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Local officials must adopt an ordinance for bond issuance and sale, levy annual taxes to pay interest and principal, and bonds cannot be sold below face value.
City boards of commissioners and city councils have power to control a corporation’s finances and property.
A municipality may offer benefits to municipal employees, dependents, and certain adult designees, and may create a registry for adult relationships of financial dependence or interdependence, but it may not create or maintain a registry that gives legal status to nonmarital relationships.
A municipality may use incremental tax revenue to pay some or all relocation expenses of a displaced mobile home park resident.
They may plant, or direct and regulate the planting of, ornamental shade trees in streets, parks and public grounds.
They may regulate street and public-ground use and address obstructions, encroachments, lighting, sprinkling, and cleaning.
They may regulate street and public-ground openings and use for utilities and infrastructure work.
This section lets a municipality provide and manage specified utility and communications services, but restricts retail electric sales beyond municipal boundaries except in listed situations.
A municipality may allow a general utility easement for electric, gas, or telephone service to also be used for water or sewerage service, and a servient-estate owner may realign an eminent-domain utility easement at their own expense unless engineering or safety constraints prevent reasonable realignment.
Municipalities may regulate and protect waterworks and related water sources, but must follow notice, hearing, publication, mailing, and nonconflict requirements.
They may control water and watercourses leading to the city and regulate watercourses and mill privileges within the city, but not in a way that injures rights already acquired by actual owners.
A city governing body acting as a water distributing agent may set and collect an annual amount needed for water distribution and related repair costs, but may use the money only for those purposes.
The city may develop and manage water supply infrastructure and acquire related water rights, land, and company stock for water provision.
A city acting as a water distributing agent may increase water supply on written petition by the water owners and may levy a limited tax for that purpose.
Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property. Subject to Section 11-41-103 , a municipal legislative body may: appropriate
A municipality may not spend certain project-specific transportation funds unless the project is included in the statewide transportation improvement program.
The city may contract with and authorize a person, company, or association to build gas, electric, or other lighting works in the city, and may grant a right to furnish light for public buildings, streets, sidewalks, and alleys for up to three years.
They may regulate street lighting, gas and electric power use, and utility poles and wires in the city.
Municipal water rates must be set by a municipality, and within its designated water service area the municipality must use reasonable rates, give retail customers the same notice and participation opportunity, and may use different rates only when there is a reasonable basis.
Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice. They may regulate and control the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder or thereover; and they may require the owner or occupant, or the
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