Arizona Revised Statutes Title 9 - Cities And Towns
Chapter 1 FORMATION
Article 1 Incorporation, Disincorporation and Reincorporation
- § 9-101 Incorporation; Definition
A. When two-thirds of the qualified electors residing in a community containing a population of fifteen hundred or more inhabitants or in a community...
- § 9-101.01 Incorporation; Urbanized Area
A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, all territory within six miles of an incorporated city or town, as the same now exists or...
- § 9-101.02 Alternate Method Of Incorporation For Certain Areas; Definition
A. As an alternate procedure for incorporation, any unincorporated community containing a population of seventy-five hundred persons or more, if such community includes all...
- § 9-101.03 Alternate Method Of Incorporation For An Area Containing A Sanitary District And Four Road Districts; Definition
A. As an alternate procedure for incorporation, any unincorporated community containing a population of two thousand five hundred persons or more, if such community...
- § 9-102 Disincorporation
A. The supervisors of the county in which a city or town is situated shall, upon the petition of two-thirds of the qualified electors...
- § 9-103 Reincorporation Of Existing Municipalities; Effect Of Change
A. A city or town heretofore incorporated desiring to be reincorporated may, upon petition of a majority of its qualified electors to the board...
- § 9-104 County Services For Newly Incorporated City Or Town
A. When county territory is included within the boundaries of a newly incorporated city or town, all codes, rules and regulations made, established, adopted...
Article 2 Consolidation of Towns
Article 3 Incorporation, Annexation and Operation of a City or Town in More Than One County
- § 9-131 Incorporation; Definition
A. When two-thirds of the qualified electors in each county residing in a single community containing a collective population of fifteen hundred or more...
- § 9-132 Disincorporation
Upon petition of two-thirds of the qualified electors residing within a city or town located in more than one county, the boards of supervisors...
- § 9-133 Reincorporation
The provisions of section 9-103 shall be applicable to incorporations under this article, provided that petitions under this section shall be submitted to the...
- § 9-134 Annexation
Any incorporated city or town may annex territory in an adjacent county pursuant to the provisions of section 9-471.
- § 9-135 Relations With County
If a city or town is located in more than one county, and the law requires the filing or recording of any paper, document...
- § 9-136 State Or County Collected Taxes
The department of revenue, the county treasurers and every other state department, agency or political subdivision, shall remit to cities and towns located in...
- § 9-137 Powers And Duties
Cities and towns incorporated pursuant to the provisions of this article shall have all the powers, duties, rights and privileges granted to incorporated cities...
Chapter 2 FORM OF GOVERNMENT
Article 1 Government in Cities and Towns Not Organized Under This Chapter
Article 2 Board of Trustees Government After Disincorporation
- § 9-211 Disincorporation And Reincorporation By Board Of Supervisors
The board of supervisors of a county may disincorporate a city or town incorporated within the county and establish instead a new corporate government,...
- § 9-212 Disincorporation; Petition; Notice; Publication
A. When one half or more of the property taxpayers who are bona fide residents and electors appearing on the last assessment roll of...
- § 9-213 Order For Election; Election Officers; Oath
A. The board shall thereupon, by written order entered at length of record, appoint from the bona fide resident electors of the corporation, who...
- § 9-214 Election; Ballots; Procedure
A. On the day and at the place designated the officers shall open the polls and conduct the election. The board of supervisors shall...
- § 9-215 Qualifications Of Electors
Electors in order to vote at the election shall possess the qualifications of electors for county officers, and shall have resided in the corporation...
- § 9-216 Determination Of Election Results; Establishment Of New Corporation
A. Within ten days after the election, the board of supervisors shall meet and canvass the returns. B. If it appears from the certificate...
- § 9-217 Trustees; Appointment; Terms; Oath; Bond
A. The board of supervisors, at the same meeting, shall, after recording the order declaring the petition granted, by order entered of record, appoint...
- § 9-218 Election Of Trustees And Officers; Vacancies
A. There shall be elected in each year after the first year of the corporate existence of the town one trustee as successor to...
- § 9-219 General Powers Of Trustees; Publication Of Ordinance; Sale Of Property
A. The board of trustees may: 1. Pass ordinances for the government of the corporation, its officers and the people within its corporate limits...
- § 9-220 Taxing Power
The board of trustees may levy upon the taxable property within the corporation a general tax not exceeding three quarters of one per cent...
- § 9-221 Transfer Of Books And Records; Classification
A. The custodians or any person in possession or having control of books, records or property belonging to or which were used by the...
- § 9-222 Clerk; Salary; Duties
A. The board shall appoint from the electors of the city or town a clerk of the board. The clerk shall receive an annual...
- § 9-223 Marshal; Deputies; Oath; Bond; Compensation; Duties
A. The board of trustees shall appoint from the electors of the corporation a marshal who shall hold his office during the pleasure of...
- § 9-224 Treasurer; Term; Oath; Bond; Compensation; Duties
A. The board of trustees shall appoint from the qualified electors of the corporation a treasurer, who shall hold office at the pleasure of...
- § 9-225 Registration Of Voters; Special Elections
The board may by ordinance provide for and regulate the registration of voters, and for holding special elections for corporation officers not in conflict...
- § 9-226 Effect Of Dissolution On Existing Rights
A. The dissolution of a corporation shall not invalidate or affect any right, penalty or forfeiture accruing to the corporation, nor invalidate or affect...
Article 3 Town Incorporated Under Common Council Government
- § 9-231 Common Council
A. The corporate powers of a town incorporated under section 9-101 shall be vested in a common council. The first common council shall be...
- § 9-232 Council; Qualifications Of Members; Oath; Selection Of Mayor; Vacancy
A. A person shall not be a member of a city or town council unless, at the time of the election, the person is...
- § 9-232.01 Salaries
The common council may by ordinance or resolution prescribe a daily compensation or salary to be paid the mayor, councilmen and administrative board members...
- § 9-232.02 Permitting Town Councilmen To Hold Office For Four‑year Staggered Terms
The common council may, by majority vote of the qualified electors of the town voting thereon, provide for four-year staggered terms for members of...
- § 9-232.03 Alternative Procedure For Mayor To Be Directly Elected By Electors
The common council may, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the town voting thereon either at a regular or special election,...
- § 9-232.04 District System As Alternative Organization
A. The common council, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the town who vote on that issue, may elect to be...
- § 9-233 Council Meetings; Quorum; Adjournment
The common council shall, by ordinance, fix the time and place of holding stated meetings, and the council may be convened at any time...
- § 9-234 Power Of Council To Regulate Proceedings; Records
A. The common council shall judge the elections, qualifications and returns of its members. It may prescribe rules for the government of its proceedings,...
- § 9-235 Vacancies In Council
A. The council shall fill a vacancy that may occur by appointment until the next regularly scheduled council election if the vacancy occurs more...
- § 9-236 Mayor; Duties
The mayor of the common council shall be the chief executive officer of the town, and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed...
- § 9-237 Appointive Officers
In addition to the common council, the officers of every town shall be a town clerk, town marshal, town engineer and other officers deemed...
- § 9-238 Duties Of Appointive Officers
A. The town clerk shall also be treasurer of the town. The town marshal shall be collector of all taxes of the town. The...
