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2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.250. Property of corporation exempt from taxes and assessments.

The property owned by the corporation under the authority granted in AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290 is public property used for essential public and governmental purposes, and is exempt from all taxes and special assessments of a municipality, the state, or a political subdivision of the state. However, instead of the payment of taxes on this property, the corporation may make payments to the municipality or political subdivision for improvements, services, and facilities furnished by it for the benefit of a housing or public building project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.255. Disposal of surplus property.

(a) In conjunction with the exercise of a power authorized by AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290, the corporation may convey real or personal property that it determines is in excess of its needs. Except as provided in (b) and (c) of this section, the sale shall be by public auction or by sealed bids at a price not lower than the fair market value determined by an appraisal made within 180 days before the sale by a qualified appraiser. Public notice shall be given by publishing notice of the sale at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the area in which the property to be sold is located and by posting notice of sale in at least two public places in the area. In no event may the auction be held less than 30 days after the last day of publication. If acceptable bids are not received the corporation may sell the property at negotiated sale within six months after the date of the auction. A negotiated sale may not be made on an appraisal made more than nine months before the date of sale. The price at a negotiated sale may not be less than the appraised value.
(b) Real or personal property of the corporation may be conveyed under (a) of this section to a state or federal agency or political subdivision for less than the appraised value without competitive bidding, upon a determination by the board that the terms are fair and proper and in the best interests of the state. Before authorizing a conveyance under this section, the board of directors of the corporation shall consider both the nature of the agency's or political subdivision's public services or functions and the terms under which the property was acquired by the corporation.
(c) Property acquired or renovated to provide mental health community housing is not subject to the procedures of (a) or (b) of this section and may be conveyed for less than the fair market value to grantees selected by the Department of Health upon terms and conditions consistent with grants administered by the Department of Health and Social Services under AS 47.30.520 - 47.30.620.
(d) This section does not apply to property that is covered by AS 18.55.320 or 18.55.540.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.260. Legality of corporation's bonds as investments.

Bonds of the corporation that are issued under AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290 are legal and proper investments and security for public and private banking, insurance, and trust funds.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.270. Recommendations for legislation.

The corporation shall make recommendations for legislation or other action it considers necessary to carry out the purposes of AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.280. Public loans or donations to or cooperation with corporation.

(a) In conjunction with the exercise by the corporation of a power authorized by AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290, a public body, officer, or agency of the state may
(1) lend or donate money or property to the corporation;
(2) cooperate with it in the planning, construction, or operation of a public housing or public building project;
(3) transfer to it an interest in property, grant an easement, and undertake otherwise authorized construction of facilities adjacent to a project;
(4) furnish or improve otherwise authorized roads, streets, alleys, and sidewalks;
(5) make exceptions from building codes, exercise its planning and zoning powers, and annex the site of a project;
(6) contract to exercise its powers relating to repair, elimination, or closing of unsafe, insanitary, or unfit dwellings;
(7) purchase the bonds of the corporation for a housing or public building project authorized by AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290;
(8) incur the entire expense of improvements made under AS 18.55.010 - 18.55.290;
(9) agree with the corporation that a certain sum or that no sum shall be paid by the corporation to the public body, officer, or agency instead of taxes;
(10) enter into agreements respecting exercise of a power granted in AS 18.55.100 - 18.55.290 if that agreement is approved and executed by the public body or municipality in or adjacent to the project before the project is constructed; and
(11) in general do all things necessary or convenient to cooperate in the planning, construction, or operation of a project.
(b) A sale, conveyance, lease, or agreement under this section may be made without appraisal, public notice or advertisement or bidding. A public body may exercise the powers granted in this section by resolution or ordinance by a majority of the members of the governing body present at the meeting at which it is introduced, and the resolution or ordinance takes effect immediately without publishing or posting.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.288. Definitions.

In AS 18.55.010 - 18.55.290,
(1) “corporation” means the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation;
(2) “project site” means area devoted for a housing project;
(3) “public building” means a publicly owned structure leased to the state for governmental, public, or educational use.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 1. Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act. › Sec. 18.55.290. Short title.

AS 18.55.010 - 18.55.290 may be cited as the Housing Project and Public Building Assistance Act.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.300. Declaration of purpose.

