§ 36-7-18-22 — Availability of housing; national defense activities; major disasters

(a) Notwithstanding any statute regarding
rentals of, preferences or eligibility for admissions to, or occupancy of
dwellings in housing projects, during the period that a housing
authority finds that there is an acute need for housing to assure the
availability of dwellings for persons engaged in national defense
activities or for victims of a major disaster, it may:
(1) undertake the development and administration of housing
projects for the federal government;
(2) make dwellings in any of its housing projects available to
persons engaged in national defense activities or to victims of a
major disaster; and
(3) contract with any governmental entity for advance payment or
reimbursement for the furnishing of housing to victims of a major
disaster, including the furnishing of housing free of charge for
needy disaster victims during the period of acute need.
(b) For purposes of this section, persons engaged in national defense
activities are:
(1) persons in the armed forces of the United States;
(2) employees of the department of defense;
(3) workers engaged or to be engaged in activities connected with
national defense; and
(4) the families of these persons, employees, and workers who
reside with them.
(c) For purposes of this section, a major disaster is a flood, drought,
fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe that, as
determined by the fiscal body that established the housing authority, is
of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant the use of available
resources of the federal, state, and local governments to alleviate the
resulting damage, hardship, and suffering.
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations:
18-7-11-3(p); 18-7-11-3(q); 18-7-11-8(h).]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.37.