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  • 11-201 - Powers of county
    A. The powers of a county shall be exercised only by the board of supervisors or by agents and officers acting under its authority and...
  • 11-202 - County as corporate body; name
    A. Each county is a body politic and corporate, possessing all the powers expressly provided in the constitution or laws of this state and such...
  • 11-211 - Membership; qualifications; term
    A. There shall be in each county having a population of one hundred seventy-five thousand or more persons a board of supervisors consisting of five...
  • 11-212 - Supervisorial districts
    The board of supervisors shall meet at the county seat on or before December 1 following the release of the United States decennial census data...
  • 11-213 - Election; vacancies
    A. At the general election for state and county officers, one supervisor shall be elected from each district from among those nominated at the preceding...
  • 11-214 - Regular and special meetings
    Regular meetings of the board shall be held in the county on a working day or days of each month designated by the board. The...
  • 11-215 - Boards of supervisors; duty station; travel policy
    A. The board of supervisors shall establish a duty station for each board member at an appropriate location in the county. For purposes of this...
  • 11-216 - Chairman; quorum; public sessions
    A. The supervisors shall elect a chairman, who, in addition to his other duties, shall sign all orders and warrants of the board. B. A...
  • 11-217 - Minutes of proceedings
    A. Each board shall cause written minutes of its proceedings to be prepared pursuant to section 38-431.01. B. The clerk of the board shall maintain...
  • 11-218 - Subpoena of witnesses; production of books and papers
    The board may, by its chairman, issue subpoenas to compel attendance of any person and the production of any records relating to the affairs of...
  • 11-219 - Authority to require services of sheriff
    The board may direct the sheriff to attend its meetings to preserve order, and serve subpoenas, notices or citations. Neither the officer serving subpoenas nor...
  • 11-220 - Administration of oaths by board or clerk
    Any member of the board or the clerk may administer oaths, but no fees shall be charged therefor.
  • 11-221 - Custody and inspection of records
    The books, records and accounts of the board shall be kept at the office of the clerk of the board, and in his care, and...
  • 11-222 - Pecuniary interest as bar to vote of supervisor
    A supervisor shall not vote upon any measure in which he, any member of his family or his partner, is pecuniarily interested.
  • 11-223 - Misconduct by supervisor; penalty
    A supervisor who neglects or refuses to perform any duty imposed on him without just cause, or who wilfully violates any law provided for or...
  • 11-241 - Appointment; duties
    The board of supervisors shall appoint a clerk of the board, who shall: 1. Record all proceedings of the board. 2. Make full entries of...
  • 11-251 - Powers of board
    The board of supervisors, under such limitations and restrictions as are prescribed by law, may: 1. Supervise the official conduct of all county officers and...
  • 11-251.01 - Conveyance to nonprofit housing corporation
    The board of supervisors may convey any land and improvements thereon owned by the county directly and without compliance with the provisions of paragraph 9...
  • 11-251.02 - Additional powers of the board
    The board of supervisors may: 1. Authorize the use of county personnel, facilities, equipment, supplies and other resources in search or rescue operations involving the...
  • 11-251.03 - Records center; contents; open to inspection
    A. The board of supervisors may establish a central records center for the preservation, storage and handling of all records required by law to be...
  • 11-251.04 - Authority to set rates for private towing carrier; definition; violation; classification
    A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the board of supervisors may regulate the maximum rate and charge for towing, transporting or...
  • 11-251.05 - Ordinances
    A. The board of supervisors may: 1. In the conduct of county business, adopt, amend and repeal all ordinances necessary or proper to carry out...
  • 11-251.06 - Reimbursement for county services to special districts
    A. Notwithstanding any other statute, the board of supervisors may require the following special districts to reimburse the county for the cost of services provided...
  • 11-251.07 - Report of special taxing districts in the county
    A. On or before October 1 of each year the board of supervisors shall compile a report of all special taxing districts existing under title...
  • 11-251.08 - County fee for service authority; alternate fee schedule; fee limits; adoption procedures
    A. In addition to any other county power or authority the board of supervisors may adopt fee schedules for any specific products and services the...
  • 11-251.09 - Enforcement of water conservation plumbing requirements
    A. The board of supervisors may designate an appropriate official to enforce, in unincorporated areas of the county, all or a portion of title 45,...
  • 11-251.10 - Conveyance or lease; affordable housing; agreement; recording
    A. If a board of supervisors determines that any real property or interest in the real property owned, or to be purchased, by a county...
