Title 31 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-3612. Fiscal year — Receipt of moneys. The fiscal year of the county hospital board shall be from the date fixed by the county hospital board to the same day and month of the next succeeding year. All moneys received by the county hospital board from whatever source shall be p…

31-3613. Annual budget — Tax levy. The county hospital board shall prepare and submit to the board of county commissioners each year a budget for the operation of the hospital property at the time and in the form as provided by law for the preparation and submission of budgets by…

31-3614. Taxing unit — Tax anticipation notes or warrants authorized. Upon the creation and appointment of the county hospital board by the board of county commissioners the county hospital board shall become and be a taxing unit under the provisions of the Idaho budget law, and …

31-3615. Contracting and procurement powers of board. The county hospital board shall have power to contract for, purchase and pay for all material, equipment, services and supplies necessary or convenient for the efficient, economical and successful operation and maintenance of …

31-3616. Hospital service upon prepayment or assurance plan. The county hospital board shall have power to contract with persons, associations, corporations or any other bodies engaged in providing for hospital service upon a prepayment or assurance plan, for the rendition of ser…

31-3616A. Disposal of personal property. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 31-808, Idaho Code, county hospital boards may dispose of personal property previously purchased, paid for, or otherwise acquired by the board, so long as any such property to be disposed of has a …

31-3617. Liberal interpretation of powers of board. The grant of powers in this act contained to county hospital boards and to the duly authorized officers and agents thereof shall be liberally interpreted and construed as a broad and general grant of powers to the end that the o…

31-3618. Existing statutes not affected. This act is not intended and shall not be construed to repeal or amend existing statutes providing for other method or methods of operating county hospitals, but is intended to afford an optional means by which any county may, if it so cho…

31-3619. Separability. If any section or sections, or part or parts thereof be held to be unconstitutional, or invalid for any other reason, such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the act.

31-3620. Accounts and reports of person in charge. The person in charge of the county hospital shall keep a correct account of all receipts and expenditures in connection therewith and make full and complete reports thereof quarterly to the board of county commissioners. Upon not…

31-3701. Acquisition and operation authorized. Any county and city located in such county are hereby authorized to create a joint county-city hospital authority, to jointly purchase, build, maintain and operate hospitals, hospital grounds, nurses homes, superintendent’s quarters …

31-3702. Bond election. The governing bodies of said county and city, when they deem the welfare of their respective municipalities requires it, and when petitioned thereto by a number of taxpayers, in the case of the city equal to thirty per cent (30%) of the number of persons v…

31-3703. Lease or sale of hospital. Such city and county acting through the respective governing bodies of such municipality and county shall have the right to lease such hospital upon such terms and for such a length of time as they may decide, or to sell the same; provided, how…

31-3704. Hospital board. The management and operation of any hospital which is jointly owned by any county and city in this state may, by resolution of the board of county commissioners of such county and the city council of such city in all cases where both county and city are e…

31-3705. Appointment and removal of board members — Officers — Meetings. In cases where the city and county are jointly operating such hospital, and where a hospital or hospitals are being operated by a joint county-city hospital authority, the members of said hospital board or b…

31-3706. Powers of hospital board — Expenses of operation. All hospital boards, including boards of trustees of joint county-city hospital authorities, so appointed are authorized, subject to such special regulations as may be from time to time imposed by the county commissioners…

31-3707. Deposit of hospital funds. No funds coming into the custody of the hospital board under the provisions of this act need be deposited with the treasurer of either the city or county, but the same, including all checks, drafts and other instruments for the payment of money…

31-3709. Liability of depository or board member or officer. No bank or trust company accepting such deposits shall have any duty or obligation whatsoever as to the disposition of any funds so deposited by either said board or any member, officer or agent thereof, or by the perso…

31-3710. Financial reports. The treasurer of every such hospital board shall make an annual financial report and accounting to the board of county commissioners and the city council owning and/or operating such hospital, within thirty (30) days after the acceptance of the annual …

31-3805. delivery of water within subdivisions. (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to any proposed subdivision, as defined in chapter 13, title 50, Idaho Code, within the state of Idaho or to a subdivision subject to a more restrictive county or city zoning ordinance.…

31-3806. Civil action to enforce. (1) If the owner of the property of the person, firm, or corporation filing the subdivision plat, amendment to a subdivision plat, or any other plat or map recognized by the city or county for the division of land fails to comply with section 31-…

31-3901. Authorization to establish ambulance service — Special levy. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the boards of county commissioners in the several counties are hereby authorized, whenever existing ambulance service is not reasonably available to the…

31-3902. County treasurers to establish ambulance service fund. The county treasurer of each county in which an ambulance service has been established pursuant to section 31-3901, Idaho Code, prior to July 1, 2020, shall establish a fund to be designated as the ambulance service …

31-3903. Ambulance service — Powers and duties of board of county commissioners. (1) The board of county commissioners shall determine the manner in which said ambulance service shall be operated and is empowered to make expenditures from the ambulance service fund for the purcha…

31-3904. Ambulance service — Fees. (1) The board of county commissioners shall adopt a schedule of fees to be charged for the use of ambulance service provided under the authority of section 31-3901, Idaho Code. All such fees shall be collected, accounted for and paid to the coun…

