40-801. AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE FOR LEVIES. (1) The commissioners of a county highway system, the commissioners of a county-wide highway district, and the commissioners of highway districts are empowered, for the purpose of construction and maintenance of highways and bridges under their respective jurisdictions, to make the following highway ad valorem tax levies as applied to the market value for assessment purposes within their districts:
(a) Two-tenths per cent (0.2%) of market value for assessment purposes for construction and maintenance of highways and bridges; provided that if the levy is made upon property within the limits of any incorporated city, fifty per cent (50%) of the funds shall be apportioned to that incorporated city.
(b) A special levy of eighty-four thousandth per cent (0.084%) of market value for assessment purposes to be used for any one (1) or all of the following purposes:
1. bridge maintenance and construction;
2. matching state and federal highway funds;
3. secondary highway construction;
4. secondary highway maintenance and improvements;
5. maintenance during an emergency.
No part of this levy shall be apportioned to any incorporated city.
(2) The tax levies authorized by this section shall be certified to the county auditor of the county in which the levies are made, at the same time that other tax levies are certified for other county purposes, shall be collected by the same officers and in the same manner as any other county taxes are collected, and paid into the county treasury and apportioned to the districts or taxing units in the amount that their respective levies produced, exclusive of ordinary collection fees to the county and the proper apportionment to the incorporated cities.
(3) The total levies for construction and maintenance of highways and bridges, secondary highway matching funds and construction and maintenance of bridges only, shall not exceed two hundred eighty-four thousandth per cent (0.284%) of the market value for assessment purposes.
History:
[40-801, added 1985, ch. 253, sec. 2, p. 627.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 40 - HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES
Section 40-801 - AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE FOR LEVIES.
Section 40-802 - AUDITOR TO FURNISH MARKET VALUE FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES — BOARD TO MAKE LEVY.
Section 40-803 - COLLECTION BY COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Section 40-804 - LIABILITY OF COUNTY OFFICIALS.
Section 40-805 - PAYMENT OF MONEY TO DISTRICT.
Section 40-806 - GENERAL LAWS APPLICABLE.
Section 40-807 - JOINT LOCAL HIGHWAY JURISDICTION BRIDGES — ADDITIONAL TAX LEVY.
Section 40-808 - CREATION OF SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS — APPORTIONMENT OF COSTS.
Section 40-809 - APPEAL FROM ORDER OF HIGHWAY DISTRICT BOARD IN SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS.
Section 40-810 - LEVY IN SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS.
Section 40-811 - LIMITATIONS ON LEVY IN SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS.
Section 40-812 - COLLECTION OF TAXES IN SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS.
Section 40-813 - LIABILITY OF SPECIAL TAX DISTRICTS FOR GENERAL TAXES.
Section 40-814 - RESOLUTIONS AND ORDERS ADOPTED BY COMMISSIONERS.
Section 40-815 - ESTIMATE AND LEVY OF TAX — EXCEPTION.
Section 40-816 - INDEBTEDNESS IN EXCESS OF EXPRESS PROVISIONS PROHIBITED — EXCEPTIONS.
Section 40-817 - HIGHWAY DISTRICT TAXES — DUTIES OF COUNTY ASSESSOR.
Section 40-818 - LIMITATION ON LEVIES — PENALTIES.
Section 40-819 - ELECTION TO INCREASE LEVY — NOTICE.
Section 40-820 - EXPENDITURES IN EMERGENCIES.
Section 40-821 - TREASURER OF HIGHWAY DISTRICT — DUTIES.
Section 40-823 - LEVY TO PAY INDEBTEDNESS UPON DIVISION OF DISTRICT.
Section 40-826 - COLLECTION OF TAXES — DISPOSITION UPON COLLECTION.
Section 40-827 - AUTHORIZATION FOR VOTERS TO APPROVE VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE.