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Index of Iowa Laws – P

Parades
     Regulation by a city | 321.236

Parking Facilities
     Financing construction & operation
     Definitions | 384.23.24
     General obligation bonds | 384.25384.26
     Loan Agreements | 384.24A
     Sale of bonds | 384.27
     Categories and forms of bonds | 384.28.29
     Handicapped persons | ch 321L

Parking Violations
     City ordinance for ticket citations | 321.236(1)
     Delinquent tickets enforced at license renewal | 321.40
     State law, standard regulations | 321.358805.8

Parks
     Generally | ch 461A
     Board or commission | 392.1.2.3.4
     Borrowing for development of | 384.24(2)(c), .24(3)(o).24(4)(b)
     Control outside city limits | 461A.34
     Prohibition on pecuniary profit | 461A.34
     Speed regulation in | 321.236(5)
     State parks, conveyance to a city | 461A.32
     Vehicles restricted in | 321.248
     Zoos | ch 394

Peace Officer, see also Police
     Arrests by out-of-state peace officers | 804.7B
     Assaults against | 708.3A
     Bill of Rights | 80F
     Criminal offense for disarming | 708.13
     Defined|  801.4(11)
     Reserve officers | ch 80D

Peddlers, see Transient Merchants

Penalties
     Debt collection | 364.22B
     Maximum cities can impose | 364.3(2),(6)
     Misdemeanors | 701.8; ch 903
     Municipal infraction | 364.22(2)
     Scheduled violations, traffic & other | 805.8

Personal Injuries, see also Liability or Torts
     Actions by cities against negligent persons | 364.14

Personnel, see also Employees
     Application for employment, civil rights | ch 729
     Civil service | ch 400
     Collective bargaining | ch 20
     Dues or fees for city employment prohibited | 731.4
     Limitation on union rights | ch 731
     Veterans Preference | ch 35C
     Wage discrimination, prohibit | 216.6A216.15

Pesticides
     Citizens’ right to know about hazardous chemical risks | ch 89B
     City contract with state | 206.9
     City employee applicators, examination & licenses | 206.6(6)
     Prohibition on municipal regulation | 200.22

Petitions
     Generally | 362.4
     Annexation or severance | 368.7.8
     Bond referendum | 384.26(5)
     Election | ch 45372.2.13(2)
     Franchise | 364.2(4)
     Incorporation, discontinuance, or boundary adjustment | 368.11
     Restricted residence districts | 414.24

Planning, see also Zoning
     Generally | ch 414
     Assistance from state | 15.108(3)
     City commissions | 386.3(3).6(2)
     Energy planning under the Midwest Energy Compact | ch 473A
     Organization of planning commission | 392.1

Plats, see also Subdivisions
     Generally | ch 354
     Review & approval of subdivisions by city council | 354.8.10.15
     Street dedications & council acceptance | 558.65

Playgrounds
     Financing construction & improvements
     Definitions | 384.23.24
     General obligation bonds | 384.25384.26
     Loan Agreements | 384.24A
     Sale of bonds | 384.27
     Categories and forms of bonds | 384.28.29

Plumbing
     Code Adoption | 105.1
     Compliance with uniform plumbing code | 104B.1
     State Licensing | ch 105

Police, see also Jails
     Age, maximum | 362.10400.17
     Arrests | ch 804

Bail enforcement
       Notification & registration with local law enforcement | 80A.3A811.12
       Bicycles, operation of | 321.231(5)
       Certification required | 80B.17
     Chief
       Appointment | 372.4400.13
       Duty to state | 690.2
       Child labor law enforced by | 92.22
     Citations
       Generally | ch 805
       Form | 805.2
       Generally | ch 461A
       Procedure | 805.3
       Uniformity | 805.6
     Civil Service
       Generally | ch 400
       Probation period | 400.8
       Council duty to supply fingerprinting equipment | 690.3
       Criminal identification, fingerprinting | ch 690
       Disabled officers, benefits | chs 410411
       Dissemination of intelligence data | 692.8A
       Identity theft passports 715A.9A
       ILEA costs | 80B.11B (2)
       ILEA Entrance & Course of Study | 80B.11 (1&2)
       ILEA Entrance by individual | 80B.11D
       Indemnification | 80F.2
       Interference with official acts | 719.1
       Interoperable Communication System | 80.2880.29
       OWI (Operating While Intoxicated) | 321J
       Peace Officer Bill of Rights | ch 80F
     Pension systems
       Generally |  chs 410411
       Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) | 411.6C(2)(c)
       Taxation of contributions | 411.8
       Public offense reports | 692.15
       Department of Public Safety officers, authority | 80.9
       Pursuit, uniform law | ch 806
       Qualifications for appointment | 400.17
       Radio systems | ch 693
       Reciprocal traffic enforcement powers with state | 321.6
       Recording & communicating prisoner information | 817.1
       Reserve police officers | ch 80D
       Revocation or suspension of certification | 80B.11(7)80B.13
       Sex offender registry | 692A
       Strike intervention | 80.24
       Training | ch 80B
     Truancy officers 
       Appointment | 299.10
       Duties | 299.11
     Vehicles, see also City-owned Vehicles
       Designation | 321.1(6).451
       Operation | 321.231
       Victim’s rights | ch 915
       Weapons permits | 724.4.11
       Workers’ compensation, exclusion from | 85.1(4)

