The legislature finds and declares that
(1) slum and blighted areas exist in localities throughout the state and they constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious and inimical to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of the state;
(2) the existence of these slum and blighted areas contributes substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, necessitating excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for the preservation of the public health and safety, for crime prevention, correction, prosecution, punishment, and the treatment of juvenile delinquency and for the maintenance of adequate police, fire, and accident protection and other public services and facilities, and constitutes an economic and social liability, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of municipalities, and retards the provisions of housing accommodations;
(3) this menace is beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory process in the exercise of the police power and cannot be dealt with effectively by the ordinary operations of private enterprise without the aids provided in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960;
(4) the elimination of slum conditions or conditions of blight, the acquisition and preparation of land in or necessary to the redevelopment of slum or blighted areas and its sale or lease for development or redevelopment in accordance with comprehensive plans and redevelopment plans of municipalities, and any assistance that may be given by any public body in connection therewith are public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and private property acquired; and
(5) the necessity in the public interest for the provisions of AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 is a matter for legislative determination.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender
Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities
Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act.
Sec. 18.55.480. Findings and declaration of necessity.
Sec. 18.55.490. Legislative intent.
Sec. 18.55.510. Finding of necessity by municipality.
Sec. 18.55.520. Powers of the corporation.
Sec. 18.55.525. Neighborhood development projects.
Sec. 18.55.530. Preparation and approval of redevelopment plans.
Sec. 18.55.540. Disposal of property in redevelopment project.
Sec. 18.55.550. Eminent domain.
Sec. 18.55.560. Acquisition and development of undeveloped vacant land.
Sec. 18.55.570. Issuance of bonds and notes.
Sec. 18.55.580. Power of corporation to provide additional security for bonds.
Sec. 18.55.590. Remedies of obligee.
Sec. 18.55.600. Bonds as legal investment.
Sec. 18.55.610. Conveyance to federal government on default.
Sec. 18.55.620. Property exempt from taxes and execution.
Sec. 18.55.630. Cooperation by public bodies.
Sec. 18.55.650. Title of purchaser of project property.
Sec. 18.55.660. Additional powers of governing body.
Sec. 18.55.670. Preparation of general plan by local governing body.
Sec. 18.55.680. Urban renewal projects; definition.
Sec. 18.55.690. Urban renewal plan; definition.
Sec. 18.55.700. Powers with respect to urban renewal.
Sec. 18.55.710. Public bodies authorized to assist in urban renewal projects.
Sec. 18.55.720. Corporation may delegate functions to municipalities and public bodies.
Sec. 18.55.730. Agreements for exercising powers and granting assistance.
Sec. 18.55.740. Workable program.
Sec. 18.55.750. Municipality may repair, etc., dwellings unfit for habitation.
Sec. 18.55.760. Ordinances relating to unfit dwellings.
Sec. 18.55.770. What ordinance must include.
Sec. 18.55.780. Petition or finding that dwelling is unfit and filing of complaint.
Sec. 18.55.790. Pleadings and hearing.
Sec. 18.55.800. Rules of evidence do not control in hearings before the corporation.
Sec. 18.55.810. Findings and order.
Sec. 18.55.820. Ordinance to fix percentage of cost as reasonable.
Sec. 18.55.830. Failure of owner to comply with order.
Sec. 18.55.840. Costs of repair, etc., are a lien.
Sec. 18.55.850. Disposition of material where dwelling is removed or demolished.
Sec. 18.55.870. Manner of serving parties in interest.
Sec. 18.55.880. Injunction to prevent corporation from proceeding.
Sec. 18.55.890. Remedies provided are exclusive.
Sec. 18.55.900. Ordinance may give corporation additional powers.
Sec. 18.55.910. Municipality to prepare estimate of costs of administration.
Sec. 18.55.920. AS 18.55.750 - 18.55.930 not a limitation on municipalities.
Sec. 18.55.930. Powers of a municipality to control use and occupancy of dwellings.
Sec. 18.55.932. Urban redevelopment or urban renewal in a disaster area.
Sec. 18.55.934. State aid for an urban redevelopment or urban renewal project in a disaster area.