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ID Code § 50-225 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-225 - EXCLUSION OF TERRITORY.

50-225. EXCLUSION OF TERRITORY. The boundaries of any city in this state may be altered and a portion of the territory thereof excluded therefrom, and the councils of such cities are hereby granted power to enact ordinances for that purpose. Such alteration shall not relieve any territory excluded from the limits of a city from its liability on account of any outstanding bonded or other indebtedness of such city or of any bonded or other indebtedness of any improvement district of which the excluded territory is an existing part at the time of the passage of such ordinance. For the purpose of collecting any of the indebtedness specified in this section, the territory so excluded shall be and remain under the jurisdiction of such city. Immediately after the passage, approval and publication of said ordinance, a copy thereof duly certified by the clerk of said city shall be filed in compliance with the provisions of section 63-215, Idaho Code. Thereafter, the boundaries of said city shall be as set forth in said ordinance.  History: [50-225, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 18, p. 1249; am. 1996, ch. 322, sec. 49, p. 1078.]
ID Code § 50-226 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-226 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — PETITION.

50-226. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — PETITION. The owner or adjoining owners of any platted or unplatted tract or tracts of land containing not less than five (5) acres, included within the corporate limits of any city in this state and used exclusively for agricultural purposes, provided, however, if there is upon or over such tract or tracts of land a railroad or canal right of way, such tract or tracts shall, if no other reason exists, be deemed to be used exclusively for agricultural purposes, within the meaning of this section, may petition the district court of the county in which such tract or tracts of land are situated for a judgment and decree of the court detaching such tract or tracts of land from such city.  History: [50-226, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 97, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-227 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-227 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — NOTICE OF PETITION AND HEARING THEREON.

50-227. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — NOTICE OF PETITION AND HEARING THEREON. Upon the filing of such petition with the clerk of such court and paying a fee of ten dollars ($10.00), which fee shall be in full for all clerk’s fees except the regular fees provided by law on the appeals, the said court shall fix a time for the hearing thereupon, which shall not be less than thirty (30) days from the filing of such petition, and the petitioners shall serve or cause to be served a notice of such hearing upon the mayor or clerk of such city at least twenty (20) days before the time fixed for such hearing. The said petitioner or petitioners shall also cause to be published once a week in two (2) consecutive weekly issues in some newspaper published in said city where the land sought to be detached is situated, or, in case no newspaper is published in said city, cause notices to be posted in at least three (3) conspicuous places in said city, said notice stating the time and place of such hearing and that any person desiring to protest or object to the granting of the prayer of said petition may do so by filing with the clerk of said court at least two (2) days before the day set for the hearing of said petition his objections or protests in writing. Such notice shall state generally the purpose of the petition and the location and description of the land sought to be detached from the corporate limits of said city.  History: [50-227, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 98, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-228 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-228 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — REPLY TO PROTESTS — VERIFICATION.

50-228. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — REPLY TO PROTESTS — VERIFICATION. The petitioner or petitioners may, after any such petitions or objections are filed with the clerk at any time before the hour of the hearing on said petition, in their discretion, file with the judge or clerk replies in writing to said protests or objections. Neither said petition nor objections, protests nor reply need be verified.  History: [50-228, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 99, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-229 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-229 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — HEARING.

50-229. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — HEARING. The hearing herein provided on said petition shall be held within the corporate limits of the city in which said lands sought to be detached are situated. The regular district court reporter shall reduce to writing the testimony and evidence introduced, the same as in trial of civil actions. The judge of such court, either before or after said hearing, may view the lands and premises sought to be detached, as well as other lands or property within the corporate limits of such city, which might in any way be affected by the granting of such petition, and lands on the outside of such city in the same vicinity or locality in which the lands sought to be detached are situated, and may consider such conditions as he finds in connection with the evidence introduced on the hearing, in making and arriving at his final decision and determination of the matter. No tract or tracts of land shall be detached from any city which by such detachment, would materially mar the symmetry of such city.  History: [50-229, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 100, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-230 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-230 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — JUDGMENT OF SEPARATION.

