Title 31, COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-2612. Contingent fund — Approval of district court. The prosecuting attorney of each county, by and with the consent and approval first had and obtained of the district court, or any judge thereof, in and for his county, is hereby authorized and empowered to incur the expenses…

31-2613. Contingent fund — Manner of disbursement. All disbursements from said fund shall be made in the usual manner by the county treasurer of each county upon the warrant of the auditor of each county, which auditor’s warrant shall be executed and delivered in an amount, and t…

31-2614. Contingent fund — Unexpended balance. Any sum remaining in said fund on the thirtieth day of September of each year shall then be transferred by the county auditor to the general county revenue fund of said county.

31-2705. Establishment of county lines. Whenever it shall be ordered by an act of the legislature to establish the boundary line between two (2) counties, the board of county commissioners of each county interested in the boundary shall jointly select and retain the services of a…

31-2707. County surveys to be made by professional land surveyor. All surveys, maps and plats ordered by the board of county commissioners shall be made by a professional land surveyor retained by the board who shall be paid such fee as may be fixed and agreed upon.

31-2709. Surveys must conform to United States manual. No surveys or resurveys hereafter made shall be considered legal evidence in any court within the state, except such surveys as are made in accordance with the United States manual of surveying instructions, the circular on r…

31-2801. Inquests. The coroner must hold inquests as prescribed in the Penal Code.

31-2801A. powers and duties. The county coroner, who shall be a medicolegal death investigator, is charged with the responsibility of determining or certifying the cause and manner of death for those deaths properly the responsibility of the coroner. When a death is reported to t…

31-2802. Burial or cremation of unclaimed bodies. When no person takes charge of the body of the deceased within fourteen (14) days of death, the coroner shall cause the body to be decently interred or cremated; and if there is not sufficient property belonging to the estate of t…

31-2803. Disposal of property found on corpse. The coroner must within thirty (30) days after an inquest upon a dead body, deliver to the county treasurer or the legal representatives of the deceased, any money or other property found upon the body.

31-2804. Verified statement required of coroner. Before auditing or allowing the accounts of the coroner, the commissioners must require him to file with the clerk of the board a statement in writing, verified by his affidavit, showing: 1. The amount of money or other property be…

31-2805. District judge or whomever he assigns to act as coroner. If the office of coroner is vacant, or he is absent or unable to attend, the duties of his office may be discharged by any district judge or whomever he assigns for the county, with the like authority, and subject …

31-2806. Coroner to act as substitute for sheriff. The coroner shall be authorized to act as the substitute for the county sheriff when the sheriff declares he is disqualified from acting due to a conflict of interest in a proceeding or matter; provided, however, that the senior …

31-2807. Powers when acting as sheriff. Whenever the coroner acts as sheriff, he possesses the powers, and may perform all the duties, of sheriff, and is liable on his official bond, in like manner as a sheriff would be; and is entitled to the same fees as are allowed by law to t…

31-2808. Making final disposition of human remains prohibited. No coroner or person acting as coroner who is a licensed funeral director or a licensed mortician, owner, or proprietor of any establishment engaged in making final disposition of human remains, and no establishment w…

31-2810. continuing education requirements. (1) After January 1, 2010, each county coroner shall complete twenty-four (24) hours of continuing education on a biennial calendar basis. (2) For the purpose of each county coroner being certified, the Idaho state association of county…

31-2811. definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Burial" means the interment or entombment of dead human bodies in any manner. (2) "Certified" means a procedure by which a third party gives written assurance that a person, product, process, or service conforms to specific requ…

31-2901. Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act."

31-2902. Definitions. In this chapter: (1) "Document" means information that is: (a) Inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form; and (b) Eligible to be recorded in the land records maintained by the rec…

31-2903. Validity of electronic documents. (1) If a law requires, as a condition for recording, that a document be an original, be on paper or another tangible medium, or be in writing, the requirement is satisfied by an electronic document satisfying this chapter. (2) If a law r…

31-2904. Recording of documents. (1) In this section, "paper document" means a document that is received by the recorder in a form that is not electronic. (2) A recorder: (a) Who implements any of the functions listed in this section shall do so in compliance with standards estab…

31-2906. Uniformity of application and construction. In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.