31-3905. Ambulance service — Operation dependent upon resolution of each city — Right to tax unaffected by nonservice. All cities and villages within the county, upon resolution duly passed and approved and presented to the board of county commissioners, may authorize said ambula…

31-3906. Ambulance service — cooperative agreements. The board of county commissioners of any county wherein such ambulance service has been established pursuant to section 31-3901, Idaho Code, prior to July 1, 2020, is authorized, in its discretion and under such terms and condi…

31-3907. Ambulance service — Termination of. Any county having adopted and established an ambulance service pursuant to section 31-3901, Idaho Code, prior to July 1, 2020, may terminate the same for good cause by the adoption of a resolution by the board of county commissioners. …

31-3908. Ambulance district authorized — districts formed before July 1, 2020. The provisions set forth in this section shall govern an ambulance district formed prior to July 1, 2020: (1) The county commissioners of any county shall, upon petition signed by not less than fifty (…

31-3908A. Exemptions from taxation. The board of county commissioners, upon application, may, by an ordinance enacted by not later than the second Monday of July, exempt all or a portion of the unimproved real property within the district from taxation, and may exempt all or a po…

31-3909. Immunity of ambulance attendant. No action shall lie or be maintained for civil damages in any court of this state against any person or persons, or group of persons, including ambulance attendants employed by an ambulance service district, who offers and administers fir…

31-3910. Consent for emergency medical treatment. The authorization or refusal of consent for emergency medical treatment under chapter 39, title 31, Idaho Code, shall be governed by chapter 45, title 39, Idaho Code.

31-3911. ambulance service district — districts formed on and after July 1, 2020. The provisions of sections 31-3911 through 31-3922, Idaho Code, shall govern any ambulance service district formed on and after July 1, 2020: (1) A petition to form an ambulance service district mus…

31-3912. ambulance service district commissioners — subdistricts — Term of office — Vacancies. (1) At the meeting of the board of county commissioners at which the ambulance service district is declared organized, as provided in section 31-3911, Idaho Code, the county commissione…

31-3913. Organization of board — Meetings — Officers — Official bonds. (1) Immediately after qualifying, the board of ambulance service commissioners shall meet and organize as a board and, at that time and whenever thereafter vacancies in the respective offices may occur, they s…

31-3914. Corporate powers and duties of board of ambulance service commissioners. A board of ambulance service commissioners shall have discretionary powers to manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district. The discretionary powers shall include but not be limited t…

31-3915. Levy — election. (1) Each year, immediately prior to the annual county levy of taxes, the board of commissioners of each ambulance service district organized under section 31-3911, Idaho Code, may levy a tax upon all the taxable property within the boundaries of such dis…

31-3916. Duties of county commissioners. The board of county commissioners, at the time of making the annual county levies, shall make a levy upon all the taxable property not exempt from taxation within each district within the county in the same amount as the levy made by the b…

31-3917. Handling of district funds. (1) The tax receipts collected by the county as provided for in section 31-3916, Idaho Code, and other funds shall immediately be paid over by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the ambulance service district, who shall deposit the same …

31-3918. Indebtedness prohibited — Exceptions. The board of commissioners of an ambulance service district organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall have no power to incur any debt or liability, except as otherwise provided in this section: (1) In the first year …

31-3919. Carry over — Fund balance. The board of commissioners of an ambulance service district may accumulate fund balances at the end of a fiscal year and carry over those fund balances into the following fiscal year budget for equipping and maintaining the district. As used in…

31-3920. Inclusion, annexation, or withdrawal of area in cities within an ambulance service district. Except as otherwise provided in section 50-224, Idaho Code, any area embraced within the limits of any city may, with the consent of the governing boards of such city and the res…

31-3921. intra-agency and mutual aid agreements. Ambulance service districts shall have all of the powers given to political subdivisions of the state of Idaho as set forth in section 67-2339, Idaho Code, and sections 67-2326 through 67-2333, Idaho Code, inclusive, to enter into …

31-3922. dissolution. Dissolution of any ambulance service district organized under the provisions of section 31-3911, Idaho Code, may be initiated by a petition signed by at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the qualified electors within the ambulance service district, requesti…

31-4101. Definitions. As used in this act the term: 1. "Service unit" means any structure inhabited by human beings for dwelling purposes and shall include each home, each apartment within a structure, and each unit within a motel or hotel structure or complex and shall include a…

31-4102. Translator district — Purposes. The purposes of a translator district shall be to serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity in the construction, maintenance and operation of translator stations and any system necessary thereto by appropriate electronic means …

31-4103. Organizational area. Any area of the state may organize as a translator district for the performance of functions provided for in this act.

31-4104. District area. A translator district may include a part or all of any county or may include areas in more than one (1) county and may include any municipality located within the county or counties.

31-4105. Petition to form district. A petition to form a district shall be presented to the county clerk and recorder of each of the counties in which any portion of the area is situated. Petitions shall be signed by a number of not less than sixty per cent (60%) of the resident …

31-4106. Filing of petition. The petition shall be filed with the county clerk and recorder of all counties in which the signers on the petition are located. If the petition is filed with more than one (1) county clerk and recorder each petition shall state the number of signing …