Title 11, Counties

A. The board may appoint a county commissioner of immigration who shall hold office for two years and shall receive an annual salary not exceeding six hundred dollars. The commissioner shall: 1. Provide information requested by persons desiring to immigrate to the county or make …

A. If a county acquires real or personal property, whether by purchase, exchange, condemnation, gift or otherwise, the board of supervisors shall pay to the county treasurer any taxes on the property that were unpaid as of the date of acquisition, including penalties and interest…

A. Counties may expend public funds to procure liability insurance covering their officers, agents, and employees while engaged in governmental or proprietary capacities. B. Counties may expend public funds to procure errors and omissions insurance covering those county officers,…

The board of supervisors of a county may appropriate monies each year from the general fund to support an arts support fund. The board may expend the monies in aid of the following: 1. Any arts organizations operated and maintained within the boundaries of the county for the bene…

A. The board of supervisors may adopt a system of insurance for the benefit of county elected officials and employees. The board may procure health, life, accident and disability insurance for the benefit of these elected officials and employees from any insurer licensed to do bu…

A. Any county with a population between one million and two million persons may purchase, construct or operate a sewage system, including the collection, transportation, pumping, treatment and disposal of sewage, and charge fees and levy taxes therefor, if the county secures the …

A. In addition to other bonding authority of the board of supervisors the board of any county authorized to operate a sewerage system pursuant to provisions of section 11-264 may issue bonds for the construction, acquisition or improvement of such system. All principal and intere…

Bonds issued pursuant to this article are legal investments for all banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized and operating under the laws of this state.

A. Bonds issued pursuant to this article are exempt from any and all statutory debt limitations and budget requirements applicable to a county. B. Until payment of all bonds issued for sewer construction, acquisition or improvement and the expiration of the fiscal year in which t…

Revenues, proceeds and receipts derived from the operation of the county sewerage system are the security for the payments of the bonds issued under this article.

Except as otherwise expressly provided, the bonds authorized pursuant to section 11-264.01 shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of sections 9-530, 9-531, 9-532, 9-533 and 9-535.

If a county authorized to operate a sewerage system pursuant to section 11-264 acquires all or any portion of a sewerage system from any incorporated city or town, which sewerage system or portion thereof has been constructed, acquired or improved with proceeds from bonds of any …

A. Notwithstanding any other law, a county may acquire by purchase or any other means land that is located within a city or town only if acquisition of the land is part of a management agreement agreed to by the governing body of the city or town. B. This section does not apply t…

Counties may expend public funds to provide clothing allowances for county officers, agents and employees who are engaged in public safety work, when such clothing is regarded as a condition of employment, and the county may reimburse such officers, agents and employees for cloth…

Members of boards of supervisors are immune from personal liability with respect to all acts done and actions taken in good faith within the scope of their authority during duly constituted regular and special meetings with the approval of a majority of the board.

A. Any county may implement programs to provide services to persons with disabilities or persons sixty years of age or older, and may contract with federal, state, local or other providers for the provision of these services. B. As used in this section, "services" may include, bu…

A. The board of supervisors, by ordinance, shall compel the owner, lessee or occupant of buildings, grounds or lots located in the unincorporated areas of the county to remove rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, debris or dilapidated buildings that constitute a hazard to public health …

A county shall provide its residents with an opportunity to engage in recycling and waste reduction.

In addition to the procedures established for the taking of property by eminent domain under title 12, chapter 8, article 2, a board of supervisors may establish, by ordinance or for individual cases, procedures to compensate property owners for any reduction in value of or negat…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, a county with a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census shall not spend public monies, grant tax concessions or relief, incur debt or exchange property in any c…

A. A county may enter into agreements with the department of transportation for the acceleration of right-of-way acquisition, design or construction of an eligible highway project or an eligible transit capital project as defined in section 28-7671 and may advance monies to the d…

Interest on a judgment in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the county, including interest that is payable pursuant to section 12-1123, subsection B, shall be calculated for each month or portion of a month that interest is owed and shall be either: 1. The prime rate charge…

Notwithstanding any other law and because the legislature finds it is a matter of statewide concern, a county shall not effectively prohibit the installation or use of a vehicle refueling apparatus as defined in section 43-1086.01. This section does not preclude a county from ens…

A board of supervisors may require annexation to a city or town of any territory of the county that consists of an entire parcel that is ten acres or less and that is completely surrounded by the city or town in accordance with the following procedures: 1. Written notice of the p…

A county shall not construct or maintain a work center if any part of the center is to facilitate the knowing employment of an alien who is not entitled to lawful residence in the United States.