  • 11-251.11 - Appointed county officers; severance pay
    The board of supervisors may provide severance pay for appointed county officers by ordinance or by contract with an individual officer.
  • 11-251.12 - County islands; fire and emergency services protection; intergovernmental agreement with municipalities; definition
    A. A county that has a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons and that has a county island that does not...
  • 11-251.13 - Proposed county taxes and fees; notification required; exception
    A. A board of supervisors may not levy or assess any new taxes or fees or increase existing taxes or fees pursuant to statute on...
  • 11-251.14 - Federal monies; prohibition; union labor preference
    A board of supervisors is prohibited from accepting federal monies for a construction project if as a condition of accepting the federal monies the board...
  • 11-251.15 - Prisoner home detention program; eligibility; monitoring; procedures; continuous alcohol monitoring program; home detention for persons sentenced for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs
    A. A county may establish a home detention program for eligible sentenced prisoners, which shall be treated the same as confinement in jail. The presiding...
  • 11-252 - Membership in organizations
    In addition to the powers granted to the board of supervisors by the provisions of this chapter, and not in limitation thereof, the board of...
  • 11-253 - Reports and bonds of county officers
    A. The board may require any county officer to make reports under oath on any matter connected with the duties of his office, and may...
  • 11-254 - Contribution for economic development
    In addition to any other provision of law, the board of supervisors may appropriate from the general fund each year up to one million five...
  • 11-254.01 - County purchasing procedures; purchases to be based on competitive bids; content and issuance of invitations and specifications; basis of awards and rejection of bids; professional services; buildings
    A. All purchases of supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services, except professional services, made by the county having an estimated cost in excess of ten...
  • 11-254.02 - Contribution for sports economic development and stadium development; limitation; definition
    A. The board of supervisors of a county having a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent...
  • 11-254.03 - Board powers; hospitals
    In addition to the provisions of section 11-251, paragraph 5, if a board maintains a hospital or health care facility for the sick of the...
  • 11-254.04 - Expenditures for economic development; definition
    A. In addition to the authority granted under section 11-254, a board of supervisors may appropriate and spend public monies for and in connection with...
  • 11-254.05 - Purchase or lease of development rights; definition
    A. The board of supervisors, by resolution, may purchase or lease the development rights of private land in the county with monies from any public...
  • 11-254.06 - County infill incentive districts
    A. The board of supervisors may designate an infill incentive district in any unincorporated area of the county that meets at least three of the...
  • 11-254.07 - Renewable energy incentive districts; definition
    A. The board of supervisors may designate a renewable energy incentive district in any unincorporated area of the county if all of the following apply:...
  • 11-255 - Annual contract for advertising and printing
    A. The board shall contract annually for all advertising, publications and printing required to be done or made by all departments of county government. B....
  • 11-256 - Lease or sublease of county lands and buildings; exceptions
    A. The board may lease or sublease, for a term not to exceed twenty-five years plus an option to renew for an additional period not...
  • 11-256.01 - Lease or sublease of county lands and buildings to governmental entity, county fair association or nonprofit corporation; exception
    A. Notwithstanding section 11-256, the board may lease or sublease any land or building owned by or under the control of the county to this...
  • 11-256.02 - Lease, sublease or sale of county hospital property to hospital district; exception
    Notwithstanding any other statute, the board of supervisors of a county having a population of less than two hundred fifty thousand persons as determined by...
  • 11-256.03 - Conveyance of property for health care institution to nonprofit corporation; powers and duties of county and nonprofit corporation; reports; definitions
    A. The board of supervisors of any county that has a population greater than one million but less than two million persons and that owns...
  • 11-256.04 - Home equity conversion program; authorization; use of proceeds
    A. A county, by resolution, may offer a home equity conversion program for persons sixty years of age or older. B. A county shall use...
  • 11-257 - Flood water control works; tax levy
    A. When flood waters of a river, creek, channel or canyon injure or threaten to injure a public road or highway, or public property, or...
  • 11-258 - County fair fund; district fairs; operation of fair by corporation; county and state appropriations
    A. The board may appropriate each year from the general fund a sum, which shall be known as a county fair fund, as follows: 1....
  • 11-259 - County immigration commissioner
    A. The board may appoint a county commissioner of immigration who shall hold office for two years and shall receive an annual salary not exceeding...
  • 11-260 - Payment of outstanding taxes, penalties and interest on acquiring property
    A. If a county acquires real or personal property, whether by purchase, exchange, condemnation, gift or otherwise, the board of supervisors shall pay to the...
