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Ankeny, IA, Iowa Code of Ordinances
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ANKENY, IOWA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUPPLEMENT RECORD
GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1 CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 2 CHARTER
CHAPTER 3 VOTING PRECINCTS
CHAPTER 4 MUNICIPAL INFRACTIONS
CHAPTER 5 OPERATING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 6 CITY ELECTIONS
CHAPTER 7 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS
CHAPTER 7A PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR SPECULATIVE SHELL BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 8 URBAN RENEWAL
CHAPTER 9 URBAN REVITALIZATION
CHAPTER 10 HOTEL/MOTEL TAX
CHAPTER 11 SPECIAL EVENTS
CHAPTER 12 THE USE AND TRANSFER OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENT COLLECTIONS
CHAPTER 15 MAYOR
CHAPTER 16 MAYOR PRO TEM
CHAPTER 17 CITY COUNCIL
CHAPTER 18 CITY CLERK
CHAPTER 19 CITY MANAGER
CHAPTER 20 CITY ATTORNEY
CHAPTER 21 LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAPTER 22 PLAN AND ZONING COMMISSION
CHAPTER 23 PARK BOARD
CHAPTER 24 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
CHAPTER 25 ANKENY CULTURAL ARTS BOARD
CHAPTER 26 ANKENY SPORTS COMPLEX FOUNDATION, INC.
CHAPTER 27 MAYOR’S YOUTH COUNCIL
CHAPTER 28 BOARD OF EXAMINERS AND APPEALS
CHAPTER 29 AIRPORT ZONING COMMISSION
CHAPTER 30 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
CHAPTER 31 HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
CHAPTER 35 POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 36 FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 37 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
CHAPTER 38 FALSE FIRE ALARMS
CHAPTER 40 PUBLIC PEACE
CHAPTER 41 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
CHAPTER 42 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROPERTY
CHAPTER 43 DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
CHAPTER 44 NOISE CONTROL
CHAPTER 45 ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND INTOXICATION
CHAPTER 46 MINORS
CHAPTER 47 PARK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 48 RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS FOR SEX OFFENDERS
CHAPTER 49 CAMPING
CHAPTER 50 NUISANCE ABATEMENT PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 51 JUNK AND JUNK VEHICLES
CHAPTER 55 ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONTROL
CHAPTER 56 DOG AND CAT LICENSES REQUIRED
CHAPTER 57 DANGEROUS AND VICIOUS ANIMALS
CHAPTER 58 URBAN CHICKENS
CHAPTER 60 ADMINISTRATION OF TRAFFIC CODE
CHAPTER 61 TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
CHAPTER 62 GENERAL TRAFFIC REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 63 SPEED REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 64 TURNING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 65 STOP OR YIELD REQUIRED
CHAPTER 66 LOAD AND WEIGHT RESTRICTIONS
CHAPTER 67 PEDESTRIANS
CHAPTER 68 ONE-WAY TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 69 PARKING REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 70 TRAFFIC CODE ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 75 ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES AND SNOWMOBILES
CHAPTER 76 BICYCLE AND PERSONAL TRANSPORATION DEVICES REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 77 BICYCLE REGISTRATION
CHAPTER 80 ABANDONED VEHICLES
CHAPTER 81 RAILROAD REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 82 MULTI-USE RECREATIONAL TRAILS
CHAPTER 90 WATER SERVICE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 91 WATER METERS
CHAPTER 92 WATER RATES
CHAPTER 93 BACKFLOW PREVENTION
CHAPTER 94 CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS FOR MAJOR SANITARY SEWER AND WATER MAIN FACILITIES
CHAPTER 95 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 96 BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER 97 ON-SITE WASTEWATER SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 98 SEWER USE CHARGE
