7-15-2122. Operation of rural housing projects. (1) In connection with the projects authorized by 7-15-2121, such housing authorities may enter into such leases or purchase agreements, accept such conveyances, and rent or sell dwellings forming part of such projects to or for rural residents of low income as such housing authority deems necessary in order to assure the achievement of the objectives of this part.
     (2) Such leases, agreements, or conveyances may include such covenants as the housing authority deems appropriate regarding such dwellings and the tracts of lands described in any such instrument. The covenants shall be deemed to run with the land where the housing authority deems it necessary and the parties to such instrument so stipulate.
     (3) Nothing contained in this section and 7-15-2121 shall be construed as limiting any other powers of any housing authority, except that no more than 2 acres of land per dwelling, together with the dwelling houses thereon provided for under the provisions of this part, shall be exempt from taxation and that upon title to said 2 acres of land and the dwelling houses thereon passing to private ownership, the said land and the dwelling houses thereon shall be restored to the tax rolls and be subject to taxation.

     History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 153, L. 1941; re-en. Sec. 5309.27C, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 35-130(part); amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 363, L. 1985.