The legislature declares that in addition to an acute shortage of low-income rental housing there is a serious shortage of moderate-cost and rental housing for families of the state, endangering their health and constituting a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare, and comfort of the people of the state and a serious deterrent to the development of the state, and that this situation constitutes an emergency requiring positive action by the legislature.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.310. Powers and duties of corporation.

The corporation shall construct, protect, operate, maintain, rent, and sell at the places in the state that it considers most appropriate moderate-cost or rental housing facilities and projects for veterans and other residents of the state. For this purpose the corporation may accept money from any source, including the federal government, and may enter into appropriate contracts, including contracts with the federal government.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.320. Sale of surplus property.

(a) The corporation may sell a property held by it under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 that it finds is in excess of its needs. The sale shall be by public auction or by sealed bids at a price not lower than the fair market value determined by an appraisal made within 180 days of the sale by a qualified appraiser. Public notice shall be given by publishing notice of the sale at least once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the area in which the property to be sold is located and by posting notice of sale in at least two public places in the area. In no event shall the auction be held less than 30 days after the last day of publication. If no acceptable bids are received the corporation may sell the property at negotiated sale, within six months of the date of auction. A negotiated sale may not be made on an appraisal made more than nine months before the date of sale. The price at a negotiated sale may not be less than the appraised value except as provided in (b) of this section.
(b) The sale may be made to a state or federal agency or political subdivision for less than the appraised value without competitive bidding as required in (a) of this section if the board determines that it is in the best interests of the public with due consideration given to the nature of the public services or functions rendered by the agency or political subdivision making application and of the terms under which the land was acquired.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.330. Preference to veterans.

The corporation shall initially offer 50 percent of the dwelling units in a housing project held by it under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 for rent or sale to veterans. The offer shall be by publication of reasonable notice in a newspaper circulated in the area in which the housing project is located. The corporation shall set aside these units for rental or sale to veterans for at least 30 days following first publication of the notice before making them available to other residents. If, after an additional 30 days a unit remains unassigned, the corporation may rent or sell it to any person in the state, provided that residents have first preference.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.340. Care, operation, maintenance, and rental of housing.

The corporation has control over and is responsible for the care, operation, maintenance, and rental or sale of the housing held by it under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470. It may enter into appropriate arrangements for carrying out this responsibility and for safeguarding the interest of the state.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.350. Availability of housing units.

The corporation shall make the housing units held by it under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 available for rental to eligible persons upon application in the form it prescribes, and at the moderate rentals that it considers proper, or for sale at the prices and subject to the terms and conditions that it considers fair and equitable. The corporation shall use the money it receives from the sale of housing or housing projects held by it under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470, and the revenue from rentals, after payment of obligations and deductions for proper expenses of maintenance and operation, for the construction of further housing, under the terms of AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.370. Use of money.

Money appropriated or made available under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 may be used by the corporation to make
(1) character loans, not exceeding $500 for each dwelling, to residents or cooperatives for the improvement, conversion, or construction of dwellings in remote areas for occupancy by the residents or members of the cooperatives;
(2) loans for moderate-cost or rental housing facilities and projects to public agencies, or private nonprofit or limited dividend corporations, or private corporations or cooperatives organized under AS 10.15.005 - 10.15.600 that are regulated or restricted by the corporation until the termination of all loan obligations to it as to rents or sales, charges, capital structure, rate of return, and methods of operation to the extent and in the manner that provides reasonable rentals to tenants and a reasonable return on the investment; loans to cooperatives may be made for up to 95 percent of the appraised value of the housing facility.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.380. Corporation may use powers under other laws.

The corporation may invoke a power given to it under any statute, including the powers of eminent domain and those relating to the issuance of bonds and obligations with respect to a project undertaken or loan made or to be made under the authorization provided in AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.390. Limitation on corporation's power.

The power of the corporation to act under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 is limited to projects in which adequate financing on reasonable terms is not otherwise available or entrepreneurial sponsorship is lacking.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.400. Expenditure of money.

The corporation may spend the portion of the money appropriated under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 that it considers advisable, either directly or in cooperation with educational institutions or government agencies, to develop, through study, research, and analysis, information regarding low cost building supplies, materials, and methods of construction, and to disseminate this information.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.410. Power to sell, transfer, or dispose of projects.

The corporation may at any time sell, transfer, or otherwise dispose of a housing project under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 to the federal government, provided the corporation is completely relieved of all obligations assumed or guaranteed by it in connection with the housing project. Upon the disposal, the provisions of AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 no longer apply to the housing project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.420. Regulations; allocation of units and projects.

