No governing body of a city or county shall adopt a resolution under KRS § 80.320 to
80.610 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority to be created, or to exercise its powers within such city or county, or that there is a need to include such city or county within the area of operation of a housing authority, unless such governing body shall have found substantially that:

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 80.380

  • authority: means any housing authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 80.010
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Governing body: means , in the case of a city, the city council, the commission, board of commissioners, board of aldermen, or other legislative body of the city, and in the case of a county, the fiscal court. See Kentucky Statutes 80.010
  • Housing: means a building or buildings containing rooms to be provided as living quarters, together with shops, stores, garages, laundries, doctors' and dentists' offices, and other facilities and appurtenances deemed reasonably necessary by the housing authority to the successful and economical operation of the project. See Kentucky Statutes 80.010
  • Persons of low income: means persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary, as determined by the housing authority undertaking the housing development, to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding. See Kentucky Statutes 80.010

(1) Unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in such city or county or that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in such city or county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and
(2) These conditions can be best remedied through the exercise of the housing authority’s powers within the territorial boundaries of such city or county.
Effective: July 13, 1984
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 24, effective July 13, 1984. — Created
1942 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 8.