California Code
ARTICLE 2 - Creation of Housing Authorities
Section 34240.

34240. In each county and city there is a public body corporate and politic known as the housing authority of the county or city. The authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers unless, by resolution, the governing body of the county or city declares that there is need for an authority to function in it.

(Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 710.)