Sec. 393.008.  LOANS TO HOUSING AUTHORITY.  (a)  When a housing authority that is created for a municipality becomes operative, the governing body of the municipality shall immediately estimate the amount necessary for the administrative expenses and overhead of the housing authority during its first year of operation.  The governing body shall appropriate that amount to the authority from money in the municipal treasury that is not appropriated for other purposes.  The governing body shall pay that amount to the housing authority as a loan.
(b)  Any municipality located wholly or partly within the area of operation of a housing authority may lend or agree to lend money to the housing authority at any time.
(c)  The housing authority shall repay loans made to it under this section when it has money available for repayment.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 149, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.