The Florida Senate

421.38  Defense housing by authorities.--

(1)  Any housing authority may undertake the development and administration of projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities whom the housing authority determines would not otherwise be able to secure safe and sanitary dwellings within the vicinity thereof, but no housing authority shall initiate the development of any such project pursuant to this law after the termination of the existing war by the signing of a definitive treaty of peace, or by the proclamation of the President of the United States that hostilities have ceased or that the emergency in justification of extraordinary wartime powers no longer exists, whichever shall first occur.

(2)  In the ownership, development or administration of such projects, a housing authority shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities that such authority has under any provision of law relating to the ownership, development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income, in the same manner as though all the provisions of law applicable to slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low income were applicable to projects developed or administered to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in national defense activities as provided in this law, and housing projects developed or administered hereunder shall constitute "housing projects" under the Housing Authorities Law, as that term is used therein; provided, that during the period, herein called the "national defense period," that a housing authority finds, which finding shall be conclusive in any suit, action or proceeding, that within its area of operation, as defined in the Housing Authorities Law, or any part thereof, there is an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings which impedes the national defense activities, any project developed or administered by such housing authority, or by any housing authority cooperating with it, in such area pursuant to this law, with the financial aid of the Federal Government, or as agents for the Federal Government as hereinafter provided, shall not be subject to the limitations provided in s. 421.10 and the second sentence of s. 421.09; and provided, further, that during the national defense period, a housing authority may make payments in such amounts as it finds necessary or desirable for any services, facilities, works, privileges or improvements furnished for or in connection with any such projects. After the national defense period, any such projects owned and administered by a housing authority shall be administered for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of the Housing Authorities Law.

History.--s. 2, ch. 20221, 1941; s. 1, ch. 21697, 1943.