Section 3-45-21 - Cooperation in undertaking housing projects or affordable housing programs. - New Mexico Statutes

3-45-21. Cooperation in undertaking housing projects or affordable housing programs.

A.     For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects or affordable housing programs located within the area in which it is authorized to act, any state public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine:

(1)     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 city;

(2)     cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities or any other works that it is otherwise empowered to undertake to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects or affordable housing programs;

(3)     furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places that it is otherwise empowered to undertake;

(4)     cause services to be furnished for housing projects or affordable housing programs of the character that the state public body is otherwise empowered to furnish;

(5)     enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by the state public body of its powers relating to the repair, elimination or closing of unsafe, unsanitary or unfit dwellings;

(6)     do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of such housing projects;

(7)     incur the entire expense of any public improvements made by the state public body in exercising the powers granted in the Municipal Housing Law; and

(8)     enter into agreements that may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary, with any city or multi-jurisdictional housing authority as agent therefor, respecting action to be taken by the state public body pursuant to any of the powers granted by the Municipal Housing Law.

B.     Any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding, any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a state public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding.

C.     In the event an authority is declared by the federal department of housing and urban development to be in default on its annual contributions contract with that department, the authority may, by resolution of its governing body, transfer its assets and operation to another housing authority, including a multi-jurisdictional housing authority or regional housing authority.  The multi-jurisdictional housing authority or regional housing authority shall accept, by resolution of its governing board, a transfer of assets and operations of an authority that has been declared by the federal department of housing and urban development to be in default of the annual contributions contract between that department and the authority.