tional uses or to a hospital for hospital uses shall be deemed a local grant-in-aid to the same extent as if such expenditures had been madedirectly by such educational institution or hospital.

(d) As used in this section

(1) the term "educational institution" means any educational institution of higher learning, including any public educational institution or any private educational institution, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual; and

(2) the term "hospital" means any hospital licensed by the State in which such hospital is located, including any public hospital, or any nonprofit hospital, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

REDEVELOPMENT AREAS UNDER THE AREA REDEVELOPMENT ACT

SEC. 113.1 (a) Whenever the Secretary of Commerce certifies to the Administrator (1) that any county, city, or other municipality (in this section referred to as a "municipality") is situated in an area. designated under section 5 of the Area Redevelopment Act as a redevelopment area, and (2) that there is a reasonable probability that with assistance provided under such Act and other undertakings the area will be able to achieve more than temporary improvement in its: economy, the Administrator is authorized to provide financial assistance to a local public agency in any such municipality under this title. and the provisions of this section.

(b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (e) of this section, the Administrator may provide such financial assistance under this section without regard to the requirement or limitations of section 110(c) that the project area be predominantly residential in character or be redeveloped for predominantly residential uses under the urban renewal plan, and without regard to any of the limitations of that section on the undertaking of projects for predominantly nonresidential uses.

(c) Nothwithstanding any other provision of this title, a contract for financial assistance under this section may include provisions permitting the disposition of any land in the project area designated under the urban renewal plan for industrial or commercial uses to any public agency or nonprofit corporation for subsequent disposition as promptly as practicable by such public agency or corporation for the redevelopment of the land in accordance with the urban renewal plan: Provided, That any disposition of such land to such public agency or corporation under this section shall be made at its fair value for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan: And provided further, That only the purchaser from or lessees of such public agency or corporation, and their assignees, shall be required to assume the obligations relating to the commencement of improvements imposed under section 105(b) hereof.

(d) Following the execution of any contract for financial assistance under this section with respect to any project, the Administrator may

1 Sec. 14, Area Redevelopment Act, Public Law 87-27, approved May 1, 1961, 75 Stat.. 47, 57, added sec. 113.

exercise the authority vested in him under this section as well as other provisions of this title for the completion of such projects, notwithstanding any determination made after the execution of such contract that the area in which the project is located is no longer a redevelopment area under the Area Redevelopment Act.

(e) Not more than 10 per centum of the funds authorized for capital grants under section 103 after the date of the enactment of the Area Redevelopment Act shall be used for the purpose of providing financial assistance under this section. Amounts used for such purpose shall not be taken into account for the purpose of the limitation contained in the second proviso of the fifth sentence of section 110 (c).

RELOCATION

SEC. 114. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, an urban renewal project may include the making of payments as prescribed in this section to displaced individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations; and any contract for financial assistance under this title shall provide that the capital grant otherwise payable for the project shall be increased by an amount equal to such payments and that no part of the amount of such payments shall be required to be contributed as part of the local grant-in-aid. As used in this section, "displaced" refers to displacement from an urban renewal area made necessary by (1) the acquisition of real property by a local public agency or by any other public body, (2) code enforcement activities undertaken in connection with an urban renewal project, or (3) a program of voluntary rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with an urban renewal plan.

(b) A local public agency may pay to any displaced business concern or nonprofit organization

(1) its reasonable and necessary moving expenses and any actual direct losses of property except goodwill or profit (which are incurred on and after August 7, 1956, and for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made): Provided, That such payment shall not exceed $3,000 (or, if greater, the total certified actual moving expenses); and

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(2) an additional $2,500 in the case of a private business concern with average annual net earnings of less than $10,000 per year which (A) was doing business in a location in the urban renewal area on the date of local approval of the urban renewal plan (or of acquisition of real property under the third sentence of section 102(a)); (B) is displaced on or after January 27, 1964, and (C) is not part of an enterprise having establishments outside the urban renewal area.

Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (1) of the preceding sentence, a business concern which is not being displaced from an urban renewal area shall be eligible for payments under such clause (1) of

1 Added by sec. 310(a), Housing Act of 1964, Public Law 88-560, approved September 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 769, 788.

Sec. 310(b) of the Housing Act of 1964 provided that any contract with a local public agency which was executed under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 before the date of the enactment of the Housing Act of 1964 (September 2, 1964) may be amended to provide for payments authorized by sec. 114 of the Housing Act of 1949.

ǎ Sec. 404 (b), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 486, substituted "$2,500" for "$1,500".

its certified actual moving expenses with respect to its outdoor advertising displays being removed from the urban renewal area in the same manner as though such business concern were being displaced.

(c) (1) A local public agency may pay to any displaced individual or family his or its reasonable and necessary moving expenses and any actual direct losses of property (which are incurred on and after August 7, 1956, and for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise made): Provided, That such payment shall not exceed $200: And provided further, That the Administrator may authorize payment to individuals and families of fixed amounts (not to exceed $200 in any case) in lieu of their respective reasonable and necessary moving expenses and actual direct losses of property.

(2) A local public agency may pay (in addition to any amount under paragraph (1)), on behalf of any displaced family or any displaced individual sixty-two years of age or over, during the first five months after displacement, a relocation adjustment payment, not to exceed $500, to assist such displaced individual or family to acquire a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling. The relocation adjustment payment shall be an amount which, when added to 20 per centum of the annual income of the displaced individual or family at the time of displacement, equals the average rental required, for a 12-month period, for such a decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling of modest standards adequate in size to accommodate the displaced individual or family (in the urban renewal area or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities): Provided, That such payment shall be made only to an individual or family who is unable to secure a dwelling unit in a low-rent housing project assisted under the United States Housing Act of 1937,1 or under a State or local program found by the Administrator to have the same general purposes as the Federal program under such Act, or a dwelling unit assisted under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965: Provided further, That payments under this paragraph shall be available only in the case of families, and individuals sixty-two years of age or over, displaced on or after January 27, 1964.

