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14-169-604. Authority generally — Definition.
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14-169-604. Authority generally — Definition.
An urban renewal agency under § 14-169-709 and any housing authority established under the Housing Authorities Act, §§ 14-169-201 — 14-169-205, 14-169-207 — 14-169-225, 14-169-227, 14-169-229 — 14-169-240, and 14-169-804, may carry out any work or undertaking to be called a “redevelopment project”, to:
(1) Acquire blighted areas, which are defined as areas, including slum areas, with buildings or improvements which by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary facilities, excessive land coverage, deleterious land use or obsolete layout, or any combination of these or other factors are detrimental to the safety, health, morals, or welfare of the community;
(2) Acquire other real property for the purpose of removing, preventing, or reducing blight, blighting factors, or the causes of blight;
(3) Acquire real property where the acquisition of the area by the authority is necessary to carry out a redevelopment plan;
(4) Clear any areas acquired and install, construct, or reconstruct streets, utilities, and site improvements essential to the preparation of sites for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan;
(5) Sell land so acquired for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan; or
(6) Accomplish a combination of these projects to carry out a redevelopment plan.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-604
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14-169-604. Authority generally — Definition.
An urban renewal agency under § 14-169-709 and any housing authority established under the Housing Authorities Act, §§ 14-169-201 — 14-169-205, 14-169-207 — 14-169-225, 14-169-227, 14-169-229 — 14-169-240, and 14-169-804, may carry out any work or undertaking to be called a “redevelopment project”, to:
(1) Acquire blighted areas, which are defined as areas, including slum areas, with buildings or improvements which by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary facilities, excessive land coverage, deleterious land use or obsolete layout, or any combination of these or other factors are detrimental to the safety, health, morals, or welfare of the community;
(2) Acquire other real property for the purpose of removing, preventing, or reducing blight, blighting factors, or the causes of blight;
(3) Acquire real property where the acquisition of the area by the authority is necessary to carry out a redevelopment plan;
(4) Clear any areas acquired and install, construct, or reconstruct streets, utilities, and site improvements essential to the preparation of sites for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan;
(5) Sell land so acquired for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan; or
(6) Accomplish a combination of these projects to carry out a redevelopment plan.
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14-169-201. Title.
This subchapter may be referred to as the “Housing Authorities Act.”
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-201
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14-169-205. Planning, etc., laws applicable.
(a) All housing projects of a housing authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which the housing project is situated.
(b) In the planning and location of any housing project, an authority shall take into consideration the relationship of the project to any larger plan or long-range program for the development of the area in which the authority functions.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-205
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-205. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-207. Creation of authorities.
(a)(1) In each city and in each county of the state there is created a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “housing authority” of the city or county.
(2)(A) An authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers under this subchapter until or unless the governing body of the city or the county, as the case may be, by proper resolution shall declare at any time that there is need for an authority to function in the city or county.
(B) The determination as to whether there is a need for an authority to function:
(i) May be made by the governing body on its own motion; or
(ii) Shall be made by the governing body upon the filing of a petition signed by twenty-five (25) residents of the city or the county, as the case may be, asserting that there is need for an authority to function in the city or county and requesting that the governing body so declare.
(b)(1) The governing body shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is need for a housing authority in the city or county, as the case may be, if it shall find that:
(A) Insanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the city or county; or
(B) There is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the city or county available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford.
(2) In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or insanitary, the governing body may take into consideration:
(A) The degree of overcrowding;
(B) The percentage of land coverage;
(C) The light, air, space, and access available to the inhabitants of the dwelling accommodations;
(D) The size and arrangement of the rooms;
(E) The sanitary facilities; and
(F) The extent to which conditions exist in the buildings
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-207
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-207. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-709. Urban renewal agency created.
(a)(1) There is created in each municipality in this state, where on January 10, 1961, a housing authority has not been established or a housing authority is established but the housing authority has not undertaken an urban renewal project, a public body politic and corporate to be known as the “urban renewal agency” of the municipality for the purpose of planning and undertaking urban renewal projects.
(2) A municipality in which the urban renewal agency has ceased operation and become dormant may by resolution of the governing body revive the urban renewal agency, and upon adoption of the resolution under subsection (b) of this section, the mayor shall appoint a board of commissioners under § 14-169-710.
(b) The agency shall not transact any business or exercise any powers under this subchapter unless and until the local governing body shall have adopted a resolution finding that:
(1) One (1) or more slum, blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas exist in the municipality; and
(2) The rehabilitation, conservation, redevelopment, or a combination thereof, of such areas is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, morals, or welfare of the residents of the municipality.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-709
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-709. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.