17-2345.Powers of governing body.
Every municipality, in
addition to other powers conferred by this or any
other act, shall have powers:
(a) To prepare, carry out, and operate housing projects and to provide
for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, extension, alteration or
repair of any housing project or any part thereof
but in
the carrying out of the municipal law under the provisions of this act,
public utilities, either publicly or privately owned, shall not be required
to locate, relocate, remove or readjust utility facilities and services
without fair and reasonable compensation.
(b) To undertake and carry out studies and analyses of the housing needs
and of the meeting of such needs (including data with respect to population
and family groups and the distribution thereof according to income groups,
the amount and quality of available housing and its distribution according
to rentals and sales prices, employment, wages and other factors affecting
the local housing needs and the meeting thereof) and to make the results of
such studies and analyses available to the public and the building, housing
and supply industries; and to engage in research and disseminate
information on housing and slum clearance.
(c) To arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency,
public or private, of services, privileges, works, or facilities for, or in
connection with, a housing project or the occupants thereof; and
(notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this act or in any
other provision of law) to agree to any conditions attached to federal
financial assistance, and to comply with any conditions which the federal
government may have attached to its financial aid of the project.
(d) To lease or rent any dwellings, accommodations, lands, buildings,
structures or facilities embraced in any project and (subject to the
limitations contained in this act with respect to the rental of dwellings
in housing projects) to establish and revise the rents or charges therefor;
to own, hold, and improve real or personal property; to purchase, lease,
obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise
any real or personal property or any interest therein; to acquire by the
exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property; to sell, lease,
exchange, transfer, assign, pledge or dispose of any real or personal
property or any interest therein as any part of the property of a housing
authority established under this act; to insure or provide for the
insurance, in any stock or mutual company, of any real or personal property
or operations of the authority against any risks or hazards; to procure or
agree to the procurement of federal or state government insurance or
guarantees of the payment of any bonds or parts thereof issued by an
authority, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance.
(e) To invest any reserve or sinking funds held in connection with a housing
project which are not required for immediate
disbursements, in investments authorized by K.S.A. 12-1675,
and amendments thereto, in the manner prescribed therein or in direct obligations
of the United States government or any agency thereof; to redeem its
bonds at the redemption price established therein or to purchase its bonds
at less than such redemption price, all bonds so redeemed or purchases to
be cancelled.
(f) To determine where slum areas exist or where there is unsafe,
insanitary or overcrowded housing; to make studies and recommendations
relating to the problem of clearing, replanning and reconstructing of slum
areas and the problem of eliminating unsafe, insanitary or overcrowded
housing and providing dwelling accommodations for persons of low income;
and to cooperate with any state public body in action taken in connection
with these problems.
(g) To conduct examinations and investigations and to hear testimony and
take proof under oath at public or private hearings on any matter material
for its information; to administer oaths, issue subpoenas requiring the
attendance of witnesses or the production of books and papers and to issue
commissions for the examination of witnesses who are outside of the state
or unable to attend or excused from attendance; to make available to
appropriate agencies (including those charged with the duty of abating or
requiring the correction of nuisances or like conditions or of demolishing
unsafe or insanitary structures within its area of operation) its findings
and recommendations with regard to any building or property where
conditions exist which are dangerous to the public health, morals, safety
or welfare.
(h) To insure or provide for the insurance of any housing project of the
municipality against such risks as such municipality may deem advisable.
(i) To exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein granted.
(j) To prepare plans and provide assistance of all kinds for the
relocation of families displaced from a slum or blighted area by the
municipal housing law, and to provide adequate recreational facilities, in
the over-all plan of the municipal housing area.
History: L. 1957, ch. 132, § 9; L. 1973, ch. 96, § 5; L. 1977,
ch. 54, § 23; July 1.
17-2345.Powers of governing body.
Every municipality, in
addition to other powers conferred by this or any
other act, shall have powers:
(a) To prepare, carry out, and operate housing projects and to provide
for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, extension, alteration or
repair of any housing project or any part thereof
but in
the carrying out of the municipal law under the provisions of this act,
public utilities, either publicly or privately owned, shall not be required
to locate, relocate, remove or readjust utility facilities and services
without fair and reasonable compensation.
(b) To undertake and carry out studies and analyses of the housing needs
and of the meeting of such needs (including data with respect to population
and family groups and the distribution thereof according to income groups,
the amount and quality of available housing and its distribution according
to rentals and sales prices, employment, wages and other factors affecting
the local housing needs and the meeting thereof) and to make the results of
such studies and analyses available to the public and the building, housing
and supply industries; and to engage in research and disseminate
information on housing and slum clearance.
(c) To arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency,
public or private, of services, privileges, works, or facilities for, or in
connection with, a housing project or the occupants thereof; and
(notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this act or in any
other provision of law) to agree to any conditions attached to federal
financial assistance, and to comply with any conditions which the federal
government may have attached to its financial aid of the project.
(d) To lease or rent any dwellings, accommodations, lands, buildings,
structures or facilities embraced in any project and (subject to the
limitations contained in this act with respect to the rental of dwellings
in housing projects) to establish and revise the rents or charges therefor;
to own, hold, and improve real or personal property; to purchase, lease,
obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise
any real or personal property or any interest therein; to acquire by the
exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property; to sell, lease,
exchange, transfer, assign, pledge or dispose of any real or personal
property or any interest therein as any part of the property of a housing
authority established under this act; to insure or provide for the
insurance, in any stock or mutual company, of any real or personal property
or operations of the authority against any risks or hazards; to procure or
agree to the procurement of federal or state government insurance or
guarantees of the payment of any bonds or parts thereof issued by an
authority, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance.
