Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-38-101

The provisions of this article shall apply to all municipalities

in this state except as otherwise provided. The following terms

whenever used or referred to in Sections 38-101 through 38-119 of

this title shall have the following meanings, unless a different

meaning is clearly indicated by the context:

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1. "Authority" or "Urban Renewal Authority" shall mean a public

body corporate created by Section 38-107 of this title;

2. "Public body" shall mean the state or any incorporated city,

town, board, commission, authority, district, or any subdivision or

public body of the state;

3. "Municipality" shall mean any incorporated city or town;

4. "Municipal governing body" shall mean the council, board of

trustees, or other body duly charged with governing a municipality;

5. "Mayor" shall mean the mayor of a municipality or other

officer or body having the duties customarily imposed upon the

executive head of a municipality;

6. "Clerk" shall mean the clerk or other official of a

municipality who is the custodian of the official records of the

municipality;

7. "Federal Government" shall include the United States of

America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of

the United States of America;

8. "Blighted area" shall mean an area in which there are

properties, buildings, or improvements, whether occupied or vacant,

whether residential or nonresidential, which by reason of

dilapidation, deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate

provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation or open spaces;

improper subdivision or obsolete platting of land; deterioration or

demolition of structures without repair, replacement or

reinvestment; improper street layout in terms of existing or

projected traffic needs, traffic congestion or lack of parking or

terminal facilities needed for existing or proposed land uses in the

area, predominance of defective or inadequate street layouts; faulty

lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility or

usefulness; insanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site

or other improvements; diversity of ownership, tax or special

assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land;

defective or unusual conditions of title including, but not limited

to, highly fragmented interests; any one or combination of such

conditions which the municipal governing body determines

substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the

municipality and constitutes a substantial liability, or which

endangers life or property by fire or other causes, or is conducive

to ill health, transmission of disease, mortality, juvenile

delinquency, or crime and by reason thereof, is detrimental to the

public health, safety, morals or welfare;

9. "Urban renewal project" or "redevelopment project" may

include undertakings and activities of a municipality, an urban

renewal authority, redevelopment corporation, person or other

corporation, in an urban renewal area for the elimination and for

the prevention of the development or spread of blight, and may

involve clearance and redevelopment in an urban renewal area, or

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rehabilitation or conservation in an urban renewal area, or any

combination or part thereof in accordance with an urban renewal

plan. Such undertakings may include:

a. acquisition of a blighted area or portions thereof,

b. demolition and removal of buildings and improvements,

c. installation, construction or reconstruction of

streets, off-street parking facilities, utilities,

parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary

for carrying out in the urban renewal area the urban

renewal objectives of this article in accordance with

the urban renewal plan,

d. disposition of any property for uses in the urban

renewal area or the leasing or retention of such

property for uses in accordance with the urban renewal
streets, off-street parking facilities, utilities,

parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary

for carrying out in the urban renewal area the urban

renewal objectives of this article in accordance with

the urban renewal plan,

d. disposition of any property for uses in the urban

renewal area or the leasing or retention of such

property for uses in accordance with the urban renewal

plan,

e. carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or

compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or

other improvements in accordance with the urban

renewal plan, or

f. acquisition of any other real property in the 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;

10. "Urban renewal area" means a blighted area within which the

governing body of a municipality designates an area appropriate for

an urban renewal project;

11. "Urban renewal plan" means a plan officially adopted by the

municipal governing body, as it exists or is changed from time to

time, for an urban renewal project, which plan shall:

a. conform to the general plan for the municipality as a

whole except as provided in subsection K of Section

38-106 of this title, and

b. be sufficiently complete to indicate such land

acquisition, demolition and removal of structures,

redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may

be proposed to be carried out in the urban renewal

area, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses,

maximum densities, building requirements, and the

plan's relationship to definite local objectives

respecting appropriate land uses, traffic, public

transportation, public utilities, recreational and

community facilities, and other public improvements,

and plans for financing the project, and plans for the

relocation of families and businesses to be displaced;

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12. "Real property" shall include all lands, including

improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature

appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every

estate, interest, right and use, legal or equitable, therein,

including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or

otherwise;

13. "Notes" shall mean any notes (including refunding notes),

interim certificates of indebtedness, debentures or other

obligations;

14. "Obligee" shall include any bondholder, agents or trustees

for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the municipality property

used in connection with an urban renewal project, or any assignee or

assignees of such lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the

Federal Government when it is a party to any contract with the Urban

Renewal Authority or the municipality;

15. "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership,

corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body

politic; and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other

person acting in a similar representative capacity;

16. "Area of operation" shall mean the area within the

corporate limits of the municipality;

17. "Board" or "Commission" shall mean a board, commission,

department, division, office, body or other unit of the

municipality;

18. "Public officer" shall mean any officer who is in charge of

any department or branch of the government of a municipality

relating to health, fire, building regulations, or to other

activities concerning dwellings in its area of operation; and

19. "Redevelopment corporation" shall mean a corporation

organized under the provisions of Section 38-117 of this title.