(A) In order to protect the residents of public housing and citizens in housing units surrounding the public housing areas and his or her properties by denying admission to public housing by a person who has been convicted of a felonious drug charge, felonious assault charge or other felonies, the following procedures for screening applicants to occupy public housing units are hereby adopted.
(B) Whenever an applicant applies for public housing units, the executive director of the housing authority of the city, functioning as the housing authority for public housing in the city, or his or her designee, shall screen all applicants for occupancy of a unit. The executive director or his or her designee shall require each applicant for admission to public housing to provide all necessary personal identification, including birth certificate, social security number and driver’s license, if available, so that the Chief of Police or his or her designee may cause a thorough search to be made of local or state criminal convictions of the crimes enumerated above by use of the Police Information Network (PIN).
(C) The Chief of Police or his or her designee shall provide the findings made through the use of PIN to the executive director of the Lincolnton Housing Authority of the city or his or her designee, provided the housing authority has executed all necessary agreements with the police information network of the State Bureau of Investigation, Division of Criminal Information.
(Prior Code, § 10-23) (Ord. O-44-96, passed 8-1-1996)