{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-38-108","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 11, § 11-38-108","heading":"Enumerated Authority powers - Powers and duties","body":"excluded.\n\nA. Every Urban Renewal Authority within the provisions of this\n\narticle shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry\n\nout and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this article,\n\nincluding the following powers in addition to others herein granted:\n\n1. To undertake and carry out the urban renewal projects within its\n\narea of operation and in accordance with any urban renewal plan\n\nadopted by the municipality; and to make and execute contracts and\n\nother instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its\n\npowers under this article; and to disseminate blight and urban\n\nrenewal information;\n\n2. To provide or to arrange or contract for the furnishing by\n\nany person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges,\n\nworks, streets, roads, public utilities, or other facilities for or\n\nin connection with an urban renewal project; to install, construct,\n\nand reconstruct streets, off-street parking facilities, utilities,\n\nparks, playgrounds, and other public improvements; and to agree to\n\nany conditions that it may deem reasonable and appropriate attached\n\nto Federal financial assistance and imposed pursuant to Federal law\n\nrelating to the determination of prevailing salaries or wages or\n\ncompliance with labor standards, in the undertaking or carrying out\n\nof an urban renewal project, and to include in any contract let in\n\nconnection with such a report, provisions to fulfill such of said\n\nconditions as it may deem reasonable and appropriate;\n\n3. With the permission of the owner or occupant, to enter into\n\nany building or property in any urban renewal area within its area\n\nof operation in order to make inspections, surveys, appraisals,\n\nsoundings or test borings; provided if permission be denied, to so\n\nenter for such purpose, upon reasonable notice and at reasonable\n\ntimes, with the least possible inconvenience to the persons in\n\npossession, and to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of\n\ncompetent jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted; to\n\nacquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant, bequest, devise,\n\neminent domain or otherwise, any real property, or personal property\n\nfor its purposes, together with any improvements thereon; to hold,\n\nimprove, clear or prepare for redevelopment any such property; to\n\nmortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber or dispose of\n\nany real property; to insure or provide for the insurance of any\n\nreal or personal property or operations of the Authority or the\n\nmunicipality against any risk or hazards, including the power to pay\n\npremiums on any such insurance; and to enter into any contracts\n\nnecessary to effectuate the purposes of this article; provided,\n\nhowever, that no statutory provisions with respect to the\n\nacquisition, clearance or disposition of property by public bodies\n\nshall restrict the Authority or municipality or other public body\n\nexercising powers hereunder, in the exercise of such functions with\n\nrespect to an urban renewal project, unless the Legislature shall\n\nspecifically so state;\n\n4. To invest any urban renewal project funds held in reserves\n\nor sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate\n\ndisbursement, in property or securities in which savings banks,\n\nbuilding and loan associations or savings and loan associations may\n\nlegally invest funds; to redeem such notes as have been issued\n\npursuant to Section 38-115 of this title at the redemption price\n\nestablished therein or to purchase such notes at less than\n\nredemption price, all such notes so redeemed or purchased to be\n\ncancelled;\n\n5. To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans,\n\ngrants, contributions and any other form of financial assistance\n\nfrom the federal government, the state, county or other public body,\n\nor from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this\ntablished therein or to purchase such notes at less than\n\nredemption price, all such notes so redeemed or purchased to be\n\ncancelled;\n\n5. To borrow money and to apply for and accept advances, loans,\n\ngrants, contributions and any other form of financial assistance\n\nfrom the federal government, the state, county or other public body,\n\nor from any sources, public or private, for the purposes of this\n\narticle, and to give such security as may be required and to enter\n\ninto and carry out contracts in connection therewith. An Authority\n\nmay include in any contract for financial assistance with the\n\nfederal government for an urban renewal project such conditions\n\nimposed pursuant to federal laws as the Authority may deem\n\nreasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the\n\npurposes of this article;\n\n6. To make or have made, within its area of operation, surveys\n\nand plans necessary to the carrying out of urban renewal plans or\n\nprojects, and to contract with any person, public or private, in\n\nmaking and carrying out such plans. Such plans may include: (a)\n\nurban renewal plans; (b) preliminary plans outlining urban renewal\n\nactivities for neighborhoods to embrace two or more urban renewal\n\nareas; (c) plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or\n\ncompulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements;\n\n(d) plans for the enforcement of state and local laws, codes and\n\nregulations relating to the use and occupancy of buildings and\n\nimprovements and to the compulsory repair, rehabilitation,\n\ndemolition, or removal of buildings and improvements; or (e)\n\nappraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans and\n\nwork necessary to prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal\n\nprojects;\n\n7. To develop, test, and report methods and techniques, and\n\ncarry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention\n\nand the elimination of blight and to apply for, accept and utilize\n\ngrants of funds from the Federal Government or any other source for\n\nsuch purposes;\n\n8. To prepare plans for the relocation of persons, families,\n\nbusiness concerns and others displaced by an urban renewal project,\n\nand to make relocation payments to or with respect to such persons\n\nfor moving expenses and losses of property for which reimbursement\n\nor compensation is not otherwise made, including the making of such\n\npayment financed by the Federal Government but not limited thereby;\n\n9. To make such expenditures as may be necessary to carry out\n\nthe purposes of this article;\n\n10. To organize, coordinate and direct the administration of\n\nthe provisions of this article as they apply to the municipality in\n\norder that the objective of remedying blighted areas and preventing\n\nthe causes thereof within its area of operation may be most\n\neffectively promoted and achieved, and to establish such office or\n\noffices necessary to carry out such purposes most effectively; or\n\n11. To exercise all or any part or combination of powers herein\n\ngranted, provided that the records covering all transactions shall\n\nbe open to public scrutiny and may be inspected by any person\n\naffected thereby during regular office hours and upon reasonable\n\nnotice.\n\nB. The duties, powers or authority of the Urban Renewal\n\nAuthority shall not include:\n\n1. The power to determine an area to be a blighted area and to\n\ndesignate such area as appropriate for an urban renewal project;\n\n2. The power to prepare, establish, or amend a general plan for\n\nthe locality as a whole;\n\n3. The power to formulate a workable program;\n\n4. The power to make the determinations and findings provided\n\nfor in Section 38-105 and subsection E of Section 38-106 of this\n\ntitle;\n\n5. The power to issue general obligation bonds;\n\n6. The power to appropriate funds of the municipality, to levy\n\ntaxes and assessments;\n\n7. The power to zone or rezone; or\n\n8. The power to make exceptions to zoning ordinances or\nto formulate a workable program;\n\n4. The power to make the determinations and findings provided\n\nfor in Section 38-105 and subsection E of Section 38-106 of this\n\ntitle;\n\n5. The power to issue general obligation bonds;\n\n6. The power to appropriate funds of the municipality, to levy\n\ntaxes and assessments;\n\n7. The power to zone or rezone; or\n\n8. The power to make exceptions to zoning ordinances or\n\nbuilding regulations of the municipality.","path":["OK Code","Title 11"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os11.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"e18a44449ca522ee78a4c17a0cf845e05189302b76d110690804ff06df86d054","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-38-107","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-11-11-38-109"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}