99.550 Power and authority of agency with respect to urban renewal. - Kentucky Statutes

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99.550 Power and authority of agency with respect to urban renewal. An 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 federal government or other source and to exercise the other powers which KRS
99.330 to 99.510 confer on an agency with respect to redevelopment projects. In
connection with the planning and undertaking of any urban renewal plan or urban renewal
project, the agency, the community, and all public and private officers, agencies, and
bodies shall have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities which they have with
respect to a development plan or redevelopment project, in the same manner as though all
of the provisions of KRS 99.330 to 99.510 applicable to a development plan or
redevelopment project were applicable to an urban renewal plan or urban renewal project;
Provided That for such purpose the word "redevelopment" as used in KRS 99.330 to
99.510 and KRS 99.520 to 99.590, except in this section and in the definition of
"redevelopment project" in KRS 99.340, shall mean "urban renewal," the words "slum
area" and the words "blighted area" as used in KRS 99.330 to 99.510 and KRS 99.520 to
99.590, except in this section and in the definitions in subsections (1) and (2) of KRS
99.340, shall mean "blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating area," and the finding
prescribed in KRS 99.370 with respect to a slum area or blighted area shall not be
required; Provided further That any disaster area, referred to in KRS 99.530, shall
constitute a "blighted area"; and Provided further That this section shall not change the
corporate name of the agency or amend any section of KRS 99.330 to 99.510. In addition
to the surveys and plans which an agency is otherwise authorized to make, an agency is
hereby 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 lands 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. The agency 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 federal government. The agency
also is 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. Effective: June 19, 1958
History: Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 10, effective June 19, 1958. -- Created 1956 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 4.