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(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 detrimen-
tal to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent the spread
of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facili-
ties; 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 suf-
ficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition and
removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilita-
tion 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, corpor-
ation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic;
and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other person act-
ing in similar representative capacity.
(j) "Municipality" shall mean the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke
City.
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 irrespec-
tive of the manner or means in or by which it may have been ac-
quired, to any private, public or quasi public corporation, partner-
ship, association, person or other legal entity. No land or property
taken by the municipality for any of the aforementioned purposes or
in connection with the exercise of any of the powers which by this
sub-heading are granted to the municipality by exercising the power
of eminent domain shall be taken without just compensation, as
agreed upon between the parties, or awarded by a jury, being first
paid or tendered to the party entitled to such compensation. All land
or property needed or taken by the exercise of the power of eminent
domain by the municipality for any of the aforementioned purposes
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