Title VI, COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

67.1451. Board of directors, election, qualifications, appointment, terms, removal, actions. — 1. If a district is a political subdivision, the election and qualifications of members to the district's board of directors shall be in accordance with this section. If a district is a…

67.1452. Election of board of directors, no person to cast more than one ballot. — In any election for the board of directors of a community improvement district as established in sections 67.1401 to 67.1571, no person shall cast more than* one ballot. ­­-------- (L. 2015 S.B. 49…

67.1461. Powers of district — reimbursement of municipality — limitations — contracts to be competitively bid, when. — 1. Each district shall have all the powers, except to the extent any such power has been limited by the petition approved by the governing body of the municipali…

67.1481. Termination of district, procedure — extension of district prior to termination, procedure. — 1. Each ordinance establishing a district shall set forth the term for the existence of such district which term may be defined as a minimum, maximum, or definite number of year…

67.1485. Merger of districts, when — assessments, effect on. — 1. Any district organized as a nonprofit corporation may merge with another district organized as a nonprofit organization. Such merger shall be conducted under the procedures for merger provided in chapter 355, and s…

67.1491. Obligations of district. — 1. A district may, at any time, issue obligations for the purpose of carrying out any of its powers, duties or purposes. Such obligations shall be payable out of all, part or any combination of the revenues of the district and may be further se…

67.150. Insurance for elected officials and employees, political subdivision may contribute — contracting procedure. — 1. The governing body of any political subdivision may utilize the revenues and other available funds of the subdivision, as a part of the compensation of the el…

67.1501. Funding of district. — 1. A district may use any one or more of the assessments, taxes, or other funding methods specifically authorized pursuant to sections 67.1401 to 67.1571 to provide funds to accomplish any power, duty or purpose of the district. 2. A district may e…

67.1505. Entertainment tourism, expenditure of funds by state departments — procedure, report. — 1. As used in this section, the following terms mean: (1) "Entertainment tourism", activities, services, and experiences designed for leisure and enjoyment centered on athletic, recre…

67.1511. Fund, how created, use. — 1. Any municipality in which any part of a district is located may, by ordinance, establish a community improvement district municipal fund in the municipality's treasury. 2. This fund may be used to: (1) Pay the costs of planning, administratio…

67.1521. Special assessments, petition, funds, how collected — added to annual real estate bill — separate fund required, when — exemption. — 1. A district may levy by resolution one or more special assessments against real property within its boundaries, upon receipt of and in a…

67.1531. Real property or business license tax, how imposed, ballot. — 1. The district may levy by resolution a tax upon real property or on any business located within the boundaries of the district; provided however, no such resolution shall be final nor shall it take effect un…

67.1541. Taxes and assessments, how collected, distributed. — 1. The county collector of each county in which the district is located, or the collector for the city in which the district is located if the district is located in a city not within a county, shall collect the real p…

67.1545. Sales and use tax authorized in certain districts — procedure to adopt, ballot language, imposition and collection by retailers — penalties for violations — deposit into trust fund, use — repeal procedure — display of rate by retailer. — 1. Any district formed as a polit…

67.1551. Election for real estate tax, procedure, results, reimbursement of costs. — 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 115, an election for real estate tax pursuant to sections 67.1401 to 67.1571 shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of this section. 2. …

67.1561. Statute of limitations. — No lawsuit to set aside a district established, or a special assessment or a tax levied under sections 67.1401 to 67.1571 or to otherwise question the validity of the proceedings related thereto shall be brought after the expiration of ninety da…

67.1571. Minimum wage limitation. — No municipality as defined in section 1, paragraph 2, subsection (9) shall establish, mandate or otherwise require a minimum wage that exceeds the state minimum wage. ­­-------- (L. 1998 H.B. 1636 § 18) (2017) Section is unconstitutional violat…

67.1600. Home equity program act — definitions. — For the purposes of sections 67.1600 to 67.1663, the following terms shall mean: (1) "Bona fide offer", an offer made in good faith and for a valuable consideration to purchase a qualified residence; (2) "Certificate of participat…

67.1603. Home equity program — creation by petition or ordinance contingent on approval by voters, appointment of commissioners if approved, certain municipalities and counties eligible. — 1. In a municipality with more than five hundred and less than three hundred thousand inhab…

67.1606. Addition of new areas to existing home equity program, procedure. — 1. If the creation of an existing home equity program was initiated by petition and if a district was excluded from the area because the requisite number of signatures was not obtained, the excluded dist…

67.1609. Merger of existing home equity programs, procedure — commissioners, merger effect, residence, terms, vacancies. — 1. Whenever the question of merging two existing and contiguous home equity programs within a municipality or county or which are included within two or more…

67.1612. Powers and duties. — The duties and functions of the governing commission of a home equity program shall include the following: (1) To select an administrator to conduct or supervise the day-to-day operation of the program, including but not limited to the administration…

67.1615. Application for participation in program — eligibility, how determined — certificate of participation issued if eligible. — 1. Eligibility for membership in the program shall be limited to the owner of a qualified residential property within the area of a home equity pro…

