Idaho Code
Idaho Code § 50-304 (2026)
Preservation of public health.
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Preservation of public health.
Cities may establish a board of health and prescribe its powers and duties; pass all ordinances and make all regulations necessary to preserve the public health; prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city; and make quarantine laws for that purpose and enforce the same within the city.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1967–2014 · leading case: Coeur D'Alene Garbage Serv. v. City of Coeur D'Alene, 759 P.2d 879 (Idaho 1988).
Coeur D'Alene Garbage Serv. v. City of Coeur D'Alene, 759 P.2d 879 (Idaho 1988). “§ 50-1030(c) for the purpose of preserving the public health as provided for in I.C. § 50-304. Although the City did not exercise its right of condemnation in this case, it did take Garbage Service's property by excluding Garbage Service from servicing its existing customers in…”
Gaige v. City of Boise, 425 P.2d 52 (Idaho 1967). “Appellant city urges, however, that two Idaho statutes concerning annexation, I.C. §§ 50-304 and 50-305 (Supp.1965), compel resolution of the zoning issue in its favor.”
State v. Jared D. Bristol (Idaho Ct. App. 2014). “The statute empowers municipalities to “pass all ordinances and make all regulations necessary to preserve the public health.”
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