§ 157-39.6. Findings required for authority to operate in municipality. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 157‑39.6. Findings required for authority to operate in municipality.

No governing body of a city or other municipality shall adopt aresolution as provided in G.S. 157‑39.1 declaring that there is a needfor a housing authority (other than a housing authority established by suchmunicipality) to exercise its powers within such municipality, unless a publichearing has first been held by such governing body and unless such governingbody shall have found in substantially the following terms: (i) that insanitaryor unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in such municipality or thatthere is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in suchmunicipality available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and(ii) that these conditions can be best remedied through the exercise of theaforesaid housing authority's powers within the territorial boundaries of suchmunicipality: Provided, that such findings shall not have the effect ofthereafter preventing such  municipality from establishing a housing authorityor joining in the creation of a consolidated housing authority or the increaseof the area of operation of a consolidated housing authority. The clerk (or theofficer with similar duties) of the city or other municipality shall givenotice of the public hearing and such hearing shall be held in the mannerprovided in G.S. 157‑4 for a public hearing by a council to determine theneed for a housing authority in the city.

During the time that, pursuant to these findings, a housing authorityhas outstanding (or is under contract to issue) any evidences of indebtednessfor a project within the city or other municipality, no other housing authoritymay undertake a project within such municipality without the consent of saidhousing authority which has such outstanding indebtedness or obligation. (1943, c. 636, s. 5.)