Section 956. Statement of legislative findings and declaration  


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  • It is
      hereby found and declared that there  exist  within  the  state  certain
      areas   characterized   by   persistent   and  pervasive  poverty,  high
      unemployment,  limited  new  job  creation,  a  dependence   on   public
      assistance  income,  dilapidated and abandoned industrial and commercial
      facilities, and shrinking tax bases.  These  severe  conditions  require
      state  government  to  target for these areas extraordinary economic and
      human resource  development  programs  in  order  to  stimulate  private
      investment,  private  business  development  and job creation. It is the
      public policy of the state to offer special  incentives  and  assistance
      that  will  promote  the development of new businesses, the expansion of
      existing businesses and the development of human resources within  these
      economically  impoverished  areas  and  to do so without encouraging the
      relocation of business investment from other areas of the state.  It  is
      further  found and declared that it is the public policy of the state to
      achieve these goals through the mutual  cooperation  of  all  levels  of
      state and local government and the business community.