Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing
§ 13617. Treatment of covered section 8 housing not subject to elderly preference
Statutory text
If an owner of any covered section 8 housing project designed primarily for occupancy by elderly families does not give preference in occupancy to elderly families as authorized in this subchapter, then elderly families (as such term was defined in section 1437a of this title before ) shall be eligible for occupancy in such housing to the same extent that such families were eligible before .
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.
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992
Pub. L. 102–550 title VI § 657 · 106 Stat. 3672
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 13617
(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 657, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3825.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 657, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3825.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 657. TREATMENT OF COVERED SECTION S HOUSING NOT SUBJECT TO ELDERLY PREFERENCE. If an owner of any covered section 8 housing project designed primarily for occupancy by elderly families does not give preference in occupancy to elderly families as authorized in this subtitle, then elderly families (as such term was defined in section 3 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 before the date of the enactment of this Act) shall be eligible for occupancy in such housing to the same extent that such families were eligible before the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
Covered section 8 housing, referred to in text, is defined in section 13619 of this title.