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(f)  to enter into any building or property in any urban renewal
area in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings or
test borings, and to obtain an order for this purpose from the Circuit
Court for the county in which the municipality is situated in the
event entry is denied or resisted;

(g)   to plan, replan, install, construct, reconstruct, repair, close
or vacate streets, roads, sidewalks, public utilities, parks, play-
grounds, and other public improvements in connection with an urban
renewal project; and to make exceptions from building regulations;

(h) to generally organize, coordinate and direct the administration
of the provisions of this Article as they apply to such municipality
in order that the objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and
preventing the causes thereof within such municipality may be most
effectively promoted and achieved;

i) to require any public utility to relocate, at its own expense, any

lines or other facilities within an urban renewal area, if such reloca-

tion is required to carry out an urban renewal plan;

(j) (I) to exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein
granted.

Section 3. Establishment of Urban Renewal Agency.

The municipality may itself exercise all the powers granted by
this Article, or may, if its legislative body by ordinance determines
such action to be in the public interest elect to have such powers
exercised by a separate public body or agency as hereinafter pro-
vided. In the event said legislative body makes such determination,
it shall proceed by ordinance to establish a public body or agency
to undertake in the municipality the activities authorized by this
Article. Such ordinance shall include provisions establishing the
number of members of such public body or agency, the manner of
their appointment and removal, the terms of said members and their
compensation. The ordinance may include such additional provisions
relating to the organization of said public body or agency as may
be necessary. In the event the legislative body enacts such an ordi-
nance, all of the powers by this Article granted to the municipality
shall, from the effective date of said ordinance, be vested in the
public body or agency thereby established, except:

a)   The power to pass a resolution to initiate an urban renewal
project pursuant to Section 4 of this Article.

b)   The power to issue general obligation bonds pursuant to Sec-
tion 9 of this Article.

c)   The power to appropriate funds, and to levy taxes and assess-
ments pursuant to Section 2 (c) of this Article.

Section 4. Initiation of Project.

In order to initiate an urban renewal project, the legislative body
of the municipality shall adopt a resolution which

a)   TENTATIVELY finds that one or more slum or blighted areas
exist in such municipality;

b)  locates and defines the said slum or blighted areas;