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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing

§ 13614. General availability of units

Statutory text

If an owner of a covered section 8 housing project in which disabled families who are near-elderly families are given a preference for occupancy pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of section 13613 of this title determines (in accordance with regulations established by the Secretary) that there are an insufficient number of such families to fill all the units in the project for which the preference is applicable, the owner shall make such units generally available for occupancy by families who have applied, and are eligible, for occupancy in the housing, without regard to the preferences established pursuant to 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 § 654 · 106 Stat. 3672

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 13614

    (Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 654, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3824.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 654, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3824.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 654. GENERAL AVAILABILITY OF UNITS. If an owner of a covered section 8 housing project in which disabled families who are near-elderly families are given a preference for occupancy pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) of section 653 determines (in accordance with regulations established by the Secretary) that there are an insufficient number of such families to fill all the units in the project for which the preference is applicable, the owner shall make such units generally available for occupancy by families who have applied, and are eligible, for occupancy in the housing, without regard to the preferences established pursuant to this subtitle.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Covered section 8 housing, referred to in text, is defined in section 13619 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 654, , 106 Stat. 3824.)

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