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Workfare renovation project goals--powers of the commission--sales ofproperty, requirements--rules invalid when.

215.347. 1. The workfare renovation project shall have the followinggoals:

(1) To assist low-income individuals in learning a trade by providingthem with an opportunity to participate in the renovation of urban coreproperty; and

(2) To create tax-producing property for the participating cities outof existing urban core city property.

2. The governing body of any city defined in section 215.345, byenacting the appropriate ordinances, may participate in the workfarerenovation project by donating existing inner-city property to the project,submitting a plan for renovation in the city to the commission andestablishing an agency to administer the project in such city pursuant toany authority delegated to such agency by the commission. In any city notwithin a county or any city with at least three hundred fifty thousandinhabitants which is located in more than one county, the Missouri housingdevelopment commission using available state resources shall assign, eitherdirectly or through contract, staff to oversee each respective city'sproject. In any city not within a county, such staff shall annually reportthe progress of the project to the mayor and the board of aldermen.

3. The commission may:

(1) Receive, hold and convey title to real estate on the workfarerenovation project carried out by the participating city and receive anduse for the purposes described in sections 215.340 to 215.355 any grants orloans made by the commission pursuant to section 215.035 or section215.050;

(2) Approve all proposed inner-city property for renovation;

(3) Approve the workers who will perform the renovation andreconstruction work. The workers, to be selected from the local laborforce, shall be capable of performing the work for which they will behired, and shall be, as far as practicable, persons who are classified aslow income or receiving public assistance and who are indigenous to theareas which are selected for renovation activity;

(4) Contract and be contracted with;

(5) Seek such legal and other professional and staff assistancedeemed necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 215.340 to 215.355;

(6) Sell the properties renovated, but such sales shall be subject tothe following requirements:

(a) Each property shall be sold only to a person who will be theactual owner of record of the property and will actually occupy theproperty for a period of not less than five years; and

(b) Each property shall be sold at a price which will allow thecommission to recover all costs incurred by it in renovating and sellingsuch property, including, but not limited to, the labor, materials andother renovation expenses;

(7) Do all other things necessary to implement and administer theresidential renovation program authorized by sections 215.340 to 215.355,including administering a revolving fund for continued funding andoperations of the program, and submitting an annual report on expendituresmade in the previous fiscal year by December first, beginning in 1999, tothe state auditor, the speaker of the house and the president pro tem ofthe senate;

(8) Utilize all appropriate tax credit and wage diversion programsoffered through state departments to assist low-income residents of thisstate in becoming self-sufficient through the workfare renovation project.

4. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authorityof sections 215.340 to 215.355 shall become effective unless it has beenpromulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. Theprovisions of this section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and ifany of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536,RSMo, including the ability to review, to delay the effective date, or todisapprove and annul a rule or portion of a rule, are subsequently heldunconstitutional, then the purported grant of rulemaking authority and anyrule so proposed and contained in the order of rulemaking shall be invalidand void.

(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 10, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1052 § 10)

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Missouri > T12 > C215 > 215_347

Workfare renovation project goals--powers of the commission--sales ofproperty, requirements--rules invalid when.

215.347. 1. The workfare renovation project shall have the followinggoals:

(1) To assist low-income individuals in learning a trade by providingthem with an opportunity to participate in the renovation of urban coreproperty; and

(2) To create tax-producing property for the participating cities outof existing urban core city property.

2. The governing body of any city defined in section 215.345, byenacting the appropriate ordinances, may participate in the workfarerenovation project by donating existing inner-city property to the project,submitting a plan for renovation in the city to the commission andestablishing an agency to administer the project in such city pursuant toany authority delegated to such agency by the commission. In any city notwithin a county or any city with at least three hundred fifty thousandinhabitants which is located in more than one county, the Missouri housingdevelopment commission using available state resources shall assign, eitherdirectly or through contract, staff to oversee each respective city'sproject. In any city not within a county, such staff shall annually reportthe progress of the project to the mayor and the board of aldermen.

