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Index of Iowa Laws – P
Parades
Regulation by a city | 321.236
Parking Facilities
Financing construction & operation
Definitions | 384.23; .24
General obligation bonds | 384.25; 384.26
Loan Agreements | 384.24A
Sale of bonds | 384.27
Categories and forms of bonds | 384.28; .29
Handicapped persons | ch 321L
Parking Violations
City ordinance for ticket citations | 321.236(1)
Delinquent tickets enforced at license renewal | 321.40
State law, standard regulations | 321.358; 805.8
Parks
Generally | ch 461A
Board or commission | 392.1, .2, .3, .4
Borrowing for development of | 384.24(2)(c), .24(3)(o), .24(4)(b)
Control outside city limits | 461A.34
Prohibition on pecuniary profit | 461A.34
Speed regulation in | 321.236(5)
State parks, conveyance to a city | 461A.32
Vehicles restricted in | 321.248
Zoos | ch 394
Peace Officer, see also Police
Arrests by out-of-state peace officers | 804.7B
Assaults against | 708.3A
Bill of Rights | 80F
Criminal offense for disarming | 708.13
Defined| 801.4(11)
Reserve officers | ch 80D
Peddlers, see Transient Merchants
Penalties
Debt collection | 364.22B
Maximum cities can impose | 364.3(2),(6)
Misdemeanors | 701.8; ch 903
Municipal infraction | 364.22(2)
Scheduled violations, traffic & other | 805.8
Personal Injuries, see also Liability or Torts
Actions by cities against negligent persons | 364.14
Personnel, see also Employees
Application for employment, civil rights | ch 729
Civil service | ch 400
Collective bargaining | ch 20
Dues or fees for city employment prohibited | 731.4
Limitation on union rights | ch 731
Veterans Preference | ch 35C
Wage discrimination, prohibit | 216.6A, 216.15
Pesticides
Citizens’ right to know about hazardous chemical risks | ch 89B
City contract with state | 206.9
City employee applicators, examination & licenses | 206.6(6)
Prohibition on municipal regulation | 200.22
Petitions
Generally | 362.4
Annexation or severance | 368.7, .8
Bond referendum | 384.26(5)
Election | ch 45; 372.2, .13(2)
Franchise | 364.2(4)
Incorporation, discontinuance, or boundary adjustment | 368.11
Restricted residence districts | 414.24
Planning, see also Zoning
Generally | ch 414
Assistance from state | 15.108(3)
City commissions | 386.3(3), .6(2)
Energy planning under the Midwest Energy Compact | ch 473A
Organization of planning commission | 392.1
Plats, see also Subdivisions
Generally | ch 354
Review & approval of subdivisions by city council | 354.8, .10, .15
Street dedications & council acceptance | 558.65
Playgrounds
Financing construction & improvements
Definitions | 384.23; .24
General obligation bonds | 384.25; 384.26
Loan Agreements | 384.24A
Sale of bonds | 384.27
Categories and forms of bonds | 384.28; .29
Plumbing
Code Adoption | 105.1
Compliance with uniform plumbing code | 104B.1
State Licensing | ch 105
Police, see also Jails
Age, maximum | 362.10; 400.17
Arrests | ch 804
Bail enforcement
Notification & registration with local law enforcement | 80A.3A; 811.12
Bicycles, operation of | 321.231(5)
Certification required | 80B.17
Chief
Appointment | 372.4; 400.13
Duty to state | 690.2
Child labor law enforced by | 92.22
Citations
Generally | ch 805
Form | 805.2
Generally | ch 461A
Procedure | 805.3
Uniformity | 805.6
Civil Service
Generally | ch 400
Probation period | 400.8
Council duty to supply fingerprinting equipment | 690.3
Criminal identification, fingerprinting | ch 690
Disabled officers, benefits | chs 410, 411
Dissemination of intelligence data | 692.8A
Identity theft passports 715A.9A
ILEA costs | 80B.11B (2)
ILEA Entrance & Course of Study | 80B.11 (1&2)
ILEA Entrance by individual | 80B.11D
Indemnification | 80F.2
Interference with official acts | 719.1
Interoperable Communication System | 80.28, 80.29
OWI (Operating While Intoxicated) | 321J
