Title 50 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS

50-1512. Tax levy — Salary deductions. Any city having established a policeman’s retirement fund may levy a tax of not to exceed eight hundredths per cent (.08%) of market value for assessment purposes of property within the corporate limits of the city, except where pursuant to …

50-1513. Chairman of board — Secretaries — Reports. The mayor of the city shall be ex-officio chairman of the board of police retirement fund commissioners and the members of the board shall elect the other necessary officers. The secretary of the board shall make a semiannual re…

50-1514. Retirement of policemen — Retirement benefits — Leave of absence. (a) Whenever any person shall have been duly appointed, selected and sworn in as a member in any capacity or rank whatsoever of a regularly constituted police department of the city which may hereafter be …

50-1515. Resignation of policemen — Refund of deductions. A policeman who has been employed by a regularly constituted police department for a period of less than five (5) continuous years shall, upon termination of such employment, and upon application to the board of police ret…

50-1516. Retirement for disability — Death benefits — Funeral benefits. No person shall be retired as provided in the above sections unless the member shall comply with the qualifications set out and provided by this chapter: (a) Any paid police member incapacitated by injury or …

50-1517. Benefits exempt from legal process. No benefits or payments payable under the provisions of sections 50-1501 through 50-1524 shall be subject to execution, nor assignable, nor shall be hypothecated or in any manner encumbered.

50-1518. Construction of statute. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed, with the object of promotion of justice and the welfare of the persons subject to its provisions.

50-1519. Rotary expense fund. The provisions of sections 67-2018, 67-2019, 67-2020 and 67-2021, Idaho Code, are hereby expressly declared applicable to the provisions of sections 50-1501 through 50-1524.

50-1520. Insurance of risks. In event the board of police retirement fund commissioners shall determine that there are risks arising under the terms of sections 50-1501 through 50-1524 which may be made the subject of insurance against loss to the fund created herein, said commis…

50-1521. Application of statute. No paid policeman shall be retired under section 50-1514 prior to January 1, 1950, unless he shall be discharged from service because of his incapacity in a degree which prohibits efficient service as defined in subdivision (h) of section 50-1502.…

50-1522. Separability. If any clause, section or provision of sections 50-1501 through 50-1524 be found to be unconstitutional, the remainder of sections 50-1501 through 50-1524 shall remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding such invalidity.

50-1523. False claims — Penalty. Any person making a false claim for allowance of benefits or payment of money under sections 50-1501 through 50-1524, knowing the same to be false, shall be deemed guilty of presentation of a false claim against the state and shall be punished as …

50-1524. Authority to create policeman’s retirement fund terminated. From and after the effective date of this act, no city shall establish a policeman’s retirement fund: provided, however, that any policeman’s retirement fund, established under the provisions of sections 50-1501…

50-1525. Mandatory actuarial study. Any city establishing and maintaining a policeman’s retirement fund pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall, at its own expense, conduct an actuarial study for the purpose of determining the actuarial soundness of such fund. Commencing…

50-1526. Making a false claim — Misdemeanor. Any person making a false claim for allowance of benefits or payment of money under the provisions of this chapter, knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished pursuant to the provisions of sec…

50-1601. Civil service commission — Appointment — Qualifications — Manner of abolishing commission. To provide a means whereby employees of the cities of the state of Idaho may be selected, retained and promoted on the basis of merit and performance of duties, thus affecting econ…

50-1602. Departments governed by civil service — Classified civil service lists. The council of each city creating a civil service system shall, by ordinance, determine which departments therein shall be included within the classified civil service system to be governed by the ci…

50-1603. Rules by commission. The civil service commission shall make, and is hereby empowered to make, all necessary rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of the civil service system and for examinations, appointments and promotions. All such rules and regulations shal…

50-1604. Examinations — Qualifications of applicants — Rehires — Causes for removal, discharge or suspension of incumbents. (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, all applicants for places of employment in the classified civil service shall be subject to examin…

50-1605. Appointment to positions — Certificate of eligibles — Reexamination. When a position in the classified civil service is to be filled, the appointing authority shall notify the civil service commissioner and the commission shall, as soon as possible, certify the names of …

50-1606. Promotion for merit. The civil service commission shall provide for promotions within the departments under the classified civil service on the basis of ascertained merit, seniority in service, standing obtained by competitive examination, and in all cases where practica…

50-1607. Employees of six months when ordinance becomes effective. All persons who are and have been continuously in the employ of the city, for at least six (6) months next prior to the effective date of the civil service ordinance, shall retain their respective employment, subj…

50-1608. Temporary appointments. The appointing authority of each department under the classified civil service, by and with the advice and consent of the civil service commission, may employ any person for temporary work without making such appointment from the certified list; b…

50-1609. Removals — Suspensions — Appeals — Hearings. All persons in the classified civil service shall be subject to suspension from office or employment by the head of the department for misconduct, incompetency or failure to properly observe the rules of the department. Upon s…

50-1610. Removals due to reduction of force. Nothing in sections 50-1601 through 50-1610 shall prohibit the city council from reducing the force employed, but such reduction shall be effected in inverse order of seniority of employment, and any employee who is removed on this acc…

50-1701. Short title. Chapter 17, title 50, Idaho Code, shall be known and cited as the "Local Improvement District Code."