- § 9-239 Council Powers Relating To Appointive Officers
A. The common council may prescribe the duties and compensation of all officers of the town, and provide, by ordinance, the manner of filling...
- § 9-240 General Powers Of Common Council
A. The common council shall have control of the finances and property of the corporation. B. The common council shall also have power within...
- § 9-241 Purchase And Sale Of Property
A. The corporation may purchase, receive, hold, lease and convey property, real and personal, necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of the...
- § 9-242 Hospitals
A. The corporation may own, operate and control hospitals in the interest of the general welfare. B. The council may lease a hospital to...
- § 9-243 Construction Of Streets And Sidewalks; Default Of Property Owner; Abatement Of Assessment; Appeal; Definitions
A. The common council may require the proprietor of any block, lot or part of a lot within the town to construct a sidewalk...
- § 9-244 Levy Of Taxes
A. The common council may levy and collect annually, upon the assessed value of the real and personal property within the town, as shown...
- § 9-246 Publication Of Financial Statement
The common council shall, at least ten days before the biennial election, publish in a newspaper published in the town, or if there is...
- § 9-247 Claims, Warrants, Substitute Checks And Vouchers
When a town organized under this article is indebted on an account, the official having power to audit and allow claims against the town...
- § 9-248 Warrants, Substitute Checks And Vouchers; Payee; Form
No warrant, substitute check or voucher drawn on the treasurer of any town shall be drawn in favor of a person other than the...
- § 9-249 Warrants, Substitute Checks And Vouchers; Presentment; Payment; Registry; Definitions
A. The treasurer of a city or town shall not pay any warrant, substitute check or voucher unless presented for payment by the person...
- § 9-250 Violation Of Provisions Relating To Warrants; Classification
An officer of a town who violates any provision of sections 9-247, 9-248 or 9-249 is guilty of a petty offense.
- § 9-251 Survey And Recording Of Town Plats
When a town is laid out, the proprietors of the town shall cause to be made an accurate plat or map thereof, setting forth:...
- § 9-252 Acknowledgment And Filing Of Maps
The maps required by section 9-251 shall be acknowledged by the proprietor, or some person for him duly authorized by deed, and a copy...
- § 9-253 Recording Of Maps And Plats; Preservation Of Originals
A. The county recorder shall record the plats in a book to be kept for that purpose, and, when necessary, may reduce the scale...
- § 9-254 Title To Streets
Upon filing a map or plat, the fee of the streets, alleys, avenues, highways, parks and other parcels of ground reserved therein to the...
- § 9-255 Unlawful Act Of Officer; Liability Of Council
A member of the common council of a town incorporated under the provisions of this article shall not be personally liable in damages or...
Article 4 Change From Town to City Organization
- § 9-271 Procedure For Change; City Officers
A. When a town has acquired a population of three thousand or over and the council shall by resolution so declare, the town may...
- § 9-272 Classification Of Councilmen For Purposes Of Election; Terms Of Office
A. The common council may, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the city voting thereon, provide by ordinance or resolution, that...
- § 9-272.01 Alternative Procedure For Mayor To Be Directly Elected By Electors
The common council may, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the city voting thereon either at a regular or special election,...
- § 9-273 District System As Alternative Organization
A. Upon the change from town to city government, the city, by a majority vote of the qualified electors, may elect to be governed...
- § 9-274 Powers Of Council; Salaries
A. When the change from town to city government is made, the council of the city may: 1. Appoint and remove city officers, board...
- § 9-275 Applicability Of Certain Provisions To Specified Cities
A. The provisions of sections 9-271 to 9-274, inclusive, shall not apply to a city operating under a special act or special charter or...
- § 9-276 Additional Powers Of Cities
A. In addition to the powers already vested in cities by their respective charters and by general law, cities and their governing bodies may:...
Article 5 Adoption of Charter Government by City
Chapter 3 OFFICERS
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 9-301 Terms Of Office
In incorporated cities and towns which elect a mayor, other than those specifically provided for, councilmen and other officers shall hold their respective offices...
- § 9-302 Bonds Of Officers
A. Unless bonded pursuant to the provisions of subsection B of this section, every officer of a city or town shall execute and file...
- § 9-303 City Or Town Manager
A. The governing body of a city or town, in addition to the officers already specified by law, may, by ordinance, create the office...
- § 9-304 Compensation Of Alderman Or Councilman; Failure To Comply; Classification
A. No mayor, alderman or councilman of any city or town shall, during the term for which he has been elected, knowingly accept, take...
- § 9-305 City Or Town Auditor; Examination Of Executive Session Minutes; Confidentiality
A. If a city or town has established the office of city or town auditor, the city or town, by ordinance, may provide that...
Chapter 4 GENERAL POWERS
Article 1 Purchase, Sale or Lease of Property
- § 9-401 Acquisition Of Land By City; Extent And Notice Of City Jurisdiction
A. A city or town may purchase, lease or rent land, whether contiguous or noncontiguous, lying outside its corporate limits, for its purposes and...
- § 9-402 Sale And Disposition Of Property; Advertising For Bids; Publication; Donation; Easements
A. A city or town may sell and convey all or any part of its real or personal property, whether or not the property...
- § 9-403 Sale Of Real Property Valued At More Than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars; Special Election; Sale At Auction
A. Real property of a city or town, the value of which exceeds five hundred thousand dollars, shall not be sold unless first authorized...
- § 9-404 Payment Of Outstanding Taxes, Penalties And Interest On Acquiring Property
A. If a city or town acquires real or personal property, whether by purchase, exchange, condemnation, gift or otherwise, the city or town shall...
- § 9-405 Sale, Lease Or Exchange Of Surplus Property To Federal Government
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9-402, 9-403 or 9-241, the governing body of a city or town may sell, lease or otherwise grant...
- § 9-406 Sale, Lease Or Conveyance Of Land By City Or Town Incorporated Pursuant To Congressional Enabling Legislation
A city or town which has incorporated under the laws of the state of Arizona pursuant to enabling legislation of the Congress of the...
- § 9-407 Exchange And Sale Of Real Property; Notice Of Intent
A. Any incorporated city or town may by ordinance authorize an exchange of a parcel of real property owned by that city or town...
- § 9-408 Home Equity Conversion Program; Authorization; Use Of Proceeds
A. A city or town, by ordinance, may offer a home equity conversion program for persons sixty years of age or older. B. A...
- § 9-409 Condemnation Actions; Interest
Interest on a judgment in a condemnation proceeding instituted by the city or town, including interest that is payable pursuant to section 12-1123, subsection...
Article 2 Public Library
- § 9-411 Tax Levy For Library Purposes
A city or town may levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a tax not to exceed one and one-half mills on the...
- § 9-412 Receipt Of Gifts For Library
Cities or towns may receive, hold or dispose of gifts made to them for library purposes and may apply them in a manner which...
- § 9-413 Library Fund
All money received for library purposes, whether by taxation or otherwise, shall belong to and be designated as the library fund, shall be paid...
- § 9-414 Trustees; Terms; Compensation
A. The governing body of a city or town may appoint residents of the city or town as trustees of its library. B. In...
- § 9-415 Trustees; Organization; Appointment Of Librarian
A. The trustees shall have charge of the library and all library property. They shall meet for business purposes each month, and at such...
