In the operation or management of housing projects an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection: (a) it may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only to persons of low income and at rentals within the financial reach of such persons of low income; (b) it may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting of the number of rooms (but no greater number) which it deems necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed occupants thereof, without overcrowding; (c) it shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have an aggregate annual income in excess of the maximum income limits established by the authority for the purpose of determining what persons or families are of low income; and (d) at least thirty days before establishing or changing the aggregate annual maximum income limits for the purpose of determining what persons or families are persons of low income, an authority shall notify the governing body of the city or county thereof.
Nothing contained in this section or § 36-21 shall be construed as limiting the power of an authority to vest in an obligee the right, in the event of a default by the authority, to take possession of a housing project or cause the appointment of a receiver thereof, free from all the restrictions imposed by this section or § 36-21.
1938, p. 452; Michie Code 1942, § 3145(10); 1958, c. 116; 1972, cc. 466, 782.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 1 - Housing Authorities Law
§ 36-2. Findings and declaration of necessity
§ 36-4. Creation of redevelopment and housing authorities
§ 36-4.1. Holding of referendum; effect
§ 36-6. Cooperation in undertaking housing projects
§ 36-7. Loans and donations to housing authority
§ 36-7.1. Liquidation of housing project
§ 36-7.2. Notice of intent to demolish, liquidate, or otherwise dispose of housing projects
§ 36-8. Supplemental nature of chapter
§ 36-9.1. Exemptions from applicability of this chapter; conflicts in provisions of law
§ 36-11. Appointment and tenure of commissioners; compensation
§ 36-11.1. Compensation of commissioners in certain counties
§ 36-11.1:1. Compensation of commissioners generally
§ 36-11.2. Appointment of commissioners in certain cities
§ 36-12. Powers vested in commissioners; quorum
§ 36-13. Selection of chairman and other officers, agents and employees
§ 36-15. Delegation of authority
§ 36-17. Removal of commissioners
§ 36-18. Meetings and residence of commissioners
§ 36-19. Enumeration of powers
§ 36-19.1. Special provisions; City of Roanoke
§ 36-20. Housing research and studies
§ 36-21. Housing projects not to be operated for profit
§ 36-22. Rentals and tenant selection
§ 36-22.1. Conveyance of streets; no trespass policy
§ 36-23. Housing authority operations in other municipalities
§ 36-24. Cooperation of authorities
§ 36-25. Payments by housing authorities to other bodies
§ 36-26. Aid from federal government
§ 36-27.01. Plan for alternative housing of persons displaced by condemnation, conversion, etc.
§ 36-27.1. Damages to leasehold interests in the City of Waynesboro
§ 36-27.2. Limitations on certain housing authorities; exception
§ 36-28. Planning, zoning and building laws
§ 36-29. Power to issue bonds; liability in general
§ 36-30. Form and sale of bonds; presumption of validity
§ 36-31. Provisions of bonds, trust indentures and mortgages
§ 36-32. Remedies of obligee of authority
§ 36-33. Additional remedies conferrable by authority
§ 36-34. Housing bonds to be legal investments, legal security and negotiable
§ 36-35. Contracts and covenants with federal government, etc.; agreements to sell
§ 36-36. Powers of county and regional housing authorities
§ 36-37. Same subject; tenant selection limitations; homestead exemption
§ 36-38. Housing applications by farmers
§ 36-40. Creation of regional housing authority
§ 36-41. Increasing area of operation of regional housing authority
§ 36-42. Decreasing area of operation of regional housing authority
§ 36-43. Housing authority for county excluded from regional authority
§ 36-44. Public hearing to create regional authority or change its area of operation, and findings
§ 36-45. Commissioners of regional housing authority
§ 36-46. Powers of regional housing authority
§ 36-47. Consolidated housing authority
§ 36-47.1. Compensation of commissioners
§ 36-47.2. Consolidation of two or more housing authorities within same city
§ 36-48. Creation of Redevelopment Areas
§ 36-48.1. Creation of Conservation Areas
§ 36-49. Adoption of Redevelopment Plans
§ 36-49.1. Adoption of Conservation Plans
§ 36-49.1:1. Spot blight abatement authorized; procedure
§ 36-49.2. Power to purchase or lease land for certain other redevelopment projects
§ 36-50. Extension of general powers for actions taken pursuant to a redevelopment plan
§ 36-50.1. Extension of general powers for actions taken pursuant to a conservation plan
§ 36-51.1. Requirements for "conservation plan" generally
§ 36-52. Cooperation by localities
§ 36-52.1. Authority for localities to create conservation or redevelopment areas
§ 36-52.3. Adoption and designation of "rehabilitation area."
§ 36-53. Making property available for conservation or redevelopment
§ 36-54. Aid from federal government