J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1627

(4) disposition of any property acquired in the urban renewal area
including sale, initial leasing or retention by the municipality itself,
at its fair value for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan;

(5)   carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory
repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in ac-
cordance with the urban renewal plan;

(6)   acquisition of any other real property in the urban renewal
area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary or unsafe
conditions, lessen density, eliminate obsolete or other uses detri-
mental to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent
the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed
public facilities; and

(7)   the preservation, improvement or embellishment of historic
structures or monuments.

(f)   "Urban Renewal Area" shall mean a slum area or a blighted
area or a combination thereof which the municipality designates as
appropriate for an urban renewal project.

(g)   "Urban Renewal Plan" shall mean a plan, as it exists from
time to time, for an urban renewal project, which plan shall be
sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition
and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and re-
habilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the urban renewal
area, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum
density and building requirements.

(h) "Bonds" shall mean any bonds (including refunding bonds),
notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debentures
or other obligations.

(i) "Person" shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, cor-
poration, company, association, joint stock association, or body
politic; and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other
person acting in similar representative capacity.

(j) "Municipality" shall mean "the Mayor and City Council of
Mount Rainier."

2. Powers.

The municipality is hereby authorized and empowered to carry
out urban renewal projects which shall be limited to slum clearance
in slum or blighted areas and redevelopment or the rehabilitation
of slum or blighted areas to acquire in connection with such projects,
within the corporate limits of the municipality, land and property
of every kind and any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege
therein, including land or property and any right or interest therein
already devoted to public use, by purchase, lease, gift, condemnation
or any other legal means; to sell, lease, convey, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any of said land or property, regardless of whether or
not it has been developed, redeveloped, altered or improved and
irrespective of the manner or means in or by which it may have
been acquired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation,
partnership, association, person or other legal entity. No land or
property taken by the municipality for any of the aforementioned