- § 9-416 Powers Of Trustees
The trustees, by a majority vote of their members recorded in the minutes with the ayes and nays at length, may: 1. Make and...
- § 9-417 Audit And Payment Of Claims
The warrant of the trustees, when made and authenticated as provided in section 9-416, shall be verified and audited by the auditing officer, and...
- § 9-418 Annual Reports By Trustees
A. The trustees, on or before the first Monday of July of each year, shall make a report to the governing body of the...
- § 9-419 Regulation Of Library Use; Use Of Land For Library
A. A city or town in which a public library is established may pass ordinances for the protection of the library and library property,...
- § 9-420 Contracts Between City Or Town And The Arizona State Library; Expenditure Of Public Monies
The governing body of a city or town having a free library, or a library established under this article, may enter into a contract...
Article 3 Remote Municipal Property as Water Source
Article 4 Housing Development
Article 5 Cemeteries
Article 6 Municipal Planning
- § 9-461 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Aggregate" means cinder, crushed rock or stone, decomposed granite, gravel, pumice, pumicite and sand....
- § 9-461.01 Planning Agency; Powers And Duties
A. The legislative body of a municipality may by ordinance establish a planning agency. B. The planning agency shall: 1. Develop and maintain a...
- § 9-461.02 Planning Commission; Creation; Limitations
If a municipal planning commission is created, the organization, number of members, the terms of office and the method of appointment and removal shall...
- § 9-461.03 Planning Department
A. The legislative body of any municipality may establish a planning department. The officers and employees that the legislative body deems necessary for the...
- § 9-461.04 Financing
The municipal legislative body shall provide the funds, equipment and accommodations necessary for the work of the planning agency of the municipality.
- § 9-461.05 General Plans; Authority; Scope
A. Each planning agency shall prepare and the governing body of each municipality shall adopt a comprehensive, long-range general plan for the development of...
- § 9-461.06 Adoption And Amendment Of General Plan; Expiration And Readoption
A. In municipalities that have territory in a high noise or accident potential zone as defined in section 28-8461, the legislature finds that in...
- § 9-461.07 Administration Of General Plan
A. After the municipal legislative body has adopted a general plan, or amendment thereto, the planning agency shall undertake the following actions to encourage...
- § 9-461.08 Authority, Scope Of Specific Plans
A. The planning agency may, or if so directed by the legislative body shall, prepare specific plans based on the general plan and drafts...
- § 9-461.09 Procedure For Adoption Of Specific Plans And Regulations
A. If a municipality has a planning commission, the planning commission shall hold at least one public hearing on a specific plan or regulation...
- § 9-461.10 Administration Of Specific Plans And Regulations
A. The legislative body shall determine and establish administrative rules and procedures for the application and enforcement of specific plans and regulations. B. The...
- § 9-461.11 Extraterritorial Jurisdiction; Development Plans
A. In any county not having a county planning agency with jurisdiction in the unincorporated territory, the legislative body of any municipality may exercise...
- § 9-461.12 Joint Action; Cooperation With State Agencies; Land And Facilities Use
A. Municipal and county planning commissions may upon approval of their respective legislative bodies hold joint meetings concerning matters and problems which are common...
- § 9-461.13 Prohibited Urban Growth Management Requirements
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. There shall not be a state mandate that a city, charter city, town or county: 1. Adopt by...
- § 9-461.14 Public Works Project Planning; Utility Input; Definitions
A. A city or town in the design phase of a public works project shall provide notice and opportunity for comment to all utilities...
- § 9-461.15 Requirement Of Planned Community Prohibited
A. The planning agency of a municipality in exercising its authority pursuant to this title shall not require as part of a subdivision regulation...
- § 9-461.16 Residential Housing; Requirements; Fees; Prohibition
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a city or town shall not adopt a land use regulation or general or...
Article 6.1 Municipal Zoning
Article 6.2 Municipal Subdivision Regulations
- § 9-463 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Design" means street alignment, grades and widths, alignment and widths of easements and rights-of-way...
- § 9-463.01 Authority
A. Pursuant to this article, the legislative body of every municipality shall regulate the subdivision of all lands within its corporate limits. B. The...
- § 9-463.02 Subdivision Defined; Applicability
A. " Subdivision" means improved or unimproved land or lands divided for the purpose of financing, sale or lease, whether immediate or future, into...
- § 9-463.03 Violations
It is unlawful for any person to offer to sell or lease, to contract to sell or lease or to sell or lease any...
- § 9-463.04 Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
A. In any county not having county subdivision regulations applicable to the unincorporated territory, the legislative body of any municipality may exercise the subdivision...
- § 9-463.05 Development Fees; Imposition By Cities And Towns; Infrastructure Improvements Plan; Annual Report; Advisory Committee; Limitation On Actions; Definitions
A. A municipality may assess development fees to offset costs to the municipality associated with providing necessary public services to a development, including the...
- § 9-463.06 Standards For Enactment Of Moratorium; Land Development; Limitations; Definitions
A. A city or town shall not adopt a moratorium on construction or land development unless it first: 1. Provides notice to the public...
Article 6.3 Open Space Conservation
- § 9-464 Definition
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires, " open space lands or open area" means any space or area characterized by great natural...
- § 9-464.01 Open Space Land Acquisition
The acquisition of interests or rights in real property for the preservation of open spaces or areas constitutes a public purpose for which public...
Article 6.4 Building Permits
Article 7 Extension of Corporate Limits; Platting Adjacent Subdivisions
- § 9-471 Annexation Of Territory; Procedures; Notice; Petitions; Access To Information; Restrictions
A. The following procedures are required to extend and increase the corporate limits of a city or town by annexation: 1. A city or...
- § 9-471.01 Dates Of Signatures On Petition; Time Limitation For Validity Of Signatures
A. Each person signing a petition for the annexation of territory to a city or town shall, at the time he signs, write upon...
- § 9-471.02 Deannexation Of Land From One Municipality And Annexation To Another Municipality; Deannexation Of Right-Of-way From A Municipality To A County
A. Notwithstanding any other law, territory may be deannexed and severed from one city or town and annexed to another city or town under...
- § 9-471.03 Return Of Certain Land To County; Procedures
A. Notwithstanding any other law, territory may be deannexed, severed and returned to the county by a city or town if the territory is...
- § 9-471.04 Annexation Of Territory Partially Or Completely Surrounded By City Or Town; Definition
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article: 1. A city or town located in a county with a population of more than three...
- § 9-471.05 Invalid Annexation; Procedure To Return Territory To The County
(Rpld. 7/1/17) A. Notwithstanding any other law, the annexation of territory by a city or town is void and the territory shall be severed...
- § 9-472 Annexed Territory As Part Of Adjoining District
All territory annexed to a city or town shall become a part of the district or districts of the city or town adjoining the...
- § 9-473 Redistricting; Representation
A. The common councils of incorporated cities and towns may redistrict and subdivide their territory into districts. B. Each district shall contain a nearly...
- § 9-474 Subdivision Plats; Projection Of Street And Alley Lines; Approval; Survey
A. When the owner of land, the whole or part of which is in an unincorporated area within three miles from the corporate limits...
