66.1203(2)(a)
(a) Pay, as the rentals become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority.
66.1203(2)(b)
(b) Meet the cost of, and provide for, maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance, and the administrative expenses of the authority.
66.1203(2)(c)
(c) Create, during not less than the 6 years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on the bonds in any one year after the creation of the reserve and maintain the reserve.
66.1203 History
History: 1999 a. 150 s.
389; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1203.
66.1205
66.1205
Housing authorities; rentals and tenant selection. 66.1205(1)(1) In the operation or management of housing projects an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:
66.1205(1)(a)
(a) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations in a housing project only to persons of low income and at rentals within the financial reach of persons of low income.
66.1205(1)(b)
(b) It may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling accommodations consisting of the number of rooms, but no greater number, that it considers necessary to provide safe and sanitary accommodations to the proposed occupants, without overcrowding.
66.1205(1)(c)
(c) It shall not accept any person as a tenant in any housing project if the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations have an aggregate annual income in excess of 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished the person or persons, except that in the case of families with minor dependents the aggregate annual income of the person or persons who would occupy the dwelling accommodations may exceed 5 times the annual rental of the quarters to be furnished by $100 for each minor dependent or by an amount equal to the annual income of the minor dependents. In computing the rental for the purpose of selecting tenants, the authority shall determine and include in the rental the average annual cost to the occupants, of heat, water, electricity, gas, cooking range and other necessary services or facilities, whether or not the charge for such services and facilities is in fact included in the rental.
66.1205(2)(a)
(a) Invest in an obligee the right, if the authority defaults, to take possession of a housing project or cause the appointment of a receiver of the housing project, free from all the restrictions imposed under
ss. 66.1201 to
66.1211, with respect to rentals, tenant selection, manner of operation, or otherwise.
66.1205(2)(b)
(b) Pursuant to
s. 66.1201 (16) vest in obligees the right, if the authority defaults, to acquire title to a housing project or the property mortgaged by the housing authority, free from all of the restrictions imposed by
s. 66.1203 and this section.
66.1205(3)
(3) Subsection (1) (a) and
(c) does not apply in the case of housing projects to the financing of which the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority is a party, as to which
ch. 234 shall be controlling.
66.1207
66.1207
Penalties; evidence. 66.1207(1)(a)(a) Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under
s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive more than $1,000 but less than $2,500 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned for not more than 9 months or both.
66.1207(1)(b)
(b) Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under
s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive at least $2,500 but not more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled is guilty of a Class I felony.
66.1207(1)(c)
(c) Any person who secures or assists in securing dwelling accommodations under
s. 66.1205 by intentionally making false representations in order to receive more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled is guilty of a Class H felony.
66.1207(2)
(2) Any administrator or employee of an authority under
s. 66.1205 who receives or solicits any commission or derives or seeks to obtain any personal financial gain through any contract for the rental or lease of dwelling accommodations under
s. 66.1205 shall be punished under
s. 946.13.
66.1207(3)
(3) Any person who receives assistance for dwelling accommodations under
s. 66.1205, who has been notified by the authority of the obligation to report an increase in income or assets that would reduce the amount of that assistance and who intentionally fails to notify the authority of the receipt of income or assets is subject to one of the following:
66.1207(3)(a)
(a) The penalty under
sub. (1) (a) if the failure to report results in the receipt of more than $1,000 and less than $2,500 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
66.1207(3)(b)
(b) The penalty under
sub. (1) (b) if the failure to report results in the receipt of at least $2,500 but not more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
66.1207(3)(c)
(c) The penalty under
sub. (1) (c) if the failure to report results in the receipt of more than $25,000 in financial assistance for which the person would not otherwise be entitled.
66.1207 History
History: 1987 a. 173,
403;
1995 a. 225;
1997 a. 283;
1999 a. 150 ss.
391 to
393; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1207;
2001 a. 109.
66.1209
66.1209
Housing authorities; cooperation in housing projects. 66.1209(1)(1) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects located within the area in which it may act, any state public body may do any of the following:
66.1209(1)(a)
(a) Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its property to a housing authority or the federal government.
66.1209(1)(b)
(b) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, educational, water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other works which it may undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing projects.