31-2907. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act. This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal electronic signatures in global and national commerce act, 15 U.S.C. section 7001, et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede section 1…

31-3101. Officers to receive salaries and account for fees. The salaries of county officers as full compensation for their services must be paid monthly from the county treasury, upon the warrants of the county auditor, and it shall not be necessary for the board of commissioners…

31-3102. Refusal to account is embezzlement. Any county officer or deputy who shall neglect or refuse to account for and pay into the county treasury any money received as fees or compensation in excess of his actual and necessary expenses, incurred in the performance of his offi…

31-3106. Salaries of county officers. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of each county, through the county budget process, as detailed in chapter 16, title 31, Idaho Code, to fix the annual salaries of the several county officers as of and from October 1 f…

31-3107. Deputies and assistants — Appointment and compensation. The sheriff, the coroner, the assessor, the treasurer and ex officio tax collector and the clerk of the district court and ex officio auditor and recorder shall be empowered by the board of county commissioners to a…

31-3108. Counties organized in the future. Counties created or organized hereafter shall be governed by the provisions hereof, and the boards of county commissioners of such newly-created organized counties shall respectively fix and determine at their first meeting the salaries …

31-3113. Contracted duties of prosecuting attorneys with cities. Prosecuting attorneys, with the unanimous approval of the board of county commissioners, and with the consent of the prosecuting attorney, may contract with any city within the county to prosecute nonconflicting mis…

31-3201. Clerk of district court — Fees. (1) The clerk of the district court shall lawfully charge, demand and receive the following fees for services rendered by him in discharging the duties imposed upon him by law: For filing and docketing abstract or transcript of judgment fr…

31-3201A. Court fees. The clerk of the district court, in addition to the fees and charges imposed by chapter 20, title 1, Idaho Code, and by section 31-3201, Idaho Code, and in addition to the fee levied by chapter 2, title 73, Idaho Code, shall charge, demand and receive the fo…

31-3201B. Peace officers standards and training — Fee. The court shall charge a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for peace officers standards and training purposes to be paid by each person found guilty of any felony or misdemeanor, or found to have committed an infraction or any …

31-3201C. Community service fee. The court shall charge a fee of sixty cents (60¢) per hour of community service to be remitted to the state insurance fund for purposes of providing worker’s compensation insurance for persons performing community service; however, if a county is …

31-3201D. County misdemeanor probation supervision fee. (1) Any person under a supervised probation program for a misdemeanor offense shall be required to pay an amount not more than the maximum monthly felony probation or parole supervision fee set forth in section 20-225, Idaho…

31-3201E. Drug court and mental health court fee — Drug court and mental health court fund. Each person admitted into a drug court or mental health court shall pay a drug court and mental health court fee in an amount not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300) per month or a less…

31-3201F. Abandoned vehicle fee. The court shall charge a fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) for reimbursement of expenses incurred in the disposition of an abandoned vehicle to be paid by each person found to have committed a traffic infraction according to the provisions o…

31-3201G. guardianship and conservatorship project FUND. [effective until January 1, 2027] (1) In addition to any other filing and reporting fees applicable to guardianships and conservatorships, the court shall charge the following fees: (a) Fifty dollars ($50.00) for filing cas…

31-3201H. surcharge fee. (1) The court shall charge a surcharge fee to be paid by each defendant for each criminal offense or infraction committed on or after April 15, 2010, for which the defendant is found or pleads guilty. Such fee shall be in addition to all other fines and f…

31-3201I. distribution of payments in criminal and infraction cases. When ordered by the court to make one (1) of the following payments in a criminal or infraction case, a defendant shall make the payment to the clerk of the court in which the judgment was entered. The judgment …

31-3201J. pretrial supervision fee. (1) Any person under a supervised pretrial release program may be required to pay an amount not more than the maximum monthly misdemeanor probation supervision fee set forth in section 31-3201D, Idaho Code, per month, or such lesser sum as dete…

31-3201K. Distribution of payments in cases under the Juvenile Corrections Act. When ordered by the court to make one (1) of the following payments in a case filed under the juvenile corrections act, chapter 5, title 20, Idaho Code, the person so ordered shall make the payment to…

31-3202. Clerk of district court — Exceptions to fee schedule. In any action instituted in the name of any county auditor, as trustee for the county for the foreclosure of any tax lien, no state stenographer’s fee must be charged or received by the clerk of the district court.

31-3203. Sheriff’s fees. The board of county commissioners of each respective county shall have the power to set sheriff’s fees by a resolution of the board for the services herein specified in an amount reasonably related to but not exceeding the actual costs of such service. Th…

31-3204. victim notification — fee. The court shall charge a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for victim notification purposes to be paid by each person found guilty of each felony, misdemeanor or infraction under section 18-8001 or 49-301, Idaho Code, or first-time infraction und…

31-3205. Recorder’s fees. (1) The county recorder is allowed and may receive for his services the following fees to be paid him by the party procuring his services: (a) Except as otherwise set forth in this section, for recording every instrument, paper or notice, for the first p…

31-3206. Recorder — Exceptions to fee schedule. Each county recorder shall record, free of charge, all clear lists of lands granted to the state by the United States.