50-230. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — JUDGMENT OF SEPARATION. If, upon the hearing, the court shall find that such tract or tracts of land are tracts containing at least five (5) acres and are included within the corporate limits of such city and the lands included within such tract or tracts are used exclusively for agricultural purposes, provided, however, if there is upon or over such tract or tracts of land a railroad or canal right of way, such tract or tracts shall, if no other reason exists, be deemed to be used exclusively for agricultural purposes, within the meaning of this section; that such lands do not receive sufficient special benefits to justify the retention of said lands within the corporate limits of such city, and that by the detachment of said lands the symmetry of the city would not be materially marred, then the judge of said court shall grant the prayer of said petition and shall enter judgment and decree accordingly: Provided, however, that if said petition prays for detaching several tracts of land the court may enter judgment granting the prayer of the petition as to such tract or tracts as come within his findings as aforesaid and deny such petition as to such tract or tracts which do not come within his findings as aforesaid. And said tract or tracts of land sought to be detached and for which the said judgment is entered detaching the same shall, upon the entering of said judgment, become detached from such city and the corporate boundary line or limits of said city shall be deemed changed accordingly, and said tract or tracts so detached shall be free from the government of such corporation from said date. It shall not be necessary for the judge of the court, prior to entering his judgment, or at any time, to make written findings of fact or conclusions of law. Within twenty (20) days after the filing of said decree the petitioner shall file or cause to be filed with the county recorder and with the city clerk a certified copy thereof.  History: [50-230, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 101, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-231 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-231 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — LIABILITY FOR BONDED INDEBTEDNESS.

50-231. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — LIABILITY FOR BONDED INDEBTEDNESS. Such separation shall not relieve any such tract of land from its liability on account of any outstanding bonded indebtedness of such city existing at the time of its separation therefrom.  History: [50-231, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 102, p. 1429.]
ID Code § 50-232 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-232 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — STREETS NOT AFFECTED BY SEPARATION.

50-232. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — STREETS NOT AFFECTED BY SEPARATION. The detaching of any lands from the corporate limits of any city under the provisions of this chapter shall not affect or change the status of any public streets or highways as the same are laid out, constructed or dedicated at the time of such detachment, but any public streets or highways included within the territory detached shall cease to be a part of such city.  History: [50-232, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 103, p. 1429.]
ID Code § 50-233 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-233 - SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — APPEAL.

50-233. SEPARATION OF AGRICULTURAL LANDS — APPEAL. Any city or any person aggrieved by the judgment of the court entered as herein provided may appeal from such decision and judgment to the Supreme Court. The procedure of said appeal shall be the same as the procedure on appeal from final judgment in civil actions.  History: [50-233, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 104, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-234 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-234 - LEASE OF MINING PROPERTY BY CITY.

50-234. LEASE OF MINING PROPERTY BY CITY. Except as otherwise provided by law, whenever it has been determined or appears probable that any property of a city has become valuable by reason of veins, lodes, or other deposits of mineral underlying said property, the corporate authority of any city, upon the affirmative vote of one half (1/2) plus one (1) of the members of the full council, shall have the power, by ordinance, to grant a lease in and to such minerals, with the right to mine for and extract the same, provided, that the surface of said property shall be in no wise interfered with or disturbed. Such lease shall provide for such royalties and shall contain such other terms and provisions as said council may deem proper, but in no case shall any such lease be made for a greater period than twenty-five (25) years.  History: [50-234, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 19, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-235 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-235 - TAX LEVY FOR GENERAL AND SPECIAL PURPOSES.

50-235. TAX LEVY FOR GENERAL AND SPECIAL PURPOSES. The city council of each city is hereby empowered to levy taxes for general revenue purposes not to exceed nine tenths percent (.9%) of the market value for assessment purposes on all taxable property within the limits of the city in any one (1) year, and such levies for special purposes as are or may hereafter be provided, on all property within the limits of the city, taxable according to the laws of the state of Idaho, the valuation of such properties to be ascertained from the assessment rolls of the proper county.  History: [50-235, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 37, p. 1249; am. 1974, ch. 186, sec. 2, p. 1491; am. 1995, ch. 82, sec. 21, p. 233.]
ID Code § 50-236 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-236 - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND LEVY — LIMITATIONS.

50-236. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND LEVY — LIMITATIONS. Cities are hereby empowered to establish a "Capital Improvements Fund", by ordinance, and levy a special tax not to exceed in the aggregate four-hundredths per cent (.04%) of market value for assessment purposes in any one (1) year. Said fund shall never exceed in the aggregate four-tenths per cent (.4%) of the market value for assessment purposes of the city. Such funds shall not be subject to the provisions of section 50-1014, Idaho Code. Said ordinance shall identify the specific purpose for which the capital improvements fund shall be used.  History: [50-236, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 43, p. 1249; am. 1980, ch. 350, sec. 21, p. 906.]
ID Code § 50-237 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS — GOVERNMENT — TERRITORY|Section 50-237 - BORROW MONEY.

