11-43C-13
Section 11-43C-13 Council to consist of five district council members; division of municipality
into districts; changing district boundaries where population varies by over five percent.
The council shall include five members who shall be known and elected as district council
members. Such district council members shall be elected from districts which shall be, as
near as practicable, of equal population according to the last federal decennial census. The
probate judge of the county in which any such municipality is located shall divide the municipality
into five districts which shall be homogeneous in area and shall not vary in population by
over five percent. The boundaries as established by the probate judge shall be certified to
the governing body of the municipality and shall be used for the election of members of the
city council in the 1988 municipal election and for all council elections thereafter. Should
any district established in the municipality for the election of council...
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22-20-4
Section 22-20-4 Location and extension of cemeteries. Whenever it is proposed to locate a cemetery
or to extend the boundaries of an existing cemetery, the party or parties so proposing shall
make written application to the judge of probate and county commission or to the mayor and
council of an incorporated city or town, according to whether said cemetery or extension of
a cemetery is to be located in the jurisdiction of one or the other of these authorities,
describing accurately the location and boundaries of the proposed cemetery or extension of
a cemetery. Before acting upon the application, the judge of probate and county commission
or the mayor and council of an incorporated city or town, as the case may be, shall refer
the application to the board of health of the county for investigation from a sanitary standpoint.
In making such investigation, the county board of health shall take into consideration the
proximity of the proposed cemetery or extension of a cemetery to human...
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35-2-52
Section 35-2-52 Approval of municipal authorities required. It shall be the duty of every probate
judge in this state to decline to receive for record in his office any map or plat upon which
any lands lying within the corporate limits or police jurisdiction of any city of this state
having a population of more than 10,000 inhabitants are platted or mapped as streets, alleys,
or other public ways, unless such map or plat shall have noted thereon the approval of the
governing body or city engineer of such city. (Acts 1927, No. 208, p. 217; Code 1940, T. 56,
§15.)...
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39-7-4
Section 39-7-4 Form and verification of petition. (a) The petition shall be in substantially
the following form: "To the (herein insert the name of governing body) of the City (or
Town) or to the Probate Judge of _____ County. We, the undersigned, qualified electors of
the area embraced within the city or town or of the following described area _____ respectfully
petition that there be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors in said area the following
question: 'Shall the citizens of said city or town or the citizens of said described area
(describing it) be incorporated by the name of the Improvement Authority of (here insert name
of city or town, or area) for the purpose of engaging in the enterprise of furnishing to such
city, town or area and its inhabitants or to the inhabitants of such area described for public
and private uses the following services: ___ ___ ___' (Signatures of electors)...
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11-40-81
Section 11-40-81 Division of territory within police jurisdiction; municipal zoning authority.
(a) Any municipality in this state incorporated after 1990, which is located in a county in
which another municipality in that county has zoning authority in its police jurisdiction,
may divide the territory within its police jurisdiction into business, industrial, and residential
zones or districts and, at its option, may provide the kind, character, and use of structures
and improvements that may be erected or made within the several zones or districts established
and, from time to time, may rearrange or alter the boundaries of the zones or districts and
may also adopt ordinances as are necessary to implement and administer this article. It is
the intent of this article to grant any municipality to which this article applies full zoning
authority within its police jurisdiction to the same extent as the municipality exercises
that authority within its corporate limits. (b) This article shall...
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11-43A-1.1
Section 11-43A-1.1 Organization of council-manager form of government; election of council
members. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, after the judge of probate has
certified to the mayor or other chief executive officer of the municipality the sufficiency
of a petition asking that the question of the adoption of the council-manager form of government
be submitted to the qualified voters of the municipality, any Class 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 municipality
having the mayor-council form of government, by resolution of the council, may provide for
the council in a municipality proposing to adopt the council-manager form of government to
be composed of either five or seven members as follows: One member shall be the mayor elected
at large, who shall be a voting member of the council and either four or six members shall
be council members elected either at large or from single-member districts, as the resolution
shall provide. If a municipality has single-member districts for the...
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22-52-3
Section 22-52-3 Service of petition and order setting petition for hearing upon person sought
to be committed; contents of notice. When any petition has been filed seeking the involuntary
commitment of a respondent and such petition has been reviewed by the probate judge, the probate
judge shall order the sheriff of the county in which the respondent is located to serve a
copy of the petition, together with a copy of the order setting the petition for a hearing,
upon the respondent. Said notice shall include the date, time and place of the hearing; a
clear statement of the purpose of the proceeding and the possible consequences to the subject
thereof; the alleged factual basis for the proposed commitment; a statement of the legal standards
upon which commitment is authorized; and a list of the names and addresses of the witnesses
who may be called to testify in support of the petition. The hearing shall be preceded by
adequate notice to the respondent. (Acts 1975, No. 1226, p. 2562,...
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45-10-20.02
Section 45-10-20.02 Municipal option election. (a) Upon petition of 25 percent of the number
of voters voting in the last general election of the municipality having a population of not
less than 1,300 inhabitants nor more than 1,500 inhabitants being filed with the city or town
clerk or governing body of the municipality, the governing body shall call a municipal option
election for the municipality to determine the sentiment of the people as to whether alcoholic
beverages may be legally sold or distributed in the municipality. The petition for the municipal
option election shall contain the following: "It is petitioned that a municipal option
election be held to determine whether the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages
shall be permitted within this municipality," on the ballot to be used for the municipal
option election, the question shall be in the following form: "Do you favor the legal
sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages within this municipality? Yes...
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45-30-140.08
Section 45-30-140.08 Election procedures. (a) The election laws governing the registration
of voters, equipment at polling places, furnishing of supplies, appointment of election officers,
voting, and canvassing returns at a general election shall apply to the elections for fire
district funding. (b) When a petition for the holding of an election is filed with the judge
of probate not less than 30 days and not more than 90 days prior to some other election to
be held in the territory in which the election is sought by the petition, the judge of probate
shall order the election sought by the petition to be held the same day as the other election
held. The county governing body shall pay for the necessary expenses of advertising and conducting
the election out of the general funds of the county. (c) The judge of probate shall give notice
of any election held under Section 45-30-140.04, publishing for three weeks, at least once
a week, on the same day of each week, in a newspaper of...
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45-37-140.14
Section 45-37-140.14 Abolition of district. (a) Any district created hereunder may be abolished
in the manner provided for in this section; provided, however, that no district shall be abolished
when it has any indebtedness. (1) Upon the petition for abolition of a district, conforming
to the requirements set forth below, being filed with the judge of probate, he or she shall
order an election on abolition of the district to be held in the district with the time provided
for by Section 45-37-140.04 unless the petition is submitted less than one year before the
next scheduled primary, primary runoff, or a general election in which case the election shall
be held at the next scheduled primary, primary runoff, or a general election, at which qualified
electors residing within the district shall be entitled to vote. The number of qualified electors
residing in the district signing the petition shall not be less than the smaller of these
two numbers: 500, or a number equal to 10 percent of...
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