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PUBLIC LAW 560-AUG. 2, 1954

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body or bodies other than the public housing agency to perform any Limitation. obligation under such agreement: Provided, That, if at the time such agreement for local cooperation is entered into it appears that such 10 per centum payments in lieu of taxes will not result in a contribution to the project through tax exemption by the State, city, county, or other political subdivisions in which the project is situated of at least 20 per centum of the annual contributions to be paid by the Authority, the amounts of such payments in lieu of taxes shall be limited by the agreement to amounts, if any, which would not reduce the local conState contribu' tribution below such 20 per centum: Provided further, That, with tion. respect to any such project which is not exempt from all real and personal property taxes levied or imposed by the State, city, county, or other political subdivisions, such contract shall provide, in lieu of the requirement for tax exemption and payments in lieu of taxes, that no annual contributions by the Authority shall be made available for such project unless and until the State, city, county, or other political subdivisions in which such project is situated shall contribute, in the form of cash or tax remission, an amount equal to the greater of (i) the amount by which the taxes paid with respect to the project exceed 10 per centum of the annual shelter rents charged in such project or (ii) 20 per centum of the annual contributions paid by the Authority es«mate''s°*^°" °' ^^^ ^^^ ^^ cxcess of the taxes levied): And provided further. That, prior to execution of the contract for annual contributions the public housing agency shall, in the case of a tax-exempt project, notify the governing body of the locality of its estimate of the annual amount of such payments in lieu of taxes and of the amount of taxes which would be levied if the property were privately owned, or, in the case where the project is taxed, its estimate of the annual amount of the local cash contribution, and shall thereafter include the actual amounts Annual report. Prior contract in its annual reports. Contracts for annual contributions entered into amendment. prior to the effective date of the Housing Act of 1954 may be amended in accordance with the first sentence of this subsection." 42 USC 1410. SEC. 403, Section 10 of said Act, as amended, is hereby amended by adding the following new subsection: Self-liquidation. " (j) Every contract made pursuant to this Act for annual contributions for any low-rent housing project for which no such contract has been entered into prior to the enactment of the Housing Act of 1954 shall provide that— "(1) after payment in full of all obligations of the public housing agency in connection with the project for which any annual contributions are pledged, and until the total amount of annual contributions paid by the Authority in respect to such project has been repaid pursuant to the provisions of this subsection, (a) all receipts in connection with the project in excess of expenditures necessary for management, operation, maintenance, or financing, and for reasonable reserves therefor, shall be paid annually to the Authority and to local public bodies which have contributed to the project in the form of tax exemption or otherwise, in proportion to the aggregate contribution which the Authority and such local public bodies have made to the project, and (b) no debt in respect to the project, except for necessary expenditures for the project, shall be incurred by the public housing agency; "(2) if, at any time, the project or any part thereof is sold, such sale shall be to the highest responsible bidder after advertising, or at fair market value, and the proceeds of such sale together with any reserves, after application to any outstanding debt of the public housing agency in respect to such project, shall be paid to the Authority and local public bodies as provided in

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