11-8-18. Requirements waived for rehabilitation of disaster area.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, where the local governing body certifies that an area is in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the Governor of the state has certified the need for disaster assistance under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, or other federal law, the local governing body may approve an urban renewal plan and an urban renewal project with respect to such area without regard to the provisions of §§11-8-16 and 11-8-17 and the provisions of §§11-8-12 and 11-8-15 requiring a general plan for the municipality and a public hearing on the urban renewal project.
Source: SL 1966, ch 149, §7 (7).