Title XIV — ROADS AND WATERWAYS

235.010. Street light maintenance districts (first class counties). — A street light maintenance district may be organized as provided in this chapter in any county of class one. ­­-------- (L. 1947 V. I p. 452 § 1)

235.020. Purpose of district — location. — A street light maintenance district shall have for its purpose the maintenance and operation of the street lights on the streets of the district. Such district must be wholly within a county of class one, must consist of contiguous tract…

235.030. Petition for organization, contents. — The organization of a district shall be initiated by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission in the county in which the real property in the proposed district is situated. The petition shall be signed by…

235.040. Petition may be amended — filing fee. — 1. No petition with the requisite signatures shall be declared null and void on account of alleged defects, but the county commission may at any time permit the petition to be amended to conform with the facts, by correcting any er…

235.050. Notice to be published, when. — Immediately after the filing of such petition, the county commission shall, by order, fix a time and place not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days after the petition is filed for a hearing thereon, and thereupon the county clerk…

235.060. Protesting petition. — Any time after the filing of a petition for the organization of a district and before the day fixed for the hearing thereon, a petition may be filed in the office of the county clerk protesting against the creation of the proposed district. Such pr…

235.070. County commission to declare district organized — election to ratify organization — board of directors, how selected. — 1. If it shall appear at the hearing that a petition for the organization of a district has been signed and presented, as provided in section 235.030, …

235.080. County commission findings and orders to be filed, where. — Within thirty days after the final order of the county commission in which said district has been declared a public corporation, the county clerk of said commission shall transmit to the recorder of deeds in the…

235.090. Board members to qualify, how — bonds. — Whenever a district has been declared duly and finally organized, the members of the board shall qualify by filing with the county clerk their oaths of office, which shall be in the form prescribed by the constitution, and such bo…

235.100. Selection of officers — seal — duties of secretary. — After taking their oaths and filing their bonds, the board shall choose one of its members as chairman of the board and president of the district, and shall elect a secretary and a treasurer of the board and of the di…

235.110. Treasurer's bond — financial statement. — The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records. He shall file with the county clerk, at the expense of the district, a corporate…

235.120. Attendance fee — expenses — power of removal. — Each member of the board shall receive an attendance fee in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars per diem for attending each regularly called board meeting, but shall not be paid for attending more than one in any calendar…

235.130. Board meetings — quorum — vacancies, how filled. — The board shall meet at the place to be designated by the board as often as the needs of the district require, on notice to each member of the board. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum at any meeting. Any…

235.140. Election of new board members, when. — 1. At the general election in the year after the first full calendar year after the organization of any district and at the general election thereafter, there shall be elected by the voters of the district one member of the board to…

235.150. Powers — authority and privileges of board. — For the purpose of providing for the maintenance of street lighting within the district, the district and, on its behalf, the board, shall have the following powers, authority and privileges: (1) To have perpetual existence; …

235.160. Power of taxation. — For the purpose of providing revenue for such districts, the board shall have the power and authority to order the levy and collection of ad valorem taxes on and against all taxable tangible property within the district, and to make timely demand for…

235.170. Board to fix rate of taxation. — To levy and collect taxes as provided in section 235.160, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, and shall fix a rate of levy which, when levied upon every dollar of the taxable tang…

235.175. Increase of tax rate — election — form of ballot — maximum rate. — 1. Before the board of directors of any street light maintenance district may increase the district's current tax levy, the proposed increase must be approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon. 2…

235.180. Board to certify rate of levy to county commission. — On or before the first day of September of each year, the board shall certify to the county commission of the county within which the district is located a rate of levy so fixed by the board as provided by law, with d…

235.190. Taxes to be levied and collected as other taxes. — It shall be the duty of the body having authority to levy taxes within the county to levy the taxes provided in this law, and it shall be the duty of all officials charged with the duty of collecting taxes to collect suc…

235.200. Property to be sold for delinquent taxes — manner. — If the taxes levied are not paid as provided in section 235.190, then the delinquent real property shall be sold at the regular tax sale for the payment of said taxes, interest and penalties, in the manner provided by …

235.210. Boundaries of district may be altered to include new territory — annexation, procedure. — 1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this law may be changed in the manner prescribed in this section and in section 235.220, but any change of bounda…

235.220. Boundaries may be altered to exclude certain territory, how. — 1. The owner or owners of any real or personal property contained within the boundaries of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such property be excluded and taken from said district. …

235.230. Property subject to taxation. — All real property included within, or excluded from, a district shall thereafter be subject to the levy of taxes for the payment of any indebtedness of the district outstanding at the time of inclusion or exclusion; provided, however, that…

235.240. Annexation of district by municipality. — Any provision of the law to the contrary notwithstanding, no city, town or village shall annex a part of the territory of any district; but nothing herein shall be construed so as to prevent the annexation of the whole of the ter…

235.250. Dissolution of district, election for, when required — form of ballot. — 1. Whenever a petition signed by not less than one hundred voters in any district organized under the provisions of this chapter shall have been filed with the county commission setting forth all th…

235.260. Dissolution of district, when — procedure. — 1. If the commission shall find that it is to the best interest of the inhabitants of said district * that such district be dissolved, it shall make an order reciting the same and providing for the submission of the question t…

235.270. Appointment of trustee to liquidate district. — No dissolution of such district shall invalidate or affect any right accruing to such district, or to any person, or invalidate or affect any contract or indebtedness entered into or imposed upon such district or person; an…