11-7-58. Low-rent policy--Operation of housing projects for profit prohibited--Costs to be covered by rentals.
Each commission shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner to enable it to fix the rentals or payments for dwelling accommodations at rates consistent with its providing decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income, and no commission shall construct or operate any housing project for profit, or as source of revenue to the municipality or the county. To this end a commission shall fix the rentals or payments for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenues which (together with all other available moneys, revenues, income, and receipts of the commission from whatever sources derived) will be sufficient:
(1)To pay, as the same become due, the principal and interest on the bonds of the commission issued for housing projects;
(2)To create and maintain such reserves as may be required to assure the payment of principal and interest as they become due on such bonds;
(3)To meet the cost of and to provide for, maintaining and operating the housing projects (including necessary reserves therefor and the cost of any insurance) and the administrative expenses of the commission; and
(4)To make payments in lieu of taxes consistent with maintaining the low-rent character of the projects.
Source: SL 1950 (SS), ch 13, §12; SDC Supp 1960, §45.3612; SL 1968, ch 186, §8.