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GS-1 60A-456 <br />Part 8. Miscellaneous Powers. <br />Page 1 o93 <br />§ 160A -456. Community development programs and activities. <br />(a) Any city is authorized to engage in, to accept federal and State grants and loans for, and to <br />appropriate and expend funds for community development programs and activities. In undertaking <br />community development programs and activities, in addition to other authority granted by law, a city <br />may engage in the following activities: <br />(1) Programs of assistance and financing of rehabilitation of private buildings principally <br />for the benefit of low and moderate income persons, or for the restoration or <br />preservation of older neighborhoods or properties, including direct repair, the making <br />of grants or loans, the subsidization of interest payments on loans, and the guaranty of <br />loans; <br />(2) Programs concerned with employment, economic development, crime prevention, <br />child care, health, drug abuse, education, and welfare needs of persons of low and <br />moderate income. <br />(b) Any city council may exercise directly those powers granted by law to municipal <br />redevelopment commissions and those powers granted by law to municipal housing authorities, and may <br />do so whether or not a redevelopment commission or housing authority is in existence in such city. Any <br />city council desiring to do so may delegate to any redevelopment commission or to any housing <br />authority the responsibility of undertaking or carrying out any specified community development <br />activities. Any city council and any board of county commissioners may by agreement undertake or <br />carry out for each other any specified community development activities. Any city council may contract <br />with any person, association, or corporation in undertaking any specified community development <br />activities. Any county or city board of health, county board of social services, or county or city board of <br />education, may by agreement undertake or carry out for any city council any specified community <br />development activities. <br />(c) Any city council undertaking community development programs or activities may create one <br />or more advisory committees to advise it and to make recommendations concerning such programs or <br />activities. <br />(d) Any city council proposing to undertake any loan guaranty or similar program for <br />rehabilitation of private buildings is authorized to submit to its voters the question whether such <br />program shall be undertaken, such referendum to be conducted pursuant to the general and local laws <br />applicable to special elections in such city. <br />(dl) Any city may receive and dispense funds from the Community Development Block Grant <br />Section 108 Loan Guarantee program, Subpart M, 24 CFR 570.700 et seq., either through application to <br />the North Carolina Department of Commerce or directly from the federal government, in accordance <br />with State and federal laws governing these funds. Any city that receives these funds directly from the <br />federal government may pledge current and future CDBG funds for use as loan guarantees in accordance <br />with State and federal laws governing these funds. A city may implement the receipt, dispensing, and <br />pledging of CDBG funds under this subsection by borrowing CDBG funds and lending all or a portion <br />of those funds to a third party in accordance with applicable laws governing the CDBG program. <br />Any city that has pledged current or future CDBG funds for use as loan guarantees prior to the <br />enactment of this subsection is authorized to have taken such action. A pledge of future CDBG funds <br />under this subsection is not a debt or liability of the State or any political subdivision of the State or a <br />pledge of the faith and credit of the State or any political subdivision of the State. The pledging of future <br />CDBG funds under this subsection does not directly, indirectly, or contingently obligate the State or any <br />political subdivision of the State to levy or to pledge any taxes. <br />(e) Repealed by Session Laws 1985, c. 665, s. 5. <br />(el) All program income from Economic Development Grants from the Small Cities Community <br />Development Block Grant Program may be retained by recipient cities in "economically distressed <br />counties ", as defined in G.S. 14313- 437.01, for the purposes of creating local economic development <br />revolving loan funds. Such program income derived through the use by cities of Small Cities <br />http: / /www.ncga. state. nc. usl gascripts /statuteslstatutelookup.pl ?statute =160A -456 8/28/2013 <br />