Hawaii Revised Statutes 53. Urban Renewal Law

PART I. URBAN REDEVELOPMENT ACT

• 53-1 Definitions.
  The following terms wherever used or referred to in part I, part II and, unless specifically indicated otherwise therein, part III of this chapter...
• 53-2 Redevelopment Agency; Creation.
  (a) The council of a county by resolution may create a local redevelopment agency for the county, which shall be a county agency and...
• 53-3 Interest in Project Prohibited; Disclosure of Interest.
  No member or employee of the redevelopment agency shall acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any redevelopment project or in any property included...
• 53-4 Removal of Members.
  Any member of a redevelopment agency may be removed for any inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in office by the mayor with the...
• 53-5 Powers and Duties of Agency.
  The powers and duties of the redevelopment agency shall be as follows: (1) To undertake and carry out urban renewal projects and related activities...
• 53-6 Initiation and Approval of Redevelopment Plan.
  (a) Before adopting a redevelopment plan, the redevelopment agency shall be assured that satisfactory housing facilities are available or that reasonable provisions will be...
• 53-7 Urban Renewal Projects in Disaster Areas.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, where the council of a county certifies that an area within the county is in need of...
• 53-8 Acquisition of Lands in Redevelopment Project.
  After the redevelopment plan is officially approved by the council, or after the thirty-day period has expired or, after the final dismissal or determination...
• 53-9 Work on Acquired Areas; Competitive Contracts.
  The redevelopment agency may, by letting of contracts therefor, or by using its own employees, clear the acquired areas and maintain and repair or...
• 53-10 Appraisal of Lands of Agency.
  At any time after the approval of the redevelopment plan and before disposing of any of its lands or properties, the redevelopment agency shall...
• 53-11 Government Instrumentalities to Cooperate With Agency.
  For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of redevelopment projects located within the area in which it...
• 53-12 Sale and Lease of Acquired Lands; Preference.
  The redevelopment agency shall sell or lease real property acquired by it for a redevelopment project at its fair value for use in accordance...
• 53-13 New Constructions by Agency.
  The redevelopment agency may not erect new structures upon any of its property (except structures to be held and used by the government for...
• 53-14 Agency Exempt From Real Property Taxes.
  The redevelopment agency shall be exempt from real property taxes upon any of its land or buildings so long as title is held by...
• 53-15 Financial Assistance of Agency and Office of Urban Renewal Coordinator; Redevelopment Fund.
  The redevelopment agency may borrow and apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the federal,...
• 53-16 Bonds of Agency.
  (a) A redevelopment agency may issue bonds from time to time in its discretion for any of its corporate purposes including the payment of...
• 53-17 Bonds of Agency to Be Legal Investments.
  Bonds issued by a redevelopment agency in connection with one or more redevelopment plans or redevelopment projects pursuant to this part shall be legal...
• 53-18 Investment of Funds.
  A redevelopment agency may invest any of its funds not required for immediate disbursement in securities which constitute legal investments under state laws relating to...
• 53-19 Report.
  Each redevelopment agency shall make an annual report of its receipts, expenditures, and activities, and of its proposed program and estimated cost thereof for...
• 53-20 Auxiliary Redevelopment Area.
  Where a redevelopment agency finds: (1) That there is a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the county; (2) That the provision...
• 53-21 Auxiliary Redevelopment Area; Displaced Persons.
  Where the redevelopment agency of a county finds: (1) That there is a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the county; (2)...
• 53-22 Governmental Advances, Donations, and Other Appropriations.
  (a) The governor shall submit to the legislature at each regular session in an odd-numbered year, estimates of the amount reasonably required in the...
• 53-23 Redevelopment Corporations; How Created.
  A redevelopment corporation may be created in the manner provided by the general corporation laws with the following additional requirements and special limitations to...
• 53-24 Consent of Agency to Incorporation of Redevelopment Corporations.
  If any articles of association of a redevelopment corporation are presented to the state director of commerce and consumer affairs, the director shall not...
• 53-25 Application of Other Corporation Laws.
  All provisions of the general corporation laws, not inapplicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this part shall apply to redevelopment corporations. If...
• 53-26 Powers of Redevelopment Corporations.
  Each redevelopment corporation shall have and may exercise such of the powers conferred by the general corporation laws as are necessary in conducting the...
• 53-27 Limited Return on Investment.
  Subject to section 53-36, there shall be paid annually out of the earnings of the redevelopment corporation, after providing for all expenses, taxes, assessments,...
• 53-28 Consideration for Issuance of Stocks and Bonds.
  No redevelopment corporation shall issue stock, bonds, or income debenture certificates except for money or property actually received for the use and lawful purposes...
• 53-29 Minimum Amount of Stock and Debentures.
  Except as provided in this section the stock and income debenture certificates issued by the redevelopment corporation shall in no event be less than...
• 53-30 Income Debentures.
  With the approval of the redevelopment agency, the articles of association, or amended articles, may authorize the issuance of income debenture certificates bearing no...
• 53-31 Mortgages and Mortgage Bonds.
  Any redevelopment corporation, subject to the approval of the redevelopment agency, may borrow funds and secure the repayment thereof by bond and mortgage or...
• 53-32 Limitations.
  In addition to limitations prescribed by this part a redevelopment corporation shall not have power to: (1) Acquire any real property or interest therein...
• 53-33 Advances by Redevelopment Corporation.
  A redevelopment agency may enter into a contract with a redevelopment corporation at any time after approval of a redevelopment plan whereby the corporation...
• 53-34 Regulation of Redevelopment Corporations.
  The redevelopment agency shall examine each redevelopment corporation and keep informed as to its general condition, its capitalization, and the manner in which its...
• 53-35 Transfer of Title or Foreclosure of Project.
  Until the expiration of thirty-five years from the date of acquisition of property of or in a redevelopment project by a redevelopment corporation, it...
• 53-36 Dissolution.
  (a) After termination of any tax exemption granted pursuant to section 53-38, whether by expiration or by any other cause, or if prior thereto...
• 53-37 Participation by Certain Corporations.
  One or more insurance companies may organize, or cause to be organized, a redevelopment corporation formed pursuant to the provisions of this part, and...
• 53-38 Tax Exemption.
  Where and so long as the major portion of a redevelopment project of a redevelopment corporation is composed of residential units and the rents...
• 53-39 No Limitation of Provisions by Implication.
  No provision in this part applicable specially or only to a redevelopment corporation shall be construed to limit by implication the applicability of this...