Police Chief, see Police

Pollution
     Generally | ch 455B
     Air pollution regulation by cities | 455B.144.145
     Brownfields see Land Recycling
       Sewage treatment & drinking water facilities financing program | 455B.294
       Solid waste, city duties see Solid Waste
       Waste water treatment
       Operators’ certificates | 455B.213
       Exam fees | 455B.211
       Revocation or suspension of certificate | 455B.219 
       Rules | 455B.212
       System requirements | 455B.222
       Regulation of discharges in plants | ch 455B, div. III
       Water quality, public water supply | ch 455B, div. III

Population, see also Census
     Defined | 4.1(22)9F.6

Posting of Notices, see also Publication Notice
     Generally | ch 618362.3

Powers, see also Cities, Home Rule, Ordinances, Resolutions or Zoning
     Generally | Const. III, ch 364419.2
     Building regulation | 364.12(3); ch 414
     Condemnation (eminent domain) | 6A.4(6); ch 6B364.1
     Condemnation, grant to franchisee | 364.2(4)
     Council | 364.2(1)
     Franchises, granting | 364.2(4)480A.3.6
     Grades, streets | 364.15
     Joint powers
       Generally | 364.5
       Contracts | ch 28E
       Entities, specifications of | 28E.5
       Financing public works & facilities | ch 28F
       Transit | 28E.17
       Limitations on city powers | 364.3
       Limited, specified procedures | 364.4
       Not limited | 364.1
       Scope | 364.1
       Vested in council | 364.2(1)
       Maintaining public places | 364.12
       Nuisances | 364.12(3); ch 657
       Outside city limits | 364.4414.23
       Penalties | 364.3(2).3(6).22
       Procedures | 364.6
       Property right | 364.4(1)
       Public disorders | 372.14(2)
       Setting standards, not lower than state law | 364.3(3)
       Sidewalks | 364.12(2)
     Streets
       Keeping free from nuisance | 364.12(2)
       Opening & closing | 364.12(2)
       Vacation of streets | 354.23364.12(2)(a)
       Subdivision control | 354.8.10
     Zoning
       Airport | ch 329
       Local | ch 414
       Outside city limits | 414.23
       Restricted residential districts | 414.24

Preferences, see Employment, Improvements, Public or Local Preferences

Privacy
     City may not publicize unpaid bills, except as provided by law | 537.7103(3)(b)
     Consumer hold on credit information | 714F
     Identity theft | 715C.1715C.2
     Monitoring devices in public places | ch 27

Private, see also Competition
     Activity bonds, allocation to cities | ch 7C
     Contract with private agency | 28E.4
     Credit not to be extended to private parties | Const. VII, 1
     Public money for private use prohibited | Const. III, 31721.2(5)
     Stockholding in banks prohibited | Const. VIII, 4
     Stockholding in corporation prohibited | Const. VIII, 3
     Use of public property for private purpose, 
     prohibited | 721.2(5)
     Utility regulation | 364.2(4)