3. The commission may:

(1) Receive, hold and convey title to real estate on the workfarerenovation project carried out by the participating city and receive anduse for the purposes described in sections 215.340 to 215.355 any grants orloans made by the commission pursuant to section 215.035 or section215.050;

(2) Approve all proposed inner-city property for renovation;

(3) Approve the workers who will perform the renovation andreconstruction work. The workers, to be selected from the local laborforce, shall be capable of performing the work for which they will behired, and shall be, as far as practicable, persons who are classified aslow income or receiving public assistance and who are indigenous to theareas which are selected for renovation activity;

(4) Contract and be contracted with;

(5) Seek such legal and other professional and staff assistancedeemed necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 215.340 to 215.355;

(6) Sell the properties renovated, but such sales shall be subject tothe following requirements:

(a) Each property shall be sold only to a person who will be theactual owner of record of the property and will actually occupy theproperty for a period of not less than five years; and

(b) Each property shall be sold at a price which will allow thecommission to recover all costs incurred by it in renovating and sellingsuch property, including, but not limited to, the labor, materials andother renovation expenses;

(7) Do all other things necessary to implement and administer theresidential renovation program authorized by sections 215.340 to 215.355,including administering a revolving fund for continued funding andoperations of the program, and submitting an annual report on expendituresmade in the previous fiscal year by December first, beginning in 1999, tothe state auditor, the speaker of the house and the president pro tem ofthe senate;

(8) Utilize all appropriate tax credit and wage diversion programsoffered through state departments to assist low-income residents of thisstate in becoming self-sufficient through the workfare renovation project.

4. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authorityof sections 215.340 to 215.355 shall become effective unless it has beenpromulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. Theprovisions of this section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and ifany of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536,RSMo, including the ability to review, to delay the effective date, or todisapprove and annul a rule or portion of a rule, are subsequently heldunconstitutional, then the purported grant of rulemaking authority and anyrule so proposed and contained in the order of rulemaking shall be invalidand void.

(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 10, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1052 § 10)


State Codes and Statutes

State Codes and Statutes

Statutes > Missouri > T12 > C215 > 215_347

Workfare renovation project goals--powers of the commission--sales ofproperty, requirements--rules invalid when.

215.347. 1. The workfare renovation project shall have the followinggoals:

(1) To assist low-income individuals in learning a trade by providingthem with an opportunity to participate in the renovation of urban coreproperty; and

(2) To create tax-producing property for the participating cities outof existing urban core city property.

2. The governing body of any city defined in section 215.345, byenacting the appropriate ordinances, may participate in the workfarerenovation project by donating existing inner-city property to the project,submitting a plan for renovation in the city to the commission andestablishing an agency to administer the project in such city pursuant toany authority delegated to such agency by the commission. In any city notwithin a county or any city with at least three hundred fifty thousandinhabitants which is located in more than one county, the Missouri housingdevelopment commission using available state resources shall assign, eitherdirectly or through contract, staff to oversee each respective city'sproject. In any city not within a county, such staff shall annually reportthe progress of the project to the mayor and the board of aldermen.

3. The commission may:

(1) Receive, hold and convey title to real estate on the workfarerenovation project carried out by the participating city and receive anduse for the purposes described in sections 215.340 to 215.355 any grants orloans made by the commission pursuant to section 215.035 or section215.050;

(2) Approve all proposed inner-city property for renovation;

(3) Approve the workers who will perform the renovation andreconstruction work. The workers, to be selected from the local laborforce, shall be capable of performing the work for which they will behired, and shall be, as far as practicable, persons who are classified aslow income or receiving public assistance and who are indigenous to theareas which are selected for renovation activity;

(4) Contract and be contracted with;

(5) Seek such legal and other professional and staff assistancedeemed necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 215.340 to 215.355;

(6) Sell the properties renovated, but such sales shall be subject tothe following requirements:

(a) Each property shall be sold only to a person who will be theactual owner of record of the property and will actually occupy theproperty for a period of not less than five years; and

(b) Each property shall be sold at a price which will allow thecommission to recover all costs incurred by it in renovating and sellingsuch property, including, but not limited to, the labor, materials andother renovation expenses;

(7) Do all other things necessary to implement and administer theresidential renovation program authorized by sections 215.340 to 215.355,including administering a revolving fund for continued funding andoperations of the program, and submitting an annual report on expendituresmade in the previous fiscal year by December first, beginning in 1999, tothe state auditor, the speaker of the house and the president pro tem ofthe senate;

(8) Utilize all appropriate tax credit and wage diversion programsoffered through state departments to assist low-income residents of thisstate in becoming self-sufficient through the workfare renovation project.

4. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authorityof sections 215.340 to 215.355 shall become effective unless it has beenpromulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. Theprovisions of this section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and ifany of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536,RSMo, including the ability to review, to delay the effective date, or todisapprove and annul a rule or portion of a rule, are subsequently heldunconstitutional, then the purported grant of rulemaking authority and anyrule so proposed and contained in the order of rulemaking shall be invalidand void.

(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 10, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1052 § 10)