of such regional housing
authority is increased to include such additional county, as hereinabove
provided, all rights, contracts, agreements, obligations, and property of such
county housing authority shall be in the name of and vest in such regional
housing authority, all obligations of such county housing authority shall be the
obligations of such regional housing authority and all rights and remedies of
any person against such county housing authority may be asserted, enforced, and
prosecuted against such regional housing authority to the same extent as they
might have been asserted, enforced, and prosecuted against such county housing
authority.
		When any real property of a county housing authority vests in a regional
housing authority as provided above, the county housing authority shall execute
a deed of such property to the regional housing authority which thereupon shall
file such deed in the office provided for the filing of deeds, provided that
nothing contained in this sentence shall affect the vesting of property in the
regional housing authority as provided above.
		The board of supervisors of each of the counties in the regional housing
authority, the commissioners of the regional housing authority and the board of
supervisors of each such additional county or counties shall by resolution
declare that there is need for the inclusion of such county or counties in the
area of operation of the regional housing authority, if (a) the board of
supervisors of each such additional county or counties finds that insanitary or
unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in such county or there is a
shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in such county available to
persons of low income at rentals they can afford and (b) the board of
supervisors of each of the counties then included in the area of operation of
the regional housing authority, the commissioners of the regional housing
authority and the board of supervisors of each such additional county or
counties find that the regional housing authority would be a more efficient or
economical administrative unit to carry out the purposes of this Housing
Authorities Law if the area of operation of the regional housing authority is
increased to include such additional county or counties.

HISTORY: 1942, p. 318; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(4b).