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any commercial or residential purpose for at least one year, that has not been maintained, and for which taxes have not been paid for at least two years, Subd. 6. Blighted area. Defined as an area that is in urban use and where more than 50 percent of the buildings are structurally substandard (defined below), Subd. 7. Structurally substandard. Defined to be a building that was inspected and cited for code violations that have not been fixed after two notices and for which it would cost more than 50 percent of the taxable market value of the building to fix, Permits a local government to get an administrative warrant to do an interior inspection, Subd. 8. Environmentally contaminated area. Defined as an area where more than 50 percent of the parcels contain contamination and for which the estimated costs of investigation, monitoring, testing, and clean-up are more than the estimated market value of the parcel, or where a court has issued a clean up order and the owner has not complied within a reasonable time, Subd. 9. Public nuisance. Applies Minnesota Statutes, section 609,74, as the definition of public nuisance for eminent domain purposes, Section 609,74 provides: "Whoever by an act or failure to perform a legal duty intentionally does any of the following is guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, which is a misdemeanor: (1) maintains or permits a condition which unreasonably annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort, or repose of any considerable number of members of the public; or (2) interferes with, obstructs, or renders dangerous for passage, any public highway or right of way, or waters used by the public; or (3) is guilty of any other act or omission declared by law to be a public nuisance and for which no sentence is specifically provided," Subd. 10. Public service corporation. Defined as a public utility, gas, electric, telephone, or cable communications company, and other listed utilities, and also as a municipality or public corporation when operating an airport, a common carrier, a watershed district, or a drainage authority, and an entity operating a regional distribution center within an international economic development zone, Subd. 11. Public use, public purpose. Defines these terms to mean ownership and use of the land by the public or public agencies, creation or functioning of public service corporations, or to mitigate blighted areas, remediate environmentally contaminated areas, reduce abandoned property, or remove a public nuisance, Provides that the public benefits of economic development alone do not constitute a public use,