Title 31 — COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW

31-4512. Bonds eligible for investment. The state and all counties and cities and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies, and public officers of any thereof, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan ass…

31-4513. Exemption from construction and bidding requirements for public buildings. A pollution control facility is not subject to any requirements relating to public buildings, structures, grounds, works, or improvements imposed by the Idaho Code, or any other similar requiremen…

31-4514. Joint operation. The powers herein conferred upon counties under this act may be exercised by two (2) or more counties acting jointly.

31-4515. Tax exemption. Revenue bonds and the interest thereon, issued pursuant to the authority contained in this act, shall be exempt from taxation under the Idaho income tax law.

31-4516. Bond elections — Validation of elections and bonds. All bond elections conducted by counties pursuant to authority contained in section 31-4510, Idaho Code, prior to the effective date of this act, and all proceedings had in the authorization and issuance of the bonds au…

31-4601. Purpose. The legislature recognizes that the counties of the state perform vital functions in administering and delivering law enforcement services to all residents of the state. The legislature further finds it is necessary that the boards of county commissioners of the…

31-4602. Justice fund establishment. The board of county commissioners of any county may, in conjunction with development of their annual budget, by resolution adopted at a public meeting of the board, establish a county justice fund to provide funding for the operation of the co…

31-4603. Procedure for establishment. (1) If a board of county commissioners desires to establish a county justice fund, it shall publish notice of intent to do so in conjunction with the proposed budget publication required in section 31-1604, Idaho Code, and shall depict such p…

31-4701. Creation of county museum board. A county museum board may be created as follows: (1) In addition to the procedures provided in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section, the county commissioners may adopt a resolution and incorporate in its minutes to signify that it…

31-4702. Order creating board — Appointment and selection of members. If the board enters an order creating a county museum board pursuant to subsection (6) of section 31-4701, Idaho Code, it shall immediately appoint five (5) persons to membership thereof, and make its action a …

31-4703. Time for creation. The county museum board may be created under the provisions of this chapter at any time before the first Monday in July in any year.

31-4704. Duties of county museum board — Bonds of members — Meetings — Further duties. The county museum board shall be charged with the care and custody of all property belonging to the county and used for museum purposes, and shall be responsible for all moneys received by it, …

31-4705. Secretary and treasurer of county museum board. The county museum board shall select and employ a competent secretary whom they shall vest with general managerial powers subject to the provisions of this chapter. It shall also appoint a treasurer. The office of secretary…

31-4706. Budget of funds for county museum purposes — Maintenance of idle property. For the purpose of determining what funds must be raised by taxes for county museum purposes, the county museum board shall meet at such time as may be provided by law for the preparation of budge…

31-4707. Expenses of board members. The members of the county museum board shall be paid their actual and necessary expenses out of the funds provided for museum purposes, upon approval of claims for the same by the board of county commissioners.

31-4801. Purpose. The legislature recognizes that providing consolidated emergency communications systems and interoperable public safety communications and data systems is vital in enhancing the public health, safety, and welfare of the people in the state of Idaho. The legislat…

31-4802. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Access line" means any telephone line, trunk line, network access register, dedicated radio signal, or equivalent that provides switched telecommunications access to a consolidated emergency communications system from either a s…

31-4803. Authority to establish and for voters to approve funding for a consolidated emergency communications system. (1) The board of commissioners of any county may establish a consolidated emergency communications system by virtue of authority granted by this chapter or by cha…

31-4804. Emergency communications fee. (1) The emergency communications fee provided pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be a uniform amount not to exceed one dollar ($1.00) per month per access or interconnected VoIP service line, and such fee shall be used exclusiv…

31-4804A. Establishment of enhanced consolidated emergency communications systems or next generation consolidated emergency systems. (1) Any county or 911 service area that has established a basic consolidated emergency system may establish an enhanced consolidated emergency syst…

31-4805. Establishment of joint powers board for operation of emergency communications service. Within one hundred eighty (180) days following voter approval of an emergency communications fee as provided in section 31-4803, Idaho Code, a governing board or administrator may be e…

31-4806. Authorization for governing board to appoint official to supervise emergency communications service in the absence of joint powers agreement. Whenever the electors approve imposing the emergency communications fee as provided in this chapter, but in the absence of an agr…

31-4807. Right to fee not affected by nonservice. All governmental entities within the county that have an already established emergency communications system using 911 call access, upon resolution duly adopted and approved and presented to the joint powers board or in their abse…

31-4808. Termination. (1) Any county or joint powers board having adopted and established an emergency communications system as provided in this chapter may terminate the same for good cause. (2) If, after the formation of any 911 service area of less than county-wide extent, the…

31-4809. Fund and appropriations. The county treasurer of each county or the administrator for a 911 service area in which an emergency communications system has been established pursuant to this chapter shall establish a fund to be designated the emergency communications fund in…

