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Wisconsin Statutes Municipalities (Ch. 59 to 68) § 66.1203. Housing authorities; operation not for profit

Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff

(1) It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the city.

(2) An authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it finds necessary in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived, will be sufficient to accomplish all of the following:

(a) Pay, as the rentals become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the authority.

(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.

(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.

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