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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
50-305. 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 […]
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.]
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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.]
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, […]
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 […]
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.]
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 […]
