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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-54-101. Body corporate and politic - Cities or incorporated towns organized under the provisions of this...
§ 14-54-102. Powers and restrictions prescribed - All municipal corporations organized under the provisions of this subtitle...
§ 14-54-103. General powers of cities and towns - Cities and incorporated towns shall have power to: (1) Prevent...
§ 14-54-104. Additional powers of cities of the first class - In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety,...
§ 14-54-105. Additional powers of cities of the second class - In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety,...
§ 14-54-106. Cities and towns on state line - (a) All cities and towns which are located on the...
§ 14-54-107. Aid to new industries - Cities and incorporated towns shall have full power to purchase...
§ 14-54-108. Federal assistance - (a) Any city or town in this state, acting pursuant...
Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements
§ 14-54-201. Purpose - It is the purpose of this subchapter to permit any...
§ 14-54-202. Authority to enter - Any municipality in this state which borders on a state...
§ 14-54-203. Contents required - (a) Every agreement or contract entered into by a municipality...
§ 14-54-204. Approval by Attorney General - (a) Every agreement made under this subchapter, prior to and...
§ 14-54-205. Approval of state officer or agency - (a) If any agreement made pursuant to this subchapter shall...
§ 14-54-206. Filing requirements - No agreement entered into pursuant to this subchapter shall be...
§ 14-54-207. Satisfaction of obligations - No agreement made pursuant to this subchapter shall relieve any...
§ 14-54-208. Liability and damages - (a) Every agreement or contract entered into pursuant to this...
Subchapter 3 - Real and Personal Property
§ 14-54-301. Ownership authorized - Municipal corporations are authorized and empowered to acquire and hold...
§ 14-54-302. Purchase, lease, sale, and disposal authorized - (a) A municipality may: (1) Sell, convey, lease, rent, let,...
§ 14-54-303. Authority of incorporated towns - In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety,...
§ 14-54-304. Property exchange by municipalities - (a) Municipalities may exchange properties, real or personal, with the...
Subchapter 4 - Public Property for Processing Crude Biogenic Gases
§ 14-54-401. Authority to lease, etc - Each city of the first or second class and incorporated...
§ 14-54-402. Bidding process - (a) (1) The mayor, city manager, or city administrator shall...
§ 14-54-403. Implementing legislation - Each city of the first or second class and incorporated...
§ 14-54-404. Authority to issue bonds - This subchapter shall not limit the authority of any city...
Subchapter 5 - Areas Adjacent to Shopping Centers
§ 14-54-501. Authority to control use - The governing bodies of the municipalities of this state are...
§ 14-54-502. Plat of area - (a) No ordinance shall be passed unless and until the...
§ 14-54-503. Posting of signs, etc. — Penalty - (a) When an ordinance has been passed, the owner or...
§ 14-54-504. Policing of area - (a) No municipality shall be required to patrol the area...
§ 14-54-505. Tort liability unchanged - Nothing in this subchapter shall limit or extend the law...
Subchapter 6 - Public Improvements
§ 14-54-601. Authority generally - Municipal corporations shall have power to: (1) In regard to...
§ 14-54-602. Drainage of property - Municipal corporations shall have power to cause any lot of...
§ 14-54-603. Assessment of property - (a) Each municipal corporation may prescribe, either by general or...
§ 14-54-604. Collection of liens - (a) The amount of the lien provided for in §§...
Subchapter 7 - Public Utilities
§ 14-54-701. Authority generally - (a) (1) Municipal corporations shall have power to provide for,...
§ 14-54-702. Construction or acquisition of waterworks - (a) Municipal corporations shall have power to: (1) Provide a...
§ 14-54-703. Municipal ice plants - (a) Cities of the first and second class shall have...
§ 14-54-704. Contracts for utility services - (a) For the purpose of providing water, gas, electric lights,...
Subchapter 8 - Public Health
§ 14-54-802. Regulation of burials generally - (a) Municipal corporations shall have the power to: (1) Regulate...
§ 14-54-803. Power to require burial outside municipal limits - (a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated...
Subchapter 9 - Regulation of Unsanitary Conditions
§ 14-54-901. Municipal authority - Incorporated towns and cities of the first and second class...
§ 14-54-902. Notice to unknown or nonresident owners - (a) (1) In case the owner of any lot or...
§ 14-54-903. Refusal of owner to comply — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) (A) “Clean-up lien”...
§ 14-54-904. Enforcement of lien for clearance by municipality - (a) The liens provided for in § 14-54-903 may be...
§ 14-54-905. Federal programs - An owner of an abandoned home or residential property that...
Subchapter 11 - Regulation of Animals
§ 14-54-1101. Livestock running at large - (a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated...
