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...(A) As used in this section, "felony" has the same meaning as in section 109.511 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) A metropolitan housing authority shall not employ a person as a member of the police force of the metropolitan housing authority on a permanent basis, on a temporary basis, for a probationary term, or on other than a permanent basis if the person previously has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to a fel...

...A metropolitan housing authority may appropriate, enter upon, and hold real estate within its territorial limits. The authority may acquire the fee simple title, or a lesser interest in any property within its territorial limits which it deems necessary to appropriate for the purposes of the authority. The powers shall be exercised by an authority in the same manner as is provided by sections 719.01 to 719.05 and 163...

...other metropolitan housing authorities, public housing authorities, or other organizations formed inside or outside of this state, or to government agencies, housing-related knowledge, technology, software, innovations, or expertise for any of the following: (A) The development or redevelopment of housing projects; (B) The performance of federal housing contracts or grants; (C) Any matter related to the efficie...

...o 3735.50 of the Revised Code, shall be public property used exclusively for a public purpose within the meaning of Section 2 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution, and shall be exempt from all taxation. All accounting and other transactions of the authority shall be subject to audit by the auditor of state.

...fund to be designated as the "undevided public housing fund" and shall be distributed to the taxing subdivisions levying taxes in the subdivision in which the property is located, in the same proportions in which the current general property tax is distributed.

...When a metropolitan housing authority has acquired the property necessary for any project, it shall proceed to make plans and specifications for carrying out such project, and shall advertise for bids for all work that it desires to have done by contract, such advertisements to be published as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code or once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circula...

...ures and make an annual report of these publicly available. All moneys received in excess of operating expenditures shall be devoted to the payment of interest and sinking fund charges for the retirement of indebtedness, whether secured by mortgage or otherwise, and from the excess there shall be set aside such fund as the authority deems proper for the purpose of covering repairs, depreciation, and reserves. W...

...Evidences of indebtedness executed by a metropolitan housing authority shall not be a debt or charge against the county, state, or any other governmental authority other than said authority, and no individual liability shall attach for any official act done by any member of such authority.

...Whenever a metropolitan housing authority desires to discontinue its operations it shall make application to the director of development, for authority to dissolve. If such application is granted, the director shall take possession and dispose of all property belonging to the authority, and, after paying the debts and liabilities of the authority and the expenses of administering the dissolution, the balance remainin...

..., gardening, administrative, community, health, recreational, educational, welfare, commercial, residential, or other purposes. (4) Accomplish a combination of the foregoing. "Housing project" also may be applied to the planning of the buildings and improvements, the acquisition of property, the demolition of existing structures, the construction, reconstruction, alteration, and repair of the improvements, and all ...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3735.43 of the Revised Code, in the operation or management of housing projects a metropolitan housing authority shall observe the following with respect to rentals and tenant selection: (A)(1) It shall not provide a federally derived rent subsidy to any tenant for any dwelling in a housing project if the persons who would occupy the dwelling have an aggregate annual net inco...

...(A) Except as provided in any contract for financial assistance with the federal government in the selection of tenants for housing projects, a metropolitan housing authority shall give preference, as among applicants equally in need and eligible for occupancy of the dwelling and at the rent involved, to families of veterans and persons serving in the active military or naval service of the United States, including f...

...housing authority, free housing; (2) A public utility from providing to a law enforcement officer who resides in free housing provided by a metropolitan housing authority, or the law enforcement officer from accepting from the public utility, utility services either for free or at a reduced rate, if such utility services are directly related to the free housing; (3) A financial institution from providing to a law e...

...The planning, zoning, and sanitary laws of the state and of any political subdivision or agency thereof in which a housing project is located shall apply to housing projects of a metropolitan housing authority to the same extent as if said projects were planned, constructed, owned, or operated by private persons. All powers granted in said laws or in any municipal charter to or over privately owned land, buildings, o...

...A metropolitan housing authority may issue bonds for any of its corporate purposes. An authority may issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. An authority may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including bonds on which the principal and interest are payable: (A) Exclusively from the income and revenues of the housing project financed with the proceeds of ...

... less than par plus accrued interest at public sale held after notice published once at least fourteen days prior to such sale in a newspaper having a general circulation in the territorial limits of an authority. Such bonds may be sold at not less than par plus accrued interest to the federal government at private sale without any public advertisement. Such bonds may be sold to others than the federal government, at...

...In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, a metropolitan housing authority may: (A) Pledge any part of its gross or net rents, fees, or revenues to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence; (B) Mortgage any part of its real or personal property, then owned or thereafter acquired; (C...

...A bondholder or a trustee for a bondholder of a metropolitan housing authority may, in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such bondholder or trustee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon such bondholder or trustee: (A) Compel, by mandamus, suit, action, or proceeding at law or in equity the authority and the members, officers, agents, or employees thereof to perform each term...

...A metropolitan housing authority may by its resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, or other contract confer upon any bondholder or any trustee for a bondholder holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in such resolution or instrument, by suit, action, or proceeding in any court of com...

...A metropolitan housing authority, created under section 3735.27 of the Revised Code, constitutes a political subdivision of the state within the meaning of section 5739.02 of the Revised Code.

... of the federal government. (B) "State public body" means any township, county, municipal corporation, commission, district, authority, other subdivision, or public body of this state. (C) "Governing body" means the council, board of commissioners, or other body having charge of the fiscal affairs of the state public body. (D) "Federal government" means the United States, the federal works administrator, or any ot...

...hich it is authorized to act, any state public body may upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it determines: (A) Dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its property to a metropolitan housing authority or the federal government; (B) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer, or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake, to be...

...hich it is authorized to act, any state public body may contract with a metropolitan housing authority or the federal government with respect to the sum which the authority or the federal government may agree to pay, during any year or period of years, to the state public body for the improvements, services, and facilities to be furnished by it for the benefit of said housing project, but in no event shall the amount...

...Any municipal corporation or county, located in whole or in part within the territorial limits of a metropolitan housing authority, may lend or donate money to the authority or agree to take such action. The authority, when it has money available therefor, shall make reimbursements for all such loans made to it.

...The exercise by a state public body of the powers granted in sections 3735.51 to 3735.57, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may be authorized by ordinance or resolution of the governing body of such state public body, adopted in accordance with the charter of such public body or in the absence of a charter provision by a majority of the members of its governing body present at a meeting of said governing body, which re...