1. 1. The workfare renovation project shall have the following goals:

   1. (1) To assist low-income individuals in learning a trade by providing them with an opportunity to participate in the renovation of urban core property; and
   2. (2) To create tax-producing property for the participating cities out of existing urban core city property.
2. 2. The governing body of any city defined in section 90.760, RSMo, by enacting the appropriate ordinances, may participate in the workfare renovation project by donating existing inner city property to the project, submitting a plan for renovation in the city to the commission and establishing an agency to administer the project in such city pursuant to any authority delegated to such agency by the commission.

3. 3. The commission may:

   1. (1) Receive, hold and convey title to real estate on the workfare renovation project carried out by the participating city and receive and use for the purposes described in sections 215.340 to 215.349 any grants or loans made by the commission pursuant to section 215.035 or section 215.050;
   2. (2) Approve all proposed inner city property for renovation;
   3. (3) Approve the workers who will perform the renovation and reconstruction work. The workers, to be selected from the local labor force, shall be capable of performing the work for which they will be hired, and shall be, as far as practicable, persons who are classified as low income or receiving public assistance and who are indigenous to the areas which are selected for renovation activity;
   4. (4) Contract and be contracted with;
   5. (5) Seek such legal and other professional and staff assistance deemed necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 215.340 to 215.349;

   6. (6) Sell the properties renovated, but such sales shall be subject to the following requirements:

      1. (a) All properties sold shall be sold at a sales price not to exceed the cost to persons who qualify for low-income housing ownership benefits pursuant to federal or state law, or both, as determined annually by the Missouri housing development commission;
      2. (b) Each property shall be sold only to a person who will be the actual owner of record of the property and will actually occupy the property for a period of not less than five years; and
      3. (c) Each property shall be sold at a price which will allow the commission to recover all costs incurred by it in renovating and selling such property, including, but not limited to, the labor, materials and other renovation expenses;
   7. (7) Do all other things necessary to implement and administer the residential renovation program authorized by sections 215.340 to 215.349;
   8. (8) Utilize all appropriate tax credit and wage diversion programs offered through state departments to assist low-income residents of this state in becoming self-sufficient through the workfare renovation project.
4. 4. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated under the authority of sections 215.340 to 215.349 shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo. The provisions of this section and chapter 536, RSMo, are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, including the ability to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule or portion of a rule, are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the purported grant of rulemaking authority and any rule so proposed and contained in the order of rulemaking shall be invalid and void.

(L. 1997 2d Ex. Sess. S.B. 1 § 10)

Effective 12-23-97