50-237. BORROW MONEY. All cities may borrow money and pledge the credit, revenue and public property of the corporation for the payment thereof, in the manner provided by law, and to evidence the same by issuance of bonds, notes or warrants.  History: [50-237, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 38, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-301 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-301 - CORPORATE AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT POWERS.

50-301. CORPORATE AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT POWERS. Cities governed by this act shall be bodies corporate and politic; may sue and be sued; contract and be contracted with; accept grants-in-aid and gifts of property, both real and personal, in the name of the city; acquire, hold, lease, and convey property, real and personal; have a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure; may erect buildings or structures of any kind, needful for the uses or purposes of the city; and exercise all powers and perform all functions of local self-government in city affairs as are not specifically prohibited by or in conflict with the general laws or the constitution of the state of Idaho.  History: [50-301, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 6, p. 1249; am. 1976, ch. 214, sec. 1, p. 784.]
ID Code § 50-302 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-302 - PROMOTION OF GENERAL WELFARE — PRESCRIBING PENALTIES.

50-302. PROMOTION OF GENERAL WELFARE — PRESCRIBING PENALTIES. (1) Cities shall make all such ordinances, bylaws, rules, regulations and resolutions not inconsistent with the laws of the state of Idaho as may be expedient, in addition to the special powers in this act granted, to maintain the peace, good government and welfare of the corporation and its trade, commerce and industry. Cities may enforce all ordinances by fine, including an infraction penalty, or incarceration; provided, however, except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, that the maximum punishment of any offense shall be by fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (2) Any city which is participating in a federally mandated program, wherein penalties or enforcement remedies are required by the terms of participation in the program, may enforce such requirements by ordinance, to include a criminal or civil monetary penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), or imprisonment for criminal offenses not to exceed six (6) months, or to include both a fine and imprisonment for criminal offenses.  History: [50-302, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 27, p. 1249; am. 1976, ch. 145, sec. 2, p. 530; am. 1978, ch. 260, sec. 2, p. 566; am. 1990, ch. 201, sec. 1, p. 452; am. 2000, ch. 35, sec. 2, p. 63; am. 2005, ch. 359, sec. 15, p. 1143.]
ID Code § 50-302A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-302A - CONFINEMENT IN CITY OR COUNTY JAIL FOR VIOLATING ORDINANCE.

50-302A. CONFINEMENT IN CITY OR COUNTY JAIL FOR VIOLATING ORDINANCE. Any person charged with or convicted of violation of a city ordinance and subject to imprisonment shall be confined in the city jail; provided, however, that any city shall have the right to use the jail of the county for the confinement of such persons but it shall be liable to the county for the cost of keeping such prisoners.  History: [50-302A, added 1970, ch. 30, sec. 1, p. 60.]
ID Code § 50-303 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-303 - RECREATION AND CULTURE.

50-303. RECREATION AND CULTURE. Cities are hereby empowered to create, purchase, operate and maintain recreation and cultural facilities and activities within or without the city limits and regulate the same, and to levy a special tax not to exceed six hundredths percent (.06%) of the market value for assessment purposes on all taxable property within the limits of the city for recreational programs.  History: [50-303, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 28, p. 1249; am. 1995, ch. 82, sec. 22, p. 233.]
ID Code § 50-304 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-304 - PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

50-304. PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH. Cities may establish a board of health and prescribe its powers and duties; pass all ordinances and make all regulations necessary to preserve the public health; prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city; and make quarantine laws for that purpose and enforce the same within the city.  History: [50-304, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 29, p. 1249; am. 2021, ch. 39, sec. 1, p. 91.]
ID Code § 50-305 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-305 - HOSPITALS — MAINTENANCE.