67.1618. Member's home value guaranteed, when, procedure. — A member or the estate of a member participating in a program created pursuant to sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 shall be paid one hundred percent of the difference between the guaranteed value as determined by the program …

67.1621. Member to follow certain procedures in sale of home in order to access program funds. — 1. In order to be eligible for payment from a program created pursuant to sections 67.1600 to 67.1663, a member shall follow the program guidelines adopted by the governing commission…

67.1624. Payment by program required, when. — No guarantee is afforded by the program until sixty days after a member files a notice of intent to claim. Furthermore, the governing commission shall be required to make payments to a member only upon receipt of verifiable evidence o…

67.1627. Payment program not made until sale closed and title or proprietary interest passed. — Except as otherwise provided in sections 67.1600 to 67.1663, payments under the program pursuant to section 67.1618 shall not be made until the sale of the guaranteed residence has clo…

67.1630. Member property acquired by eminent domain, program benefits may be claimed, when. — When a guaranteed residence is to be acquired through the use of eminent domain by a condemning body, the following procedures shall apply: (1) If the member rejects an offer from the co…

67.1633. Member may apply for new appraisal, new guaranteed value and new certificate, when. — 1. A member has the option of applying for a new program appraisal by a program appraiser in order to establish a new certificate of participation with a new registration date. The gove…

67.1636. Member may appeal guaranteed values or dollar depreciations, how. — 1. If a member or applicant disagrees with the guaranteed value, the dollar depreciation due to failure to maintain the premises, or the dollar depreciation due to physical perils as determined by the pr…

67.1639. Guarantee fund, maintenance mandatory, how funded, how used, audited annually, adjust tax rate to meet liabilities. — 1. Each governing commission and program created pursuant to sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 shall maintain a guarantee fund for the purposes of paying the c…

67.1642. Termination of existing program, how. — A home equity program may be terminated only by approval of the local governing bodies of the municipality or county. In terminating the program, the governing commission shall refund the remaining balance of the guarantee fund, if…

67.1645. Program to protect against local adverse conditions only, how determined — suspension of program, when. — A program created pursuant to sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 provides a guarantee only against specifically local adverse housing market conditions within the area of t…

67.1648. Commission may suspend new registration if fund depleted — program debts not to be debts of other political subdivisions or the state. — If the guarantee fund becomes depleted and payments of guarantees pursuant to the program cannot be made in a timely fashion as requir…

67.1651. Indemnification of commissioners, officers or employees of a program, limitations. — 1. No commissioner, officer or employee, whether on salary, wages or voluntary basis shall be personally liable and no cause of action may be brought for damages resulting from the exerc…

67.1654. Suit may be brought, when, limitations. — No lawsuit or any other type of legal action brought pursuant to the terms of sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 shall be sustainable in a court of law or equity unless all conditions, stipulations, and provisions of the program have be…

67.1657. Program only proportionally liable when member has separate home equity insurance. — If insurance or other form of payment is available to and carried by a member to provide protection similar to that provided by a program, the governing commission shall not be liable fo…

67.1660. Member may withdraw at any time, right to sell privately not abridged — antidiscrimination policy. — 1. No provision of sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 and no procedure, regulation, or bylaw of a governing commission and program created pursuant to the provisions of sections…

67.1663. Penalty. — Any person violating the provisions of sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 or any procedure, regulation, or bylaw of a governing commission and program created pursuant to the provisions of sections 67.1600 to 67.1663 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and fined…

67.1700. Metropolitan park and recreation district may be created — existing recreation or public park systems already within district, effect, powers. — A metropolitan park and recreation district may be created, incorporated and managed pursuant to sections 67.1700 to 67.1769 a…

67.1703. Metropolitan district to be body corporate and political subdivision. — When a metropolitan district is organized, it shall be a body corporate and a political subdivision, as that term is defined in section 67.750, of this state, and such district shall be known as "___…

67.1706. District to develop, operate and maintain system of interconnecting trails and parks — power to contract with other parks. — The metropolitan district shall have as its duty the development, operation and maintenance of a public system of interconnecting trails and parks…

67.1709. Political subdivision's departments in certain counties to operate trails and parks by contract — limitation. — Any trails and parks controlled or maintained by a metropolitan district and located within any county of the first classification with a charter form of gover…

67.1712. Sales tax may be imposed on retail sales, rate to fund program — additional sales tax, amount, purpose — ordinance to be submitted to voters. — 1. The governing body of any county located within the proposed metropolitan district is hereby authorized to impose by ordinan…

67.1713. No sales tax on food for counties in metropolitan park and recreation districts, when. — Beginning January 1, 2002, there is hereby specifically exempted from the tax imposed pursuant to section 67.1712 all sales of food as defined by section 144.014. ­­-------- (L. 2001…

67.1715. District ballot form, approval of majority required — district established, when. — 1. For the original sales tax of up to one-tenth of one cent authorized in subsection 1 of section 67.1712, the question shall be submitted to the voters in each county of the proposed me…