Title 50 — MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS

50-2004. Workable program. A municipality for the purposes of this act may formulate for the municipality a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to encourage needed …

50-2005. Finding of necessity by local governing body. No urban renewal agency and no municipality shall exercise the authority hereafter conferred by this act until after the local governing body shall have adopted a resolution finding that: (1) one or more deteriorated or deter…

50-2006. Urban renewal agency — Authorization — Dissolution. (1)(a) There is hereby created in each municipality an independent public body corporate and politic to be known as the "urban renewal agency" that was created by resolution as provided in section 50-2005, Idaho Code, b…

50-2007. Powers. Every urban renewal agency shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this act, including the following powers in addition to others herein granted: (a) To undertake and carry out urban renewal pro…

50-2008. Preparation and approval of plan for urban renewal project. (a) An urban renewal project for an urban renewal area shall not be planned or initiated unless the local governing body has, by resolution, determined such area to be a deteriorated area or a deteriorating area…

50-2009. Neighborhood and community-wide plans. (a) An urban renewal agency or any public body authorized to perform planning work may prepare a general neighborhood renewal plan for urban renewal areas which may be of such scope that urban renewal activities may have to be carri…

50-2010. Acquisition of property. (a) An urban renewal agency shall have the right to acquire by negotiation or condemnation any interest in real property, including a fee simple title thereto, which it may deem necessary for or in connection with an urban renewal project and rel…

50-2011. Disposal of property in urban renewal area. (a) An urban renewal agency may sell, lease, or otherwise transfer real property or any interest therein acquired by it for an urban renewal project, and may enter into contracts with respect thereto, in an urban renewal area f…

50-2012. Issuance of bonds. (a) An urban renewal agency shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion to finance the undertaking of any urban renewal project under this act, including, without limiting the generality thereof, the payment of principal and int…

50-2013. Bonds as legal investments. All banks, trust companies, bankers, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking or investment business, all insurance companies, i…

50-2014. Property exempt from taxes and from levy and sale by virtue of an execution. (a) All property of an urban renewal agency, including funds, owned or held by it for the purposes of this act shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution, and no execution or o…

50-2015. Cooperation by public bodies. (a) For the purpose of aiding in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of an urban renewal project and related activities authorized by this act, any public body may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (…

50-2016. Title of purchaser. Any instrument executed by an urban renewal agency and purporting to convey any right, title or interest in any property under this act shall be conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with the provisions of this act insofar as title…

50-2017. Interested public officials, commissioners or employees. No public official or employee of a municipality (or board or commission thereof), and no commissioner or employee of an urban renewal agency shall voluntarily acquire any personal interest, direct or indirect, in …

50-2018. Definitions. The following terms wherever used or referred to in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context: (1) "Agency" or "urban renewal agency" shall mean a public agency created by section 50-2006,…

50-2027. Limitations on review of adoption or modification of plan, and issuance of bonds. (1) No direct or collateral action attacking or otherwise questioning the validity of any urban renewal plan, project or modification thereto (including one containing a revenue allocation …

50-2031. Severability. The provisions of the Idaho Urban Renewal Law of 1965, as it now exists or may hereafter be amended are hereby declared to be severable and if any provision of this act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is declared invalid f…

50-2032. Severability. The provisions of this act are hereby declared to be severable; and if any provision of this act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance is declared invalid for any reason, such declaration shall not affect the validity of remaini…

50-2033. amendments. Except for consolidation of revenue allocation areas, a revenue allocation area may only be amended to extend its boundaries as set forth herein. An amendment to an urban renewal plan that does not seek to increase the geographic area of the plan, or does not…

50-2101. Consolidation of cities. Two (2) or more cities, each one of which is contiguous to the other, or to one of the other of said cities, all of which shall be incorporated under general law, may become consolidated into one (1) city, to be thereafter governed in the name an…

50-2102. Resolution for joint session of governing bodies. The mayor and council of any city, desiring consolidation with the adjacent city or cities, may institute proceedings for consolidating by passing a resolution wherein it shall be stated that such city desires to be conso…

50-2103. Petition for consolidation. The citizens of one or more contiguous cities may institute proceedings for consolidation by petition. Upon receiving a petition for consolidation by either of the cities proposed to be consolidated, which petition shall be signed by registere…

50-2104. Joint session — Resolution specifying time of election. When a majority of the governing bodies of each of the cities desires consolidation, or petitions signed by the requisite number of qualified electors in each city have been duly received and recorded by each city, …

50-2105. Submission of question to electors — election. In each of the cities proposed to be consolidated, on the date fixed by resolution, there shall be held an election for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of each of said cities, the question whether such ci…

50-2106. Results of election certified to secretary of state. If a majority of the qualified electors of each city vote in favor of consolidation, the county clerk shall certify the results of the election to the board of county commissioners. The county clerk shall transmit the …

50-2107. Election of officers of consolidated corporations. In the event that the majority of the votes cast by the electors of each and all such cities proposed to be consolidated shall favor consolidation, the city shall proceed to call an election to be held in all the cities …

