52:27D-66. Demonstration programs; grants; preference to certain programs; reports

(a) The commissioner is hereby authorized to conduct demonstration programs, to participate in any public or private program, and to make grants from the fund to any person, association or corporation (subject to such terms and conditions as the commissioner may prescribe by rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this act), for the purpose of developing, testing and reporting methods and techniques, and carrying out, demonstrations and other activities for the prevention and elimination of slums and blight in urban and nonfarm rural areas, as well as the development of new or improved means of constructing or rehabilitating housing for families of moderate income.

(b) The commissioner, in exercising the powers and authority vested in him by subsection (a) of this section, shall give preference to those programs, activities, undertakings, and applications for grants which the commissioner shall determine, in the exercise of his discretion, have the greatest potentiality for (1) significant contributions to the elimination and prevention of slums and blight areas, and (2) accelerated development of the best and most economical methods and techniques of constructing or rehabilitating housing for families of moderate income.

(c) The commissioner may make advances and grants from the fund to any municipality for the preparation and submission by any municipality of an initial application or any amendments or supplements thereto for a planning grant under Title I of Public Law 89-754 (The Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966).

(d) The commissioner is hereby authorized to pay for the cost of (1) writing and publishing reports on demonstration programs conducted by the department, activities and undertakings in which the department participated, or which were financed by grants made pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, as well as reports on similar activities and undertakings, not so financed, which are of significant value in furthering the purposes of this act, and (2) writing and publishing summaries and other informational material on such reports.

L.1967, c. 82, s. 8, eff. May 31, 1967.