- § 9-475 Filing Of Map; Hearing; Approval; Recording
A. One copy of the plat or map shall be filed with the city or town and the other copy with the board of...
- § 9-476 Amendments To Plat
If on the hearing it is determined by the board that corrections, additions or amendments in any respect shall be made to the plat...
- § 9-477 Subdivision Name; Limitation; Title To Streets
A. Upon the plat or map shall be endorsed a name, title or designation of the subdivision and the acknowledgment by the owner or...
- § 9-478 Acceptance Of Plat By Recorder
No plat or map shall be accepted by the county recorder for filing unless it complies with the provisions of this article, but if...
- § 9-479 Conveyance By Reference To Plat; Restriction; Violation; Classification
A. No property shall be sold or described in a conveyance or other instrument by reference to any map or plat of a subdivision...
Article 7.1 Audit Provisions
Article 8 Miscellaneous
- § 9-491 Unpaid License Taxes; Recovery
A. A city or town may maintain in its name a civil action to recover an unpaid license, business or occupation tax imposed by...
- § 9-491.01 Additional Business License; Real Estate Broker Or Salesperson; Prohibition
A city or town may not require a person to obtain an additional business license to do business within that city or town if...
- § 9-492 Investment Of Sinking Funds And Surplus Or Idle Funds Of Municipality
A. The governing body of a municipality may invest its sinking funds in United States, state, or county bonds or in bonds, debentures or...
- § 9-493 Appropriation For Advertising
A. Cities and towns with a population of more than sixty thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census may appropriate...
- § 9-494 Parks; Tax For Parks Within Reclamation Projects
A. A city or town may establish and maintain public parks, and acquire, hold and improve real property for that purpose. B. In a...
- § 9-495 Tax Levy For Municipal Band; Authorization
A. Cities and towns may, when authorized as provided by this section, levy each year a tax not to exceed one mill for the...
- § 9-496 Expenditures In Federal Areas
A. A city or town may expend public money in any area federally owned or controlled if it is determined by the governing body...
- § 9-497 Authority To Procure Liability Insurance Covering Officers, Agents And Employees
Cities and towns may expend public funds to procure liability insurance covering their officers, agents, and employees while employed in governmental or proprietary capacities.
- § 9-498 Authority For County To Furnish Services To City Or Town
The governing body of an incorporated city or town, and the county board of supervisors of the county in which such city or town...
- § 9-499 Removal Of Rubbish, Trash, Weeds, Filth, Debris And Dilapidated Buildings; Removal By City; Costs Assessed; Collection; Priority Of Assessment; Responsibility Of Payment; Definitions
A. The governing body of a city or town, by ordinance, shall compel the owner, lessee or occupant of property to remove from the...
- § 9-499.01 Powers Of Charter And General Law Cities
Charter cities and general law cities, whether incorporated as cities pursuant to section 9-101 or having assumed a city organization pursuant to section 9-271,...
- § 9-499.02 Standards For Curb Ramps
A. The standard for construction of curbs on each side of any city or town street, or any connecting street or road for which...
- § 9-499.03 Participation In Medical Clinics
The governing body of an incorporated city or town may establish, maintain and operate medical clinics as defined in title 36, chapter 24, article
- § 9-499.04 Animal Control Officers; Appointment; Authority; Powers And Duties
A. Any city and town may by ordinance provide for the appointment of animal control officers who may commence an action or proceeding before...
- § 9-499.05 Authority To Set Rates For Private Towing Carrier; Notice Of Parking Violations; Violation; Classification; Definition
A. The governing body of an incorporated city or town may regulate the maximum rate and charge for towing, transporting or impounding a motor...
- § 9-499.06 Fire Insurance Premium Tax Revenues; Cities And Towns And Fire Districts Utilizing Private Fire Companies
Monies received pursuant to sections 9-951 and 9-952 by a city or town or legally organized fire district which procures the services of a...
- § 9-499.07 Prisoner Work, Community Restitution Work And 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 city or town may establish a prisoner work, community restitution work and home detention program for eligible sentenced prisoners, which shall be...
- § 9-499.08 Ability To Build, Finance And Operate Toll Roads
Notwithstanding section 28-6805, subsection C, a city or town may construct, operate and finance the construction of toll roads within the corporate limits of...
- § 9-499.09 Indigent Defendants; Appointment Of Counsel; Fee
A. The municipal court shall appoint legal counsel to represent indigent defendants pursuant to the Arizona rules of criminal procedure. In addition to court...
- § 9-499.10 Infill Incentive Districts
A. The governing body of a city or town may designate an infill incentive district in an area in the city or town that...
- § 9-499.11 Lighting Standards For Municipal Buildings; Life Cycle Costing; Evaluation Standards; Shielding
A. A city or town with a population of fifty thousand or more persons shall provide for efficient and effective lighting systems for new...
- § 9-499.12 Municipal Social Workers; Exemption
A person who is employed by a municipality of this state and who in the course of that employment engages in the practice of...
- § 9-499.13 Sign Walkers; Regulation; Exception; Definition
A. From and after December 31, 2008, notwithstanding the authority to regulate signs pursuant to section 9-462.01, and as a matter of statewide concern,...
- § 9-499.14 Renewable Energy Incentive Districts; Definition
A. The governing body of a city or town may designate a renewable energy incentive district in an area in the city or town...
- § 9-499.15 Proposed Municipal Taxes And Fees; Notification Required; Exception
A. A municipality may not levy or assess any new taxes or fees or increase existing taxes or fees pursuant to statute on a...
- § 9-499.16 Energy And Water Savings Accounts
A. The governing body of a city or town may establish an energy and water savings account that consists of a designated pool of...
- § 9-499.17 Prohibition On Municipal Taxes And Fees
Except for a municipality that, before December 31, 2013, has adopted an ordinance requiring property owners to obtain fire prevention and control services and...
- § 9-499.18; Version 2 Transportation Safety Zones; Passenger Convenience Areas; Definitions
(L15, Ch. 244, sec. 26. Eff. 7/1/16) A. A city or town may adopt a resolution or ordinance establishing passenger convenience areas and vehicle-for-hire...
- § 9-499.18 Transportation Safety Zones; Passenger Convenience Areas; Definitions
(L14, Ch. 184, sec. 1. Eff. until 7/1/16) A. A city or town may adopt a resolution or ordinance establishing passenger convenience areas and...
- § 9-500 Authority For Providing For Tax Deferred Annuity And Deferred Compensation Plans For Employees
A. The governing body of a city or town may provide through ordinance or resolution a plan or plans for their employees which provide...
- § 9-500.01 Arson Investigators; Duties; Powers; Limitation
A. The governing body of a city or town may provide by ordinance that certain members of a fire department designated by such city...
- § 9-500.02 Emergency Medical Aid; Assistance To Other Public Bodies; Limitation On Liability
A. A city or town or its officers and employees, a private fire or ambulance company whose services are procured by a city or...
- § 9-500.03 Maintenance And Protection Of Parks; Park Rangers
A. A city or town may appoint park rangers. B. A park ranger may be empowered to issue citations for violations of ordinances and...
