Vermont § 4003 - Housing authority; establishment

§ 4003. Housing authority; establishment

• (a) In each municipality there is hereby created a public body corporate and politic to
  be known as the housing authority; provided, however, that such authority shall not
  transact any business or exercise its power under this chapter, until or unless the
  governing body of the municipality by proper resolution shall declare that there is
  a need for the authority to function in the municipality. (b) The governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for a housing
  authority in the municipality, if it shall find: (1) that unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the municipality;
  or (2) that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the municipality
  available to persons of low income or elders of a low income, or both, at rentals
  they can afford. In determining whether accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, the
  governing body may take into consideration the degree of overcrowding, the percentage
  of land coverage, the light, air, space, and access available to the inhabitants of
  the accommodations, the size and arrangement of the rooms, the sanitary facilities,
  and the extent to which conditions exist in the buildings that endanger life or property
  by fire or other causes. (Added 1961, No. 212, § 4, eff. July 11, 1961; amended 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 158; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 158.)