Powers and Duties of Housing Authorities
Known as the Housing Authorities Law
The act spans §§ 34200–34380 (141 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Holtzendorff v. Housing Authority (1967)
Most recently applied in Zuniga v. Housing Authority (December 1995)
Added by Stats. 1951, Ch. 710.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
An authority may:
(a) Sue and be sued.
(b) Have a seal and alter it.
(c) Have perpetual succession.
(d) Make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers.
(e) Make, amend, and repeal by-laws and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to carry into effect the powers and purposes of the authority.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.