§ 14-54-1102. Dogs running at large - (a) Municipal corporations shall have the power to prevent the...
§ 14-54-1103. Taxation - The city council of any municipal corporation shall have the...
§ 14-54-1104. Auctions - Municipal corporations shall have power to regulate or prohibit the...
Subchapter 12 - Milk Production and Sale
§ 14-54-1201. Authority to regulate - Municipalities are authorized to regulate, in accordance with the terms...
§ 14-54-1202. Form of ordinance - Authority for the regulation authorized in § 14-54-1201 may be...
Subchapter 13 - Public Recreation and Playgrounds
§ 14-54-1301. Authority to operate - (a) Any city or town, or any board thereof, may:...
§ 14-54-1302. Operation of programs generally - (a) Any city or town, or any board thereof, may...
§ 14-54-1304. Use of school funds - In all cases where school funds are utilized for programs...
§ 14-54-1305. Gifts and bequests - Any corporation, board, or body designated as given charge of...
§ 14-54-1306. Property used for activities - Any corporation, board, or body designated as given charge of...
§ 14-54-1307. Use of school facilities - (a) The facilities of any school district operating a recreation...
§ 14-54-1308. Directors and instructors - (a) Any corporation, board, or body designated as given charge...
Subchapter 14 - Miscellaneous Regulations
§ 14-54-1402. Business on Sunday - (a) The city council or board of managers of any...
§ 14-54-1406. Traditional barber pole - No municipality, by ordinance or otherwise, may prohibit the placement...
§ 14-54-1407. Transient vendors - (a) All municipalities shall have power to define, license, regulate,...
§ 14-54-1408. Vagrants, etc - The city council shall have power to provide that all...
§ 14-54-1409. Rent control preemption - (a) As used in this section, “local governmental unit” means...
§ 14-54-1410. Operation of golf carts on city streets — Definition - (a) It shall be within the municipal affairs and authority...
§ 14-54-1411. Firearms and ammunition — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “local unit of government”...
§ 14-54-1412. Designated entertainment districts — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “designated entertainment district” means...
Subchapter 15 - Violation of Municipal Health and Safety Codes
§ 14-54-1501. Intent - The intent of the General Assembly of the State of...
§ 14-54-1502. Common nuisance declared - (a) Conduct within a municipality that unreasonably interferes with the...
§ 14-54-1503. Action to abate — Permanent injunction — Verification of complaint - (a) Whenever there is reason to believe such a common...
§ 14-54-1504. Temporary injunction — Bond required — Precedence - (a) If the existence of the nuisance is shown in...
§ 14-54-1505. Dismissal for want of prosecution - (a) If the complaint is filed by a citizen, it...
§ 14-54-1506. Order of abatement — Lien for costs — Enforcement - (a) If the existence of the nuisance is established in...
§ 14-54-1507. Order of abatement — Damages - (a) If the existence of the nuisance is established in...
§ 14-54-1508. Release of the building to owner - (a) If the owner of the building or place has...
§ 14-54-1509. Lien — Enforcement - (a) Whenever the owner of a building or place upon...
§ 14-54-1510. Criminal violations — Penalties - A violation of or disobedience of the injunction or order...
Subchapter 16 - The Affordable Housing Accessibility Act
§ 14-54-1601. Title - This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “Affordable...
§ 14-54-1602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Federal standards” means the...
§ 14-54-1603. Municipal construction and installation standards - (a) Municipalities shall not establish or continue in effect any...
§ 14-54-1604. Municipal regulation of manufactured homes - (a) (1) Municipalities that have zoning ordinances shall allow the...
§ 14-54-1605. Regulation of mobile homes - Municipalities may prohibit the placement of mobile homes in all...
§ 14-54-1606. Exceptions - (a) This subchapter shall not supersede, prevent, or preempt any...
Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards
§ 14-54-1701. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the General Assembly to promote,...
§ 14-54-1702. Creation of criminal nuisance abatement board - (a) Any city of the first class or city of...
§ 14-54-1703. Filing of complaint with board - (a) (1) Any employee, officer, or resident of the city...
§ 14-54-1704. Hearing and board findings - (a) At a hearing: (1) A criminal nuisance abatement board...
§ 14-54-1705. Order of abatement - (a) If the criminal nuisance abatement board declares a place...
§ 14-54-1706. Effective date of an order - (a) A finding or order entered pursuant to this subchapter...
§ 14-54-1707. Appeals to circuit court - (a) Within thirty (30) days after an order or decision...
§ 14-54-1708. Violations of orders or continuations of nuisance - (a) If an order that has been entered is violated,...
§ 14-54-1709. Supplemental measure - (a) This subchapter does not restrict the right of any...
§ 14-54-1710. Immunity - (a) The criminal nuisance abatement board, its individual members, and...