A. If a county has laws, regulations, plans or policies that are less restrictive than a federal or state regulation, rule, plan or policy, the county shall demand by any lawful means that the federal or state government coordinate with the county before the federal or state gove…

A. Notwithstanding any provision in rule or ordinance, a county shall not prohibit a resident from parking a motor vehicle on a street or driveway in the county if the vehicle is required to be available at designated periods at the person's residence as a condition of the person…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section the board of supervisors and any other person under the authority of the board of supervisors shall not adopt requirements by ordinance or otherwise for landlords or tenants that relate to the control of bedbugs as defined in …

A. If a county requires food handler training and a certificate for employment in the food service industry, the food handler certificate training course must meet American society for testing and materials standard E2659-09. The food handler certificate training course must addr…

A. A board of supervisors may not adopt an ordinance or resolution that requires a retail business to comply with specific security requirements, including the installation of security cameras or security lights, based on the size of the retail business, the type of the retail bu…

A. A county may not require an owner, operator or tenant of a business, commercial building or multifamily housing property to measure and report energy usage and consumption, including energy consumption benchmarking and building facility energy efficiency audits. B. The regulat…

Notwithstanding section 11-201, subsection A, paragraph 2, a county may purchase, own, lease or hold real property outside of its territorial limits for the purpose of developing, operating and maintaining wireless communication facilities that are used for county government purp…

A. A county may not: 1. Impose a tax, fee, assessment, charge or return deposit on a consumer or an owner, operator or tenant of a business, commercial building or multifamily housing property for auxiliary containers. 2. Regulate the sale, use or disposition of auxiliary contain…

A. A county may not prohibit vacation rentals or short-term rentals. B. A county may not restrict the use of or regulate vacation rentals or short-term rentals based on their classification, use or occupancy except as provided in this section. A county may regulate vacation renta…

A county may place a sign on a road that the county does not maintain. The sign may say "enter or proceed with caution. Use at your own risk. This surface is not maintained by the county."

On or before December 31, 2018, the board of supervisors from each county shall establish at least one location in the county where a person may drop off any legal or illegal drug or substance and drug paraphernalia and receive a referral to a substance abuse treatment facility.

A county that receives 911 telephone calls shall report to the department of health services, in a format prescribed by the department, the number of telephone calls received under section 13-3423 and any related overdose deaths.

A. A county may not prohibit or otherwise restrict an individual from lawfully accessing or using computational power or running a node on blockchain technology in a residence. B. The regulation of the act of lawfully accessing or using computational power or running a node on bl…

A. A county may not require an employer to provide health insurance to the employer's employees. B. The regulation of health insurance is of statewide concern and not subject to further regulation by a county.

A. In relation to a mobile food vendor or mobile food unit, a county board of supervisors by ordinance or resolution may: 1. Impose operating hours only if they are the same as the operating hours imposed on restaurants in that county. 2. Restrict the operation of noisemaking dev…

A. Pursuant to the Americans with disabilities act of 1990 (P.L. 101-336; 104 Stat. 327; 42 United States Code sections 12101 through 12213) and its regulations, a county shall take reasonable steps to ensure that its communications with persons with disabilities, including onlin…

A. A county may not: 1. Impose a tax, fee, assessment or charge on any consumer or owner or operator of a business to pay for or support a drug disposal program in the county's jurisdiction. 2. Require an owner or operator of a business to establish, pay for or operate a drug dis…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, the board of supervisors of a county may by ordinance do the following: 1. Authorize administrative personnel to review and approve site plans, development plans, land divisions, lot line adjustments, lot ties, assurances, preliminary plats, fina…

A. A county may not require a person who volunteers at a school activity or function where food is being handled or served outside of the school's regular food service to students to obtain a food handler certificate or identification card or participate in a food handler certifi…

Notwithstanding any other law, a county may not require any type of license or permit for a business that is both of the following: 1. Operated by a person who is under nineteen years of age. 2. Operated only occasionally.

A. A county may not enact or enforce any noise ordinance, rule or regulation that prohibits any general construction activities between May 1 and October 15 of each year between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. each business day and between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m…

When the aggregate indebtedness of a county does not exceed six per cent of the value of the taxable property within the county as ascertained by the last property tax assessment, and the county has no suitable courthouse, jail or other county buildings, the board may erect them,…

A. The bonds authorized to be issued by section 11-271 shall bear interest at a rate or rates set forth in the accepted bid, payable semiannually, and shall be issued in such denominations, not less than one hundred dollars each, as the board may direct. The bonds shall be signed…

A. When the bonds are executed, numbered consecutively and sealed, they shall be delivered to the county treasurer, and his receipt taken therefor, and he shall stand charged with all bonds delivered to him and the proceeds thereof. B. The treasurer shall sell the bonds under the…

A. The treasurer shall keep a register of all bonds sold by number, date of sale, amount, date of maturity and the name and address of the purchaser. B. When a bond is sold by a holder, the purchaser shall notify the treasurer of the purchase, giving the number of the bond and hi…