The corporation may
(1) adopt and enforce reasonable rules and regulations under AS 18.56.088 to carry out the purposes of AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470; and
(2) determine the allocation of dwelling units and projects constructed in a municipality on the basis of the municipality's population or the demand or potential demand for dwelling units in it.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.440. Additional powers to acquire land or interests in land.

For the purpose of carrying out AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470, the corporation may acquire by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise,
(1) land and appurtenances to land necessary or desirable for the establishment, construction, and operation of moderate cost and moderate rental housing;
(2) rights-of-way or easements for roads, streets, trails, utilities, power lines, and other similar facilities necessary and desirable for the proper establishment, operation, and maintenance of a housing project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.450. Ability to accept land and other property.

The corporation may accept land, a building, property, or equipment that is available from an executive department, independent establishment or agency of the federal government or the state, or a municipality, for the purpose of carrying out AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.460. Preference for state professional and contractors' services.

In planning, designing, and constructing projects under AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470, the corporation shall use professional and contractor services of state residents as far as practicable and shall encourage the use of local building materials.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 2. Moderate Cost and Rental Housing. › Sec. 18.55.470. Definitions.

In AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470,
(1) “corporation” means the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation;
(2) “moderate cost” means a cost determined by the corporation that is below the level at which private enterprise is currently building a needed volume of reasonably safe and sanitary dwellings for sale in the locality involved;
(3) “moderate rental” means a rental rate determined by the corporation that is below the level at which the dwellings are currently being offered for rent by private persons in the locality involved;
(4) “veteran” means a person
(A) honorably separated from the military service of the United States who has at any time resided continuously for at least one year in the state and who served in the armed forces of the United States for at least 90 days or whose service was for less than 90 days because of injury or disability incurred in the line of duty,
(i) between September 16, 1940, and July 25, 1947;
(ii) between June 25, 1950, and January 31, 1955;
(iii) between August 4, 1964, and November 7, 1975;
(iv) between August 2, 1990, and January 2, 1992;
(v) beginning September 11, 2001, and ending on the day prescribed by Presidential proclamation or by law as the last date of Operation Iraqi Freedom; or
(vi) during any of the time periods listed in 5 U.S.C. 2108(1);
(B) who served in the Alaska Territorial Guard for at least 90 days or whose service was for less than 90 days because of injury or disability incurred in the line of duty, and who has at any time resided continuously for at least one year in the state;
(C) who is the spouse or widow or widower of a person described under (A) or (B) of this paragraph.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.480. Findings and declaration of necessity.

The legislature finds and declares that
(1) slum and blighted areas exist in localities throughout the state and they constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious and inimical to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of the state;
(2) the existence of these slum and blighted areas contributes substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, necessitating excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for the preservation of the public health and safety, for crime prevention, correction, prosecution, punishment, and the treatment of juvenile delinquency and for the maintenance of adequate police, fire, and accident protection and other public services and facilities, and constitutes an economic and social liability, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of municipalities, and retards the provisions of housing accommodations;
(3) this menace is beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory process in the exercise of the police power and cannot be dealt with effectively by the ordinary operations of private enterprise without the aids provided in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960;
(4) the elimination of slum conditions or conditions of blight, the acquisition and preparation of land in or necessary to the redevelopment of slum or blighted areas and its sale or lease for development or redevelopment in accordance with comprehensive plans and redevelopment plans of municipalities, and any assistance that may be given by any public body in connection therewith are public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and private property acquired; and
(5) the necessity in the public interest for the provisions of AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 is a matter for legislative determination.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.490. Legislative intent.

It is the intent of the legislature in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 to take advantage of 42 U.S.C. 1441 - 1469c (Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 (P.L. 81-171; 63 Stat. 413)), as amended.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.500. Interest of members of board of directors or employees of corporation in project prohibited.

