Tennessee § 13-20-416 - Findings required for authority to operate in municipality.
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§ 13-20-416. Findings required for authority to operate in municipality.
No governing body of a city or other municipality shall adopt a resolution as provided in § 13-20-415 or § 13-20-503 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority, other than a housing authority established by such municipality, to exercise its powers within such municipality, unless a public hearing has first been held by the governing body and unless the governing body has found in substantially the following terms: Unsanitary or unsafe inhabitated dwelling accommodations exist in such municipality or there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in such municipality available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and These conditions can be best remedied through the exercise of the aforementioned housing authority's powers within the territorial boundaries of such municipality; provided, that such findings shall not have the effect of thereafter preventing such municipality from establishing a housing authority or joining in the creation of a consolidated housing authority or the increase of the area of operation of a consolidated housing authority. The clerk, or the officer with similar duties, of the city or other municipality shall give notice of the public hearing, and such hearing shall be held in the manner provided in § 13-20-402 for a public hearing by a council to determine the need for a housing authority in the city. During the time that, pursuant to these findings, a housing authority has outstanding, or is under contract to issue, any evidence of indebtedness for a project within the city or other municipality, no other housing authority may undertake a project within such municipality without the consent of the housing authority which has such outstanding indebtedness or obligation. Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 43, as added by Acts 1943, ch. 22, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29G (Williams, § 3647.29s); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-916.
Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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