CHAPTER 99 SEWER CONNECTION DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 100 REGULATION OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER
CHAPTER 101 REGULATION OF FAT, OIL AND GREASE DISCHARGE BY FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS
CHAPTER 102 REGULATION OF HAULED WASTE
CHAPTER 103 FOOTING DRAIN DISCONNECTION PROGRAM
CHAPTER 105 ILLICIT DISCHARGE TO STORM SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 106 STORMWATER UTILITY
CHAPTER 107 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FEES
CHAPTER 110 SOLID WASTE CONTROL
CHAPTER 111 COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 112 MUNICIPAL RECYCLING
CHAPTER 113 SOLID WASTE ENTERPRISE FUND - CURBSIDE RECYCLING AND LEAF, TREE, BRANCH AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEM COLLECTION SYSTEM
CHAPTER 115 NATURAL GAS FRANCHISE - MID-AMERICAN
CHAPTER 116 NATURAL GAS AND ELECTRIC FRANCHISE - CONSUMERS ENERGY
CHAPTER 117 ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 118 TELEPHONE FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 119 CABLE TELEVISION FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 120 CABLE TELEVISION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 121 NATURAL GAS FRANCHISE - BLACK HILLS ENERGY
CHAPTER 122 NON-FRANCHISE UTILITY ACCOMMODATION
CHAPTER 130 LIQUOR LICENSES AND WINE AND BEER PERMITS
CHAPTER 131 CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO PERMITS
CHAPTER 132 PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS
CHAPTER 133 HOUSE MOVERS
CHAPTER 135 ALARM SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 136 LICENSING OF MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS
CHAPTER 137 LICENSING OF PLUMBERS
CHAPTER 138 LICENSING OF ELECTRICIANS
CHAPTER 139 MASSAGE THERAPISTS
CHAPTER 140 SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES
CHAPTER 141 PAWNBROKERS
CHAPTER 142 MOBILE FOOD VENDORS
CHAPTER 143 ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT
CHAPTER 150 STREET USE AND MAINTENANCE
CHAPTER 151 EXCAVATIONS
CHAPTER 152 SIDEWALK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 153 VACATION AND DISPOSAL OF STREETS
CHAPTER 154 STREET GRADES
CHAPTER 155 NAMING OF STREETS
CHAPTER 156 DRIVEWAYS
CHAPTER 157 MAILBOXES
CHAPTER 158 CONTROLLED ACCESS FACILITIES
CHAPTER 165 BUILDING NUMBERING
CHAPTER 166 TREES
CHAPTER 167 NOXIOUS WEEDS
CHAPTER 168 DRAINAGE CHANNELS
CHAPTER 169 CONSTRUCTION SITE EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL
CHAPTER 175 BUILDING CODE
CHAPTER 176 MECHANICAL CODE
CHAPTER 177 PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND HOUSING CODE
CHAPTER 178 PLUMBING CODE
CHAPTER 179 ELECTRICAL CODE
CHAPTER 180 FIRE CODE
CHAPTER 181 FUEL GAS CODE
CHAPTER 182 EXISTING BUILDING CODE
CHAPTER 183 SWIMMING POOL AND SPA CODE
CHAPTER 184 RESIDENTIAL CODE
CHAPTER 190 ZONING ORDINANCE DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 191 ZONING ORDINANCE GENERAL REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 192 ZONING ORDINANCE DISTRICT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 193 ZONING ORDINANCE FLOOD PLAIN REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 194 ZONING ORDINANCE PARKING, LOADING AND SCREENING
CHAPTER 195 ZONING ORDINANCE SIGNS
CHAPTER 196 ZONING ORDINANCE NONCONFORMING USES, EXCEPTIONS AND AMENDMENTS
CHAPTER 197 ZONING ORDINANCE ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 200 SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 201 ANKENY REGIONAL AIRPORT ZONING
GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 1
CODE OF ORDINANCES
 
1.01 Title
1.08 Amendments
1.02 Definitions
1.09 Catchlines and Notes
1.03 City Powers
1.10 Altering Code
1.04 Indemnity
1.11 Severability
1.05 Personal Injuries
1.12 Warrants
1.06 Rules of Construction
1.13 General Standards for Action
1.07 Extension of Authority
1.14 Standard Penalty
1.01 TITLE.
This code of ordinances shall be known and may be cited as the Code of Ordinances of the City of Ankeny, Iowa.