(a) A member of the board of directors or employee of the corporation may not voluntarily acquire an interest, direct or indirect, in a redevelopment project or in property included or planned by the corporation to be included in a redevelopment project, or in a contract or proposed contract in connection with a project. If the acquisition is not voluntary the member or employee shall immediately disclose the interest in writing to the corporation and the disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the corporation.
(b) If a member of the board of directors or employee of the corporation owns or controls or owned or controlled within the preceding two years an interest, direct or indirect, in property that the member or employee knows is included or planned by the corporation to be included in a redevelopment project, the member or employee shall immediately disclose the interest in writing to the corporation and the disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the corporation, and the member or employee may not participate in an action by the corporation affecting the property.
(c) A violation of this section constitutes misconduct in office or dereliction of duties of employment or both.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.510. Finding of necessity by municipality.

(a) The corporation may not transact business or exercise its powers under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 in a municipality until the governing body approves by resolution the exercise in the municipality of the powers, functions, and duties of the corporation under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960.
(b) The governing body of a municipality may not adopt a resolution under (a) of this section unless it finds that
(1) one or more slum or blighted areas exist in the municipality; or
(2) the redevelopment of the slum or blighted area is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, morals, or welfare of the residents of the municipality.
(c) When the governing body of a municipality adopts the resolution, it shall promptly notify the corporation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.525. Neighborhood development projects.

(a) A neighborhood development project, as undertaken and administered by the corporation, shall consist of urban renewal project undertakings and activities in one or more urban renewal areas that are planned and carried out on the basis of annual increments in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 1469 - 1469c (secs. 131 - 134, Title I, Housing Act of 1949), as amended.
(b) The corporation shall adhere to the provisions of AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 in its planning and carrying out of a neighborhood development project.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.550. Eminent domain.

(a) The corporation may
(1) acquire by eminent domain real property that it considers necessary within the boundaries of the redevelopment project or for its purposes under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real property described in the resolution is necessary for those purposes; and
(2) exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided in AS 09.55.240 - 09.55.460 or in the manner provided by other statutory provisions for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
(b) Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired in the same manner, provided that real property belonging to the municipality or the state may not be acquired without its consent.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.560. Acquisition and development of undeveloped vacant land.

Upon a determination, by resolution, of the governing body of the municipality that the acquisition and development of undeveloped vacant land not within a slum or blighted area is essential to the proper clearance or redevelopment of a slum or blighted area or a necessary part of the general slum clearance program of the municipality, the acquisition, planning, preparation for development or disposal of the land shall constitute a redevelopment project that may be undertaken by the corporation in the manner provided in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960. The determination by the governing body is a substitute for the declaration required by AS 18.55.530(b) but the determination may not be made until the governing body finds that
(1) there is a shortage of decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the municipality;
(2) the undeveloped vacant land will be developed for predominantly residential uses; and
(3) the provisions of dwelling accommodations on the undeveloped vacant land is necessary to accomplish the relocation in decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the municipality, of families to be displaced from slum or blighted areas that are to be redeveloped.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.590. Remedies of obligee.

An obligee of the corporation may, in addition to all other rights that may be conferred on the obligee, subject only to contractual restrictions binding upon the obligee,
(1) by mandamus, suit, action, or proceeding at law or in equity compel the corporation, the members of its board of directors, and its officers, agents, or employees to perform each and every term, provision, and covenant contained in a contract of the corporation with or for the benefit of the obligee, and require the carrying out of any or all those covenants and agreements of the corporation and the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon it by AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960; and
(2) by suit, action, or proceeding in equity enjoin any acts or things that may be unlawful, or in violation of any of the rights of the obligee of the corporation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.600. Bonds as legal investment.

(a) The following persons may legally invest sinking funds, money, and other funds belonging to them or within their control in the investments listed in (b) of this section:
(1) all public officers, municipal corporations, political subdivisions, and public bodies;
(2) all banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on a banking business;
(3) all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business; and
(4) all executors, administrators, curators, trustees, and other fiduciaries.
(b) The following investments are proper investments under (a) of this section: any bonds or other obligations issued by the corporation under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 or by any public housing or redevelopment authority or commission, or agency or any other public body in the United States for redevelopment purposes, when the bonds and other obligations are secured by an agreement between the issuing agency and the federal government in which the issuing agency agrees to borrow from the federal government and the federal government agrees to lend to the issuing agency, before the maturity of the bonds or other obligations, money in an amount that, together with any other money irrevocably committed to the payment of interest on the bonds or other obligations, is sufficient to pay the principal of the bonds or other obligations with interest to maturity, if, under the terms of the agreement, the money is required to be used for the purpose of paying the principal and interest on the bonds or other obligations at their maturity. The bonds and other obligations shall be authorized security for all public deposits.
(c) It is the purpose of this section to authorize any persons, political subdivisions, and officers, public or private, to use any funds owned or controlled by them for the purchase of any of the bonds or other obligations. However, nothing contained in this section with regard to legal investments shall be construed as relieving any person of any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.610. Conveyance to federal government on default.

