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As Reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee
122nd General Assembly
Regular Session
1997-1998 | H. B. No. 596 |
REPRESENTATIVES JAMES-MILLER-JONES-NETZLEY-TIBERI-OPFER-
PRENTISS-TAVARES-JERSE-BATCHELDER-MOTTLEY-LUCAS-PRINGLE-
BOYD-SUTTON-BUCHY-ALLEN-BOGGS-OGG-HOUSEHOLDER-WHALEN-
ROBERTS-TERWILLEGER-MYERS-MEAD-MALLORY-WESTON-CATES-
GRENDELL-BRITTON-PATTON-LOGAN-JOLIVETTE-WACHTMANN-MOTTL-
BENDER-SULZER-HEALY-FORD-VERICH-WILSON-KRUPINSKI-SYKES-
GERBERRY-BEATTY-BRADY-METELSKY-HARTLEY-ROMAN-CORBIN-SALERNO-
SENATORS J. JOHNSON-HERINGTON-BLESSING-OELSLAGER-HOWARD
A BILL
To amend section 3735.31 of the Revised Code to authorize a metropolitan
housing authority and a political subdivision to enter into an
agreement that
permits housing authority police officers to exercise police powers in
specified areas of the political
subdivision.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3735.31 of the Revised Code be amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 3735.31. A metropolitan housing authority created
under sections 3735.27 to 3735.50 of the Revised Code,
constitutes a body corporate and politic. To clear, plan, and
rebuild slum areas within the district in which the authority is
created, to provide safe and sanitary housing accommodations
to families of low income within that district, or to accomplish
any combination of the foregoing purposes, the authority may do
any of the following:
(A) Sue and be sued; have a seal; have corporate
succession; receive grants from state, federal, or other
governments, or from private sources; conduct investigations into
housing and living conditions; enter any buildings or property in
order to conduct its investigations; conduct examinations,
subpoena, and require the attendance of witnesses and the
production of books and papers; issue commissions for the
examination of witnesses who are out of the state or unable to
attend before the authority or excused from attendance; and in
connection with these powers, any member of the authority may
administer oaths, take affidavits, and issue subpoenas;
(B) Determine what areas constitute slum areas, and
prepare plans for housing projects in those areas; purchase,
lease, sell, exchange, transfer, assign, or mortgage any
property, real or personal, or any interest in that property,
or acquire the same by gift, bequest, or eminent domain; own, hold, clear,
and improve property; provide and set aside housing projects, or
dwelling units comprising portions of housing projects, designed
especially for the use of families, the head of which or the
spouse of which is sixty-five years of age or older; engage in,
or contract for, the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or
repair, or both, of any housing project or part of any housing project;
include
in any contract let in connection with a project, stipulations
requiring that the contractor and any subcontractors comply with
requirements as to minimum wages and maximum hours of labor, and
comply with any conditions that the federal government has
attached to its financial aid of the project; lease or operate,
or both, any project, and establish or revise schedules of rents
for any projects or part of any project; arrange with the county or
municipal corporations, or both, for the planning and replanning
of streets, alleys, and other public places or facilities in
connection with any area or project; borrow money upon its notes,
debentures, or other evidences of indebtedness, and secure the
same by mortgages upon property held or to be held by it, or by
pledge of its revenues, or in any other manner; invest any funds
held in reserves or sinking funds or not required for immediate
disbursements; execute contracts and all other instruments
necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in
this section; make, amend, and repeal bylaws and rules to carry
into effect its powers and purposes;
(C) Borrow money or accept grants or other financial
assistance from the federal government for or in aid of any
housing project within its territorial limits; take over or lease
or manage any housing project or undertaking constructed or owned
by the federal government; comply with any conditions and enter
into any mortgages, trust indentures, leases, or agreements
that are necessary, convenient, or desirable;
(D) Subject to section 3735.311 of the Revised Code, employ a police
force to protect the lives and
property of the residents of housing projects within the
district, to preserve the peace in the housing projects, and to
enforce the laws, ordinances, and regulations of this state and
its political subdivisions in the housing projects and, when
authorized by law, outside the limits of the housing projects.
(E) ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH A COUNTY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION,
OR TOWNSHIP IN WHOSE JURISDICTION THE METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY IS
LOCATED THAT PERMITS METROPOLITAN HOUSING AUTHORITY POLICE OFFICERS EMPLOYED
UNDER DIVISION (D) OF THIS SECTION TO EXERCISE FULL ARREST POWERS AS
PROVIDED IN SECTION 2935.03 OF THE REVISED CODE, PERFORM ANY
POLICE FUNCTION, EXERCISE ANY POLICE POWER, OR RENDER ANY POLICE SERVICE
WITHIN
SPECIFIED AREAS OF THE COUNTY, MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, OR TOWNSHIP FOR THE
PURPOSE OF PRESERVING THE PEACE AND ENFORCING ALL LAWS OF THE STATE,
ORDINANCES OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, OR REGULATIONS OF THE TOWNSHIP.
Section 2. That existing section 3735.31 of the Revised Code is hereby
repealed.
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