§ 17-38. Certificate of public convenience and necessity for corporation to acquire property by eminent domain.

If the redevelopment corporation proposing a development plan seeks to acquire by eminent domain in its own name all or any part of the real property described in the development plan, the council shall, by ordinance, determine that the public convenience and necessity will be served by the development plan and redevelopment project, and grant to such redevelopment corporation a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing and empowering the redevelopment corporation to acquire by the exercise of eminent domain such real property in fee simple or other estate; provided that such real property shall be devoted to the purposes and used subject to the conditions described in the development plan. Such redevelopment corporation may thereafter exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by any other applicable statutory provision. Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired in like manner, provided that no real property belonging to the city or to the state or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired without its consent.

(Ord. No. 3386, § 18, 8-13-90)