Peace Officer Bill of Rights | ch 80F
Pension systems
Generally | chs 410, 411
Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) | 411.6C(2)(c)
Taxation of contributions | 411.8
Public offense reports | 692.15
Department of Public Safety officers, authority | 80.9
Pursuit, uniform law | ch 806
Qualifications for appointment | 400.17
Radio systems | ch 693
Reciprocal traffic enforcement powers with state | 321.6
Recording & communicating prisoner information | 817.1
Reserve police officers | ch 80D
Revocation or suspension of certification | 80B.11(7); 80B.13
Sex offender registry | 692A
Strike intervention | 80.24
Training | ch 80B
Truancy officers
Appointment | 299.10
Duties | 299.11
Vehicles, see also City-owned Vehicles
Designation | 321.1(6), .451
Operation | 321.231
Victim’s rights | ch 915
Weapons permits | 724.4, .11
Workers’ compensation, exclusion from | 85.1(4)
Police Chief, see Police
Pollution
Generally | ch 455B
Air pollution regulation by cities | 455B.144, .145
Brownfields see Land Recycling
Sewage treatment & drinking water facilities financing program | 455B.294
Solid waste, city duties see Solid Waste
Waste water treatment
Operators’ certificates | 455B.213
Exam fees | 455B.211
Revocation or suspension of certificate | 455B.219
Rules | 455B.212
System requirements | 455B.222
Regulation of discharges in plants | ch 455B, div. III
Water quality, public water supply | ch 455B, div. III
Population, see also Census
Defined | 4.1(22); 9F.6
Posting of Notices, see also Publication Notice
Generally | ch 618; 362.3
Powers, see also Cities, Home Rule, Ordinances, Resolutions or Zoning
Generally | Const. III, ch 364; 419.2
Building regulation | 364.12(3); ch 414
Condemnation (eminent domain) | 6A.4(6); ch 6B; 364.1
Condemnation, grant to franchisee | 364.2(4)
Council | 364.2(1)
Franchises, granting | 364.2(4); 480A.3, .6
Grades, streets | 364.15
Joint powers
Generally | 364.5
Contracts | ch 28E
Entities, specifications of | 28E.5
Financing public works & facilities | ch 28F
Transit | 28E.17
Limitations on city powers | 364.3
Limited, specified procedures | 364.4
Not limited | 364.1
Scope | 364.1
Vested in council | 364.2(1)
Maintaining public places | 364.12
Nuisances | 364.12(3); ch 657
Outside city limits | 364.4; 414.23
Penalties | 364.3(2), .3(6), .22
Procedures | 364.6
Property right | 364.4(1)
Public disorders | 372.14(2)
Setting standards, not lower than state law | 364.3(3)
Sidewalks | 364.12(2)
Streets
Keeping free from nuisance | 364.12(2)
Opening & closing | 364.12(2)
Vacation of streets | 354.23, 364.12(2)(a)
Subdivision control | 354.8, .10
Zoning
Airport | ch 329
Local | ch 414
Outside city limits | 414.23
Restricted residential districts | 414.24
Preferences, see Employment, Improvements, Public or Local Preferences
Privacy
City may not publicize unpaid bills, except as provided by law | 537.7103(3)(b)
Consumer hold on credit information | 714F
Identity theft | 715C.1, 715C.2
Monitoring devices in public places | ch 27
Private, see also Competition
Activity bonds, allocation to cities | ch 7C
Contract with private agency | 28E.4
Credit not to be extended to private parties | Const. VII, 1
Public money for private use prohibited | Const. III, 31; 721.2(5)
Stockholding in banks prohibited | Const. VIII, 4
Stockholding in corporation prohibited | Const. VIII, 3
Use of public property for private purpose,
prohibited | 721.2(5)
Utility regulation | 364.2(4)
Property, see also Abandonment, City Buildings or Housing
Abandoned personal property | ch 556
Acquisition of title by city | ch 569
Brownfields – see Land Recycling
Buying, selling, tax rule | 427.18, .19
City owned vehicles, marking | 721.8
General rights of cities | 364.4
Lost | ch 556F
Public, not for private benefit | Const. III, 31;