(e) To invest any reserve or sinking funds held in connection with a housing
project which are not required for immediate
disbursements, in investments authorized by K.S.A. 12-1675,
and amendments thereto, in the manner prescribed therein or in direct obligations
of the United States government or any agency thereof; to redeem its
bonds at the redemption price established therein or to purchase its bonds
at less than such redemption price, all bonds so redeemed or purchases to
be cancelled.
(f) To determine where slum areas exist or where there is unsafe,
insanitary or overcrowded housing; to make studies and recommendations
relating to the problem of clearing, replanning and reconstructing of slum
areas and the problem of eliminating unsafe, insanitary or overcrowded
housing and providing dwelling accommodations for persons of low income;
and to cooperate with any state public body in action taken in connection
with these problems.
(g) To conduct examinations and investigations and to hear testimony and
take proof under oath at public or private hearings on any matter material
for its information; to administer oaths, issue subpoenas requiring the
attendance of witnesses or the production of books and papers and to issue
commissions for the examination of witnesses who are outside of the state
or unable to attend or excused from attendance; to make available to
appropriate agencies (including those charged with the duty of abating or
requiring the correction of nuisances or like conditions or of demolishing
unsafe or insanitary structures within its area of operation) its findings
and recommendations with regard to any building or property where
conditions exist which are dangerous to the public health, morals, safety
or welfare.
(h) To insure or provide for the insurance of any housing project of the
municipality against such risks as such municipality may deem advisable.
(i) To exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein granted.
(j) To prepare plans and provide assistance of all kinds for the
relocation of families displaced from a slum or blighted area by the
municipal housing law, and to provide adequate recreational facilities, in
the over-all plan of the municipal housing area.
History: L. 1957, ch. 132, § 9; L. 1973, ch. 96, § 5; L. 1977,
ch. 54, § 23; July 1.
17-2345.Powers of governing body.
Every municipality, in
addition to other powers conferred by this or any
other act, shall have powers:
(a) To prepare, carry out, and operate housing projects and to provide
for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, extension, alteration or
repair of any housing project or any part thereof
but in
the carrying out of the municipal law under the provisions of this act,
public utilities, either publicly or privately owned, shall not be required
to locate, relocate, remove or readjust utility facilities and services
without fair and reasonable compensation.
(b) To undertake and carry out studies and analyses of the housing needs
and of the meeting of such needs (including data with respect to population
and family groups and the distribution thereof according to income groups,
the amount and quality of available housing and its distribution according
to rentals and sales prices, employment, wages and other factors affecting
the local housing needs and the meeting thereof) and to make the results of
such studies and analyses available to the public and the building, housing
and supply industries; and to engage in research and disseminate
information on housing and slum clearance.
(c) To arrange or contract for the furnishing by any person or agency,
public or private, of services, privileges, works, or facilities for, or in
connection with, a housing project or the occupants thereof; and
(notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this act or in any
other provision of law) to agree to any conditions attached to federal
financial assistance, and to comply with any conditions which the federal
government may have attached to its financial aid of the project.
(d) To lease or rent any dwellings, accommodations, lands, buildings,
structures or facilities embraced in any project and (subject to the
limitations contained in this act with respect to the rental of dwellings
in housing projects) to establish and revise the rents or charges therefor;
to own, hold, and improve real or personal property; to purchase, lease,
obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise, or otherwise
any real or personal property or any interest therein; to acquire by the
exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property; to sell, lease,
exchange, transfer, assign, pledge or dispose of any real or personal
property or any interest therein as any part of the property of a housing
authority established under this act; to insure or provide for the
insurance, in any stock or mutual company, of any real or personal property
or operations of the authority against any risks or hazards; to procure or
agree to the procurement of federal or state government insurance or
guarantees of the payment of any bonds or parts thereof issued by an
authority, including the power to pay premiums on any such insurance.
(e) To invest any reserve or sinking funds held in connection with a housing
project which are not required for immediate
disbursements, in investments authorized by K.S.A. 12-1675,
and amendments thereto, in the manner prescribed therein or in direct obligations
of the United States government or any agency thereof; to redeem its
bonds at the redemption price established therein or to purchase its bonds
at less than such redemption price, all bonds so redeemed or purchases to
be cancelled.
(f) To determine where slum areas exist or where there is unsafe,
insanitary or overcrowded housing; to make studies and recommendations
relating to the problem of clearing, replanning and reconstructing of slum
areas and the problem of eliminating unsafe, insanitary or overcrowded
housing and providing dwelling accommodations for persons of low income;
and to cooperate with any state public body in action taken in connection
with these problems.
(g) To conduct examinations and investigations and to hear testimony and
take proof under oath at public or private hearings on any matter material
for its information; to administer oaths, issue subpoenas requiring the
attendance of witnesses or the production of books and papers and to issue
commissions for the examination of witnesses who are outside of the state
or unable to attend or excused from attendance; to make available to
appropriate agencies (including those charged with the duty of abating or
requiring the correction of nuisances or like conditions or of demolishing
unsafe or insanitary structures within its area of operation) its findings
and recommendations with regard to any building or property where
conditions exist which are dangerous to the public health, morals, safety
or welfare.
(h) To insure or provide for the insurance of any housing project of the
municipality against such risks as such municipality may deem advisable.
(i) To exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein granted.
(j) To prepare plans and provide assistance of all kinds for the
relocation of families displaced from a slum or blighted area by the
municipal housing law, and to provide adequate recreational facilities, in
the over-all plan of the municipal housing area.
History: L. 1957, ch. 132, § 9; L. 1973, ch. 96, § 5; L. 1977,
ch. 54, § 23; July 1.