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excluded.

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A. Every Urban Renewal Authority within the provisions of this

article shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry

out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article,

including the following powers in addition to others herein granted:

1. To undertake and carry out the urban renewal projects within its

area of operation and in accordance with any urban renewal plan

adopted by the municipality; and to make and execute contracts and

other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its

powers under this article; and to disseminate blight and urban

renewal information;

2. To provide or to arrange or contract for the furnishing by

any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges,

works, streets, roads, public utilities, or other facilities for or

in connection with an urban renewal project; to install, construct,

and reconstruct streets, off-street parking facilities, utilities,

parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements; and to agree to

any conditions that it may deem reasonable and appropriate attached

to Federal financial assistance and imposed pursuant to Federal law

relating to the determination of prevailing salaries or wages or

compliance with labor standards, in the undertaking or carrying out

of an urban renewal project, and to include in any contract let in

connection with such a report, provisions to fulfill such of said

conditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate;

3. With the permission of the owner or occupant, to enter into

any building or property in any urban renewal area within its area

of operation in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals,

soundings or test borings; provided if permission be denied, to so

enter for such purpose, upon reasonable notice and at reasonable

times, with the least possible inconvenience to the persons in

possession, and to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of

competent jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted; to

acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise,

eminent domain or otherwise, any real property, or personal property

for its purposes, together with any improvements thereon; to hold,

improve, clear or prepare for redevelopment any such property; to

mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber or dispose of

any real property; to insure or provide for the insurance of any

real or personal property or operations of the Authority or the

municipality against any risk or hazards, including the power to pay

premiums on any such insurance; and to enter into any contracts

necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article; provided,

however, that no statutory provisions with respect to the

acquisition, clearance or disposition of property by public bodies

shall restrict the Authority or municipality or other public body

exercising powers hereunder, in the exercise of such functions with

respect to an urban renewal project, unless the Legislature shall

specifically so state;

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4. To invest any urban renewal project funds held in reserves

or sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate

disbursement, in property or securities in which savings banks,

building and loan associations or savings and loan associations may

legally invest funds; to redeem such notes as have been issued

pursuant to Section 38-115 of this title at the redemption price

established therein or to purchase such notes at less than

redemption price, all such notes so redeemed or purchased to be

cancelled;

5. To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans,

grants, contributions and any other form of financial assistance

from the federal government, the state, county or other public body,

or from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this
tablished therein or to purchase such notes at less than

redemption price, all such notes so redeemed or purchased to be

cancelled;

5. To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans,

grants, contributions and any other form of financial assistance

from the federal government, the state, county or other public body,

or from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this

article, and to give such security as may be required and to enter

into and carry out contracts in connection therewith. An Authority

may include in any contract for financial assistance with the

federal government for an urban renewal project such conditions

imposed pursuant to federal laws as the Authority may deem

reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the

purposes of this article;

6. To make or have made, within its area of operation, surveys

and plans necessary to the carrying out of urban renewal plans or

projects, and to contract with any person, public or private, in

making and carrying out such plans. Such plans may include: (a)

urban renewal plans; (b) preliminary plans outlining urban renewal

activities for neighborhoods to embrace two or more urban renewal

areas; (c) plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or

compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements;

(d) plans for the enforcement of state and local laws, codes and

regulations relating to the use and occupancy of buildings and

improvements and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation,

demolition, or removal of buildings and improvements; or (e)

appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans and

work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal

projects;

7. To develop, test, and report methods and techniques, and

carry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention

and the elimination of blight and to apply for, accept and utilize

grants of funds from the Federal Government or any other source for

such purposes;

8. To prepare plans for the relocation of persons, families,

business concerns and others displaced by an urban renewal project,

and to make relocation payments to or with respect to such persons

for moving expenses and losses of property for which reimbursement

or compensation is not otherwise made, including the making of such

payment financed by the Federal Government but not limited thereby;

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9. To make such expenditures as may be necessary to carry out

the purposes of this article;

10. To organize, coordinate and direct the administration of

the provisions of this article as they apply to the municipality in

order that the objective of remedying blighted areas and preventing

the causes thereof within its area of operation may be most

effectively promoted and achieved, and to establish such office or

offices necessary to carry out such purposes most effectively; or

11. To exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein

granted, provided that the records covering all transactions shall

be open to public scrutiny and may be inspected by any person

affected thereby during regular office hours and upon reasonable

notice.

B. The duties, powers or authority of the Urban Renewal

Authority shall not include:

1. The power to determine an area to be a blighted area and to

designate such area as appropriate for an urban renewal project;

2. The power to prepare, establish, or amend a general plan for

the locality as a whole;

3. The power to formulate a workable program;

4. The power to make the determinations and findings provided

for in Section 38-105 and subsection E of Section 38-106 of this

title;

5. The power to issue general obligation bonds;

6. The power to appropriate funds of the municipality, to levy

taxes and assessments;

7. The power to zone or rezone; or

8. The power to make exceptions to zoning ordinances or
to formulate a workable program;

4. The power to make the determinations and findings provided

for in Section 38-105 and subsection E of Section 38-106 of this

title;

5. The power to issue general obligation bonds;

6. The power to appropriate funds of the municipality, to levy

taxes and assessments;

7. The power to zone or rezone; or

8. The power to make exceptions to zoning ordinances or

building regulations of the municipality.