TITLE 8 BUILDINGS AND HOUSING

Section 3. Housing Generally, 8-3-1 through 8-3-332.

ARTICLE 1 HOUSING AUTHORITIES

8-3-79. Additional remedies conferrable on obligee by an authority.

An authority shall have power by its resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other contract to confer upon any obligee holding or representing a specified amount in bonds, or holding a lease, the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in such resolution or instrument, by suit, action, or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction:

1. To cause possession of any housing project or any part thereof to be surrendered to any such obligee;
2. To obtain the appointment of a receiver of any housing project of said authority or any part thereof and of the rents and profits therefrom. If such receiver is appointed, he may enter and take possession of such housing project or any part thereof and operate and maintain it, and collect and receive all fees, rents, revenues, or other charges thereafter arising therefrom, and shall keep such moneys in a separate account or accounts and apply the same in accordance with the obligations of said authority as the court shall direct; and
3. To require said authority and the commissioners thereof to account as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust.

(Ga. L. 1937, p. 210, § 18; Ga. L. 1939, p. 126, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1951, p. 127, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1959, p. 141, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1962, p. 734, §§ 2, 3; Ga. L. 1971, p. 94, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 8, § 8.)