CODE OF VIRGINIA

SAME SUBJECT; TENANT SELECTION LIMITATIONS; HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION (§ 36-37)

A regional or county housing authority shall have power to rent, sell, or make
loans to finance the cost of dwellings on farms or in other areas outside of
cities and to make or accept such conveyances or leases as it deems necessary to
carry out the rural housing purposes of this chapter. With respect to such
housing, county and regional housing authorities shall not be subject to the
tenant selection limitations provided in clause (c) of § 36-22.When an
authority provides a dwelling on a farm hereunder, the owner of the farm living
in the dwelling under a lease or purchase agreement shall be entitled to receive
the same homestead exemption as if he had title to the dwelling.

HISTORY: 1946, p. 277; Michie Suppl. 1946, § 3145(4p).