  • 11-261 - Authority to procure liability and errors and omissions insurance covering officers, agents and employees
    A. Counties may expend public funds to procure liability insurance covering their officers, agents, and employees while engaged in governmental or proprietary capacities. B. Counties...
  • 11-262 - Contribution to arts organizations
    The board of supervisors of a county may appropriate monies each year from the general fund to support an arts support fund. The board may...
  • 11-263 - Authorization to procure insurance for county employees and dependents; expenditure of public funds; employee payments; retired county employees; group health and accident coverage
    A. The board of supervisors may adopt a system of insurance for the benefit of county elected officials and employees. The board may procure health,...
  • 11-264 - Authority to operate a sewage system; liens; sewage system user fees
    A. Subject to the rights of a city or town pursuant to section 9-514.01, any county with a population between one million and two million...
  • 11-264.01 - Additional bonding authority; security for payment; definition
    A. In addition to other bonding authority of the board of supervisors the board of any county authorized to operate a sewerage system pursuant to...
  • 11-264.02 - Bonds; legal investments
    Bonds issued pursuant to this article are legal investments for all banks, trust companies and insurance companies organized and operating under the laws of this
  • 11-264.03 - Exemptions
    A. Bonds issued pursuant to this article are exempt from any and all statutory debt limitations and budget requirements applicable to a county. B. Until...
  • 11-264.04 - Security for payment
    Revenues, proceeds and receipts derived from the operation of the county sewerage system are the security for the payments of the bonds issued under this
  • 11-264.05 - Issuance of bonds
    Except as otherwise expressly provided, the bonds authorized pursuant to section 11-264.01 shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of sections 9-530, 9-531, 9-532,...
  • 11-264.06 - Acquisition of sewerage system from municipality; retirement of related bonds of municipality
    If a county authorized to operate a sewerage system pursuant to section 11-264 acquires all or any portion of a sewerage system from any incorporated...
  • 11-265 - Authority to provide allowances
    Counties may expend public funds to provide clothing allowances for county officers, agents and employees who are engaged in public safety work, when such clothing...
  • 11-266 - Immunity from personal liability
    Members of boards of supervisors are immune from personal liability with respect to all acts done and actions taken in good faith within the scope...
  • 11-267 - Services to the disabled and aged
    A. Any county may implement programs to provide services to disabled persons or persons sixty years of age or older, and may contract with federal,...
  • 11-268 - Removal of rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, debris and dilapidated buildings; violation; classification; removal by county; costs assessed; collection; priority of lien; definition
    A. The board of supervisors, by ordinance, shall compel the owner, lessee or occupant of buildings, grounds or lots located in the unincorporated areas of...
  • 11-269 - Recycling and waste reduction
    A county shall provide its residents with an opportunity to engage in recycling and waste reduction.
  • 11-269.01 - Compensation for loss of property value
    In addition to the procedures established for the taking of property by eminent domain under title 12, chapter 8, article 2, a board of supervisors...
  • 11-269.02 - Public facilities; voter approval; exemptions
    A. Notwithstanding any other law, a county with a population of more than one million five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United...
  • 11-269.03 - Acceleration agreements; loan repayment agreements
    A. A county may enter into agreements with the department of transportation for the acceleration of right-of-way acquisition, design or construction of an eligible highway...
  • 11-269.04 - Condemnation actions; interest
    Interest on a judgment in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the county, including interest that is payable pursuant to section 12-1123, subsection B, shall be...
  • 11-269.05 - Vehicle refueling apparatus
    Notwithstanding any other law and because the legislature finds it is a matter of statewide concern, a county shall not effectively prohibit the installation or...
  • 11-269.07 - Annexation to city or town; small county islands
    A board of supervisors may require annexation to a city or town of any territory of the county that consists of an entire parcel that...
  • 11-269.08 - Work centers; aliens; prohibition
    A county shall not construct or maintain a work center if any part of the center is to facilitate the knowing employment of an alien...
  • 11-269.09 - Federal and state regulations; local coordination; standing; definitions
    A. If a county has laws, regulations, plans or policies that are less restrictive than a federal or state regulation, rule, plan or policy, the...
  • 11-269.10 - Parking; public service and public safety emergency vehicles; definition
    A. Notwithstanding any provision in rule or ordinance, a county shall not prohibit a resident from parking a motor vehicle on a street or driveway...
  • 11-269.11 - Prohibition on adopting landlord tenant bedbug control requirements
    A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section the board of supervisors and any other person under the authority of the board of...
