§ 15-9-103 — Definitions

Wyoming § 15-9-103

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 15: Cities and Towns
• Ch. 9: URBAN RENEWAL
• Art. 1: URBAN DEVELOPMENT

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(a) As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning is
clearly indicated by the context:
(i) "Agency" or "urban renewal agency" means a public
agency created by W.S. 15-9-134;
(ii) "Area of operation" means the area within the
corporate limits of the municipality and the area within five
(5) miles of those limits, except that it may include any area
which lies within the territorial boundaries of another
incorporated city or town if a resolution has been adopted by
the governing body of the other city or town consenting to the
inclusion and it may include any unincorporated area within five
(5) miles of the corporate limits of the municipality if a
resolution has been adopted by the county commissioners of the
unincorporated area consenting to the inclusion;
(iii) "Blighted area" means an area which by reason
of the presence of a substantial number of slums, deteriorated
or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or
inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size,
adequacy, accessibility or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe
conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,
diversity of ownership, tax or special assessments, delinquency
exceeding the fair value of the land, defective or unusual
conditions of title, or the existence of conditions which
endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any
combination of those factors, substantially impairs or arrests
the sound growth of a municipality, retards the provision of
housing accommodations or constitutes an economic or social
liability and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals
or welfare in its present condition and use. However, if the
blighted area consists of open land, the conditions contained in
W.S. 15-9-110(b) apply and any disaster area referred to in W.S.
15-9-112 constitutes a "blighted area";
(iv) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, interim
certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debentures or other
obligations;
(v) "Clerk" means the clerk or other official of the
municipality who is the custodian of the official records of the
municipality;
(vi) "Council" or "commission" means a council,
board, commission, department, division, office, body or other
unit of the municipality;
(vii) "Federal government" means the United States of
America or any agency or instrumentality thereof;
(viii) "Local governing body" means the commission,
council or other legislative body charged with governing the
municipality;
(ix) "Mayor" means the mayor of a municipality or
other officer or body having the duties customarily imposed upon
the executive head of a municipality;
(x) "Municipality" means any incorporated or
chartered city or town as established under Wyoming law;
(xi) "Obligee" means any bondholder, agents or
trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the
municipality, property used in connection with an urban renewal
project, or any assignee or assignees of the lessor's interest
or any part thereof, and the federal government if it is a party
to any contract with the municipality;
(xii) "Person" means any individual, firm,
partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock
association or body politic and includes any trustee, receiver,
assignee or other person acting in a similar representative
capacity;
(xiii) "Public body" means the state, or any county,
municipality, board, commission, authority, district or any
other subdivision or public body thereof;
(xiv) "Public officer" means any officer who is in
charge of any department or branch of the government of the
municipality relating to health, fire, building regulations or
any other activities concerning dwellings in the municipality;
(xv) "Real property" means all lands, including
improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature
appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every
estate, interest, right and use therein, including terms for
years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise;
(xvi) "Slum area" means an area in which there is a
predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential
or nonresidential, which by reason of dilapidation,
deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate provision for
ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high
density of population and overcrowding, or the existence of
conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other
causes, or any combination of those factors is conducive to ill
health and is detrimental to the public safety, morals or
welfare;
(xvii) "Urban renewal area" means a slum area or a
blighted area or a combination thereof which the local governing
body designates as appropriate for an urban renewal project;
(xviii) "Urban renewal plan" means a plan, as it
exists from time to time, for one (1) or more urban renewal
areas, or for any urban renewal project, which:
(A) Conforms to the general plan for the
municipality as a whole, except as provided in W.S. 15-9-112,
and is consistent with definite local objectives respecting
appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation,
public utilities, recreational and community facilities and
other public improvements; and
(B) Is sufficiently complete to indicate land
acquisition, demolition and removal of structures,
redevelopment, improvements and rehabilitation as may be
proposed to be carried out in the urban renewal area, zoning and
planning changes, if any, land used, maximum densities and
building requirements.
(xix) "Urban renewal project" includes undertakings
and activities of a municipality in one (1) or more urban
renewal areas for the elimination and for the prevention of the
development or spread of slums and blight, and may involve slum
clearance and redevelopment in an urban renewal area, or
rehabilitation or conservation in an urban renewal area, or any
combination or part thereof in accordance with an urban renewal
plan. The undertakings and activities may include:
(A) Acquisition of a slum area or a blighted
area or portion thereof;
(B) Demolition and removal of buildings and
improvements;
(C) Installation, construction or reconstruction
of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds and other improvements
necessary for carrying out in the urban renewal area the urban
renewal objectives of this chapter in accordance with the urban
renewal plan;
(D) Disposition of any property acquired in the
urban renewal area at its fair value for uses in accordance with
the urban renewal plan;
(E) Carrying out plans for a program of
voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings
or other improvements in accordance with the urban renewal plan;
and
(F) Acquisition of any other real property in
the urban renewal area if necessary to eliminate unhealthy,
unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate
obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or
otherwise to remove or prevent the spread of blight or
deterioration or to provide land for needed public facilities.