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514 – Filing of Proposed Plans.

§ 514. Filing of proposed plans. The municipality or agency, as the case may be, shall file with the commissioner a copy of any proposed urban renewal program assisted by state loans, periodic subsidies or capital grants, embodying the plans, layout, estimated cost and proposed method of financing. Any change made in an urban renewal […]

504 – Site Designation.

§ 504. Site designation. An area shall be designated by the governing body, or by the commission where so authorized to act by the governing body, on its own initiative or on petition of the owners in fee of not less than fifty-one per cent of the land (excluding publicly owned land) or upon recommendation […]

500 – Short Title.

§ 500. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited and referred to as the “urban renewal law.”

501 – Policy and Purposes of Article.

§ 501. Policy and purposes of article. There exist in many municipalities within this state residential, non-residential, commercial, industrial or vacant areas, and combinations thereof, which are slum or blighted, or which are becoming slum or blighted areas because of substandard, insanitary, deteriorated or deteriorating conditions, factors, and characteristics, with or without tangible physical blight. […]

503 – Powers of Municipalities.

§ 503. Powers of municipalities. Every municipality is hereby authorized to plan and undertake one or more urban renewal projects and shall have the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate such project or projects and the purposes and provisions of this article, including but not limited to the following powers: (a) Cooperate […]

503-A – Cooperation With Agencies.

§ 503-a. Cooperation with agencies. For the purpose of aiding an agency established pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen-A of this chapter a municipality may: 1. Delegate to such agency such of its powers enumerated under section five hundred three of this article as it may deem appropriate, necessary or desirable to effectuate the […]

503-B – Transfer of Projects.

§ 503-b. Transfer of projects. Notwithstanding any provision of this article, or of any general, special or local law or charter to the contrary, a municipality may, upon the establishment of a municipal urban renewal agency pursuant to the provisions of article fifteen-A of this chapter, convey, assign, grant or otherwise transfer all of its […]