§ 45-25-5 - Hearing on petition for establishment.
SECTION 45-25-5
§ 45-25-5 Hearing on petition forestablishment. – (a) Upon the date fixed for the hearing held upon notice as provided in thissection, an opportunity to be heard is granted to all residents and taxpayersof the city and to all other interested persons. After the hearing, the councilshall determine:
(1) Whether unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwellingaccommodations exist in the city, and/or
(2) Whether there is a lack of safe or sanitary dwellingaccommodations in the city available for all the city's inhabitants.
(b) In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafeor unsanitary, the council shall take into consideration the following: (1) thephysical conditions and age of the building; the degree of overcrowding; (2)the percentage of land coverage; (3) the light and air available to theinhabitants of those dwelling accommodations; (4) the size and arrangement ofthe rooms; (5) the sanitary facilities; and (6) the extent to which conditionsexist in those buildings which endanger life or property by fire or othercauses.