2011 Iowa Code
TITLE IX LOCAL GOVERNMENT
SUBTITLE 4 CITIES
CHAPTER 368 CITY DEVELOPMENT
368.1 Definitions.
368.1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. Adjoining means having a common boundary for not less than fifty feet. Land areas may be adjoining although separated by a roadway or waterway.
2. Annexation means the addition of territory to a city.
3. Board means the city development board established in section 368.9.
4. Boundary adjustment means annexation, severance or consolidation.
5. City development means an incorporation, discontinuance or boundary adjustment.
6. Committee means the board members, and the local representatives appointed as provided in sections 368.14 and 368.14A, to hear and make a decision on a petition or plan for city development.
7. Consolidation means the combining of two or more cities into one city.
8. Discontinuance means termination of a city.
9. Incorporation means establishment of a new city.
10. Island means land which is not part of a city and which is completely surrounded by the corporate boundaries of one or more cities. However, a part of the boundary of an island may be contiguous with a boundary of the state, a river, or similar natural barrier which prevents service access from an adjoining area of land outside the boundaries of a city.
11. Public land means land owned by the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state.
12. Public utility means a public utility subject to regulation pursuant to chapter 476.
13. Registered voter means a person who is registered to vote pursuant to chapter 48A.
14. Severance means the deletion of territory from a city.
15. Territory means the land area or areas proposed to be incorporated, annexed, or severed, whether or not contiguous to all other areas proposed to be incorporated, annexed, or severed. Except as provided for by an agreement pursuant to chapter 28E, territory having a common boundary with the right-of-way of a secondary road extends to the center line of the road.
16. Urbanized area means any area of land within two miles of the boundaries of a city.
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §362.1; C75, 77, 79, 81, §368.1]
89 Acts, ch 98, §1; 89 Acts, ch 299, §1; 91 Acts, ch 187, §1; 91 Acts, ch 250, §1; 92 Acts, ch 1174, §1; 93 Acts, ch 152, §1 3; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §61; 2003 Acts, ch 148, §1, 9
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