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(d)3 In addition to payments authorized to be made under subsections (b) and (c), a local public agency may pay to any displaced individual, family, business concern, or nonprofit organization reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for (1) recording fees, transfer taxes, and similar expenses incidental to conveying real property to a project assisted under this title, (2) penalty costs for prepayment of any mortgage encumbering such real property, and (3) the pro rata portion of real property taxes allocable to a period subsequent to the date of vesting of title or the effective date of the acquisition of such real property by such agency, whichever is earlier.

(e) The Administrator is authorized to establish such rules and regulations as he may deem appropriate in carrying out the provisions of this section and may provide in any contract with a local public agency, or in regulations promulgated by the Administrator, that

1 Low-income public housing law.

2 Sec. 101 (1), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 453, added the remainder of this proviso. Sec. 101 authorizes the "rent supplement" program.

Sec. 404 (c) (1), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 486, inserted subsection (d), and redesignated the former subsection (d) as "(e)".

determinations of any duly designated officer or agency as to eligibility for and the amount of relocation assistance authorized by this section shall be final and conclusive for any purposes and not subject to redetermination by any court or any other officer. Such regulations shall include provisions to assure that relocation payments, as authorized by this section, shall be made as promptly as possible to all families, individuals, business concerns, and nonprofit organizations found to be eligible for such payments by reason of their having been displaced from property in the urban renewal area, without regard to any subsequent proceedings, determinations, or events relating to such property which do not bear upon whether such displacement in fact occurred.

REHABILITATION GRANTS

SEC. 115.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Administrator may authorize a local public agency to make grants (and the urban renewal project may include the making of such grants) as prescribed in this section. Any such grant may be made only to an individual or family, as described in subsection (b), who owns and occupies a structure in an urban renewal area, and only for the purpose of covering the cost of repairs and improvements necessary to make such structure conform to public standards for decent, safe, and sanitary housing as required by applicable codes or other requirements of the urban renewal plan for the area. Any contract for financial assistance under this title shall provide that the capital grant otherwise payable for the project shall be increased by an amount equal to the total amount of the grants under this section and that no part of the total amount of such grants shall be required to be contributed as part of the local grant-in-aid.

(b) A grant authorized by this section may be made to an individual or family whose income does not exceed $3,000 a year, and such grant may be in the amount which does not exceed the lesser of (1) the actual (and approved) cost of the repairs and improvements involved, or (2) $1,500. In case the income of the individual or family exceeds $3,000 a year, a grant may be made under this section, subject to the limitations specified in clauses (1) and (2) of the preceding sentence, but only in an amount not to exceed that portion of the cost of the repairs and improvements which cannot be paid for with any available loan that can be amortized as part of such individual's or family's monthly housing expense without requiring such monthly housing expense to exceed 25 per centum of such individual's or family's monthly income.

DEMOLITION

SEC. 116.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant

Added by sec. 106(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 457.

Sec. 106(b) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 provided that any contract with a local public agency which was executed under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 before the date of enactment of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (August 10, 1965) may be amended to provide for grants authorized by sec. 115 of the Housing Act of 1949.

2 Added by sec. 311(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 477.

funds provided under section 103(b)) to cities, other municipalities, and counties to assist in financing the cost of demolishing structures which under State or local law have been determined to be structurally unsound or unfit for human habitation, and which such city, municipality, or county has authority to demolish. The amount of any grant under this section shall not exceed two-thirds of the cost of the demolition of such structures.

(b) No grant shall be made under this section unless the structures to be demolished are located in an urban renewal area, or, in the case of structures outside an urban renewal area, (1) the locality involved has an approved workable program for community improvement in accordance with the requirements of section 101 (c), as determined by the Administrator, (2) the demolition to be assisted will be on a planned neighborhood basis and will further the over-all renewal objectives of such locality, (3) there is in such locality a program of enforcement of existing local housing and related codes, (4) the structures to be demolished constitute a public nuisance and a serious hazard to the public health or welfare, and (5) the governing body of such locality has determined that other available legal procedures have been exhausted to secure remedial action by the owner of the structures involved and that demolition by governmental action is required.

CODE ENFORCEMENT

SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the Administrator is authorized to enter into contracts to make, and to make, grants as provided in this section (payable from any grant funds provided under section 103(b)) to cities, other municipalities, and counties for the purpose of assisting such localities in carrying out programs of concentrated code enforcement in deteriorated or deteriorating areas in which such enforcement, together with those public improvements to be provided by the locality, may be expected to arrest the decline of the area. Such grants shall not exceed two-thirds (or three-fourths in the case of any city, other municipality, or county having a population of 50,000 or less according to the most recent decennial census) of the cost of planning and carrying out such programs which may include the provision and repair of necessary streets, curbs, sidewalks, street lighting, tree planting, and similar improvements within such areas. The Administrator shall not make any grant under this section unless he has obtained adequate assurances (1) that the locality will maintain during the period of the contract, in addition to its expenditures for planning and carrying out any program assisted under this section, a level of expenditures for code enforcement activities at not less than its normal expenditures for such activities prior to the execution of such contract, and (2) that the locality has a satisfactory program for the provision of all necessary public improvements for such areas. The provisions of sections 101 (c), 106, 114, and 115 shall be applicable to activities and undertakings assisted under this section to the same extent as if such activities and undertakings were being carried out in an urban renewal area as part of an urban renewal project.

Added by sec. 311(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved August 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 477.