§ 8-60 — Cooperation in undertaking housing projects.

For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects 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 determines: (a) Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges therein to a housing authority or the federal government; (b) cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects; (c) provide for, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake; (d) plan or replan, zone or rezone any part of such state public body, any city or borough to have authority to change its map to conform thereto; (e) cause services to be furnished to the housing authority of the character which such state public body is otherwise empowered to furnish; (f) enter into agreements with respect to the exercise by such state public body of its powers relating to the repair, closing or demolition of unsafe, insanitary or unfit dwellings; (g) enter into agreements, extending over any period, with a housing authority or the federal government respecting the exercise by such state public body of any of the powers herein granted; and (h) execute all instruments and agreements and do all other things necessary or convenient to carry out or exercise the powers herein granted, and incur, in connection with any public improvements made by it in exercising the powers herein granted, the entire expense thereof. With respect to any housing project which a housing authority has acquired or taken over from the federal government and which the housing authority by resolution has found and declared to have been constructed in a manner that will promote the public interest and afford necessary safety, sanitation and other protection, no state public body shall require any changes to be made in the housing project or the manner of its construction or take any other action relating to such construction.

Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 941.) Cited. 213 C. 354.