Amendments of 1939 to the United States Housing Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, on S. 591, a Bill to Amend the United States Housing Act of 1937, and for Other Purposes ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - 430 pages

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Page 97 - To sue and to be sued; to have a seal and to alter the same at pleasure; to have perpetual succession; to make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the authority...
Page 101 - The property of a municipality, acquired or held for the purposes of this act, is declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes and such property shall be exempt from all taxes of the municipality, the county, the state or any political subdivision thereof...
Page 101 - Insofar as the provisions of this Act are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this Act shall be controlling.
Page 96 - No commissioner or employee of an authority shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in any housing project or in any property included or planned to be included in any project, nor shall he have any interest direct or indirect in any contract or proposed contract for materials or services to be furnished or used in connection with any housing project.
Page 95 - ... or unsafe housing conditions exist and the providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired...
Page 109 - The last sentence of paragraph Seventh of section 5136 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, is amended by inserting before the colon, after the words "obligations of national mortgage associations", a comma and the following: "or such obligations of any...
Page 95 - ... to provide decent, safe and sanitary urban or rural dwellings, apartments or other living accommodations for persons of low income ; such work or undertaking may include buildings, land, equipment facilities and other real or personal property for necessary, convenient or desirable appurtenances, streets, sewers, water service, parks, site preparation, gardening, administrative, community, health, recreational, educational, welfare or other purposes; or (3) to accomplish a combination of the...
Page 96 - Committee may employ an administrative officer and such technical experts and such other agents and employees, permanent and temporary, as it may require, and shall determine their qualifications, duties and compensation.
Page 99 - An authority may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) bonds...
Page 101 - Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges therein to a housing authority or the federal government...

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