- § 9-500.04 Air Quality Control; Definitions
A. The governing body of a city or town in area A or area B as defined in section 49-541 shall: 1. If the...
- § 9-500.05 Development Agreements; Public Safety; Definitions
A. A municipality, by resolution or ordinance, may enter into development agreements relating to property in the municipality and to property located outside the...
- § 9-500.06 Hospitality Industry; Discrimination Prohibited; Use Of Tax Proceeds; Exemption; Definitions
A. A city or town shall not discriminate against hospitality industry businesses in the collection of fees. For the purposes of this subsection: 1....
- § 9-500.07 Recycling And Waste Reduction
A city or town shall provide its residents with an opportunity to engage in recycling and waste reduction.
- § 9-500.08 Enforcement Of Water Conservation Plumbing Requirements
A. The governing body of a city or town may designate an appropriate official to enforce all or a portion of title 45, chapter...
- § 9-500.09 Fair Housing
The governing body of a city or town with a population of three hundred fifty thousand or more persons according to the 1990 United...
- § 9-500.10 Escort And Escort Agency Advertising Requirements; Civil Penalty; Definitions
A. An escort or escort agency shall not advertise escort services unless the advertisement includes either: 1. The escort license number of the escort...
- § 9-500.11; Version 2 Expenditures For Economic Development; Requirements; Definitions
(L05, Ch. 200, sec. 1) A. In addition to any other powers granted to a city or town, the governing body of a city...
- § 9-500.11 Expenditures For Economic Development; Definitions
(L05, Ch. 105, sec. 2) A. In addition to any other powers granted to a city or town, the governing body of a city...
- § 9-500.12 Appeals Of Municipal Actions; Dedication Or Exaction; Excessive Reduction In Property Value; Burden Of Proof; Attorney Fees
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a property owner may appeal the following actions relating to the owner's property by a city...
- § 9-500.13 Compliance With Court Decisions
A city or town or an agency or instrumentality of a city or town shall comply with the United States supreme court cases of...
- § 9-500.14 Use Of City Or Town Resources Or Employees To Influence Elections; Prohibition; Civil Penalty; Definitions
A. A city or town shall not spend or use its resources, including the use or expenditure of monies, accounts, credit, facilities, vehicles, postage,...
- § 9-500.15 Referral Of Public Transportation Questions To Voters
By resolution, the governing body of a city or town, including a charter city, may voluntarily refer an advisory question relating to public transportation...
- § 9-500.16 Clean Burning Fireplace Ordinance
A. By December 31, 1998, a city or town that is located in area A as defined in section 49-541 shall adopt, implement and...
- § 9-500.17 Acceleration Agreements; Loan Repayment Agreements
A. Pursuant to section 28-7677, a city or town may enter into agreements with the department of transportation for the acceleration of right-of-way acquisition,...
- § 9-500.18 School District Construction Fees; Prohibition
Notwithstanding any other law, a city or town shall not assess or collect any fees or costs from a school district or charter school...
- § 9-500.19 Vehicle Refueling Apparatus
Notwithstanding any other law and because the legislature finds it is a matter of statewide concern, a city or town shall not effectively prohibit...
- § 9-500.20 Outside Emergency Services; Costs
A city or town may provide or assist in providing emergency fire or emergency medical services outside of its corporate limits, if those services...
- § 9-500.21 Civil Enforcement Of Municipal Ordinances
A city or town that classifies ordinance violations as civil offenses shall establish procedures to hear and determine these violations that may include: 1....
- § 9-500.22 Prosecution Diversion Programs
A. The chief prosecuting officer of a city or town may establish a diversion program that provides for the dismissal of a criminal complaint...
- § 9-500.23 Authority To Provide Fire Protection And Emergency Services Outside Corporate Limits
In addition to the powers provided by section 9-500.20 if approved by a municipal resolution, a city or a town may provide fire and...
- § 9-500.24 Federal Patent Easements; City And Town Abandonment
A city or town, by its own motion or at the request of a property owner, may abandon a federal patent easement established by...
- § 9-500.25 Work Centers; Aliens; Prohibition
A city or town shall not construct or maintain a work center if any part of the center is to facilitate the knowing employment...
- § 9-500.26 Authority To Regulate The Entry Of Minors Into Mexico; Exemption From Liability
A. The governing body of an incorporated city or town may adopt an ordinance pursuant to chapter 7 of this title allowing a peace...
- § 9-500.27 Off-Road Vehicle Ordinance; Applicability; Violation; Classification
A. No later than March 31, 2008, in area A, as defined in section 49-541, a city or town shall adopt, implement and enforce...
- § 9-500.28 Disclosure Of Filings; Military Electronics Range; Definition
A. A city or town that contains any portion of a military electronics range as delineated in the military electronics range map prepared by...
- § 9-500.29 Federal And State Regulations; Local Coordination; Standing; Definitions
A. If a city or town has laws, regulations, plans or policies that are less restrictive than a federal or state regulation, rule, plan...
- § 9-500.30 Federal Monies; Prohibition; Union Labor Preference
A city or town is prohibited from accepting federal monies for a construction project if as a condition of accepting the federal monies the...
- § 9-500.31 Prohibition On Adopting Landlord Tenant Bedbug Control Requirements
A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a city or town shall not adopt requirements by ordinance or otherwise for landlords...
- § 9-500.32 License Fees For Dogs; Prohibition; Violation; Classification
A. A city or town may not charge an individual who has a disability and who uses a service animal as defined in section...
- § 9-500.33 County Island Sewer Connection; Prohibition; State Preemption
Notwithstanding any other law, a city or town may not require the owner of a property located in the city's or town's municipal planning...
- § 9-500.34 Prohibition On Retail Business Security Requirements; State Preemption
A. A municipality may not adopt an ordinance that requires a retail business to comply with specific security requirements, including the installation of security...
- § 9-500.35 Garbage Collection Services; Payment Responsibility
For residential property of four or fewer units, a garbage collection service provider that operates within a city or town may not require payment...
- § 9-500.36 Prohibition On Requirement Of Energy Measuring And Reporting; Prohibition On Regulation Of Auxiliary Containers; State Preemption; Legislative Findings; Definition
A. A city or town may not: 1. Require an owner, operator or tenant of a business, commercial building or multifamily housing property to...
- § 9-500.37 Improvements To Private Property Not In Corporate Boundaries; Prohibition
A city or town may not require the owner of property that is not located in the city's or town's corporate boundaries to make...
Chapter 5 PUBLIC UTILITIES
Article 1 Franchise by Municipality
Article 1.1 Cable Television Systems
Article 2 Municipal Ownership
- § 9-511 Power To Engage In Business Of Public Nature; Outside Water Rates; Right Of Eminent Domain
A. A municipal corporation may engage in any business or enterprise which may be engaged in by persons by virtue of a franchise from...
- § 9-511.01 Water And Wastewater Business; Rates; Procedures; Responsibility For Payments
A. A municipality engaging in a domestic water or wastewater business shall not increase any water or wastewater rate or rate component, fee or...
- § 9-511.02 Utility User Fees; Lien Enforcement; Procedures; Payment Responsibility; Definition
A. A city or town may file a lien on property for the nonpayment of utility user fees for services provided to the property...
