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...All property, both real and personal, acquired or owned by a metropolitan housing authority and used for the purposes of exercising the powers set forth in sections 3735.27 to 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 a...

...With respect to property, both real and personal, owned or acquired by a metropolitan housing authority for the purpose of exercising the powers set forth in sections 3735.27 to 3735.50, inclusive, of the Revised Code, such authority shall make annual payments to the county treasurer for distribution in the maximum amounts consistent with obtaining federal assistance under the "United States Housing Act of 1937" as n...

...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...

...A metropolitan housing authority shall keep an accurate account of all its activities and of all receipts and expenditures 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 b...

...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...

...As used in sections 3735.27, 3735.31, and 3735.40 to 3735.50 of the Revised Code: (A) "Federal government" includes the United States, the federal works administrator, or any other agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. (B) "Slum" has the meaning defined in section 1.08 of the Revised Code. (C) "Housing project" or "project" means any of the following works or undertakings: (...

...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...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Housing" means housing in a housing project that a metropolitan housing authority operates or manages. (2) "Law enforcement officer" means a law enforcement officer described in division (K)(1) of section 2901.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A metropolitan housing authority may provide free housing to a law enforcement officer. (C) Neither any provision of section 102.03, 102.04, 292...

...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 ...

...Bonds of a metropolitan housing authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date, mature at such time, bear interest at such rates, not exceeding the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code, be in such denomination, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion or registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be exe...

...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.

...As used in sections 3735.51 to 3735.57, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Housing project" means any work or undertaking of a housing authority pursuant to sections 3735.27 to 3735.50, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or any similar work or undertaking of the federal government. (B) "State public body" means any township, county, municipal corporation, commission, district, authority, other subdivision, or public...

...he public interest and afford necessary safety, sanitation, and other protection, no state public body shall require any changes to be made in the housing project or the manner of its construction or take any other action relating to such construction; (I) In connection with any public improvements made by a state public body in exercising the powers granted in such sections, such state public body may incur the ent...

...In connection with any housing project located wholly or partly within the area in which 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 furni...

...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...

...Metropolitan housing authorities are hereby constituted bodies corporate and politic with all the powers, rights, and duties set forth in sections 3735.27 to 3735.50, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...All funds, public or private, trust or otherwise, may be invested in any bonds or other obligations of a metropolitan housing authority, and such bonds or other obligations may be accepted as satisfactory security for all public deposits. This section authorizes the investment in bonds or other obligations of an authority of all sinking, insurance, retirement, compensation, pension, and trust funds, whether owned or ...

...(A) The director of mental health and addiction services, the director of developmental disabilities, or the director of rehabilitation and correction may enter into contracts for the sale of land not needed by their departments and under their jurisdiction or supervision to metropolitan housing authorities for use by such an authority for a housing project or projects. Such contract may contain such conditions...