The Secretary of Commerce, hereafter in this chapter sometimes called the director, may:
- (1) study housing conditions and needs throughout the State to determine in what areas congested and unsanitary housing conditions constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare and reasonable comfort of the citizens of the State;
- (2) prepare programs for correcting such conditions;
- (3) collect and distribute information relating to housing;
- (4) investigate all matters affecting the cost of construction or production of dwellings;
- (5) study means of lowering rents of dwellings by securing economy in the construction and arrangement of buildings;
- (6) recommend and approve the areas within which or adjacent to which the construction of housing projects by limited dividend housing companies may be undertaken; and
- (7) cooperate with local housing officials and planning commissions or similar bodies in cities and other localities in the development of projects they at any time may have under consideration.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 36-3; 1952 Code Section 36-3; 1942 Code Section 5271-10; 1933 (38) 176; 1945 (44) 156; 1954 (48) 1745; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1994 Act No. 361, Section 8.