- § 9-511.03 Outside Waste Or Garbage Collection, Landfill Services Or Recycling Collection Or Processing Services; Requirements; Exceptions
A. If a city or town provides waste or garbage collection services, landfill services or recycling collection or processing services outside of its boundaries,...
- § 9-512 Issuance Of Bonds; Service Rates
A. The municipal corporation, for any and all purposes provided in section 9-511, may issue and sell bonds bearing interest not to exceed nine...
- § 9-513 Lease Of Privately Owned Utility
A. When it is impracticable to issue bonds as provided by section 9-512 for an improvement or enterprise deemed necessary for the public welfare,...
- § 9-514 Authority To Engage In Utility Business
A. Except as provided in section 9-571, before construction, purchase, acquisition or lease by a municipal corporation, as authorized in sections 9-511, 9-511.01, 9-511.02,...
- § 9-515 Purchase Of Existing Utility Plant And Property; Valuation; Appeal
A. When a municipal corporation and the residents thereof are being served under an existing franchise by a public utility, the municipal corporation, before...
- § 9-516 Declaration Of Public Policy; Eminent Domain
A. It is declared as the public policy of the state that when adequate public utility service under authority of law is being rendered...
- § 9-517 Exception To Purchase Requirement
When a public utility operating under an existing franchise wilfully and persistently violates any provision of the franchise, the municipal corporation shall thereby be...
- § 9-518 Compensation For Taking Public Utility; Procedure For Determining
A. Whenever the fair valuation of the plant and property of a public utility has not for any reason been determined by any other...
- § 9-519 Common Carriers; Duplication Of Service Prohibited
When territory within or without the corporate limits of a municipal corporation is being adequately served by a common carrier of passengers under authority...
- § 9-520 Provision Of Electric Generation Services; Competition; Definitions
A. A city or town that provides electric distribution service shall not sell electric generation service outside of its service territory as constituted on...
Article 3 Municipal Bonds for Financing Utilities
- § 9-521 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Bond" means any bond issued pursuant to this article, including any tax secured bond....
- § 9-521.01 Recreational Facilities
A. For the purposes of this article only, the term " utility undertaking" , in addition to the definition prescribed in section 9-521, shall...
- § 9-522 Power To Issue Bonds
A. In addition to its other powers, a municipality may: 1. Subject to the requirements and restrictions of sections 9-515 through 9-518, within or...
- § 9-523 Bond Election
Questions on bond issues under this article shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the municipality. No bonds shall be issued without the...
- § 9-524 Election Order And Call; Publication; Posting
A. The governing body shall order and call an election upon the question of the issuance of bonds. The order and call shall state...
- § 9-525 Registration Of Voters
The governing body may require the registration of all persons desiring to vote at the election, in which case the election resolution shall state...
- § 9-526 Form Of Ballot
At the election the ballot shall contain the phrases " For the Bonds" and " Against the Bonds." To the right of and opposite...
- § 9-527 Canvass Of Votes
A. The governing body shall canvass the returns and declare the result of the election. If it appears to the governing body that a...
- § 9-528 Application Of Election Laws
Except as otherwise provided in this article, the manner of conducting the registration and election, keeping the poll lists, making the returns, declaring the...
- § 9-529 Form Of Bonds; Payment And Call; Interest; Sale; Bids; Interim Receipts; Rates And Procedures; Definition
A. Bonds issued under this article shall be fully negotiable within the meaning and for all purposes of title 47. They may be in...
- § 9-530 Service Charges; Taxation And Budgeting; Computation
A. The governing body of the municipality issuing the bonds shall prescribe service charges, and shall revise them when necessary, so that a utility...
- § 9-531 Provisions Of Resolution For Bond Issue; Covenants
A. A resolution pertaining to issuance of bonds under this article may contain covenants as to: 1. The purpose to which the proceeds of...
- § 9-532 Utility Receipts And Bond Proceeds; Handling And Disposition
A. All proceeds received from sale of the bonds, all fees, rents, tolls or other charges received by the municipality from a utility undertaking...
- § 9-533 Validity Of Bonds
A. Bonds issued under this article and bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing thereof shall be valid...
- § 9-534 Certification Of Bonds By Attorney General
A. A municipality may submit to the attorney general bonds to be issued under this article after all proceedings for their issuance have been...
- § 9-535 Prior Lien Of Bonds
A. Except as otherwise provided in the resolution authorizing the bonds, all bonds of the same issue under this article shall have a prior...
- § 9-535.01 Refunding Bonds And Revenue‑producing Undertaking; Refunding Utility Purchase Contracts; Form; Sale And Investment Of Proceeds; Limitation On Amount Issued
A. Bonds may also be issued hereunder for the purpose of refunding any bonds issued under authority of this article or any bonds issued...
- § 9-536 Payment Of Bonds
A. No holder of bonds issued under this article shall have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the municipality...
- § 9-537 Supplemental Nature Of Article
In so far as the provisions of this article are inconsistent with any other provision of law, the provisions hereof shall be controlling. The...
- § 9-538 Validation Of Prior Bonds
Bonds lawfully issued under the provisions of chapter 4, session laws of 1940, first special session, and chapter 107, session laws of 1941, regular...
- § 9-539 General Powers Of Municipality Under Article
There is vested in a municipality by this article full power: 1. To issue revenue bonds for the purpose of paying the cost of...
- § 9-540 Validation Of Prior Acts And Proceedings; Criterion For Compliance
All acts and proceedings taken prior to March 13, 1947 by a municipality under this article, or under color of this article, for the...
Article 4 Industrial Gas Pipelines
Article 6 Financial Assistance from the Water Infrastructure Finance Authority of Arizona
Article 7 Charges for Use of Public Highways by Telecommunications Providers
Chapter 6 CONVENTION CENTERS
Article 1 Arizona Convention Center Development Fund
- § 9-601 Arizona Convention Center Development Fund; Purpose
The Arizona convention center development fund is established to encourage and enable eligible cities under section 9-604 to develop and expand municipally operated major...
- § 9-602 Fund Operation
A. The Arizona convention center development fund consists of monies deposited pursuant to sections 42-5029 and 42-5030. B. The state treasurer shall administer the...
- § 9-603 Use Of Fund Monies
A. The monies in the Arizona convention center development fund shall be used only for the purposes specified in this chapter. B. The state...
- § 9-604 Eligible Cities
To be eligible to receive distributions from the Arizona convention center development fund a municipality must: 1. Be a charter city. 2. Have a...
- § 9-605 Eligible Projects
A. An eligible city may not spend monies from the Arizona convention center development fund for uses other than those permitted by section 9-603...
Article 2 Development
Chapter 7 ORDINANCES AND CODES; PUBLICATION; ELECTIONS AND VOTERS
Article 1 Enactment of Code or Public Record by Reference
- § 9-801 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Code" means a published compilation of rules or regulations prepared by a technical trade...
- § 9-802 Procedure For Adoption By Reference
A municipality may enact the provisions of a code or public record theretofore in existence without setting forth the provisions, but the adopting ordinance...
- § 9-803 Limitation On Enactment Of Penalty Clauses
No penalty clause shall be enacted by reference thereto. A penalty clause contained in a code or public record adopted by reference shall be...