50-2108. Effective date. From and after the date of filing an abstract of results of election of officials with the secretary of state, such consolidation shall be deemed to be completed, and such cities shall be deemed to be consolidated into a new corporation under the name of …

50-2109. New corporate successor to former corporations. Any city, created by the consolidation of two (2) or more cities under the provisions of section 50-2101 through 50-2114, shall for all purposes be deemed and taken to be the successor of the several corporations so consoli…

50-2110. No property to be taxed for prior indebtedness. No property in any of the cities consolidated under the provisions of sections 50-2101 through 50-2114 shall ever be taxed to pay any portion of any indebtedness of any of the other corporations contracted, or incurred prio…

50-2111. Prior obligations or proceedings. Consolidation of cities effected under the provisions of sections 50-2101 through 50-2114 shall not affect any debts, demands, liabilities or obligations of any kind existing in favor of or against any such city so consolidated at the ti…

50-2112. Effect of ordinances of consolidated cities. All ordinances of any city or cities consolidated under the provisions of sections 50-2101 through 50-2114, except those of the one having the greater or greatest population and those not in conflict therewith, shall be deemed…

50-2113. Books of smaller city(ies) property of new city. All records, papers and documents of the smaller city or cities, in the hands of the clerk of such city or cities, shall be transmitted to the clerk of the newly consolidated city and the treasurer of such smaller city or …

50-2114. Expenses of consolidation. All proper expenses of proceedings for consolidation shall, if the consolidation is made and completed, be paid by the consolidated city; with the exception of costs of conducting the election, which shall be paid by the county. If consolidatio…

50-2201. Petition for disincorporation. A city existing under the laws of this state may disincorporate after proceedings had as required by sections 50-2201 through 50-2213, Idaho Code. The council shall, upon receiving a petition therefor, signed by not less than one-half (1/2)…

50-2202. Election to determine question. The question of disincorporation shall be submitted at an election on the next date authorized by section 50-405, Idaho Code, which is more than forty-five (45) days after the election called by the city council or board of county commissi…

50-2203. Canvass of vote. The vote at such election shall be taken, canvassed and returned in the same manner as in other elections. The county board of canvassers shall meet within ten (10) days of such election and proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat.

50-2204. Effect of negative vote. If it is found by the canvass of said votes that less than two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast were in favor of disincorporation, the county board of canvassers shall declare the petition for disincorporation denied, in which case no other electio…

50-2205. Proceedings upon affirmative vote — Order of disincorporation. In case it shall appear from said canvass that two thirds (2/3) of all the votes cast were in favor of disincorporation, said county commission shall, under their hands make and file in their office, and caus…

50-2206. Determination of indebtedness — Transmission of money and financial data. Said county clerk shall, forthwith, after ascertaining by said canvass that said disincorporation has been carried, determine the amount of indebtedness of said city, the taxes payable, the amount …

50-2207. Disposition of records. Upon the disincorporation of said city, every public officer of said city shall immediately turn over, to the board of county commissioners of the county in which said corporation is situated, all public property of every nature and description in…

50-2208. Payment of indebtedness. Nothing contained in sections 50-2201 through 50-2213 shall relieve said city or the territory included in it, from any liability for any debt contracted by such city prior to its disincorporation. All warrants for said indebtedness shall be draw…

50-2209. Collection and disposition of current tax levies. If at the time of such disincorporation, a tax shall have been levied by said city and remains uncollected, it shall be the duty of the tax collector of the county in which said corporation is situated to collect said tax…

50-2210. Subsequent tax levies authorized. If, at any time after the disincorporation of said city, it shall be found that there is not sufficient money in the treasury to the credit of the fund, herein above provided, with which to pay any indebtedness of said corporation, the b…

50-2211. Disposition of surplus funds. If, after payment of the debts of said corporation, any surplus shall remain in the hands of said county treasurer to the credit of the fund hereinbefore mentioned, the money so remaining shall be transferred to the school fund of the distri…

50-2212. County commissioners vested with power to close city affairs. Said board of county commissioners shall make provisions for the collection of the amounts due to said corporation and for the closing up of its affairs, and any act or acts, necessary for such purpose and not…

50-2213. Payment of costs. All costs and expenses of ascertaining the information hereinbefore mentioned and all other costs and expenses incurred by the board of county commissioners in the execution of the powers and duties of said board of county commissioners, provided for in…

50-2214. Affidavit to be filed. When the conditions and procedures set forth herein have been fully satisfied, and a declaration of disincorporation has been recorded in the proceedings of the county commissioners, the county recorder shall within fifteen (15) days, file with the…

50-2301. Cities organized under general incorporating act or special charter — Organization under general laws. Any city within the state of Idaho organized under a general incorporating act or special charter may become organized as a city under the provisions of this act, and t…

50-2302. Petition for organization under general laws — Election. Upon receipt of a petition signed by registered qualified electors equal in number to twenty-five percent (25%) of the total number of voters casting ballots at the last preceding general city election, the governi…

50-2303. Submission of proposition to electorate — Filing of certificates — Proclamation of governor. At such election, conducted under this chapter, the proposition to be submitted to the electors shall be substantially: "Shall the proposition to organize the City of (name of ci…