§ 15-9-113 — General powers of municipality

(a) In addition to any other powers specified by law,
every municipality has all the powers necessary to carry out the
purposes and provisions of this chapter, including the following
powers:
(i) To undertake and carry out urban renewal projects
and related activities within its area of operation; and to:
(A) Make and execute contracts and other
instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its
powers under this act;
(B) Disseminate slum clearance and urban renewal
information.
(ii) To provide or to arrange or contract for the
furnishing or repair by any person or agency, public or private,
of services, privileges, works, streets, roads, public utilities
or other facilities for or in connection with an urban renewal
project;
(iii) To install, construct and reconstruct streets,
utilities, parks, playgrounds and other public improvements;
(iv) To agree to any conditions that it deems
reasonable and appropriate attached to federal financial
assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law relating to the
determination of prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with
labor standards, in the undertaking or carrying out of an urban
renewal project and related activities and to include in any
contract let in connection with such a project and related
activities, provisions to fulfill those conditions as it deems
reasonable and appropriate;
(v) Within its area of operation, to enter into any
building or property in any urban renewal area in order to make
inspections, surveys, appraisals, soundings or test borings, and
to obtain an order for this purpose from a court of competent
jurisdiction in the event entry is denied or resisted as
provided by law;
(vi) To acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift,
grant, bequest, devise, eminent domain or otherwise, any real
property (or personal property for its administrative purposes)
together with any improvements thereon and to hold, improve,
clear or prepare for redevelopment any such property;
(vii) To mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise
encumber or dispose of any real property;
(viii) To insure or provide for the insurance of any
real or personal property;
(ix) To enter into any contracts necessary to
effectuate the purposes of this act;
(x) To invest any urban renewal project funds held in
reserves or sinking funds or any such funds not required for
immediate disbursement in property or securities in which
savings banks may legally invest funds subject to their control,
or to deposit in savings accounts in national or state banks and
to redeem any bonds issued pursuant to W.S. 15-9-119 at the
redemption price established therein or to purchase those bonds
at less than redemption price, all such bonds so redeemed or
purchased to be cancelled;
(xi) To borrow money and to apply for and accept any
form of financial assistance from any source for the purposes of
this chapter, to give such security as may be required, to enter
into and carry out contracts or agreements in connection
therewith and to include in any contract for financial
assistance with the federal government for or with respect to
any urban renewal project and related activities such conditions
imposed pursuant to federal laws as the municipality deems
reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with
the purposes of this chapter;
(xii) Within its area of operation, to make or have
made all surveys and plans necessary to the carrying out of the
purposes of this chapter and to contract with any person, public
or private, in making and carrying out those plans and to adopt
or approve, modify and amend those plans, which plans may
include but are not limited to:
(A) A general plan for the locality as a whole;
(B) Urban renewal plans;
(C) Plans for carrying out a program of
voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings
and improvements;
(D) Plans for the enforcement of state and local
laws, codes, ordinances and regulations relating to the use of
land, the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements and to
the compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition or removal of
buildings and improvements; and
(E) Perform or contract the performance of
appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies and other plans and
work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of urban renewal
projects and related activities, to 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.
(xiii) To prepare plans for and assist in the
relocation of any persons displaced by an urban renewal project,
and to make relocation payments to or with respect to those
persons for moving expenses and losses of property for which
reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made, including
the making of such payments financed by the federal government;
(xiv) To appropriate funds, make expenditures and
levy taxes and assessments as may be necessary to carry out the
purposes of this act;
(xv) To zone or rezone any part of the municipality
or make exceptions from building regulations;
(xvi) To enter into agreements with an urban renewal
agency vested with urban renewal project power under W.S.
15-9-133, which agreements may extend over any period,
notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary,
respecting action to be taken by a municipality pursuant to any
of the powers granted by this chapter;
(xvii) To close, vacate, plan or replan streets,
roads, sidewalks, ways or other places;
(xviii) To plan or replan any part of the
municipality;
(xix) Within its area of operation, to organize,
coordinate and direct the administration of the provisions of
this act as they apply to the municipality in order that the
objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and preventing
the causes thereof within the municipality may be most
effectively promoted and achieved and to establish new offices
of the municipality or to reorganize existing offices in order
to carry out the purpose most effectively;
(xx) To exercise all or any part or combination of
powers granted by this section; and
(xxi) To plan and undertake neighborhood development
programs consisting of urban renewal project undertakings and
activities in one (1) or more urban renewal areas which are
planned and carried out on the basis of annual increments in
accordance with the provisions of this chapter for planning and
carrying out urban renewal projects.