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Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 157-55

  • Administration: as used in this Article , shall mean any and all undertakings necessary for management, operation or maintenance, in connection with any project, and shall include the leasing of any project (in whole or in part) from the federal government. See North Carolina General Statutes 157-53
  • Development: as used in this Article , shall mean any and all undertakings necessary for the planning, land acquisition, demolition, financing, construction or equipment in connection with a project (including the negotiation or award of contracts therefor), and shall include the acquisition of any project (in whole or in part) from the federal government. See North Carolina General Statutes 157-53
  • Federal government: as used in this Article , shall mean the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. See North Carolina General Statutes 157-53
  • Housing authority: as used in this Article , shall mean any housing authority established or hereafter established pursuant to Article 1 of this Chapter. See North Carolina General Statutes 157-53
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Persons engaged in national defense activities: as used in this Article shall include: enlisted personnel in the Armed Forces of the United States and employees of the Defense Department assigned to duty at reservations, posts or bases of the Armed Forces of the United States; and workers engaged or to be engaged in industries connected with and essential to the National Defense Program; and shall include the families of the aforesaid persons who are living with them. See North Carolina General Statutes 157-53
  • Persons of low income: as used in this Article , shall mean persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary (as determined by the housing authority undertaking the housing project) to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding. See North Carolina General Statutes 157-53

A housing authority may exercise any or all of its powers for the purpose of cooperating with, or acting as agent for, the federal government in the development or administration of projects by the federal government to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities and may undertake the development or administration of any such project for the federal government. In order to assure the availability of safe and sanitary housing for persons engaged in national defense activities, a housing authority may sell (in whole or in part) to the federal government any housing projects developed for persons of low income but not yet occupied by such persons; such sale shall be at such price and upon such terms as the housing authority shall prescribe and shall include provision for the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities of the authority relating to such project. (1941, c. 63, s. 3.)