- § 9-804 Ratification Of Certain Enactments By Reference
The enactment of any municipality which has adopted a code or public record by reference thereto prior to March 29, 1951 is ratified and...
- § 9-805 Building Code Moratorium On Residential And Commercial Buildings
Beginning June 30, 2009 through June 30, 2011, any new or modified residential or commercial building code or other related code that is adopted...
- § 9-806 Wildland-Urban Interface Code
A. A city or town may adopt a current wildland-urban interface code. The code may be adapted from a model code adopted by a...
- § 9-807 Mandated Fire Sprinklers In Certain Residences Prohibited; Exception; Permit Application Format
A. A municipality shall not adopt a code or ordinance or part of a uniform code or ordinance that prohibits a person or entity...
- § 9-808 Fire Apparatus Access Road Or Approved Route; Fire Watch Requirements; Enforcement; Intent; State Preemption; Definitions
A. A municipality may not adopt any, or part of any, fire code, ordinance, stipulation or other legal requirement for an approved fire apparatus...
- § 9-809 Semipublic Swimming Pools; Locking Device; Pool Barrier Gates; Exception
A. From and after December 31, 2014, a code or ordinance or part of a uniform code or ordinance that is adopted by a...
Article 2 Publication of Proceedings and Ordinances
- § 9-811 Publication Of Record Of Proceedings Of Governing Body
The minutes of the proceedings of the governing body of an incorporated city or town, or an abstract of the minutes, may be published...
- § 9-812 Publication Of Notices And Ordinances
A. Notices of election, invitations for bids, notices of letting contracts, laws and ordinances, and other notices of a public character issued by authority...
- § 9-813 Posting Of Penal Ordinances
Every ordinance imposing a penalty, fine, forfeiture or other punishment, shall in addition to the provisions of section 9-812, be published after its enactment...
Article 3 Elections and Voters
Article 4 Municipal Regulations
- § 9-831 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Fire and life safety inspection" means an inspection of a regulated person or facility...
- § 9-832 Regulatory Bill Of Rights
To ensure fair and open regulation by municipalities, a person: 1. Is eligible for reimbursement of fees and other expenses if the person prevails...
- § 9-833 Inspections; Applicability
A. A municipal inspector or regulator who enters any premises of a regulated person for the purpose of conducting an inspection shall: 1. Present...
- § 9-834 Prohibited Acts By Municipalities And Employees; Enforcement; Notice
A. A municipality shall not base a licensing decision in whole or in part on a licensing requirement or condition that is not specifically...
- § 9-835 Licensing Time Frames; Compliance; Consequence For Failure To Comply With Time Frame; Exemptions; Definitions
A. For any new ordinance or code requiring a license, a municipality shall have in place an overall time frame during which the municipality...
- § 9-836 License Application Process
A municipality that issues licenses shall provide the following information to an applicant at the time the applicant obtains an application for a license:...
- § 9-837 Directory Of Documents
The municipality shall publish, or prominently place on the municipal website, at least annually a directory summarizing the subject matter of all currently applicable...
- § 9-838 Complaints; Governing Body Review
The governing body may receive complaints concerning ordinances, codes, substantive policy statements or municipality practices alleged to violate this article. The governing body may...
- § 9-839 Clarification Of Interpretation
A. An applicant for a license subject to this article may request a municipality to clarify its interpretation or application of a statute, ordinance,...
- § 9-840 Exemptions
This article does not apply to: 1. An ordinance, code, regulation or substantive policy statement that relates only to the internal management of a...
Chapter 8 POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS
Article 1 Minimum Wages
- § 9-901 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Classification" means the names of the positions, and the ranks and classes thereof, in...
- § 9-903 Coverage Of Article
This article shall not be construed to apply to a person holding a courtesy or honorary commission in the police, peace officers or fire...
- § 9-904 Violations; Classification
A person, municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state violating any provision of this article is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
Article 2 Police Pensions
- § 9-911 Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. " Board" means the police pension board. 2. " Department" means the police department. 3....
- § 9-912 Police Pension Fund
In each city having a population, according to the last federal census, of not less than twenty thousand inhabitants, there is created, and in...
- § 9-913 Administration Of Fund; Police Pension Board; Membership
A. The police pension fund shall be administered by a police pension board. In cities in which the provisions of this article are or...
- § 9-914 Election Of Departmental Members Of Board
The governing body of a municipality, within thirty days after the provisions of this article become effective as to the municipality, shall call an...
- § 9-915 Terms Of Departmental Members
The terms of office of departmental members of the board shall end at noon on the third Monday in January of the year following...
- § 9-916 Vacancies In Departmental Membership
A vacancy occurring in the departmental membership of the board shall be filled at a special election. Notice of the election shall be given...
- § 9-917 Oath Of Office
The oath of office shall be administered to departmental members by the presiding officer of the board.
- § 9-918 Compensation Of Pension Board Members; Liability On Bonds
No member of the board shall receive compensation for services performed as a member or employee of the board. The ex officio members shall...
- § 9-919 Organizational Meeting
Within one week after declaration of the result of the first election held as prescribed in section 9-914, the chairman ex officio of the...
- § 9-920 Meetings Of Pension Board
The board shall hold regular monthly meetings on a date fixed by its rules, and such other meetings, after due notice to each member,...
- § 9-921 Powers And Duties Of The Board; Audit
A. The police pension board shall have exclusive control and management of the police pension fund, subject to the provisions of this article. It...
- § 9-922 Annual Report Of Board
The board shall submit a written report to the governing body on the first Monday in January of each year, showing in detail the...
- § 9-923 Contents Of Fund; Choice Of Method Of Payment By Municipality
A. The police pension fund shall consist of: 1. Five per cent of the compensation paid to each member of the department to be...
- § 9-924 Payment Of Pensions
Pensions shall be paid from the fund in cases specified in this section and sections 9-925 through 9-928. It is the intention to restrict...
- § 9-925 Computation Of Pension Upon Voluntary Retirement Or Upon Mandatory Retirement; Limitation
A. A member of the police department whose membership began prior to July 1, 1952 and who serves the department twenty years in the...
- § 9-926 Computation Of Pension Upon Permanent Or Temporary Retirement For Injury Or Disease
A. Any member who has served in the department an aggregate of five years, and who, within the hours he is required to be...
- § 9-927 Benefits To Dependents Upon Death Of Member
A. If upon the death, from any cause, of a member retired under the provisions of section 9-925, or of a member after ten...
- § 9-928 Effect Of Service As Public Officer Upon Pension
A. A person who has been retired from service under the provisions of this article and awarded compensation in accordance therewith, and who after...
- § 9-929 Fund Requirements Precedent To Payment Of Pensions
A retirement shall not be ordered, or an application for pension allowed, or a warrant or check drawn upon the fund until there is...
- § 9-930 Payments From Fund
Monies paid from the fund shall be paid by the treasurer only upon warrants signed by the chairman and countersigned by the secretary of...
- § 9-931 Exemption Of Pensions From Process; Prohibition On Assignments; Exception
A. No pension allowed under this article shall be subject to garnishment, attachment, judgment, execution or other legal process. No person entitled to a...
