(315 ILCS 30/2) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.102)
Sec. 2.
It is hereby found and declared (a) that there exist in urban
communities within this State with more than 500,000 inhabitants land
clearance commissions, created prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly and acting pursuant to the Blighted Areas
Redevelopment Act of 1947 (repealed) and
conservation boards, created and acting pursuant to the "Urban Community
Conservation Act," approved July 13, 1953, as amended; (b) that the
administration of these two closely related programs involving the
eradication or prevention of slum and blight areas and the redevelopment of
such areas can be accomplished more efficiently by a single instrumentality
as an agency of such urban community; (c) that in order to protect the
health, safety, morals and welfare of the public by the more efficient
administration of programs to aid in the eradication and prevention of slum
and blight areas and the redevelopment thereof it is necessary to provide
for the creation of a single instrumentality to absorb the functions of
land clearance commissions and conservation boards, and to exercise the
powers and authority granted by the Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of
1947 (repealed) and the "Urban Community
Conservation Act," approved July 13, 1953, as amended; and (d) the
eradication and redevelopment of slum and blighted areas, the development
and redevelopment of blighted vacant areas, the conservation of urban
residential areas and the prevention of slums, by a single instrumentality
the creation of which is herein authorized, in the manner provided in this
Act, is hereby declared to be a public use essential to the public
interest.
(Source: P.A. 102-510, eff. 8-20-21.)
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