Title IX, LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Ch. 331 - 420)

Any instrument executed by a municipality and purporting to convey any right, title, or interest in any property under this chapter shall be conclusively presumed to have been executed in compliance with the provisions of this chapter insofar as title or other interest of any bon…

1. A municipality may itself exercise its urban renewal project powers, as defined in this section , or may, if the local governing body by resolution determines such action to be in the public interest, elect to have such powers exercised by the urban renewal agency, if one exis…

1. There is hereby created in each municipality a public body corporate and politic to be known as the “urban renewal agency” of the municipality. An urban renewal agency shall not transact any business or exercise its powers under this chapter until or unless the local governing…

1. For purposes of this section : a. “Action” does not include resolutions advisory to the local governing body or agency by any citizens group, board, body, or commission designated to serve a purely advisory approving or recommending function under this chapter . b. “Action aff…

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. “Affected taxing entity” means a city, county, or school district which levied or certified for levy a property…

Insofar as the provisions of this chapter may be inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this chapter shall be controlling. The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. [C58, 62, …

A municipality may provide by ordinance that taxes levied on taxable property in an urban renewal area each year by or for the benefit of the state, city, county, school district, or other taxing district, shall be divided as follows: 1. a. Unless otherwise provided in this secti…

1. For purposes of this section , unless the context otherwise requires: a. “Business” means an enterprise that is located in this state and that is operated for profit and under a single management. “Business” includes professional services and industrial enterprises, including …

1. It is hereby found and declared that there exist in municipalities of the state slum and blighted areas, as defined in this chapter , which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of the state; that …

In determining the assessed value of property within an urban renewal area which is subject to a division of tax revenues pursuant to section 403.19 , the difference between the actual value of the property as determined by the assessor each year and the actual value of the prope…

1. In order to promote communication and cooperation among cities, counties, and community colleges with respect to the allocation and division of taxes, no jobs training projects as defined in chapter 260E shall be undertaken within the area of operation of a municipality after …

1. With respect to any urban renewal area established upon the determination that the area is an economic development area, a division of revenue as provided in section 403.19 shall not be allowed for the purpose of providing or aiding in the provision of public improvements rela…

1. Each municipality that has established an urban renewal area that utilizes, or plans to utilize, revenues from the special fund created in section 403.19 , shall make an annual certification of compliance with this section . For any year in which the municipality is audited in…

The local governing body of a municipality may formulate for the municipality a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate slums and prevent the development or spread of slums and urban blight and to encourage needed urban rehabilitation.…

A municipality shall not exercise the authority conferred upon municipalities by this chapter until after its local governing body has adopted a resolution finding that: 1. One or more slum, blighted or economic development areas exist in the municipality. 2. The rehabilitation, …

1. A municipality shall not approve an urban renewal project for an urban renewal area unless the governing body has, by resolution, determined the area to be a slum area, blighted area, economic development area or a combination of those areas, and designated the area as appropr…

The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally interpreted to achieve the purposes of this chapter . Every municipality shall have all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter , including the following powers in…

1. A municipality shall have the right to acquire by 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 under this chapter , subject to the limitations on eminent domain …

1. A municipality may sell, lease or otherwise transfer real property or any interest in real property acquired by it, and may enter into contracts for such purposes, in an urban renewal area for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial or other uses, or for public use, …

1. A municipality shall have power to periodically issue bonds in its discretion to pay the costs of carrying out the purposes and provisions of this chapter , including but not limited to the payment of principal and interest upon any advances for surveys and planning, and the p…