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- 3-15-11 · First election of officers; time; law governing.
- 3-15-12 · Filing and recording certified copies of charter.
- 3-15-13 · Charter controls when statute is inconsistent; statutory interpretation.
- 3-15-14 · Petitions; qualifications of signers; contents.
- 3-15-15 · Publication of proposed charter.
- 3-15-16 · Amendment or repeal of charter; alternate methods.
- 3-16-1 · Combined city-county municipal corporations; definitions.
- 3-16-2 · Combined organization; charter committee; proposed charter; election; ballots.
- 3-16-3 · Approval of charter at election; legislative body for combined organization.
- 3-16-4 · Charter; contents.
- 3-16-5 · Date for commencing operation of new organization; disapproval of charter; effect.
- 3-16-6 · Powers of combined organization.
- 3-16-7 · County officers at time of city and county consolidation; duties.
- 3-16-8 · Justices of the peace [magistrates] at time of city and county consolidation; duties; vacancies.
- 3-16-9 · Municipal judges to be provided for in charter.
- 3-16-10 · Pending cases in courts not to be affected by consolidation.
- 3-16-11 · Probate judges and district judges at time of consolidation; effect.
- 3-16-12 · Real and personal property taxes; assessment, levy and collection.
- 3-16-13 · Books and records of combined organization; filing of instruments.
- 3-16-14 · Assets and liabilities of city and county vest in combined organization; exceptions.
- 3-16-15 · Continuation of prosecutions, ordinances, rights, privileges and franchises.
- 3-16-16 · City and county property vests in combined organization.
- 3-16-17 · Substitution of combined organization in pending court proceedings.
- 3-16-18 · Collection of taxes; budgets; powers and duties of officers of combined organization.
- 3-17-1 · Ordinances; purposes.
- 3-17-2 · Ordinances; style.
- 3-17-3 · Notice by publication of certain proposed ordinances.
- 3-17-4 · Ordinances; roll call vote; adoption.
- 3-17-5 · Proof of ordinance; authentication; publication; effective date; codification.
- 3-17-6 · Codes adopted and enforced by reference; availability.
- 3-17-7 · Water conservation and drought management plans.
- 3-18-1 · General powers; body politic and corporate powers.
- 3-18-2 · Prohibition on municipal taxing power.
- 3-18-3 · Animals.
- 3-18-4 · Buildings; construct, purchase, rehabilitate, care for.
- 3-18-5 · Dangerous buildings or debris; removal; notice; right of municipality to remove; lien.
- 3-18-6 · Building construction and restrictions; establishing fire zones.
- 3-18-7 · Additional county and municipal powers; flood and mudslide hazard areas; flood plain permits; land use control; jurisdiction; agreement.
- 3-18-8 · Cemeteries.
- 3-18-9 · Census.
- 3-18-10 · Power of eminent domain; purposes; proceedings.
- 3-18-11 · Fire prevention and protection; insurance for volunteer firemen.
- 3-18-11.1 · Fingerprinting of fireman applicants required; authorization for municipality to communicate such information to the federal bureau of investigation.
- 3-18-12 · Food and merchandise; regulation and inspection.
- 3-18-13 · Industrial nuisances and nauseous locations; regulation and prohibition.
- 3-18-14 · Municipal libraries; establishment; contract services; state publications; gifts and bequests.
- 3-18-15 · Works of art; other works; acquisition and maintenance.
- 3-18-16 · Markets and market places.
- 3-18-17 · Nuisances and offenses; regulation or prohibition.
- 3-18-18 · Parks.
- 3-18-19 · Park and recreation construction authorized.
- 3-18-20 · Police ordinances; county jails.
- 3-18-21 · Railroads; street railroads; crossings.
- 3-18-22 · Requirement for sanitary facilities; notice to owners; failure to comply; municipality to perform work; lien; interest.
- 3-18-23 · Steam boiler inspection.
- 3-18-24 · Licensing and regulating secondhand and junk stores.
- 3-18-25 · Water systems; sewers; assessments.
- 3-18-26 · Toll bridges.
- 3-18-27 · Trees and shrubs.
- 3-18-28 · Municipal employees' retirement system.
- 3-18-29 · [Foreign-trade zones.]
- 3-18-30 · Parking citations; certain municipalities; administrative cost assessment.
- 3-18-31 · Sale of gasoline; authority of the municipality.
- 3-18-32 · Limitation of county and municipal restrictions on solar collectors.
- 3-19-1 · Creation of planning commission.
- 3-19-2 · Appointment, term, removal of commission.
- 3-19-3 · Chairman; regular meetings; records.
- 3-19-4 · Powers of commission.
- 3-19-5 · Planning and platting jurisdiction.
- 3-19-6 · Subdivision regulations.
- 3-19-7 · Platting of street lines by planning commission.
- 3-19-8 · Appeal.
- 3-19-9 · Master plan; purposes.
- 3-19-10 · Adoption of a master plan.
- 3-19-11 · Legal status of master plan.
- 3-19-12 · Approval constitutes amendment to master plan.
- 3-20-1 · Definitions.
- 3-20-2 · Subdivision; description.
- 3-20-3 · Contents of plat; acknowledgment.
- 3-20-4 · Streets and alleys.
- 3-20-5 · County and municipal jurisdiction over subdivision; concurrent jurisdiction; acceptance of unapproved streets; exercise of jurisdiction.
- 3-20-6 · Subdivision in unincorporated area; approval of county commission.
- 3-20-7 · Subdivision within the platting jurisdiction of a municipality; approval of the planning authority; procedure; filing fee; notice of hearing.
- 3-20-8 · Alternate summary procedure.
- 3-20-9 · Subdivision within platting jurisdiction of a county and municipality; dual approval.
- 3-20-9.1 · Plat approval; proof of adequate water supply on lands from which irrigation water rights have been severed.
- 3-20-10 · Filing in office of county clerk; duties of county clerk.
- 3-20-11 · Dedication for public use.
- 3-20-12 · Vacation or partial vacation of plat; approval of government having jurisdiction; duties of county clerk.
- 3-20-13 · Vacation; rights of utility.
- 3-20-14 · Penalties for transferring lots in unapproved subdivisions.
- 3-20-15 · Approval necessary for utility protection.
- 3-20-16 · Validation of deeds.
- 3-21-1 · Zoning; authority of county; municipality; exceptions; registered child care homes; licensed family child care homes; licensed group child care homes; licensed child care centers.
- 3-21-2 · Jurisdiction of a county or municipal zoning authority.
- 3-21-2.1 · Certain municipalities; changing the zoning or use of certain areas; election allowed.
- 3-21-3 · Procedure for extraterritorial zoning.
- 3-21-3.1 · Additional procedures for extraterritorial zoning and subdivision regulation.
- 3-21-3.2 · Extraterritorial zoning in class A counties; procedures.
- 3-21-3.3 · Extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction; concurrent authority for certain counties.