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GS-1 60A-456 Page 1 of 282 <br /> Part 8. Miscellaneous Powers. <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.us/gascripts/statutes/statutelookup.pl?statute=160A-456 8/28/2013 <br />