Property, see also Abandonment, City Buildings or Housing
     Abandoned personal property | ch 556
     Acquisition of title by city | ch 569
     Brownfields – see Land Recycling
     Buying, selling, tax rule | 427.18.19
     City owned vehicles, marking | 721.8
     General rights of cities | 364.4
     Lost | ch 556F
     Public, not for private benefit | Const. III, 31;
     Right-of-Entry for Land Surveyor | 354.4A
     Safe rooms & storm shelters | 103A.8C
     Sale of city property, leasing, & easements | 364.7
     Sale of property acquired by condemnation | 6B.59
     Seized, disposition | ch 809
     Unclaimed, abandoned property | 556.4.11.13
     Vehicles, abandoned, as nuisance | 321.89; ch 556B
     Vacation of public property | 354.23

Property Tax, see also Assessment & Valuation of Property or Taxes
     Generally | chs 425-449
     Agricultural land tax credit | ch 426
     Assessment of omitted property | ch 440
     Assessment & valuation of property |  ch 441
     Authorized Funds | 384.3-.9
     Electric transmission lines tax | ch 437
     Electricity & natural gas providers | ch 437A
     Family farm tax credit | ch 425A
     Forest & fruit-tree reservations | ch 427C
     Homes in mobile parks | ch 435
     Homestead tax credits & reimbursement | ch 425
     Insurance companies tax | ch 432
     Limits, Rates | 384.1
     Listing property for taxation | ch 428
     Loan agencies tax | ch 430A
     Marine insurance tax | ch 432A
     Military service tax credit | ch 426A
     Notification of taxpayers | ch 429
     Pipeline companies tax | ch 438
     Property Assessment Appeal Board | 421.1A
     Property exempt & taxable | ch 427
     Property tax relief–mental health & developmental disabilities services | ch 426B
     Railway companies tax | ch 434
     Real estate transfer tax | ch 428A
     Reassessment of taxes | ch 439
     Rehabilitation credit | 432.12A
     Special tax provisions | ch 427B
     Storm shelter tax exemption | 427.1(30)
     Tax apportionment | ch 449
     Tax collection | ch 445
     Tax deeds | ch 448
     Tax levies | ch 444
     Tax list | ch 443
     Tax redemption | ch 447
     Tax sales | ch 446
     Telegraph & telephone companies tax | ch 433
     Exemption of city | 427.1(2)
     Nursing home exemption | 427.1(14)
     Paid by city on certain land or facilities | 419.11
     Property tax credit reimbursements | 25B.7

 Prostitution
     Houses used for, nuisance | ch 99
     State law on vice | ch 725

Pro-Tem, see Mayors Pro-Tem

Public Affairs Department
     Commission form | 372.5

Public Improvements
     Generally | ch 26; ch 573
     Abandonment of project | 573.23
     Bid security, by bond or otherwise | 26.8.; ch 636
     Capital improvements fund | 384.7
     Claims for material or labor | 573.7
     Competitive bid limit | 26.3
     Competitive quotation limit | 26.14
     Definitions, including repair or maintenance work | 26.2
     Division of projects prohibited | 26.5
     Donated funds for construction of public improvement | 26.6
     Enhancement payments for early completion | 26.9
     Federal grant agreements | 364.5
     Joint projects | chs 28E28F
     Labor agreements, prohibition | 26.16
     Notice to bidders | 26.326.726.12​
     Performance bonds | 573.2.3.4
     Preference for Iowa products, labor & contractors | ch 73
     Public hearing on plans, specs, form of contract & cost estimate | 26.12
     Retention from payments on contracts | 573.12
     Retention – early release on retained funds | 26.13
     Retention – release of retained funds upon completion & acceptance | 573.12
     Structure demolition projects | 26.15
     Subcontracts | 573.6

Publication Notice
     Generally | 362.3; ch 618
     Bond sale | 75.2
     Budget | 24.9384.16
     Computing time | 4.1(34)
     Exemptions | 372.13(6)
     Fees for | 380.9618.11
     Hospital boards | 392.6
     Important matters | 618.14
     Minutes & claims | 372.13(6)388.4(4)
     Newspapers | ch 618
     Ordinances | 380.8
     Utility board | 388.4(4)

Public Disorder
     Definition, declaration of emergency | 29C.2.3372.14(2)

Public Employees’ Retirement System, see Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS)

Public Employment Relations, see also Employees or Personnel
     Collective bargaining | ch 20
     Public Employment Relations Board | 20.5.6
     Wage discrimination, prohibit | 216.6A216.15

Public Improvements, see Improvements, Public

Public Safety Commissions
     Unified law enforcement services | 28E.21-.28B

Purchasing
     Agreements with Department of Administrative Services | 8A.311

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