§53-51 Urban renewal projects. In addition to its authority under any other section of this chapter, a redevelopment agency may plan and undertake urban renewal projects within urban areas. As used in this chapter, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination (and for the prevention of the development or spread) of slums, or other blighted, or deteriorated, or deteriorating areas and may involve any work or undertaking for the purpose constituting a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work or a program of code enforcement, or any combination of such undertaking or work. For this purpose, "rehabilitation or conservation work" may include (1) carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements; (2) acquisition of real property and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities; (3) installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and (4) the disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project of any property or part thereof acquired in the area of the project; provided that the disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area under part I. [L 1955, c 271, pt of §1; RL 1955, §143-51; am L 1965, c 101, §1(m); HRS §53-51]
Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 6. County Organization and Administration
53-2 Redevelopment agency; creation.
53-3 Interest in project prohibited; disclosure of interest.
53-5 Powers and duties of agency.
53-6 Initiation and approval of redevelopment plan.
53-7 Urban renewal projects in disaster areas.
53-8 Acquisition of lands in redevelopment project.
53-9 Work on acquired areas; competitive contracts.
53-10 Appraisal of lands of agency.
53-11 Government instrumentalities to cooperate with agency.
53-12 Sale and lease of acquired lands; preference.
53-13 New constructions by agency.
53-14 Agency exempt from real property taxes.
53-15 Financial assistance of agency and office of urban renewal coordinator; redevelopment fund.
53-17 Bonds of agency to be legal investments.
53-20 Auxiliary redevelopment area.
53-21 Auxiliary redevelopment area; displaced persons.
53-22 Governmental advances, donations, and other appropriations.
53-23 Redevelopment corporations; how created.
53-24 Consent of agency to incorporation of redevelopment corporations.
53-25 Application of other corporation laws.
53-26 Powers of redevelopment corporations.
53-27 Limited return on investment.
53-28 Consideration for issuance of stocks and bonds.
53-29 Minimum amount of stock and debentures.
53-31 Mortgages and mortgage bonds.
53-33 Advances by redevelopment corporation.
53-34 Regulation of redevelopment corporations.
53-35 Transfer of title or foreclosure of project.
53-37 Participation by certain corporations.
53-39 No limitation of provisions by implication.
53-53 Powers with respect to urban renewal.
53-54 Assistance to urban renewal by counties and other public bodies.
53-55 Urban redevelopment coordinator, office created.
53-56 Workable program, definition.
53-57 Coordinator, appointment, term, removal.
53-58 Coordinator, qualifications.
53-59 Coordinator, duties and powers.
53-60 Ordinance relating to repair, closing, and demolition of dwellings unfit for human habitation.
53-81 County may exercise urban renewal powers directly.
53-82 Abolition of existing agency.