- § 9-932 Physical Examination Of Active Or Temporarily Retired Member
A member, whether active or temporarily retired, ordered by the board to undergo a physical examination, shall submit himself for examination before the chief...
- § 9-933 Effect Of Military Service
A member of a police department who served in the military establishment of the United States during a period of national emergency immediately following...
- § 9-934 Inapplicability Of Article
A. Effective from and after June 30, 1968, this article shall be amended, and employees employed after June 30, 1968, shall be covered by...
Article 3 Fire Fighters' Relief and Pension Fund
- § 9-951 Disposition Of Fire Insurance Premium Tax Proceeds; Composition Of Fund
A. The proceeds of the annual tax provided by law on the gross amount of all premiums received on policies and contracts of fire...
- § 9-951.01 Definition
As used in this article, " volunteer fire company" includes " volunteer fire district" .
- § 9-952 Disposition Of Fire Insurance Premium Tax
Not later than July 1, the state treasurer, using the information provided by the cities and towns and legally organized fire districts, the state...
- § 9-953 Fire Districts Or Departments; Certification By State Fire Marshal
The state fire marshal shall certify the existence of fire districts organized under title 48 and fire departments of incorporated cities and towns. The...
- § 9-954 Board Of Trustees Of Fund; Membership
A. The mayor or the mayor's designee, the fire chief, the elected chief and secretary-treasurer of a fire district or, if administered by a...
- § 9-955 Officers Of Board; Meetings; Procedure For Disbursements
A. The board of trustees shall elect from its members the president and secretary of the board for the ensuing year. The city or...
- § 9-956 Annual Audit; Report Of Secretary; Sanction
A. The board shall cause an annual audit and report of the fund. B. The secretary shall report, using a form approved by the...
- § 9-957 Powers And Duties Of Board; Investments; Review Of Decisions
A. The board may compel witnesses to attend and testify upon any matter pertaining to this article, and its president or any member may...
- § 9-963 Grant Of Temporary Relief By Board; Procedures For Immediate Pension Relief
A. The board of trustees may grant temporary relief and assistance from the fund to any qualified member of a legally organized volunteer fire...
- § 9-965 Termination Of Benefits
If a beneficiary is declared to be an incapacitated person, pursuant to section 14-5101, or disobeys any requirement of this article, the board may...
- § 9-967 Pension For Volunteer Fire Fighter
A. A person duly appointed and having served either as a member of a legally organized fire district or as a member of a...
- § 9-967.01 Paid Fire Fighters Who Are Also Volunteers; Eligibility For Pension Benefits
Any person who is a paid member of a fire department and an active member of the public safety personnel retirement system is not...
- § 9-968 Exemption Of Pension From Process; Prohibition Of Assignments; Exception
A. No portion of the pension fund or the distributive portions thereof shall be subject to attachment, execution or other judicial process for the...
- § 9-969 Applicability Of Workers' Compensation Law
This article shall be supplemental and in addition to the workers' compensation law, but firemen and their beneficiaries receiving compensation under those provisions of...
- § 9-970 Effect Of Military Service
A member of a fire department or district who has served as a member of the military establishment of the United States during a...
- § 9-971 Reinstatement After Military Service
A member of a fire district inducted into the military establishment of the United States for military training shall, upon his discharge from such...
- § 9-972 Inapplicability Of Article
A. Effective from and after June 30, 1968, this article shall be amended as to all full-time paid firemen, and employees other than volunteer...
- § 9-973 Disability Insurance For Volunteer Fire Fighters
In addition to the authority granted pursuant to other provisions of this article, the board of trustees, with the approval of the mayor and...
Article 4 Alternate Pension and Benefit Plan
Article 5 Fire Fighters' Training
- § 9-991 Training Requirement
A professional fire fighter as defined in section 9-901 shall complete training certified by the director of the department of health services on the...
Chapter 10 TOWNSITES
Article 1 General Provisions
- § 9-1101 Entry At Federal Land Office Of Land For Townsites
When the governing body of an incorporated city or town, or the judge of the superior court of the county in which an unincorporated...
- § 9-1102 Trustee's Bond; Keeping Of Accounts And Records
A. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, the trustee shall execute a bond to the state, with sureties in the sum of...
- § 9-1103 Survey And Plat Of Townsite; Approval; Recording
Within three months after the entry, the trustee shall cause the land to be surveyed and platted into blocks, lots, streets and alleys and...
- § 9-1104 Notice Of Entry Of Land As Townsite; Statement And Filing Of Claims To Land
A. The trustee shall then cause a notice to be published in all the newspapers published in the city or town, or if no...
- § 9-1105 Financial Statement Of Trustee; Disposition Of Funds
A. Within sixty days from the first publication provided for by this article, the trustee shall make a full and true statement in writing...
- § 9-1106 Index Of Claimants And Property
The trustee shall keep an index of the name of every person filing a claim or contest in which the name shall be entered...
- § 9-1107 Limitations On Claims Of Land
A. The number of lots which one claimant may enter shall not exceed in the aggregate fourteen thousand square feet, and such additional lots...
- § 9-1108 Proof Of Nonconflicting Claims; Execution Of Deed
After the expiration of the period for filing statements, the trustees shall hear the proofs on nonconflicting claims, as near as possible in the...
- § 9-1109 Referral To Court Of Conflicting Claims; Trial; Appeal
A. When conflicting claims have been filed, the trustee shall transmit the statement of the claimant and the adverse claim, and all papers pertaining...
- § 9-1110 Payment Of Purchase Price By Claimants
Each claimant or contestant shall, with his statement or contest, pay the trustee the sum of ten dollars for each lot claimed, not exceeding...
- § 9-1111 Trustee As Claimant
If the trustee is possessed or entitled to any part of the lands in his individual right, he shall make a verified statement of...
- § 9-1112 Selection And Conveyance Of Sites For Public Purposes
A. After the plat of the townsite has been recorded and upon petition of at least ten resident house-holders of the city or town,...
- § 9-1113 Execution Of Deed To Cemetery Association
The trustee may deed to a cemetery association, organized as provided by law for the incorporation of nonprofit corporations, an amount of land, not...
- § 9-1114 Rights Of Lienholders
No lien against the interests of a claimant shall be affected by the deed of the trustee to the claimant. The holder of a...
- § 9-1115 Claims Against Trustee Or Municipality
Within the time provided for filing statements of claims, every person having a claim against the trustee or the city or town for money...
- § 9-1116 Obtaining Funds To Pay Expenses
A. If the money paid to the trustee for the purchase of lots is insufficient to pay expenses, he shall sell at public auction...
- § 9-1117 Disposal Of Unclaimed Lots
A. The grounds undisposed of within the townsite, the title of which remains in the trustee, may be sold at public auction when he...
- § 9-1118 Accounting By Trustee To Successor
Upon termination of the trustee's term of office he shall deliver to his successor in office all books and papers of his office, together...
Article 2 Sale of Lands Acquired Prior to Statehood
Article 3 Subdivision of Private Lands in Townsite
Chapter 11 PROTECTED DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS
Article 1 General Provisions
Chapter 12 RESIDENTIAL RENTAL INSPECTION PROGRAMS
Article 1 General Provisions
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