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

If a county sheriff contracts with a private person or entity for the transportation of prisoners to or from a county jail, the contract shall include provisions which require the following: 1. The private person or any officers or employees of the private person or private entit…

The sheriff must keep an accurate calendar of each prisoner committed to the sheriff’s care, which shall contain the prisoner’s name, place of abode, the day and hour of commitment and discharge, the cause and term of commitment, the authority that committed the prisoner, and a d…

1. The personnel of a jail or municipal holding facility shall inquire whether the prisoner is a veteran, and if so, shall inform the prisoner, within twenty-four hours of incarceration, that the prisoner may be entitled to a visit from a veteran service officer to determine if v…

1. The county sheriff, or a municipality operating a temporary municipal holding facility or jail, may charge a prisoner who is eighteen years of age or older and who has been convicted of a criminal offense or sentenced for contempt of court for violation of a domestic abuse ord…

When a jail or any building contiguous or near thereto is on fire, and there is reason to apprehend that the prisoners therein may be injured thereby, the sheriff or keeper must remove such prisoners to some safe and convenient place, and there confine them so long as it may be n…

A county board of supervisors may, by majority vote, establish and maintain by lease, purchase, or contract with a public or private nonprofit agency or corporation, facilities where persons may be detained or confined pursuant to a court order as provided in section 356.1 . The …

If the board of supervisors contracts with a public or private nonprofit agency or corporation for the establishment and maintenance of such a facility, the contract shall state the charge per person per day to be paid by the county; that each facility shall insure the performanc…

A district judge may sentence and commit a person to a facility established and maintained pursuant to section 356A.1 or 356A.2 instead of the county jail. A district judge may order the transfer of a person sentenced and committed to the county jail to such a facility upon the j…

A person detained, committed, or transferred to a facility established and maintained pursuant to section 356A.1 or 356A.2 , may further be released from such facility during necessary and reasonable hours, by court order, for the purposes stated in section 356.26 . Such release …

Any person sentenced, detained, committed, or transferred to a facility established and maintained pursuant to section 356A.1 or 356A.2 shall be discharged therefrom upon completion of the original term of detention or commitment. The person in charge of the facility shall keep a…

A judicial officer of the district court may originally commit a person to the county jail to serve any part of the sentence pronounced, and thereafter the person may be transferred to a facility established and maintained pursuant to section 356A.1 or 356A.2 . [C73, 75, 77, 79, …

A county board of supervisors may contract with another county or a city maintaining a jail meeting the minimum standards for the regulation of jails established pursuant to section 356.36 for detention and commitment of persons pursuant to section 356.1 . A person detained or co…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires, “book” , “list” , “record” , or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1 . 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1

The engineer’s report, together with the dummy plat showing the tentative design and assessment, shall be filed with the county auditor within thirty days of such engineer’s appointment, unless for adequate reasons it is impossible for the engineer to do so, in which case the boa…

On receipt of the engineer’s report filed under section 357.10 , the board of supervisors shall give notice in the manner provided in section 357.4 of a hearing on the engineer’s tentative design and dummy plat. On the day set, or within ten days thereafter, the board of supervis…

When the preliminary design and assessment have been approved by the board of supervisors, a date not more than thirty days after the approval shall be set for an election within the district to determine whether or not the proposed improvement shall be constructed and to choose …

1. At the initial election provided for in section 357.12 , the names of the trustees shall be written by the voter on blank ballots without formal nomination and the board of supervisors shall appoint three from among the five receiving the highest number of votes as trustees fo…

1. If the majority of votes cast at the election are in favor of the improvement, the board of supervisors shall instruct the engineer to complete the plans and specifications, ready for receiving bids for construction of the project. The engineer shall complete the plans and spe…

When bids have been received, if it is apparent that the final assessment will need to be increased more than ten percent over the preliminary assessment, the board of supervisors shall, at its option, reject bids and readvertise for bids as provided herein, or reject bids and re…

If the majority of the votes cast at the second election held pursuant to section 357.15 are in favor of the proposed improvement, the board of supervisors shall again advertise for bids in the manner provided under section 357.14 . If the bids at the second letting will not nece…

1. The successful bidder, when awarded a contract, shall be required to give an approved surety bond for one hundred percent of the contract price, guaranteeing completion of the work in accordance with the plans and specifications, and for maintenance, including backfilling, for…

When in the opinion of the engineer in charge the construction in any benefited water district has been completed in accordance with the plans, specifications, and contract, the engineer shall certify this fact to the board of supervisors and recommend the acceptance of the work …

After the final acceptance of the work by the board of supervisors, the engineer shall complete the final assessment, which shall be made on all the property within the district, whether abutting or not, for an amount approximately ten percent greater than the total cost of the p…

