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ID Code § 50-311 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-311 - CREATION — VACATION OF STREETS — EMINENT DOMAIN — REVERSION OF VACATED STREETS.

50-311. CREATION — VACATION OF STREETS — EMINENT DOMAIN — REVERSION OF VACATED STREETS. Cities are empowered to: create, open, widen or extend any street, avenue, alley or lane, annul, vacate or discontinue the same whenever deemed expedient for the public good; to take private property for such purposes when deemed necessary, or for the purpose of giving right of way or other privileges to railroad companies, or for the purpose of erecting malls or commons; provided, however, that in all cases the city shall make adequate compensation therefor to the person or persons whose property shall be taken or injured thereby. The taking of property shall be as provided in title 7, chapter 7, Idaho Code. The amount of damages resulting from the vacation of any street, avenue, alley or lane shall be determined, under such terms and conditions as may be provided by the city council. Provided further that whenever any street, avenue, alley or lane shall be vacated, the same shall revert to the owner of the adjacent real estate, one-half (1/2) on each side thereof, or as the city council deems in the best interests of the adjoining properties, but the right of way, easements and franchise rights of any lot owner or public utility shall not be impaired thereby. In cities of fifty thousand (50,000) population or more in which a dedicated alley has not been used as an alley for a period of fifty (50) years [such alley] shall revert to the owner of the adjacent real estate, one-half (1/2) on each side thereof, by operation of the law, but the existing rights of way, easements and franchise rights of any lot owner or public utility shall not be impaired thereby.  History: [50-311, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 42, p. 1249; am. 1973, ch. 268, sec. 1, p. 563.]
ID Code § 50-312 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-312 - IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS — SPECIAL LEVY.

50-312. IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS — SPECIAL LEVY. Cities may levy and collect a special tax upon all of the taxable property within the city limits to establish, lay out, alter, open any streets or alleys and improve, repair, light, grade, sprinkle, flush, gravel, oil, or drain the same and remove any and all obstructions therefrom; establish grades and construct bridges, crosswalks, culverts, drainage systems thereon and repair and maintain the same; cause to be planted, set out and cultivated, shade trees along the lines thereof or therein; extend its street lighting system to a maximum distance of two (2) miles outside its corporate limits, along approaches to its street system, subject to the approval of the agency having legal jurisdiction of the highway, road or street involved; provided, however, that no public utility, city[,] quasi-municipal corporation or cooperative association serving electric energy to such street lighting system outside the corporate limits of such city shall, by so serving such electric energy, acquire any rights to serve any other property or any present or future consumer, by virtue of, or in violation of, any provisions of title 61, chapter 3, Idaho Code.  History: [50-312, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 44, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-313 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-313 - PUBLIC WAYS — SUPERVISION.

50-313. PUBLIC WAYS — SUPERVISION. The city councils of cities shall have the care, supervision, and control of all public highways and bridges within the corporate limits, and shall cause them to be kept open and in repair and free from nuisances. Where any highway within the corporate limits has been designated a part of the state highway system, the provisions of section 40-502, Idaho Code, shall be applicable.  History: [50-313, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 47, p. 1249; am. 1985, ch. 253, sec. 8, p. 702.]
ID Code § 50-314 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-314 - STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES — REGULATIONS.

50-314. STREETS AND PUBLIC PLACES — REGULATIONS. Cities shall have power to: control and limit the traffic on streets, avenues and public places; regulate and control all encroachments upon and into all sidewalks, streets, avenues, and alleys in said city; remove all obstructions from the sidewalks, curbs, gutters and crosswalks at the expense of the person placing them there.  History: [50-314, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 49, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-315 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-315 - REHABILITATION IMPROVEMENTS.

50-315. REHABILITATION IMPROVEMENTS. Cities may provide for the repairing, rebuilding and relaying of pavement, curb, gutter, sewer or other improvements, the procedure and manner of payment to be the same as provided by law for making such improvements in the first instance.  History: [50-315, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 53, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-316 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-316 - SIDEWALKS — GENERAL REGULATIONS.

50-316. SIDEWALKS — GENERAL REGULATIONS. Cities may provide by general ordinance for the construction, repair or removal of sidewalks which are deemed by the council to be dangerous and unsafe, and for the replacing thereof, assess the cost as provided in section 50-1008 to the property in front of which the same shall be constructed, repaired or laid.  History: [50-316, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 56, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-317 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-317 - REMOVAL OF SNOW, ICE, RUBBISH AND WEEDS.