Right-of-Entry for Land Surveyor | 354.4A
Safe rooms & storm shelters | 103A.8C
Sale of city property, leasing, & easements | 364.7
Sale of property acquired by condemnation | 6B.59
Seized, disposition | ch 809
Unclaimed, abandoned property | 556.4, .11, .13
Vehicles, abandoned, as nuisance | 321.89; ch 556B
Vacation of public property | 354.23
Property Tax, see also Assessment & Valuation of Property or Taxes
Generally | chs 425-449
Agricultural land tax credit | ch 426
Assessment of omitted property | ch 440
Assessment & valuation of property | ch 441
Authorized Funds | 384.3-.9
Electric transmission lines tax | ch 437
Electricity & natural gas providers | ch 437A
Family farm tax credit | ch 425A
Forest & fruit-tree reservations | ch 427C
Homes in mobile parks | ch 435
Homestead tax credits & reimbursement | ch 425
Insurance companies tax | ch 432
Limits, Rates | 384.1
Listing property for taxation | ch 428
Loan agencies tax | ch 430A
Marine insurance tax | ch 432A
Military service tax credit | ch 426A
Notification of taxpayers | ch 429
Pipeline companies tax | ch 438
Property Assessment Appeal Board | 421.1A
Property exempt & taxable | ch 427
Property tax relief–mental health & developmental disabilities services | ch 426B
Railway companies tax | ch 434
Real estate transfer tax | ch 428A
Reassessment of taxes | ch 439
Rehabilitation credit | 432.12A
Special tax provisions | ch 427B
Storm shelter tax exemption | 427.1(30)
Tax apportionment | ch 449
Tax collection | ch 445
Tax deeds | ch 448
Tax levies | ch 444
Tax list | ch 443
Tax redemption | ch 447
Tax sales | ch 446
Telegraph & telephone companies tax | ch 433
Exemption of city | 427.1(2)
Nursing home exemption | 427.1(14)
Paid by city on certain land or facilities | 419.11
Property tax credit reimbursements | 25B.7
Prostitution
Houses used for, nuisance | ch 99
State law on vice | ch 725
Pro-Tem, see Mayors Pro-Tem
Public Affairs Department
Commission form | 372.5
Public Improvements
Generally | ch 26; ch 573
Abandonment of project | 573.23
Bid security, by bond or otherwise | 26.8.; ch 636
Capital improvements fund | 384.7
Claims for material or labor | 573.7
Competitive bid limit | 26.3
Competitive quotation limit | 26.14
Definitions, including repair or maintenance work | 26.2
Division of projects prohibited | 26.5
Donated funds for construction of public improvement | 26.6
Enhancement payments for early completion | 26.9
Federal grant agreements | 364.5
Joint projects | chs 28E, 28F
Labor agreements, prohibition | 26.16
Notice to bidders | 26.3, 26.7, 26.12
Performance bonds | 573.2; .3; .4
Preference for Iowa products, labor & contractors | ch 73
Public hearing on plans, specs, form of contract & cost estimate | 26.12
Retention from payments on contracts | 573.12
Retention – early release on retained funds | 26.13
Retention – release of retained funds upon completion & acceptance | 573.12
Structure demolition projects | 26.15
Subcontracts | 573.6
Publication Notice
Generally | 362.3; ch 618
Bond sale | 75.2
Budget | 24.9, 384.16
Computing time | 4.1(34)
Exemptions | 372.13(6)
Fees for | 380.9; 618.11
Hospital boards | 392.6
Important matters | 618.14
Minutes & claims | 372.13(6); 388.4(4)
Newspapers | ch 618
Ordinances | 380.8
Utility board | 388.4(4)
Public Disorder
Definition, declaration of emergency | 29C.2, .3; 372.14(2)
Public Employees’ Retirement System, see Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS)
Public Employment Relations, see also Employees or Personnel
Collective bargaining | ch 20
Public Employment Relations Board | 20.5, .6
Wage discrimination, prohibit | 216.6A, 216.15
Public Improvements, see Improvements, Public
Public Safety Commissions
Unified law enforcement services | 28E.21-.28B
Purchasing
Agreements with Department of Administrative Services | 8A.311