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1 Comparative Digest of the Principal Provisions of State Urban Redevelopment Legislation 1947

handle is hein.beal/cdppsurl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Housing and Home Finance Agency Office of The Administrator Division of Law May 15, 1948 SUPPLEMENT TO APRIL 1, 1947 COMPARATIVE DIGEST- OF THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS OF STATE URBAN REDEVELOPMENT LEGISLATION The purpose of this Supplement is to bring up to date the digest on State urban redevelopment legislation dated April 1, 1947. In this connection, it may be noted that twenty-four States, the District of polumbia, and Puerto Rico, now have some type of urban redevelopment legislation. I. Additional States During 1947 the Legislature of New Hampshire (Chapter 210, Laws of 1947, approved June 19, 1947) and Puerto Rico (Act No. 97, Acts of 1947, approved May 9, 1947) enacted original urban redevelopment legislation. Each statute authorizes public housing authorities to undertake and engage in urban redevelopment activities; also, each statute is similar in all material respects to the urban redevelopment statutes of South Cerolina and Tennessee, except that under the Puerto Rico statute (1) initiation of a redevelopment project and also the sale or lease of land acquired in connection with urban redevelopment, 'is subject to the approval of the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing, and Zoning Board and (2) no authorization, is granted for the establish- ment of a local board of representative citizens to advise the public housing authority with respect to its urban redevelopment functions. II. Legiaton in States With Existing Statutes The Legislatures of the following States amended or enacted addi- tional, or in some cases repealed, urban redevelopment statutes: California (1) Chapter 1515, Laws of 1947, approved July 18, 1947, amends the 1945 statute by adding a number of provisions, to remain in effect until 1949, creating a State Redevelopment Agency to study community redevelopment and housing needs, appropriating $77,000 to it, and au- thorizing it to accept financial assistance from the Federal Government which may be made available to carry out the purposes of the Community Redevelopment Act.

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