PART II. URBAN RENEWAL

• 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...
• 53-52 Urban Renewal Plan.
  Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to section 53-51 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the...
• 53-53 Powers With Respect to Urban Renewal.
  A redevelopment agency shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out all urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects,...
• 53-54 Assistance to Urban Renewal by Counties and Other Public Bodies.
  Any county or other public body may (without limiting any provision in section 53-53) do any and all things necessary to aid and cooperate...
• 53-55 Urban Redevelopment Coordinator, Office Created.
  In any county which shall, by resolution adopted in the manner required by law for an ordinance, announce its intention to devise and adopt...
• 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...
• 53-57 Coordinator, Appointment, Term, Removal.
  The urban renewal coordinator, hereinafter called the "coordinator" shall be appointed by the mayor of the county, with the approval of the council for...
• 53-58 Coordinator, Qualifications.
  In order to be qualified for appointment as coordinator, the appointee: (1) Shall be a citizen of the State with at least three years'...
• 53-59 Coordinator, Duties and Powers.
  The coordinator shall among other things: (1) Prepare and submit to the council data and recommendations necessary or proper to enable the council to...
• 53-60 Ordinance Relating to Repair, Closing, and Demolition of Dwellings Unfit for Human Habitation.
  (a) Whenever any county finds that there exists in urban areas in the county dwellings which are unfit for human habitation due to dilapidation,...
• 53-61 Repealed.
  L 1968, c 56, §4.

PART III. EXERCISE OF URBAN RENEWAL
POWERS BY A COUNTY DIRECTLY

• 53-81 County May Exercise Urban Renewal Powers Directly.
  As an alternative to either the creation under section 53-2 of an agency in a county or the continued existence of an agency theretofore...
• 53-82 Abolition of Existing Agency.
  In the event of the abolition of an agency in the county, the county upon such abolition shall succeed to all the powers, rights,...
• 53-83 Powers of County.
  Any county which pursuant to section 53-81 shall directly rather than through an agency exercise the powers conferred upon an agency by parts I...
• 53-84 Incurring of Indebtedness by the County.
  For the purpose of carrying out its powers, duties, and functions under this part, including for the payment of principal and interest upon any...
• 53-85 Projects to Constitute "Undertakings"; Revenues to Include Certain Federal Moneys; Imposition of Rates and Charges.
  In the event of the exercise by a county of the powers granted in this part, each redevelopment project of the county, two or...

Last modified: October 27, 2016