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37-5-1
Section 37-5-1 Definitions. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms, when
used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) MUNICIPAL POWER DISTRICT, POWER DISTRICT or DISTRICT. A municipal power district organized
under this chapter, either as originally organized or as the same may be from time to time
altered or amended. (2) MUNICIPALITY. Any city or town. (3) GOVERNING BODY. Whenever used
in relation to any municipality, the body or board, by whatsoever name known, having charge
of the governing of a municipality and shall be held to include the mayor or other chief executive
officers of such municipality in any case wherein the concurrence or approval of such officer
is required by the law governing such municipality for the adoption of any municipal ordinance
or resolution or other municipal act provided for in this chapter. (4) BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
DIRECTORS or BOARD. The board of directors of a municipal power...
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45-49-140.10
Section 45-49-140.10 Service charges - Levy and collection. (a) The expense of establishing
and maintaining a district shall be paid for by the proceeds of a service charge which shall
be levied and collected in an amount sufficient to pay the expense. The service charge shall
be levied upon and collected from persons and properties served by the system. Such charge
shall be a personal obligation of the owner of the property served by the system, and to secure
the collection of the charge there shall be a lien against the property in favor of the district,
which lien shall be enforceable by sale thereof in the same manner in which the foreclosure
of a municipal assessment for public improvements is authorized. (b) A property owner who
owns a structure, used solely as a residence, which at the time of its original construction
was situated on a county line, may avoid the payment of a service charge which is based upon
the presence of such structure, if all of the following: (1) Between...
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11-40-33
Section 11-40-33 Costs of demolition. Upon demolition of the building or structure, the appropriate
municipal official shall make a report to the governing body of the cost thereof, and the
governing body shall adopt a resolution fixing the costs which it finds were reasonably incurred
in the demolition and assessing the costs against the property. The proceeds of any moneys
received from the sale of salvaged materials from the building or structure shall be used
or applied against the cost of demolition. Any person, firm, or corporation having an interest
in the property may be heard at the meeting as to any objection to the fixing of the costs
or the amounts thereof. The municipal clerk of the municipality shall give notice of the meeting
at which the fixing of the costs is to be considered by first-class mail to all entities having
an interest in the property whose address and interest is determined from the tax collector's
or revenue commissioner's records on the property or is...
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11-41-1
Section 11-41-1 Authority; petition to probate judge for order of incorporation. When the inhabitants
of an unincorporated community, which has a population of not less than 300, constituting
a body of citizens whose residences are contiguous to and all of which form a homogeneous
settlement or community, desire to become organized as a municipal corporation, they may apply
to the judge of probate of the county in which the territory is situated, or the greater portion
thereof if it is situated in two or more counties, for an order of incorporation, by a petition
in writing signed by not less than 15 percent of the qualified electors residing within the
limits of the proposed municipality and by the persons, firms, or corporations owning at least
60 percent of the acreage of the platted or unplatted land of the proposed municipality. No
platted or unplatted territory shall be included within the boundary unless there are at least
four qualified electors, according to government survey,...
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11-67-93
Section 11-67-93 Failure to abate condition; assessing cost of abatement. (a) If the owner
fails, neglects, or refuses to abate the condition after notice to do so, the enforcing official
shall cause the offending grass or weeds to be cut. (b) Upon completion of the abatement work
performed by the municipality, including work by contractors employed by the municipality,
the enforcing official shall compute the actual expenses, including, but not limited to, total
wages paid, value of the use of equipment, advertising expenses, postage, and materials purchased,
which were incurred by the municipality as a result of the work. An itemized statement of
the expenses shall be given by first class mail to the last known address of the owner of
the property. This notice shall be sent at least five days in advance of the city council
meeting in which they will consider the assessment of the cost against property. (c) At the
time fixed for receiving and considering the statement, the council...