50-317. REMOVAL OF SNOW, ICE, RUBBISH AND WEEDS. Cities are empowered to cause all sidewalks and alleys to be cleared of snow, ice and rubbish, and the cutting and removal of trees, weeds and grass, and the removal of rubbish upon and from all private property within the city and the parking within the curbing abutting same, and to assess the cost thereof against the private property so cleared, and against the property abutting the parking, sidewalks and alleys so cleaned. Such assessment shall be collected as provided in section 50-1008.  History: [50-317, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 57, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-318 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-318 - IDENTIFICATION OF STREETS AND HOUSES.

50-318. IDENTIFICATION OF STREETS AND HOUSES. Cities may provide by ordinance for the naming of streets and avenues and the numbering of houses adjacent thereto.  History: [50-318, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 54, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-319 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-319 - ANIMALS AT LARGE — REGULATION.

50-319. ANIMALS AT LARGE — REGULATION. The mayor and council of each city shall have authority: to regulate the running at large of domesticated animals; to cause such as may be running at large to be impounded and sold to discharge the penalties and costs of impounding, keeping and sale; to impose a license tax upon the owners and harborers and enforce the same by appropriate penalties; to authorize the destruction or sale of any domesticated animal, the owner or harborer of which shall neglect or refuse to pay such license tax; to provide for the erection of all needful pens and pounds within or without the city limits; and to appoint and compensate keepers thereof, and to establish and enforce rules governing the same.  History: [50-319, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 55, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-320 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-320 - CEMETERIES.

50-320. CEMETERIES. All cities shall have the following powers in regard to cemeteries: A. Acquisition. — Purchase, hold and pay for, in the manner herein provided, lands not exceeding eighty (80) acres in one (1) body outside of the corporate limits, and all necessary grounds including any lands as have heretofore been laid out or platted and offered for sale for cemetery purposes, excepting such portions thereof as have been heretofore sold for cemetery purposes, hospital grounds or waterworks. For the purpose of purchasing such lands and maintaining the same, any city may levy a tax of not more than four hundredths percent (.04%) of the market value for assessment purposes in any one (1) year on all taxable property within the limits of the city, and exercise the right of eminent domain under the provisions of chapter 7 of title 7, Idaho Code, in the taking or securing of such grounds and property. B. Improvement. — Survey, plat, map, grade, fence, ornament and otherwise improve all burial and cemetery grounds and streets owned by the city leading thereto; construct walks and protect ornamental trees therein and provide for paying the costs thereof. C. Conveyance of lots. — Convey cemetery lots by certificates signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk, under the seal of the city, specifying that the person to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot or lots, described therein by number as laid down on such map or plat. Such certificates shall vest in the proprietor, his or her heirs or assigns, a right in fee simple to said lots for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the city council. Such certificates shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the proper county without further acknowledgment, and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognized as a sufficient description thereof. D. Regulation. — Limit the number of cemetery lots which may be owned by any person; prescribe rules for inclosing, adorning, and erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots; prohibit any diversion of the use of such lots and any improper adornment thereof; but no religious test shall be made as to the ownership of lots, the burial therein or the ornamentation of graves or of such lots. E. Penalties. — Pass rules and ordinances imposing penalties and fines not exceeding the amount permissible in probate and justice courts, regulating, protecting and governing the cemetery, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto and trespassers therein; and the officials of the city shall have as full jurisdiction and power in the enforcing of such rules as though they related to the corporation itself.  History: [50-320, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 39, p. 1249; am. 1995, ch. 82, sec. 23, p. 233.]
ID Code § 50-321 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-321 - AVIATION FACILITIES — ACQUISITION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.

