HB 2470

                                   HOUSE BILL No. 2470
AN ACT concerning economic development; relating to the Kansas neighborhood
   revitalization act; providing that certain municipalities may designate the entire
   municipality within a neighborhood revitalization area; amending K.S.A. 12-17,116
   and repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
    Section 1. K.S.A. 12-17,116 is hereby amended to read as follows:
12-17,116. The governing body of any municipality may designate any
area within such municipality as a neighborhood revitalization area if
the governing body finds that one or more of the conditions as
described in subsection (c) of K.S.A. 12-17,115(c), and amendments
thereto, exist and that the rehabilitation, conservation or redevelopment
of the area is necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare of
the residents of the municipality. The governing body may declare a
building outside of a neighborhood revitalization area to be a
dilapidated structure if the structure satisfies the conditions set forth in
subsection (a) of K.S.A. 12-17,115(a). Nothing in the Kansas
neighborhood revitalization act shall prohibit any municipality with a
population of less than 10,000 people from designating the entire
municipality as being within a neighborhood revitalization area.
    Sec. 2. K.S.A. 12-17,116 is hereby repealed.
    Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
I hereby certify that the above BILL originated in the HOUSE, and passed
that body
                                                                                     Speaker of the House.
                                                                                Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the SENATE  ______________________________________________________________________________
                                                                                   President of the Senate.
                                                                                   Secretary of the Senate.
APPROVED   __________________________________________________________________________________________________
                                                                                                       Governor.