HOUSING CO-OPERATION AND AID 1979

(b) Cause parks, playgrounds, recreational, community, water, sewer
or drainage facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered
to undertake, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with housing
projects;

(c) Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or
replan streets, roads, roadways, alleys, sidewalks or other places which it
is otherwise empowered to undertake;

(d) Plan or replan, zone or rezone any part of such State Public Body;
make exceptions from building regulations and ordinances; any incor-
porated city or town may change its map; .

(e) Enter into agreements', (which may extend over any period, not-
withstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary) with a housing
authority or the Federal Government respecting action to be taken by such
State Public Body pursuant to any of the powers granted by this Article;
and

(f) Do any and all things, necessary or convenient to aid and co-
operate in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of such
housing projects.

(g) With respect to any housing project which a housing authority has
acquired or taken over from the Federal Government and which the hous-
ing 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 shall require
any changes to be made in the housing project or the manner of its con-
struction or take any other action relating to such construction.

(h) In connection with any public improvements made by a State
Public Body in exercising the powers herein granted, such State Public
Body may incur the entire expense thereof. Any law or statute to the con-
trary notwithstanding, any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided
for in this section may be made by a State Public Body without appraisal,
public notice, advertisement or public bidding.

1937, ch. 518, sec. 5.

5. Any State Public Body may (a) fix a sum which is to be paid to it
annually by the housing authority in respect to each housing project in
lieu of taxes; or (b) agree that the housing authority shall not pay or be
liable to pay any sum whatsoever in respect to a housing project or proj-
ects for any year or period of years; or (e) agree with a housing authority
of the Federal Government upon the sum to be paid by the housing au-
thority for any year or period of years in respect to a project or projects,
or accept or agree to accept a fixed sum or other consideration in lieu of
taxes; provided, however, that the sum to be paid to the City or political
sub-division shall not exceed an amount equal to the regular taxes levied
upon similar property.

1937, ch. 518, sec. 6.

6. When any housing authority which is created for any incorporated
city or town becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers
therein, the council, commissioners, or other legislative body of the city or
town, shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money neces-
sary for the administrative expenses and overhead of such housing author-
ity during the first year thereafter, and shall appropriate such amount