50-321. AVIATION FACILITIES — ACQUISITION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. Cities are hereby empowered: to acquire by purchase, gift, lease, sublease, or otherwise hold and take over such lands as the city council may deem necessary within or without the corporate limits whether within or without the county in which said city is located; do all things necessary in cooperation with the United States government in adapting any such lands so acquired to national defense purposes; and for the purpose of maintaining aviation facilities, to lease for aviation purposes, or any purposes connected therewith and incident thereto, all or any part of such land or lands, under such regulations and upon such terms and conditions as shall be established by the city council or otherwise established by law; to construct, operate and maintain, consistent with such regulations as may now exist or may hereafter be established by law, hangars, buildings and equipment necessary or convenient to the maintenance and operation of aviation facilities; to survey, plat, map, grade, ornament and otherwise improve such land, appurtenances, approaches, and avenues leading to or adjacent thereto; to provide for all costs and expenses incident or necessary to the exercise of the foregoing powers or the attainment of the foregoing objects out of the general fund of said city or in its discretion by special levy, in an amount not to exceed six hundredths percent (.06%) of the market value for assessment purposes in any one (1) year on all the taxable property within such city or by the issuance of bonds as provided by sections 50-1001 through 50-1042, Idaho Code.  History: [50-321, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 40, p. 1249; am. 1995, ch. 82, sec. 24, p. 234.]
ID Code § 50-322 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-322 - TRANSIT SYSTEMS.

50-322. TRANSIT SYSTEMS. Any city may, in the manner provided for acquiring other property, purchase, lease, or otherwise procure transit systems and provide by general ordinance for rules and regulations governing the maintenance and operation of the same.  History: [50-322, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 46, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-323 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-323 - DOMESTIC WATER SYSTEMS.

50-323. DOMESTIC WATER SYSTEMS. Cities are hereby empowered to establish, create, develop, maintain and operate domestic water systems; provide for domestic water from wells, streams, water sheds or any other source; provide for storage, treatment and transmission of the same to the inhabitants of the city; and to do all things necessary to protect the source of water from contamination. The term "domestic water systems" and "domestic water" includes by way of example but not by way of limitation, a public water system providing water at any temperature for space heating or cooling, culinary, sanitary, recreational or therapeutic uses.  History: [50-323, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 20, p. 1249; am. 1979, ch. 304, sec. 1, p. 825.]
ID Code § 50-324 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-324 - CITIES AUTHORIZED TO JOINTLY PURCHASE OR LEASE, MAINTAIN OR OPERATE A JOINT WATER SYSTEM.

50-324. CITIES AUTHORIZED TO JOINTLY PURCHASE OR LEASE, MAINTAIN OR OPERATE A JOINT WATER SYSTEM. All cities of this state are empowered by ordinance to negotiate for and purchase or lease, and to maintain and operate, in cooperation with adjoining cities of states bordering this state, the out of state water distribution system, plant and equipment of privately owned utilities used for the purpose of supplying water to the purchasing or leasing cities from an out of state source; provided, the legislature of the state in which such water distribution system, plant, equipment and supply are located, by enabling legislation, authorizes its cities to join in such purchase or lease, maintenance and operation. The city council of the cities acting jointly under this section shall have authority, by mutual agreement, to exercise jointly all powers granted to each individual city in the purchase or lease, maintenance and operation of a water supply system.  History: [50-324, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 21, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-325 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-325 - POWER PLANTS — POWER DISTRIBUTION.

50-325. POWER PLANTS — POWER DISTRIBUTION. (1) Cities shall have authority: to acquire, own, maintain and operate electric power plants, purchase electric power, and provide for distribution to the residents of the city, and to sell excess power subject to the provisions of section 50-327, Idaho Code. (2) Any consumer of a municipal electric system may apply to the district court of the county where the consumer’s service entrance is located for a determination that the municipality’s charges for electric service to that consumer are fair, just and reasonable and are not discriminatory or preferential. In the event that the court determines that the rate is not fair, just and reasonable or is discriminatory or preferential, the court shall remand the matter to the municipality to alter or amend such rate in conformance with the determination of the court.  History: [50-325, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 22, p. 1249; am. 2001, ch. 29, sec. 15, p. 42.]
ID Code § 50-326 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-326 - WATER, LIGHT, POWER AND GAS PLANTS — LEASING — SELLING — PROCEDURE.

50-326. WATER, LIGHT, POWER AND GAS PLANTS — LEASING — SELLING — PROCEDURE. Whenever any city in this state shall own its own water plant, water system, electric power plant or electric light and power transmission and electric distribution system or natural gas distribution system, the city council of such city may lease and sell such systems, provided, however, that before doing so, the question of leasing or selling such property shall be submitted to the qualified electors who pay taxes on real property within said city, at a special election held for that purpose, and if a majority of the votes cast at such election are in favor of leasing or selling such property, the city council may then lease or sell the same; but in case the majority of the votes cast at such special election shall be against the leasing or selling of such property, the city council shall have no power to lease or sell the same. The election to be called shall be held only after notice thereof has been published at least once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks, before the election, in the official newspaper of said city. Notice of such special election shall also be posted by the city clerk in three (3) public places in such city, at least ten (10) days before such special election. A city council may enter into agreements pursuant to this section to lease with the option to sell any plant or system described in this section. A city council may only terminate such lease/option to sell agreements during the term of the agreement for default by the entity leasing such plant or system. Such lease/option to sell agreements are subject to the voter approval requirements of this section.  History: [50-326, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 23, p. 1249; am. 1999, ch. 216, sec. 1, p. 576.]
ID Code § 50-327 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-327 - SALE OF EXCESS POWER.

