13-20-503 - Area of operation of county and regional housing authorities. - Tennessee Statutes

13-20-503. Area of operation of county and regional housing authorities.

The area of operation or boundaries of a housing authority created for a county shall include all of the county for which it is created, and the area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority shall include (except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this chapter) all of the counties for which such regional housing authority is created and established; provided, that a county or regional housing authority shall not undertake any housing project or projects within the boundaries of any city or other municipality of more than two thousand (2,000) inhabitants, unless a resolution has been adopted by the governing body of such city or other municipality (and also by any housing authority which has been theretofore established and authorized to exercise its powers in such city or other municipality) declaring that there is a need for the county or regional housing authority to exercise its powers within such city or other municipality.

[Acts 1935 (E.S.), ch. 20, § 35, as added by Acts 1943, ch. 22, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.28 (Williams, § 3647.29k); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1003.]