1.02 DEFINITIONS.
Where words and phrases used in this Code of Ordinances are defined in the Code of Iowa, such definitions apply to their use in this Code of Ordinances unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Council or repugnant to the context of the provision. Other words and phrases used herein have the following meanings, unless specifically defined otherwise in another portion of this Code of Ordinances or unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Council or repugnant to the context of the provision:
1.   “Alley” means a public right-of-way, other than a street, affording secondary means of access to abutting property.
2.   “City” means the City of Ankeny, Iowa.
3.   “Clerk” means the city clerk of Ankeny, Iowa.
4.   “Code” means the specific chapter of this Code of Ordinances in which a specific subject is covered and bears a descriptive title word (such as the Building Code and/or a standard code adopted by reference).
5.   “Code of Ordinances” means the Code of Ordinances of the City of Ankeny, Iowa.
6.   “Council” means the city council of Ankeny, Iowa.
7.   “County” means Polk County, Iowa.
8.   “May” confers a power.
9.   “Measure” means an ordinance, amendment, resolution, or motion.
10.   “Must” states a requirement.
11.   “Occupant” or “tenant,” applied to a building or land, includes any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, whether alone or with others.
12.   “Ordinances” means the ordinances of the City of Ankeny, Iowa, as embodied in this Code of Ordinances, ordinances not repealed by the ordinance adopting this Code of Ordinances, and those enacted hereafter.
13.   “Person” means an individual, firm, partnership, domestic or foreign corporation, company, association or joint stock association, trust, or other legal entity, and includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, or similar representative thereof, but does not include a governmental body.
14.   “Public way” includes any street, alley, boulevard, parkway, highway, sidewalk, or other public thoroughfare.
15.   “Shall” imposes a duty.
16.   “Sidewalk” means that surfaced portion of the street between the edge of the traveled way, surfacing, or curb line and the adjacent property line, intended for the use of pedestrians.
17.   “State” means the State of Iowa.
18.   “Statutes” or “laws” means the latest edition of the Code of Iowa, as amended.
19.   “Street” or “highway” means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.
Words that are not defined in this Code of Ordinances or by the Code of Iowa have their ordinary meaning unless such construction would be inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Council, or repugnant to the context of the provision.
1.03 CITY POWERS.
The City may, except as expressly limited by the Iowa Constitution, and if not inconsistent with the laws of the Iowa General Assembly, exercise any power and perform any function it deems appropriate to protect and preserve the rights, privileges and property of the City and of its residents, and to preserve and improve the peace, safety, health, welfare, comfort and convenience of its residents and each and every provision of this Code of Ordinances shall be deemed to be in the exercise of the foregoing powers and the performance of the foregoing functions.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.1)
1.04 INDEMNITY.
The applicant for any permit or license under this Code of Ordinances, by making such application, assumes and agrees to pay for any injury to or death of any person or persons whomsoever, and any loss of or damage to property whatsoever, including all costs and expenses incident thereto, however arising from or related to, directly, indirectly or remotely, the issuance of the permit or license, or the doing of anything thereunder, or the failure of such applicant, or the agents, employees or servants of such applicant, to abide by or comply with any of the provisions of this Code of Ordinances or the terms and conditions of such permit or license, and such applicant, by making such application, forever agrees to indemnify the City and its officers, agents and employees, and agrees to save them harmless from any and all claims, demands, lawsuits or liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, injury or death, including all costs and expenses incident thereto, by reason of the foregoing. The provisions of this section shall be deemed to be a part of any permit or license issued under this Code of Ordinances or any other ordinance of the City whether expressly recited therein or not.
1.05 PERSONAL INJURIES.
When action is brought against the City for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by its negligence, the City may notify in writing any person by whose negligence it claims the injury was caused. The notice shall state the pendency of the action, the name of the plaintiff, the name and location of the court where the action is pending, a brief statement of the alleged facts from which the cause arose, that the City believes that the person notified is liable to it for any judgment rendered against the City, and asking the person to appear and defend. A judgment obtained in the suit is conclusive in any action by the City against any person so notified, as to the existence of the defect or other cause of the injury or damage, as to the liability of the City to the plaintiff in the first named action, and as to the amount of the damage or injury. The City may maintain an action against the person notified to recover the amount of the judgment together with all the expenses incurred by the City in the suit.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.14)
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