50-1702. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall, for the purpose of this chapter, have the meanings respectively given herein. (a) Municipality. Counties, water and/or sewer districts organized pursuant to the provisions of chapter 32, title …

50-1703. Powers conferred. (a) The governing body of any municipality shall have power to make or cause to be made any one (1) or more or combination of the following improvements: (1) To establish grades and lay out, establish, open, extend and widen any local, collector, arteri…

50-1703A. Local business improvement districts. (1) The legislature finds that the development of architectural themes for cities is a legitimate method to further the public health, safety and welfare of cities. The purpose of the provisions of this section is to authorize citie…

50-1704. Improvements on railroad tracks or on one side of a street. (a) Whenever any improvement shall be made upon any street occupied by the tracks of any railroad, the council is authorized and it shall be its duty to assess against such railroad situated within the improveme…

50-1705. Modified district. Whenever any local improvement shall be of such nature and character that the special benefits resulting therefrom extend beyond the boundaries of the property abutting the improvement or whenever the special benefits do not accrue to some or all prope…

50-1706. Initiation of organization of district. The organization of any local improvement district herein provided for may be initiated upon a petition signed by not less than sixty percent (60%) of the resident owners or two-thirds (2/3) of the owners of property subject to ass…

50-1706A. Fees. In the case of any local improvement district initiated by petition, the petitioners may authorize the council to charge the petitioners a reasonable fee for the council to retain outside advisors to assist the council in assessing the proposed local improvement d…

50-1707. Resolution of intention to create district. Upon the filing of a petition or upon initiation of a district by council action, the council shall at a regular or special meeting adopt a resolution giving notice of its intention to create the district, to make the improveme…

50-1708. Notice of intention and hearing. The notice of intention shall be published in the official newspaper of the municipality in three (3) consecutive issues if a daily newspaper, or in two (2) issues if a weekly newspaper or in case no newspaper is published in such municip…

50-1709. Protests and hearing. Any owner of property to be assessed in the proposed local improvement district described in the notice of intention shall have the right, in advance of the hearing, to file in writing a protest to the creation of the district or making any other ob…

50-1710. Ordinance creating improvement district and procedure for construction bids. If, after the hearing on the creation of the district, the council finds (a) that the district will be for the best interest of the property affected and the municipality, (b) that there is reas…

50-1711. Limitation on assessments against property. No municipality shall order any improvement to be paid for by local assessment where the estimated costs of such improvement, if such costs are to be assessed to the property in the district, or that portion of the estimated co…

50-1712. Preparation of assessment roll and notice of hearing thereon. After the contract has been awarded and at such time as the council shall determine, the engineer shall prepare a duly certified report to the council showing in detail the total cost and expenses of the impro…

50-1713. Notice of hearing on assessment roll. After the council fixes the time and place for said hearing on the assessment roll, the clerk of the municipality shall give notice by publication in the official newspaper of such municipality in three (3) successive issues if publi…

50-1714. Hearing objections to assessment roll and confirmation. At the time appointed for hearing objections to such assessment roll, the council shall consider the engineer’s report and the assessment roll and shall hear and determine all objections which have been filed by any…

50-1715. Confirmation of assessment roll. (1) After said hearing, the council shall pass an ordinance confirming the assessment roll as corrected by the council in relation to the benefits accruing thereon as a result of the improvements being made. The ordinance shall be the fin…

50-1716. Notice and payment of assessments. Upon passage of the assessment roll, the treasurer of the municipality shall mail a postcard or letter to each property owner assessed at his post office address if known, or if unknown, to the post office in the municipality where the …

50-1717. Installment docket. Whenever any improvement bonds or warrants are issued as herein provided, the treasurer shall immediately thereafter mark on the assessment roll of such local improvement district opposite each assessment which has been paid, the word "paid" together …

50-1718. Appeal procedure — Exclusive remedy. Any person who has filed objections to the assessment roll or any other person who feels aggrieved by the decision of the council in confirming the same shall have the right to appeal to the district court of the county in which the m…

50-1719. Additional improvements. Whenever any assessment is levied on any property for further, separate or additional improvement under the provisions of this code or any law of this state, such assessment shall be a subsequent lien upon the property so assessed to the lien of …

50-1720. Reassessment of benefits. In all cases of assessments for local improvements of any kind against any property wherein said assessments have failed to be valid in whole or in part for want of form or sufficiency, informality, irregularity or nonconformance with the charte…

50-1721. Lien of assessment — Foreclosure. (1) Assessments levied to pay the cost and expense of any improvement authorized by the provisions of this code, or any law of this state, shall constitute a lien upon and against the property upon which such assessment or assessments ar…

50-1721A. Segregation of assessments. Whenever any land against which there has been levied any special assessment by any municipality shall have been sold in part or subdivided, the council of that municipality shall have the power to order a segregation of the assessment. Any p…

50-1722. Bonds — Registered warrants — Interim warrants. If the council determines to make assessments payable in instalments as is provided in section 50-1715, Idaho Code, it shall be ordinance issued in the name of the municipality improvement bonds of the improvement district …