§ 31

When a Department of Urban Renewal has been established hereunder the presiding officer of the municipality shall so notify the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and the land clearance commission in its area of operation by transmitting to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and such land clearance commission a certified copy of the ordinance of the governing body providing for the creation of such Department. From and after the receipt of such notice such land clearance commission shall undertake no new development or redevelopment projects; however, such land clearance commission shall, pending its dissolution as hereinafter provided, have and continue to exercise all powers vested in land clearance commissions by the "Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947," approved July 2, 1947, as amended, with respect to: (1) projects then in progress pending determination, as hereinafter provided, by the governing body of the municipality as to which, if any, of the redevelopment projects then in progress are to be completed by such land clearance commission, and (2) projects which the governing body of the municipality determines shall be completed by such land clearance commission. Such land clearance commission shall promptly prepare a detailed report covering its operations and activities and the status of all of its pending development or redevelopment projects, together with all other pertinent data and information as may be requested by the Department. The Department shall cause an audit to be made of the financial affairs and obligations of such land clearance commission. Copies of such report and audit shall be furnished the presiding officer of the municipality, the department, the governing body of the municipality, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and such land clearance commission. Upon receipt of such audit and report the Department of Urban Renewal, with the approval of the governing body of the municipality, shall determine with respect to any redevelopment project then in progress whether such project shall be completed by such land clearance commission or by the Department of Urban Renewal, and shall so notify such land clearance commission and the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Such land clearance commission shall, upon receipt of the determinations of the Department of Urban Renewal with respect to redevelopment projects then in progress, proceed with the orderly dissolution of such land clearance commission. When provision has been made for the refunding or payment of outstanding bonds of such land clearance commission the Commissioners of such land clearance commission shall promptly take appropriate action to convey, transfer, assign, deliver and pay over to the municipality for the purposes under Part I of this Act, all cash, real property, securities, contracts, records, and assets of any kind or nature which will not be needed for the completion by the land clearance commission of any redevelopment project which the department may have determined should be completed by such land clearance commission and which will not be required for the orderly dissolution of such land clearance commission. All assets so conveyed, assigned, transferred and paid over to the municipality shall be subject to the same rights, liabilities and obligations as existed prior to the transfer to the municipality. When all of the cash, real property, securities, contracts, assets, records and functions of a land clearance commission have been so conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered and paid over to the municipality and provisions have been made for the refunding or payment of outstanding bonds of such land clearance commission, and when such land clearance commission has completed all projects which the Department, as aforesaid, may have determined should be completed by such land clearance commission, it shall so notify the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. When the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity is satisfied that a proper accounting has been made and that no contingent liabilities exist, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall issue a certificate of dissolution which it shall file in the office in which deeds of property in the area of operation are recorded, and upon such filing, such land clearance commission shall be dissolved and cease to exist.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 94-793, eff. 5-19-06.)