50-305. HOSPITALS — MAINTENANCE. (1) Any city may acquire, in the manner provided for acquiring other property, by purchase or otherwise, hospital grounds, buildings and equipment, and clinics or other health care facilities, and maintain and operate the same and to provide by general ordinance, rules and regulations for governing the same. Cities acting through their respective city councils may convey or lease city hospitals, and the equipment therein, subject to the following conditions: (a) The entity to which the hospital is to be transferred shall be a nonprofit corporation; (b) No lease term shall exceed ninety-nine (99) years; (c) The governing body of the nonprofit corporation must be composed initially of the incumbent members of the board of hospital trustees, as individuals. The articles of incorporation must provide for a membership of the corporation which is: (i) Broadly representative of the public and includes residents of the city; or (ii) A single nonprofit corporate member having articles of incorporation which provide for a membership of that corporation which is broadly representative of the public and includes residents of the city. The articles must further provide for the selection of the governing body by the membership of the corporation, or exclusively by a parent corporation which is the corporate member, with voting power, and not by the governing body itself, except to fill a vacancy for the unexpired term. The articles must further provide that no member of the governing body shall serve more than two (2) consecutive three (3) year terms. (d) The nonprofit corporation must provide care for indigent patients, and receive any person falling sick or maimed within the county. (e) The transfer agreement must provide for the transfer of patients, staff and employees, and for the continuing administration of any trusts or bequests or maintenance of records pertaining to the existing public hospital. (f) The transfer or lease agreement shall provide for a transfer or lease price which shall be either of the following: (i) The acceptance of all assets and assumption of all liabilities; or (ii) Such other price as the city council and the nonprofit corporation may agree. (2) If any hospital which has been conveyed pursuant to this section ceases to be used as a nonprofit hospital, unless the premises so conveyed are sold and the proceeds used to erect or enlarge another nonprofit hospital for the city, the hospital so conveyed reverts to the ownership of the city. If any hospital which has been leased pursuant to this section ceases to be used as a nonprofit hospital, the lease shall terminate.  History: [50-305, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 45, p. 1249; am. 1990, ch. 409, sec. 1, p. 1136; am. 1995, ch. 222, sec. 1, p. 768; am. 1996, ch. 106, sec. 1, p. 408; am. 2001, ch. 331, sec. 9, p. 1164.]
ID Code § 50-306 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-306 - PUBLIC CARRIERS.

50-306. PUBLIC CARRIERS. Cities shall have authority to regulate by ordinance and prescribe rules relating to levies [levees], crossings, grounds, facilities for storing freight and goods, and the running of trains and public carriers within the limits of said city.  History: [50-306, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 30, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-307 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-307 - LICENSE OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESSES.

50-307. LICENSE OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESSES. Cities shall have authority to levy and collect a license fee on any occupation or business within the limits of the city and to regulate the same by ordinance. All such fees shall be uniform in respect to the classes upon which they are imposed.  History: [50-307, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 31, p. 1249.]
ID Code § 50-308 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-308 - MAINTENANCE OF PEACE — LICENSING AND REGULATING AMUSEMENTS.

50-308. MAINTENANCE OF PEACE — LICENSING AND REGULATING AMUSEMENTS. Cities shall have power: to prevent and restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances or disorderly assemblies; to arrest, regulate, punish, fine or set at work on the streets or elsewhere, vagrants or persons found without visible means of support or legitimate business; license and regulate theaters, halls, concerts, dances, theatrics, circuses, carnivals, exhibitions, amusements and other performances, where an admission fee may or may not be charged.  History: [50-308, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 32, p. 1249; am. 2013, ch. 223, sec. 1, p. 524.]
ID Code § 50-309 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-309 - FIRE DEPARTMENT — FIRE ZONES.

50-309. FIRE DEPARTMENT — FIRE ZONES. A. Any city, in order to prevent and extinguish fires, shall have the power to erect engine houses, purchase or lease fire engines and all other apparatus to maintain a fire department, to provide water for fire purposes in the city, in such manner as the council may by ordinance prescribe. B. Cities may prescribe and alter the limits within which no building shall be constructed except of brick, stone or other incombustible material and fire retardant roof and after such limits are established, no special permits shall be given for the erection of buildings of combustible material within said limits, except as provided in sections 50-1201 through 50-1210, Idaho Code.  History: [50-309, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 41, p. 1249; am. 1974, ch. 186, sec. 1, p. 1491.]
ID Code § 50-310 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 50 - MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS|Chapter 3 - POWERS|Section 50-310 - HAZARDOUS MATERIALS.

50-310. HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. Cities are empowered: to regulate or prohibit the loading or storage of any material deemed hazardous, or transporting the same over the streets or waters in the city, or within three (3) miles of the limits thereof; to prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks or other dangerous, combustible or explosive material in the streets, lots, grounds, alleys or in and about the vicinity of any building and punish violators therefor.  History: [50-310, added 1967, ch. 429, sec. 51, p. 1249.]