66.1209 Housing authorities; cooperation in housing projects.
(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:
(a) Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its property to a housing authority or the federal government.
(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.
(c) Cause services to be furnished to the authority of the character which it otherwise may furnish.
(d) Subject to the approval of the council, furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it may undertake.
(e) Enter into agreements with a housing authority or the federal government respecting action to be taken by the state public body pursuant to any of the powers granted by ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211. The agreements may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary.
(f) Any and all things, necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of housing projects.
(g) Purchase or legally invest in any of the bonds of a housing authority and exercise all of the rights of any holder of the bonds.
(2) With respect to any housing project which a housing authority has acquired or taken over from the federal government and which the housing authority by resolution has found and declared to have been constructed in a manner that will promote the public interest and afford necessary safety, sanitation and other protection, no state public body may require any changes to be made in the housing project or the manner of its construction or take any other action relating to the construction.
(3) In connection with any public improvements made by a state public body in exercising the powers granted in ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211, the state public body may incur the entire expense of the public improvements. Any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding, any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided for in ss. 66.1201 to 66.1211 may be made by a state public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding.
History: 1995 a. 225; 1999 a. 150 ss. 394 to 396; Stats. 1999 s. 66.1209.
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