  • 11-271 - Authority to erect county buildings; bond issue; limitation
    When the aggregate indebtedness of a county does not exceed six per cent of the value of the taxable property within the county as ascertained...
  • 11-272 - Bonds; interest limitation; form
    A. The bonds authorized to be issued by section 11-271 shall bear interest at a rate or rates set forth in the accepted bid, payable...
  • 11-273 - Sale of bonds; disposition of proceeds
    A. When the bonds are executed, numbered consecutively and sealed, they shall be delivered to the county treasurer, and his receipt taken therefor, and he...
  • 11-274 - Bond register
    A. The treasurer shall keep a register of all bonds sold by number, date of sale, amount, date of maturity and the name and address...
  • 11-275 - Tax levy to pay bonds and interest; debt service fund
    A. The board shall cause to be assessed and levied each year upon the taxable property of the county, in addition to the levy authorized...
  • 11-276 - Redemption of bonds; notice; effect of failure to present bonds
    When, after setting aside the amount required to pay the interest maturing before the next levy, the debt service fund is sufficient to redeem one...
  • 11-281 - Bond election; industrial pursuits fund
    A. The board of supervisors may, and upon petition of fifteen per cent of the property taxpayers of the county who are also qualified electors...
  • 11-282 - Construction of industrial plant; bidding; bond
    A. When the proceeds of the bonds are deposited in the treasury, the board of supervisors shall prepare plans and specifications for the plant and...
  • 11-283 - Industrial plant employees; salaries
    A. The board may employ engineers and other employees to assist the board and to draft the plans and specifications. The board shall employ a...
  • 11-284 - Sale of industrial products
    A. The products of the plant shall be furnished to any board or officer of the county for the construction of any public improvement for...
  • 11-291 - Hospitalization and medical care of the sick
    A. Except as provided in sections 11-293 and 36-183.01 and title 36, chapter 29, the board of supervisors may provide for the hospitalization and medical...
  • 11-292 - Medical care; definition
    A. The board of supervisors, subject to the applicable provisions of title 42, chapter 17, articles 2 and 3, shall include in its annual budget...
  • 11-293 - Long-term care; counties; duties; requirements for payment; home health care
    A. From and after October 1, 1989, each county shall provide nursing care institution services, supervisory care services or adult foster care services for indigent...
  • 11-293.01 - Adult foster care program for the indigent sick; specifications
    A. Each county shall establish an adult foster care program for the indigent sick within the department charged with the delivery of hospitalization and medical...
  • 11-294 - Bond of contractor; contents of contract
    The person to whom a contract for the operation of a county hospital is awarded shall give to the county a bond of not less...
  • 11-295 - Use of county hospital and equipment by contractor; inventory of equipment
    A. The contractor may use any building used for a hospital which is owned by the county together with the county furniture and appliances therein....
  • 11-296 - Record of indigent care
    A. The contractor, or the person in charge, shall keep an accurate written account of: 1. The names of all persons admitted into the hospital....
  • 11-297 - Seriously mentally ill; county responsibility; definition
    A. Notwithstanding section 11-291: 1. A county that has a population of less than six hundred thousand persons must provide the benefit levels and categories...
  • 11-299 - Contagious cases
    A contractor or person having charge of the county hospital shall not be required to admit and care for any person afflicted with cholera, yellow...
  • 11-300 - Tobacco settlement agreement; decreased payments; county contribution
    A. If the total of the initial payment, annual payment and strategic contribution payment, as these terms are prescribed by sections IX(b) and IX(c) of...
  • 11-301 - Discharge of patient capable of self-support; violation; classification
    A. A person admitted to the hospital shall be permitted to remain there so long as he is sick or disabled or unable to earn...
  • 11-302 - County tuberculosis sanitarium; admission of patients
    A. The board may provide, equip and maintain a separate building or separate part of a building for the exclusive use and treatment of tubercular...
  • 11-303 - Disposition of body of deceased indigent
    A. Upon the death of an indigent, the board shall use reasonable efforts to find a relative or friend of the deceased or an organization...
  • 11-306 - Authority to construct, acquire, lease or sell health care institutions
    Counties, cities, including charter cities, and towns of this state may construct, purchase, own, lease, either as lessor or lessee, and sell either for cash...
  • 11-307 - Issuance of bonds; negotiability; investment; definition
    A. A governing body of any county, city or town may issue bonds for and on behalf of the county, city or town to provide...
  • 11-309 - Hospital enterprise; accounting; fund; administration; budget
    A. A county with a population of more than five hundred thousand persons as shown by the most recent United States decennial census may establish...