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40-10-7
Section 40-10-7 Partial payment of taxes prior to sale of property. The tax collectors of the
several counties of the state are authorized and required to accept any moneys tendered to
them in partial payment of ad valorem taxes collectible by them at any time before the decree
of sale of the properties liable therefor; provided, that said payment shall be an amount
not less than one fourth of the total amount of taxes due, unless payment is made as provided
in Section 40-5-13; provided, that no such payment shall be made, nor shall same be accepted
by the tax collectors, unless such payment shall amount to at least one fourth of the total
amount of taxes due on October 1 of each year. They shall credit the amount so paid first
upon accrued interest and then upon the principal of the taxes owing. They shall give to the
person paying the same a receipt for the amount so paid. Nothing herein shall be construed
to postpone the payment of such taxes nor to waive any lien or right of...
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11-67-66
Section 11-67-66 Confirmation of report; weed liens. At the time fixed for receiving and considering
the report, the governing body shall hear the report, together with any objections which may
be raised by any of the property owners liable to be assessed for the work of abating the
nuisance and thereupon make modifications in the report as deemed necessary, after which by
motion or resolution the report shall be confirmed. The amounts of the cost for abating the
nuisance in front of or upon the various parcels of land mentioned in the report shall hereinafter
be referred to as "weed liens," and shall constitute a weed lien on the property
for the amount of the weed liens, respectively. After confirmation of the reports, a copy
shall be given to the tax collector or revenue commissioner of the county who, under the "Optional
Method of Taxation," is charged with the collection of the municipal taxes pursuant to
Article 1, Division 2, Chapter 51, of Title 11. It shall be the duty of the...
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11-67-123
Section 11-67-123 Failure to abate condition; assessing cost of abatement. (a) If the owner
fails, neglects, or refuses to abate the condition after notice to do so, the enforcing official
shall cause the offending grass or weeds to be cut. (b) Upon completion of the abatement work
performed by the municipality, including work by contractors employed by the city, the enforcing
official shall compute the actual expenses, including, but not limited to, total wages paid,
value of the use of equipment, advertising expenses, postage, and materials purchased, which
were incurred by the municipality as a result of the work. An itemized statement of the expenses
shall be provided by certified letter with signature receipt required to the last known address
of the owner of the property. This notice shall be sent at least five days in advance of the
time fixed by the city council to consider the assessment of the cost against the property.
(c) At the time fixed for receiving and considering the...
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40-22-2
Section 40-22-2 Mortgages, deeds of trust, etc., generally. No mortgage, deed of trust, contract
of conditional sale, or other instrument of like character which is given to secure the payment
of any debt which conveys any real or personal property situated within this state or any
interest therein or any security agreement or financing statement provided for by the Uniform
Commercial Code, except a security agreement or a financing statement relating solely to security
interests in accounts, contract rights, or general intangibles, as such terms are defined
in the Uniform Commercial Code, and except for the re-recordation of corrected mortgages,
deeds, or instruments executed for the purpose of perfecting the title to real or personal
property, specifically, but not limited to, corrections of maturity dates thereof, shall be
received for record or for filing in the office of any probate judge of this state unless
the following privilege or license taxes shall have been paid upon such...
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11-50-80
Section 11-50-80 Preparation, etc., of list of property owners to be assessed for purchase;
entry of list in assessment book for local improvements. (a) When any purchase of sewers,
or sewer system made under the provisions of this division is contemplated, the mayor or other
chief executive officer shall cause to be prepared a roll or list showing the names of the
property owners and opposite each name a description of each lot or parcel of land proposed
to be assessed for such purchase belonging to such owner or owners and the amount proposed
to be assessed against each lot or parcel of land. (b) Such a list shall be entered in a well-bound
book prepared for that purpose and shall contain appropriate columns in which payments may
be credited and the lien of the assessment satisfied by the proper officer of the municipality.
Said book shall be known as the "assessment book for local improvements" and shall
be a public record, and no error or mistake in regard to the name of the owner...
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