Title VI, COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT

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…

67.1718. Single county district, procedure. — In the event the proposed metropolitan district consists of only one county, if a majority of the votes cast on the proposal by the qualified voters voting thereon are in favor of the proposal, then the metropolitan district shall be …

67.1721. District to contain more than one county, procedure — counties wanting to be included in district after it is established, procedure. — In the event that the proposed metropolitan district consists of more than one county, if a majority of the votes cast on the proposal …

67.1724. Board of directors in one-county district, appointment, qualifications, restrictions in certain counties — removal from office. — When a metropolitan district is organized in only one county, the executive of the county shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the g…

67.1727. Board members not to hold county office, exception — United States citizenship and residence in county of district required — financial interest in district contracts prohibited. — No board member shall hold a public office of any county within the metropolitan district,…

67.1730. Board member terms — vacancies, how filled, eligible for reappointment. — The board members appointed to the metropolitan district shall hold office for three-year terms, except that for members first appointed, such members shall be staggered as evenly as possible betwe…

67.1733. President and officers of board to be elected at organizational meeting — bylaws to be adopted, content. — Promptly after their appointment, the initial board members shall hold an organizational meeting at which they shall elect a president and such other officers from …

67.1736. Money collected to be kept in separate fund and deposited in county treasury of largest contributing county — board's powers and duties. — Board members shall have the exclusive control of the expenditures of all money collected to the credit of the metropolitan park and…

67.1739. Distribution of board members — new county entering district, appointment of board members, when — restrictions — certain years, county executives to determine allocation of board members, arbitration, when. — When a metropolitan district is organized in more than one co…

67.1742. Powers and duties of the district. — A metropolitan park and recreation district shall have the power to: (1) Issue bonds, notes or other obligations for any of the purposes of the district, and to refund such bonds, notes or obligations, as provided in sections 67.1760 …