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Index of Iowa Laws – H

Hall, see City Hall

Handicapped Persons, see Civil Rights or Disabled Persons

Hate Crimes
    Generally | ch 729A

Hazardous Materials & Wastes
    Clean up cost recovery | 455B.392
    Definitions | 455B.381
    Information for emergency response departments | 89B.15
    Liability of cities, statutory limitations | 89B.6
    Licensing sites | ch 455B, Div. IV, part
    Notifying police of transportation accident | 321.266(4)

Health
    Abating health nuisances | 364.12(3)(a)
    Care facilities, see Hospitals
    District health departments | 137.8
    Iowa child death review team | 135.43
    Local boards of health | 137.5137.6
    Peace officers enforce state rules & orders | 135.35
    Plumbing in cities, state code applies | 135.11(5)
    Public health nurses | ch 143
    Sanitary facilities required | 364.12(3)(f)
    Vital statistics | ch 144

Hearings
    Assessments | 384.49
    Bonds | 73A.12.14384.25419.9
    Boundary adjustment, discontinuance or incorporation | 368.15
    Budget | 384.16
    City development matters | 368.15
    Disposal of property | 364.7
    Employment | 372.15400.18
    Franchises | 364.2(4)(a)
    Industrial projects | 419.9
    Joint electrical utility established | 390.4
    Notice | 362.3
    Street paving | 384.55
    Utilities, exception to general statutes | 390.3
    Zoning regulations & district boundaries | 414.4

Heating Plants
    Granting a franchise | 364.2
    Defined as public improvement | 384.37

High Quality Jobs Program  ​
     Generally | 15.329​
  

Highways, see also Streets
    Along city boundaries | 314.6
    Detours on state roads | 306.41
    Excess land, preference for cities | 306.23
    Obstructions | 318.1-.12
    Sidewalks outside city limits | ch 320
    Utility, use of highways | 320.4.5.6.7.8

Historical
    Preservation districts | 303.20-.34
    Resource grants | 303.16

Hog Confinements, see also Feedlots 
    Generally | ch 172D459

Holidays
    Legal state | 1C.1
    Veterans receive Veterans Day off | 91A.5A

Homeland Security
    Bioterrorism, Duties of public health department | 135.141
    Disaster case management | 29C.20B 
    National Incident Management System (NIMS) | 29C.8
    Police, dissemination of intelligence data | 692.8A
    Use of ICN facility | 8D.9 (3)

Home Rule
    Amendment | Const III, 38A
    Charter | 372.9

     Charter | 372.9

Charter commission, appointment stays election on change of form | 372.3
     Preemption
       Generally | 364.3
       Consumer merchandise | 364.3 (3)
       Minimum wage | 364.3 (12)
    Public employment, terms and conditions| 364.3 (12)
    Statutorily construed | 364.1.3.6

Hospitals & Health Care Facilities
    Area hospital | ch 145A
    Consolidation of city & county hospitals | ch 348
    Licenses required of municipal hospitals & health care facilities | 135B.3135C.6
    Liens | 582
    Memorial | 37.9347.29
    Municipal
    Generally | 392.6
    Conversion to county hospital by election | 347.23.25
    Trustees elected | 392.6
    Public, city police & sanitary jurisdiction | 347.20

Hotels/Motels
    Local hotel/motel option tax | ch 423A
    Sanitation inspection & licensing | 137C.6-.12

House Numbering
    Generally | 364.12(3)(d)

Housing, see also Building Code or Zonin
    Code | 364.17
    Dilapidated see Dilapidated Buildings     Federally insured loans | 636.45
    Homestead | ch 561
    House numbering | 364.12(3)(d)
    Joint housing projects, building & operating | 403A.9
    Landlord Tenant Act | ch 562A
    Local housing assistance program | 16.181
    Low rent, municipal | ch 403A
    Right-of-Entry for Land Surveyor | 354.4A 
    Sanitation | 364.12(3)(f)

Human Rights
    Iowa Human Rights Commission | ch 216; ch 216A

Human Trafficking 
     Generally |  710A
     Training Standards | 80B.11(e)

Hydroelectric Utilities, Plants
     Provisions for | 28F.14; ch 469A

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