50-327. SALE OF EXCESS POWER. Any city of the state of Idaho owning or controlling a power plant may sell its excess power to persons and corporations for any lawful purpose. The term "excess power" means all electricity not needed by the city or the inhabitants thereof. All charges or rates for the excess power shall be fixed by ordinance and shall be uniform and fair to all consumers and no discrimination shall be allowed or practiced by any city; provided, that any city which may desire to take advantage of the provisions of this section may only contract with consumers as to excess power. Under this section all contracts with consumers are to be drafted subject to the foregoing provision and no contract shall be for a period longer than five (5) years.  History: [50-327, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 24, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-328 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-328 - UTILITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS — REGULATIONS.

50-328. UTILITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS — REGULATIONS. All cities shall have power to permit, authorize, provide for and regulate the erection, maintenance and removal of utility transmission systems, and the laying and use of underground conduits or subways for the same in, under, upon or over the streets, alleys, public parks and public places of said city; and in, under, over and upon any lands owned or under the control of such city, whether they may be within or without the city limits.  History: [50-328, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 50, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-329 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-329 - FRANCHISE ORDINANCES — REGULATIONS.

50-329. FRANCHISE ORDINANCES — REGULATIONS. No ordinance granting a franchise in any city shall be passed on the day of its introduction, nor for thirty (30) days thereafter, nor until such ordinance shall have been published in at least one (1) issue of the official newspaper of the city; and after such publication, such proposed ordinance shall not thereafter and before its passage be amended in any particular wherein the amendment shall impose terms, conditions or privileges less favorable to the city than the proposed ordinance as published; but amendments favorable to the city may be made at any time and after publication; provided that an ordinance granting a franchise to lay a spur, railroad track or tracks connecting manufacturing plants, warehouses or other private property with a main railroad line, need not be published before the same is passed by the council. No franchise shall be created or granted by the city council otherwise than by ordinance, and the passage of any such ordinance shall require the affirmative vote of one-half (1/2) plus one (1) of the members of the full council. Franchises created or granted by the city council for electric, natural gas or water public utilities, as defined in chapter 1, title 61, Idaho Code, or to cooperative electrical associations, as defined in section 63-3501(a), Idaho Code, shall be for terms of not less than ten (10) years and not greater than fifty (50) years unless otherwise agreed to by the utility or cooperative electrical association. All publications of ordinances granting a franchise, both before and after passage, shall be made at the expense of the applicant or grantee. Where an ordinance granting a franchise is sought to be amended after the same has been in force, the provisions of this section as to publication, before final action upon such amendment, shall apply as in cases of proposed ordinances granting original franchises.  History: [50-329, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 25, p. 1249; am. 1995, ch. 226, sec. 1, p. 777.]
ID Code § 50-330 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-330 - RATES OF FRANCHISE HOLDERS — REGULATIONS.

50-330. RATES OF FRANCHISE HOLDERS — REGULATIONS. Cities shall have power to regulate the fares, rates, rentals or charges made for the service rendered under any franchise granted in such city, except such as are subject to regulation by the public utilities commission.  History: [50-330, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 26, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-331 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-331 - CONTROL OF WATERS.

50-331. CONTROL OF WATERS. Cities may establish, alter and change the channels of watercourses and wall or cover the same within the boundaries of the city and outside the corporate limits to the extent necessary to preserve the watercourse.  History: [50-331, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 52, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-332 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-332 - CONTROL OF SEWERS AND DRAINS.

50-332. CONTROL OF SEWERS AND DRAINS. Cities are authorized to clear, cleanse, alter, straighten, widen, pipe, wall, fill or close any waterway, drain or sewer or any watercourse in such city when not declared, by law, to be navigable and, as provided in section 50-1008, assess the expense thereof in whole or in part to the property specially benefited thereby.  History: [50-332, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 58, p. 1249.]