In any contract for financial assistance with the federal government, the corporation may obligate itself to convey possession or title to the redevelopment project and land to the federal government, when the contract relates to the project and the land, upon the occurrence of a substantial default. This obligation is not a mortgage. The obligation is specifically enforceable. The contract may provide that in case of the conveyance, the federal government may complete, operate, manage, lease, convey, or otherwise deal with the redevelopment project in accordance with the terms of the contract; however, it shall then require that, as soon as practicable after the federal government is satisfied that all defaults have been cured and that the redevelopment project will be operated in accordance with the terms of the contract, the federal government shall reconvey the redevelopment project to the corporation.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.620. Property exempt from taxes and execution.

(a) All property held by the corporation for a purpose set out in AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 and in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 is exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and an execution or other judicial process may not issue against it nor may judgment against it be a charge or lien upon its property. However, this subsection does not apply to or limit the right of an obligee to foreclose or otherwise enforce any mortgage of the corporation or to pursue remedies for the enforcement of a pledge or lien given by the corporation on its rents, fees, grants, or revenue.
(b) The property held by the corporation for a purpose set out in AS 18.55.300 - 18.55.470 and in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 is declared to be public property used for essential public and governmental purposes and the property is exempt from all taxes of the state or a political subdivision of the state. However, subject to (c) of this section, the corporation shall, from the time it acquires title to property in a redevelopment project until it sells, leases, or otherwise disposes of that property, make payment equal in amount and in lieu of taxes that would be assessed and paid to a political subdivision in which the property is situated if the property had not been acquired by the corporation. From the time the corporation sells, leases, or otherwise transfers the property, the obligation of the corporation to make payment in lieu of taxes shall cease and the property shall thereafter be taxable in the same manner as other property within the political subdivision, unless the property is exempt from taxation by law. The property sold, leased, or otherwise transferred by the corporation may be assessed for taxation on that part of the tax year during which it was not owned by the corporation, unless the property is exempt from taxation by law. Except for the payments required by this subsection, the power vested in the corporation to make payments in lieu of taxes under AS 18.55.250 or other law is not affected by this subsection.
(c) Property for which payments are required under (b) of this section is limited to land and valuable improvements on the land, including buildings located on the property on the assessment date.
(d) Payments for property under (b) of this section may not be required from the corporation unless the payments are eligible project costs under federal policy.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.630. Cooperation by public bodies.

(a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, or carrying out of a redevelopment project located within the area in which it is authorized to act, a public body may, upon terms, with or without consideration, as it determines,
(1) dedicate, sell, convey, or lease any of its interest in a property, or grant easements, licenses, or other rights or privileges in the property to the corporation;
(2) cause parks, playgrounds, or recreational, community, educational, water, sewer, or drainage facilities, or other works that it is otherwise empowered to undertake to be furnished in connection with a redevelopment project;
(3) furnish, dedicate, close, vacate, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan, or replan streets, roads, sidewalks, ways, or other places, that it is otherwise empowered to undertake;
(4) plan or replan, or zone or rezone any part of the public body or make exceptions from building regulations and ordinances if the functions are of the character that the public body is otherwise empowered to perform;
(5) cause administrative and other services to be furnished to the corporation of the character that the public body is otherwise empowered to undertake or furnish for the same or other purposes;
(6) incur the entire expense of public improvements made by the public body in exercising the powers granted in this section;
(7) do any and all things necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate in the planning or carrying out of a redevelopment plan;
(8) lend, grant, or contribute money to the corporation;
(9) employ any money belonging to or within the control of the public body, including money derived from the sale or furnishing of property, service, or facilities to the corporation, in the purchase of the bonds or other obligations of the corporation and, as the holder of the bonds or other obligations, exercise the rights connected with them; and
(10) enter into agreements, which may extend over any period, notwithstanding a provision or rule of law to the contrary, with the corporation respecting action to be taken by the public body under any of the powers granted by AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960.
(b) If at any time title to or possession of a redevelopment project is held by a public body or governmental agency, other than the corporation, authorized by law to engage in the undertaking, carrying out, or administration of redevelopment projects, including the federal government, the provisions of the agreement shall inure to the benefit of and may be enforced by the public body or governmental agency.
(c) A sale, conveyance, lease, or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement, or public bidding.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.650. Title of purchaser of project property.

