2017 New Jersey Revised Statutes
TITLE 55 - TENEMENT HOUSES AND PUBLIC HOUSING
Section 55:14K-19 - New Jersey housing development corporation
55:14K-19. New Jersey housing development corporation
a. In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of this act, there is hereby chartered in, but not of, the agency the New Jersey Housing Development Corporation.
b. The corporation shall be organized, managed and operated as an entity distinct from the agency, except that members and employees of the agency may be officers and directors of the corporation; but it shall be empowered to act as agent of the agency under contractual agreements relating to matters set forth in subsection c. of this section.
c. The corporation may issue its stock and employ the proceeds of such sales:
(1) To purchase residential structures in need of rehabilitation and rehabilitate them for purposes of resale, including resale under lease-purchase agreements.
(2) To contract for the construction of new residential structures and to assume ownership of the same for the purposes of resale, including lease-purchase agreements.
(3) To co-venture with other public or private agencies or corporations as an investor in major rehabilitation or construction projects of the types described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection.
d. The agency is directed to complete the organization of the corporation unless the members of the agency vote not to so organize and so advise the Governor and the Legislature.
L.1983, c. 530, s. 19, eff. Jan. 17, 1984.