1. The board of supervisors of any county shall, on the petition of twenty-five percent or more of the eligible electors residing in any proposed benefited water district, grant a hearing relative to the establishment of the proposed water district. The petition shall set out the…

1. Upon receipt of a petition having the required signatories as provided in section 357.1A or 358.2 , the board of supervisors shall grant a hearing relative to the establishment of a proposed combined water and sanitary district. The petition shall include the information requi…

The benefited water district may include part or all of any incorporated city or cities, together with or without contiguous or noncontiguous territory including cemeteries and all publicly owned land. The publicly owned property shall pay and bear its proportionate share of the …

Assessments of five hundred dollars or less will come due at the first taxpaying date after the approval of the final assessment, and assessments of more than five hundred dollars may be paid in ten annual installments with interest on the unpaid balance at a rate not exceeding t…

1. Each of the bonds issued under section 357.20 shall meet all of the following requirements: a. The bond shall be numbered. b. The bond shall have printed upon its face that it is a benefited water district bond, stating the county and the number of the district for which it is…

When the assessment has been completed, the bonds have been sold and delivered to the county auditor, and the schedule of assessment has been delivered to the county treasurer, the installments due thereon shall be collected in the same manner as ordinary taxes and shall constitu…

The board of supervisors shall be required to levy the annual tax of eighty-one cents per thousand dollars of assessed value of taxable property so long as the bonds are in arrears. [C39, § 5526.23; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §357.23 ] Referred to in §357.35…

The fee for engineering services shall be fixed by the board of supervisors and the engineer may be paid either a percentage or a per diem from proceeds of the bond sale or by cash from the contractor, if the contractor takes bonds in settlement for the contractor’s work under th…

After the final acceptance of the work by the board of supervisors, the management of the utility shall automatically go to the three trustees previously appointed by the board of supervisors. The trustees of a benefited water district located in a county with a population of two…

It is anticipated that this chapter will usually be utilized to finance a distribution system where the source of supply is without the district, and not under its control, and that individuals within the district will pay water rent to a municipality or corporation without the d…

Whenever property of the state of Iowa, or any political subdivision thereof, shall be included either wholly or in part within the water district and the state of Iowa or the political subdivision owns facilities which may be used as a part of such water system, the executive co…

1. Any person or persons within any water district, who may, after the initial installation of the improvement in any such district, desire to construct additional mains, and who have been assessed on the original assessment, may with the consent of the trustees, connect such lat…

1. If the cost of the desired extensions will be as much as five thousand dollars, the interested parties may petition the board of supervisors to organize a subdistrict, and in such case the board shall proceed in the same manner as for a new district, and may take in territory …

The special assessment provided for in this chapter may be used to cover the costs of installing all the necessary elements of a water system, for both production and distribution. [C24, 27, 31, 35, §5522; C39, § 5526.03; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §357.3 ] …

If a district is under the control of trustees, the trustees are empowered to deal with parties without the district who desire to be taken into the district or to obtain water from the district. The trustees shall determine the amount to be assessed against the territory to be t…

The board of supervisors shall have power to condemn, in the same manner as provided for the condemnation of land, right-of-way through private property, sufficient for the construction and maintenance of water mains. The cost of such right-of-way shall constitute a part of the e…

The board of supervisors shall provide a record book which shall be in the custody of the auditor, in which shall be kept a full and complete record of the proceedings relative to water districts, so arranged and indexed, as to enable any proceedings relative to any district to b…

Any person aggrieved may appeal from any final action of the board of supervisors in relation to any matter involving the person’s rights to the district court of the county in which the district is located. The procedure in such appeals shall be governed by the provisions of sec…

1. If a city is situated wholly or partly within a benefited water district or the source of supply for a benefited water district is a municipal water system, the board of supervisors having jurisdiction of the benefited water district, at the request of the trustees of the bene…

When the source of supply for a benefited district is obtained wholly or partly through another benefited district or if districts are supplied with their water from a common source, the board of supervisors having jurisdiction of those benefited districts, shall, upon ten days’ …

When the board of supervisors receives a petition for the establishment of a benefited water district, the board shall hold a public hearing within thirty days of the receipt of the petition. Notice of the hearing shall be published as provided in section 331.305 . [C24, 27, 31, …

On the day fixed for hearing under section 357.4 , the board of supervisors shall by resolution establish the benefited water district or disallow the petition. For adequate reasons, the board of supervisors may defer action on the petition for not to exceed ten days after the da…

When the board of supervisors has established the benefited water district, the board shall appoint a competent disinterested civil engineer and instruct the engineer to examine the proposed improvement and to make preliminary designs in sufficient detail to permit an accurate es…