An instrument executed by the corporation and purporting to convey a right, title, or interest in property under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 is conclusive evidence of compliance with the provisions of AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 insofar as title or other interest of a bona fide purchaser, lessee, or transferee of the property is concerned.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.660. Additional powers of governing body.

Whenever the corporation exercises its rights, powers, and duties under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 in the area adjacent to a municipality, the governing body of the municipality may prepare or have prepared general plans for the physical development of the area if the preparation of those plans is not otherwise authorized by law and approve redevelopment plans, and lend or grant money and other assistance for the undertaking of redevelopment projects in the area and to take other action with respect to the area or redevelopment project area that is authorized or required by AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 of the governing body of the municipality.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.670. Preparation of general plan by local governing body.

The governing body of a municipality, not authorized to create a planning commission with power to prepare a general plan for the redevelopment of the municipality, may prepare a general plan before a redevelopment project is initiated under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.680. Urban renewal projects; definition.

(a) In addition to the power given under AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960, the corporation may plan and undertake an urban renewal project. In AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 an urban renewal project includes undertaking and activity for the elimination and prevention of the development or spread of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas. An urban renewal project may involve any work or undertaking for this purpose that constitutes a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work or any combination of an undertaking or work.
(b) Rehabilitation or conservation work includes
(1) carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;
(2) acquisition of real property and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements from it where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities;
(3) installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and
(4) the disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project, of any property or part of property acquired in the area of the project; disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.690. Urban renewal plan; definition.

An urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to AS 18.55.680 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the project. As used in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 an “urban renewal plan” means a plan for an urban renewal project, which (1) conforms to the general plan for the municipality as a whole; and (2) is sufficiently complete to indicate the land acquisition, demolition and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation that are proposed in the area of the urban renewal project, zoning, and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum densities, building requirements, and the plan's relationship to definite local objectives respecting appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements. An urban renewal plan shall be prepared and approved pursuant to the same procedure as provided in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 for a redevelopment plan.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.700. Powers with respect to urban renewal.

(a) The corporation has all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects, including the power to acquire and dispose of property, to issue bonds and other obligations, to borrow and accept grants from the federal government or other source, and to exercise the other powers granted to it by AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 with respect to redevelopment projects.
(b) In connection with the planning and undertaking of an urban renewal plan or urban renewal project, the corporation, the municipality, and all public and private offices, agencies, and bodies have all the rights, powers, privileges, and immunities that they have with respect to a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project, in the same manner as though all of the provisions of AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 applicable to a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project were applicable to an urban renewal plan or urban renewal project. However, for the purpose of this subsection,
(1) the word “redevelopment” as used in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960, except in this section and in the definition of “redevelopment project” in AS 18.55.950, means “urban renewal”;
(2) the words “slum” and “blighted” as used in AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960, except in this section and in the definitions in AS 18.55.950, mean “blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating”; and
(3) the finding required by AS 18.55.510(b) with respect to a blighted area is not required.
(c) In addition to the surveys and plans that the corporation may otherwise make, it may make plans
(1) for carrying out a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements; and
(2) for the enforcement of laws, codes, and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements, and the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of buildings and improvements.
(d) The corporation may develop, test, and report methods and techniques, and carry out demonstrations and other activities for the prevention and the elimination of slums and urban blight.
2023 Alaska Statutes › Title 18. Health, Safety, Housing, Human Rights, and Public Defender › Chapter 55. Housing, Public Buildings, Urban Renewal, and Regional Housing Authorities › Article 3. Slum Clearance and Redevelopment Act. › Sec. 18.55.710. Public bodies authorized to assist in urban renewal projects.

A municipality or other public body may, without limiting any provisions of AS 18.55.700, do any and all things necessary to aid and cooperate in the planning and undertaking of an urban renewal project in the area in which it is authorized to act, including the furnishing of financial and other assistance as the municipality or public body is authorized by AS 18.55.480 - 18.55.960 for or in connection with a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project.