31-4810. Existing joint county-wide emergency dispatch systems not affected. Joint county-wide emergency dispatch systems that are in existence prior to July 1, 1987, shall not be affected by the provisions of this chapter. These emergency dispatch systems may continue to functio…

31-4811. Pay phones to be converted to allow emergency calls without charge. Every provider of telephone service or other owner of a pay station telephone in an area served by an emergency telephone system established pursuant to this chapter must convert every pay station teleph…

31-4812. Immunity and conditions of liability in providing emergency communications service. In order to further the purposes of this chapter, and to encourage the development of consolidated emergency communications systems, the legislature finds that telecommunications provider…

31-4813. Prepaid wireless telecommunications service emergency communications fee. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Consumer" means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction; (b) "Prepaid wireless E911 fee" means the fee imposed b…

31-4814. Confidential and proprietary data. All data submitted to governing boards by wireless carriers deemed by such carriers as confidential and proprietary shall be deemed to be trade secrets pursuant to chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code.

31-4815. Creation of the Idaho public safety communications commission — Terms. (1) There is hereby created in the military division an Idaho public safety communications commission (hereinafter referred to as "the commission") with the purposes identified in section 31-4801(2)(d…

31-4816. Idaho public safety communications commission — responsibilities. The responsibilities of the commission are to: (1) Determine the status and operability of consolidated emergency communications systems and interoperable public safety communications and data systems stat…

31-4817. Idaho public safety communications commission — Mediation. In the event that a dispute arises between local government entities over the governance of operations of consolidated emergency communications systems and interoperable public safety communications and data syst…

31-4818. Idaho emergency communications fund — Establishment and administration. (1) There is hereby created within the treasury of the state of Idaho a separate fund known as the Idaho emergency communications fund, which shall consist of moneys received from counties, cities, c…

31-4819. Enhanced emergency communications grant fee. (1) On and after July 1, 2013, there shall be an enhanced emergency communications grant fee established by virtue of authority granted by this chapter. The fee shall be twenty-five cents (25¢) per month per access or intercon…

31-4820. IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATIONS AND DATA SYSTEMS FUND — ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION. (1) There is hereby created within the treasury of the state of Idaho a separate fund known as the Idaho public safety interoperable communications and data systems…

31-4821. administrative support. The commission may, with consensus of the governor and legislature of the state of Idaho, create positions including, but not limited to, executive director, 911 program manager, 911 grants manager, statewide interoperability coordinator, national…

31-4901. Findings and purpose. (1) The legislature hereby finds and declares that the disposal of solid waste and domestic septage within the state of Idaho is an important public purpose, and that the creation of independent regional districts to administer solid waste or domest…

31-4902. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Act" or "this act" means this regional solid waste or domestic septage district act. (2) "Commissioners" means the board of commissioners of each county within a district. (3) "District" means a regional solid waste or domestic …

31-4903. Establishment of districts. Any two (2) or more counties within the state may establish an independent public body corporate and politic to be known as a regional solid waste or domestic septage district (with such additional designation as the district board may select)…

31-4904. District board — Quorum — Meetings. A district shall be governed by a board of directors consisting of not less than three (3) members, hereinafter referred to as the district board, which shall be vested with the authority, control and supervision of the district. The d…

31-4905. Conflict of interest prohibited. No member of a district board, employee, or agent of a district shall acquire any interest in any property or contract of the district.

31-4906. Powers of the board of directors. A district board shall have and may exercise the following powers and duties: (1) To sue and be sued; (2) To develop and administer a system for the regional disposal of solid waste, domestic septage and/or resource recovery within the d…

31-4907. Annual budget. The fiscal year of a district shall commence on October 1 of each year and shall end on September 30 of the following year. The district board shall prepare, by the first Monday in July of each year, a preliminary budget for the district and an estimate of…

31-4908. Apportionment of annual costs to counties. Any costs of the district for the ensuing year, in excess of the fees and other revenues anticipated to be received directly by the district, shall be allocated to the participating counties in accordance with the annual budget …

31-4909. No power to tax. A district shall have no power to levy property taxes. Nothing herein shall be deemed as limiting or prohibiting the power of any participating county to levy property taxes for the purposes authorized in section 31-4404, Idaho Code.

31-4910. Bonds and other indebtedness. A district shall have power to issue bonds or other obligations including, without limitation, installment purchase or lease-purchase obligations, from time to time in the discretion of the district board, for any of its corporate purposes. …

31-4911. Authorization, form and sale of bonds. When the district board shall find the proposed project or projects to be necessary for the proper operation of the district and economically feasible and such finding is recorded in its minutes, the bonds therefor shall be authoriz…

31-4912. Security for bonds or other indebtedness. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of other indebtedness, and to secure the payment of the same, the district board shall have the power: (1) To pledge all or any part of its fees and revenues from any sour…

31-4913. Limitation on actions. No direct or collateral action attacking or questioning the validity of any bonds or other indebtedness of a district shall be brought after the elapse of forty (40) days from and after the adoption of the resolution authorizing the issuance of suc…