2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 99 - URBAN RENEWAL AND REDEVELOPMENT
99.700 Legislative findings and policy.
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(1)
(2)
It is hereby found:
(a) That there exists in many cities and in counties containing a city of the
first class or consolidated local government in this Commonwealth
blighted and deteriorated properties in neighborhoods which cause the
deterioration of those and contiguous neighborhoods and constitute a
serious and growing menace which is injurious to the public health,
safety, morals, and general welfare of the residents of the
Commonwealth, and are beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory
process in the exercise of the police power;
(b) That the existence of blighted and deteriorated properties within
neighborhoods, and the growth and spread of blight and deterioration or
the threatened deterioration of other neighborhoods and properties:
1.
Contribute substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease
and crime, and to losses by fire and accident;
2.
Necessitate expensive and disproportionate expenditures of public
funds for the preservation of the public health and safety, for crime
prevention, correction, prosecution, and punishment, for the
treatment of juvenile delinquency, for the maintenance of adequate
police, fire and accident protection, and for other public services and
facilities;
3.
Constitute an economic and social liability;
4.
Substantially impair or arrest the sound growth of the community;
5.
Retard the provision of decent, safe, and sanitary housing
accommodations;
6.
Depreciate assessable values;
7.
Cause an abnormal exodus of families from these neighborhoods;
and
8.
Are detrimental to the health, the well-being, and the dignity of many
residents of these neighborhoods;
(c) That this menace cannot be effectively dealt with by private enterprise
without the aids provided herein; and
(d) That the benefits which would result from eliminating the blighted
properties that cause the blight and deterioration of neighborhoods will
accrue to the inhabitants of the neighborhoods in which these conditions
exist and to the inhabitants of this Commonwealth generally.
It is hereby declared:
(a) That it is the policy of this Commonwealth to protect and promote the
health, safety, and welfare of the people of the Commonwealth by
eliminating the blight and deterioration of neighborhoods through the
elimination of blighted and deteriorated properties within these
neighborhoods;
(b) That the elimination of such blight and deterioration and the preparation
of the properties for sale or lease, for development or redevelopment,
constitute a public use and purpose for which public money may be
(c)
expended and private property acquired and are governmental functions
in the interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the
Commonwealth; and
That the necessity in the public interest for the provisions enacted herein
is hereby declared to be a legislative determination.
Effective:July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 346, sec. 127, effective July 15, 2002. -Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 170, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1988. -- Created 1984
Ky. Acts ch. 248, sec. 1, effective July 13, 1984.
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