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6 i 1~ <br />§ 153A-376 CoU'NTIES § 133A-376 <br />and those powers granted by law to county housing authorities. Any <br />board of county commissioners desiring to do so may delegate to <br />redevelopment commission or to any housing authority the respon- <br />sibility of undertaking or carrying out any specified community <br />development activities. Any board of county commissioners and any <br />municipal governing body may by agreement undertake or carry out <br />for each other any specified community development activities. Aay <br />board of county commissioners may contract with any person, <br />association, or corporation is undertaking any specified rnmmunity <br />development activities. Any county or city board of health, county <br />board of social services, or county or city board of education, may by <br />agreement undertake ar carry out for say board of county commis- <br />sioners any specified community development activities. <br />(c) Any board of county commissioners undertaking community <br />development p or activities may create one or more advisory <br />committees to advise it and to make recommendations concerning <br />such programs or activities. <br />(d) Aay board of county commissioners proposing to undertake <br />any Iola ~naranty or similar program for rehabilitation of private <br />buildings is authorized to submit to its voters the question whether <br />stub program shall be undertaken, such referendum to be conducted <br />~ursuaaL to the Qeneral sad Iocsl laws applicable to special elections <br />m stub conat~ <br />(e) No state or local fazes shaII be appropriated or ezpended by a <br />county pursuant . to this section for any Purpose not ezpressly <br />authorized by G.S. I53A 149, unless the same is first submitted to a <br />vote of the people as therein provided. <br />(fl All program income fitim F,coaomu Development Grants fiom <br />the Small Cities Community Development Bloch Great Program <br />ma be retained by recipient'economically distressed counties', eS <br />defined is G.S. 143 ?A for the purposes of creating local eco- <br />nomic development revolving 1oaa fends. Stub program income <br />derived through the use by cotmties of Small Cities Community <br />Development Block Great money mcludea but is not limited to: (~ <br />ppaayment of pr~incespa1 sad interest on loans made by the county using <br />Community Development Block Great F~iads; (ii) proceeds from the <br />lease or disposition of real properly acquired with Community <br />Development Block Groat Finds; and (nil any late fees associated <br />with loan or lease paymenb is (i) and (ii) above. The local economic <br />development revolving loan fund set up by the co~mty shall fend <br />only those activities elig~le ender Title I of the federal Housing and <br />Community DevelopmentAd of 1974, as amended (P.L. 93-383), sad <br />shall meet at least one of the three national objectives of the <br />seiinngg and Community Development Act. Aay ezpiration of G.S. <br />14~.3B~37A or G.S. 105-129.3 shaII not affect this subsection as to <br />desigiistions of economically distressed counties made prior to its <br />iratioa <br />Any cotmtyi:iay receive and dispense funds fiom the Commu- <br />aity Development Block Grant Section 108 Loan Guarantee pro- <br />• gram, 3nbparl lit, 24 CFR 570.700 et seq, either through app 'ca- <br />tion to thsNorth Carolina Department of Commerce or directly from <br />the federal government, is a,xordance with State sad federal laws <br />these funds. Any county that receives these funds directly <br />~ederal government may pledge current and future CDBG <br />funds for use as loan guarantees in acxordaace with State and <br />federal laws governing these funds. A county may implement the <br />125 <br />