                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COOPERATION IN UNDERTAKING HOUSING PROJECTS (§ 36-6)

Any county, city or town, for the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the
planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects located
within such county, city or town, may:

a. Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant
easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges therein to any such
housing authority;

b. Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer
or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to
undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects;

c. Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan
streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it is
otherwise empowered to undertake;

d. Plan or replan, zone or rezone any part of such county, city or town; make
exceptions from building regulations and ordinances; any city or town also may
change its map;

e. Cause services to be furnished to the housing authority of the character
which such county, city or town is otherwise empowered to furnish;

f. Enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by such county, city or
town of its powers relating to the repair, elimination or closing of unsafe,
insanitary or unfit dwellings;

g. Purchase any of the bonds of a housing authority or legally invest in such
bonds any funds belonging to or within the control of such county, city or town,
and exercise all of the rights of any holder of such bonds;

h. Do any and all things, necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the
planning, undertaking, construction or operation of such housing projects;

i. Enter into agreements with a housing authority respecting action to be taken
by such county, city or town pursuant to any of the powers granted by this
chapter.

HISTORY: 1938, p. 457; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(21).