No council of any such other municipality shall adopt a resolution as provided in Section 31-3-400 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority other than a housing authority established by such municipality to exercise its powers within such municipality unless a public hearing has first been held by the council of such municipality and the council shall have found in substantially the following terms: (a) That unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in such municipality or that there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in such municipality available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford and (b) that these conditions can be best remedied through the exercise of the powers of the housing authority of the city mentioned in Section 31-3-400 within the territorial boundaries of such municipality. But such findings shall not have the effect of establishing a housing authority for any such municipality under this chapter and Chapter 11 nor of thereafter preventing such municipality from establishing a housing authority or joining in the creation of a consolidated housing authority or the increase of the area of operation of a consolidated housing authority. The clerk of the municipality shall give notice of the time, place and purpose of the public hearing at least ten days prior to the date on which the hearing is to be held, in a newspaper published in such municipality or, if there is no newspaper published in such municipality, then in a newspaper published in the State and having a general circulation in such municipality. Upon the date fixed for such public hearing an opportunity to be heard shall be granted to all residents of such municipality and to all other interested persons.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-122; 1952 Code Section 36-122; 1942 (42) 1742.