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