HOUSING AUTHORITIES 1971

tions and to hear testimony and take proof under oath at public or private
hearings on any matter material for its information; to administer oaths,
issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses or the production of
books and papers and to issue commissions for the examination of witnesses
who are outside of the State or unable to attend before the authority, or
excused from attendance; to make available to appropriate agencies (in-
cluding those charged with the duty of abating or requiring the correction
of nuisances or like conditions, or of demolishing unsafe or insanitary
structures within its area of operation) its findings and recommendations
with regard to any building or property where conditions exist which are
dangerous to the public health, morals, safety or welfare.

(h) To exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein granted.

No provisions of law with respect to the acquisition, operation or disposi-
tion of property by other public bodies shall be applicable to an authority
unless the legislature shall specifically so state. Provided, however, that
no Housing Project as defined or described in Section 3, sub-section (i),
shall be commenced, arranged, contracted for, or carried out in the City
of Baltimore unless and until its location has been submitted to and ap-
proved by the Board of Estimates of Baltimore City, provided, however,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the United
States or any agency thereof, or the State or any political subdivision
thereof or any municipal corporation heretofore or hereafter created to
act as a housing authority for the United States Government's project in
Prince George's County generally known as Greenbelt.

1937, ch. 517, sec. 9.

9. It is hereby declared to be the policy of this State that each hous-
ing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient
manner so as 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 such project for profit, or as a source of revenue
to the city. To this end an authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in
its projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order to
produce revenues which together with all other available moneys, revenues,
income and receipts of the authority from Avhatever sources derived will
be sufficient (a) to pay, as the same become due, the principal and inter-
est on the bonds of the authority; (b) to meet the cost of, and to provide
for, maintaining and operating the projects (including the cost of any
insurance) and the administrative expenses of the authority; and (c) to
create (during not less than the six years immediately succeeding its issu-
ance of any bonds) a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and
interest payments which will be due on such bonds in any one year there-
after and to maintain such reserve.

1937, ch. 517, sec. 10.

10. 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: (a) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations
therein only to persons of low income, (b) It may rent or lease the dwell-
ing accommodations therein only at rentals within the financial reach of
such persons of low income, (c) It may rent or lease to a tenant dwelling
accommodations consisting of the number of rooms (but no greater num-