11-9-9. Areas conducive to disease or crime defined as blighted.

Any area, including slum area, in which the structures, buildings, or improvements, by reason of:

(1)    Dilapidation, age, or obsolescence;

(2)    Inadequate provisions for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces;

(3)    High density of population and overcrowding;

(4)    The existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other causes; or

(5)    Any combination of such factors;

are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime, and which is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare, is a blighted area.

Source: SL 1978, ch 91, § 2 (1).