  • 11-311 - Appointment of veteran to supervise burial
    The board of supervisors shall appoint any honorably discharged veteran of any branch of the military establishment of the United States who is a resident...
  • 11-321 - Building permits; issuance; distribution of copies; subsequent owner
    A. Except in those cities and towns which have an ordinance relating to the issuance of building permits, the board of supervisors shall require a...
  • 11-322 - Violations; classification
    Any person who fails to obtain a building permit when one is required under this article or who violates any other provision of this article...
  • 11-323 - Solar construction permits; standards
    11-323. Solar construction permits; standards A. Counties shall adopt the following standards for issuing permits for the use of certain solar energy devices: 1. For...
  • 11-351 - Definitions
    In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the board of supervisors. 2. "Clerk" means the clerk of the board of supervisors....
  • 11-352 - Adoption of limited county employee merit system by resolution; removal of certain administrative positions by resolution
    A. Any county may by resolution of the board adopt a limited county employee merit system for all county appointive officers and employees. Elected officers...
  • 11-353 - County employee merit system commission; members; terms; vacancies
    A. Upon the adoption of a county employee merit system the board of supervisors shall appoint a county employee merit system commission to assist in...
  • 11-354 - Powers and duties of the commission
    A. The commission shall perform those duties and exercise those powers that are necessary to carry out this article. B. The commission may appoint hearing...
  • 11-355 - Minimum qualifications for employment
    The minimum qualifications or standards prescribed for any class or grade of employment shall not be less than those prescribed by law for the class...
  • 11-356 - Dismissal, suspension or reduction in rank of employees; appeals; hearings
    A. Any officer or employee in the classified civil service may be dismissed, suspended or reduced in rank or compensation by the appointing authority after...
  • 11-357 - County employees; political campaigns; applicability
    A. Notwithstanding any other law, a county employee who is employed by the county elections department shall not be a chairman, treasurer or other officer...
  • 11-361 - Definition of program
    For the purposes of this article, unless the context otherwise requires, "program" means a special supervision program in which the county attorney of a participating...
  • 11-362 - Deferred prosecution program; administration; guidelines; records
    A. The program, as defined in section 11-361, shall be administered by the county attorney of each participating county according to guidelines established by the...
  • 11-365 - Diversion and deferred prosecution of offenders
    The county attorney has sole discretion to decide whether to divert or defer prosecution of an offender. This section does not preclude the ability of...
  • 11-371 - Borrowing power of counties
    A county, in addition to other powers conferred upon it by law, may borrow money and issue bonds for the purpose of improvement, construction, reconstruction,...
  • 11-372 - Vote on bond issues
    When the board of supervisors of a county determines to borrow money under the provisions of this article, the question of issuing bonds under this...
  • 11-373 - Election resolution; contents; publication
    A. The board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution calling an election upon the question of the issuance of bonds. The resolution shall state in...
  • 11-374 - Ballots
    At the election the ballot shall contain the words "for the bonds" and "against the bonds" and to the right of and opposite each thereof...
  • 11-375 - Canvass of returns
    The board of supervisors shall canvass the returns and declare the result of the election. If it is found by the board of supervisors that...
  • 11-376 - Application of election laws
    Except as otherwise provided in this article, the manner of conducting the registration and election, keeping the poll lists, the returns, declaring the results and...
  • 11-377 - Form of bonds; interest rates; redemption; payment of principal and interest; additional security; definition
    A. Bonds issued under this article shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes provided by title 47. They may be in...
  • 11-378 - Issuance of bonds for public improvements; limitations of amount; successive borrowings; annual interest
    A. No county may issue bonds under this article unless the aggregate amount of the revenues received by it from highway user taxes, including motor...
  • 11-379 - Expansion of pledge; effect on prior elections; refunding bonds; conflict of interest
    A. All bonds issued pursuant to this article, whether before or after October 24, 1981, shall be paid from, and may hereafter be secured by...
  • 11-380 - Separate fund to pay interest and principal on maturing installment
    After any indebtedness is incurred under the provisions of this article, the treasurer of the county, during each year such indebtedness continues, shall set aside...
  • 11-381 - County housing trust fund; board; purpose; administration
    A. A county board of supervisors, by resolution, may establish a county housing trust fund for the purposes prescribed in this section that is administered...
  • 11-391 - Incurring long-term obligations; public hearing
    A. In addition to any other requirements prescribed by law, in a county with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons if the...
  • Last modified: February 19, 2012