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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing

§ 13611. Authority

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an owner of a covered section 8 housing project (as such term is defined in section 13619 of this title) designed primarily for occupancy by elderly families may, in selecting tenants for units in the project that become available for occupancy, give preference to elderly families who have applied for occupancy in the housing, subject to the requirements of this subchapter.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Housing and Community Development Act of 1992

    Pub. L. 102–550 title VI § 651 · 106 Stat. 3672

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 13611

    (Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 651, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3823.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 651, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3823.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 651 AUTHORITY. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an owner of a covered section 8 housing project (as such term is defined in section 659) designed primarily for occupancy by elderly families may, in selecting tenants for units in the project that become available for occupancy, give preference to elderly families who have applied for occupancy in the housing, subject to the requirements of this subtitle.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle D of title VI of Pub. L. 102–550, , 106 Stat. 3823, which enacted this subchapter and amended section 1437f of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 651, , 106 Stat. 3823.)

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