Section 24-3-6 Workable Program.

The governing body of the municipality, or such public officer or public body as it may designate, is hereby authorized to prepare a workable program (which may include an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time, for effectively dealing with the problem of slums and blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas within the community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned community with well organized residential neighborhoods of decent homes and suitable living environment for adequate family life) for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate and prevent the development or spread of slums and blight and deterioration, to encourage needed rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, deteriorated, or slum areas or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such a program.