KRS 80.380: Prerequisites to creation of authority for city, county or region.

No governing body of a city or county shall adopt a resolution under KRS 80.320 to

80.610 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority to be created, or to exercise

its powers within such city or county, or that there is a need to include such city or county

within the area of operation of a housing authority, unless such governing body shall have

found substantially that:

(1) Unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in such city or

county or that there is a shortage of safe o r sanitary dwelling accommodations in

such city or county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford;

and

(2) These conditions can be best remedied through the exercise of the housing

authority's powers within the territorial boundaries of such city or county.