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14-169-705. Powers generally — Definitions.
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14-169-705. Powers generally — Definitions.
(a) A housing authority or an urban renewal agency shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects, including the authority to acquire and dispose of property, to issue bonds and other obligations, to borrow and accept grants from the United States Government or other source, and to exercise the other powers which § 14-169-601 et seq. confers on an authority with respect to redevelopment projects.
(b)(1) In connection with the planning and undertaking of any urban renewal plan or urban renewal project, the urban renewal agency, the housing authority, the municipality, and all public and private officers, agencies, and bodies shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities that each has with respect to a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project under § 14-169-601 et seq.
(2)(A) For such purposes:
(i) The word “redevelopment” as used in this subchapter, except in this section and in the definition of “redevelopment project” in § 14-169-604, shall mean “urban renewal”;
(ii) The word “slum” and the word “blighted” as used in this subchapter, except in this section and in the definitions in § 14-169-604, shall mean “blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating”; and
(iii) The finding prescribed in § 14-169-604 with respect to a blighted area shall not be required.
(B) Any disaster area referred to in § 14-169-703 shall constitute a “blighted area,” and this subsection shall not change the corporate name of the authority or the short title of Acts 1945, No. 212, or amend any section of it.
(c) In addition to the surveys and plans which an authority is otherwise authorized to make, an authority is specifically authorized to make:
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-705
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14-169-705. Powers generally — Definitions.
(a) A housing authority or an urban renewal agency shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects, including the authority to acquire and dispose of property, to issue bonds and other obligations, to borrow and accept grants from the United States Government or other source, and to exercise the other powers which § 14-169-601 et seq. confers on an authority with respect to redevelopment projects.
(b)(1) In connection with the planning and undertaking of any urban renewal plan or urban renewal project, the urban renewal agency, the housing authority, the municipality, and all public and private officers, agencies, and bodies shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities that each has with respect to a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project under § 14-169-601 et seq.
(2)(A) For such purposes:
(i) The word “redevelopment” as used in this subchapter, except in this section and in the definition of “redevelopment project” in § 14-169-604, shall mean “urban renewal”;
(ii) The word “slum” and the word “blighted” as used in this subchapter, except in this section and in the definitions in § 14-169-604, shall mean “blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating”; and
(iii) The finding prescribed in § 14-169-604 with respect to a blighted area shall not be required.
(B) Any disaster area referred to in § 14-169-703 shall constitute a “blighted area,” and this subsection shall not change the corporate name of the authority or the short title of Acts 1945, No. 212, or amend any section of it.
(c) In addition to the surveys and plans which an authority is otherwise authorized to make, an authority is specifically authorized to make:
(1) Plans for carrying out a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements;
(2) Plans for the enforcement of laws, codes, and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements, and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of buildings and improvements;
(3) Plans for the relocation of persons, including families, business concerns, and others displaced by an urban renewal project;
(4) Preliminary plans outlining urban renewal activities for neighborhoods to embrace two (2) or more urban renewal areas; and
(5) Preliminary surveys to determine if the undertaking and carrying out of an urban renewal project are feasible.
(d)(1) The authority is authorized to make relocation payments to, or with respect to, persons including families, business concerns, and others displaced by an urban renewal project, for moving expenses and losses of property for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made, including the making of such payments financed by the United States Government.
(2) The authority is also authorized to develop, test, and report methods and techniques, and carry out demonstrations and other activities for the prevention and the elimination of slums and urban blight.
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14-169-601. Legislative declarations.
It is found and declared that:
(1) There exists in many communities within this state blighted areas, as defined in § 14-169-604, or areas in the process of becoming blighted;
(2)(A) Such areas impair economic values and tax revenues;
(B) Such areas cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of the state; and
(C) These conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, and accident protection, and other public services and facilities;
(3) The clearance, replanning, and preparation for rebuilding of these areas and the prevention or the reduction of blight and its causes are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired and are governmental functions of state concern;
(4)(A) Redevelopment activities will stimulate residential construction which is closely correlated with general economic activity; and
(B) Such undertakings authorized by this subchapter will aid the production of better housing and more desirable neighborhood and community development at lower costs and will make possible a more stable and larger volume of residential construction, which will assist materially in achieving and maintaining full employment; and
(5)(A) It is in the public interest that advance preparation for such projects and activities be made; and
(B) The necessity in the public interest for the provisions enacted in this subchapter is declared as a matter of legislative determination.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-601
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 14-169-601. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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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
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 14-169-604. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-703. Urban renewal projects.
(a)(1) An urban renewal agency under § 14-169-709 or a housing authority under § 14-169-601 et seq. is authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects.
(2) As used in this subchapter, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination and for the prevention of the development or spread of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas and may involve any work or undertaking for such purposes constituting a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or work. Such undertaking and work may include:
(A) Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;
(B) Acquisition of:
(i) A slum area or a deteriorated or deteriorating area;
(ii) Land which is predominantly open and which, because of obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, deterioration of structures or of site improvements, or otherwise, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the community;
(iii) Open land necessary for sound community growth. The requirement of this subchapter that the area be a slum area or a blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating area shall not be applicable in the case of an open land project; or
(iv) Acquisition of any other real property in the urban renewal project area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities, and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements;
(C) Installation, construction, or rec
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-703
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 14-169-703. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.