Hawaii Revised Statutes
53. Urban Renewal Law
53-56 Workable program, definition.

§53-56 Workable program, definition. "Workable program" means a program (including an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time for effectively dealing with the problem of urban slums and other blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas within the community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned community with well-organized residential neighborhoods of decent homes and suitable living environment for adequate family life) for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and other urban blight and deterioration, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum or other blighted, or deteriorated, or deteriorating areas or to undertake such of these activities or other feasible activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of the program. [L 1955, c 271, pt of §1; RL 1955, §143-56; HRS §53-56]

Structure Hawaii Revised Statutes

Hawaii Revised Statutes

Title 6. County Organization and Administration

53. Urban Renewal Law

53-1 Definitions.

53-2 Redevelopment agency; creation.

53-3 Interest in project prohibited; disclosure of interest.

53-4 Removal of members.

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.

53-16 Bonds of agency.

53-17 Bonds of agency to be legal investments.

53-18 Investment of funds.

53-19 Report.

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.

53-30 Income debentures.

53-31 Mortgages and mortgage bonds.

53-32 Limitations.

53-33 Advances by redevelopment corporation.

53-34 Regulation of redevelopment corporations.

53-35 Transfer of title or foreclosure of project.

53-36 Dissolution.

53-37 Participation by certain corporations.

53-38 Tax exemption.

53-39 No limitation of provisions by implication.

53-51 Urban renewal projects.

53-52 Urban renewal plan.

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.

53-61 REPEALED.

53-81 County may exercise urban renewal powers directly.

53-82 Abolition of existing agency.

53-83 Powers of county.

53-84 Incurring of indebtedness by the county.

53-85 Projects to constitute "undertakings"; revenues to include certain federal moneys; imposition of rates and charges.