Section 16.162 Authority to issue community college dormitory bonds and notes.
2024 Code of Iowa
The authority shall assist a community college or the state board of education as provided in chapter 260C, and the authority shall have all of the powers delegated to it in a chapter 28E agreement by a community college board of directors, the st...
Section 331.249 Effect of consolidation.
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A city-county consolidated form of government under which a county and one or more cities within the county unite to form a single unit of local government shall create a unified government which includes a municipal corporation and a county. The cons...
Section 331.250 General powers of consolidated local governments.
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The consolidation charter shall provide for the delivery of services to specified areas of the county and of each consolidated city. The governing body of the consolidated government shall supervise the administration of the provision of services in e...
Section 331.251 Rules, ordinances, and resolutions of consolidated government.
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Each rule, ordinance, or resolution in force within a county or within a city on the effective date of the charter shall remain in force within that county or within that city until superseded by action of the new governing body, unless the rule, ordi...
Section 331.253 Requirements for multicounty government consolidation.
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Consolidation may be placed on the ballot only by a joint report by two or more counties. A final report must contain a consolidation charter if multicounty consolidation is recommended. The consolidation charter must conform to the provisions and req...
Section 331.254 Charter of consolidation.
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When multicounty consolidation is recommended, the consolidation charter shall provide for all of the following: Adjustment of existing bonded indebtedness and other obligations in a manner which assures a fair and equitable burden of taxation for deb...
Section 331.255 Form of ballot multicounty consolidation.
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The question of multicounty consolidation shall be submitted to the electors in substantially the following form: Should the consolidation charter described below be adopted for (name of applicable county)? The ballot must contain a brief description ...
Section 331.256 Joining existing multicounty consolidated government.
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A county may join an existing multicounty consolidated government by resolution of the board of supervisors or upon petition of eligible electors of the county equal in number to at least twenty-five percent of the persons who voted at the last genera...
Section 331.260 Community commonwealth.
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A county and one or more cities or townships within the county, a contiguous county, and a city or a township within a contiguous county may unite to establish an alternative form of local government for the purpose of making more efficient use of the...
Section 331.262 Adoption of charter — effect.
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As a political subdivision of the state, the community commonwealth unit of local government shall have the statutory and constitutional status of a county and of a city to the extent the community commonwealth governing body assumes the powers and du...