The title of a utilityboard must be appropriate to the city utility,city utilities,or combined utilitysystem administered by the board. A utility board may be a party to legal action. A utilityboard may exercise allpowers of a city in relation to the city utility,city utilities, or combined utility system it administers, with the following exceptions: 1. A board may not certify taxes to be levied, pass ordinances or amendments, or issue general obligation or special assessment bonds. 2. The titleto all property of a city utility or combined utilitysystem must be held in the name ofthe city,but the utilityboard has allthe powers and authoritiesof the city with respect to the acquisition by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, lease, sale, or other disposition of such property, and the management, control, and operation of the same, subject to the requirements, terms, covenants, conditions, and provisions of any resolutions authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds, pledge orders, or other obligations which are payable from the revenues of the city utilityor combined utilitysystem, and which are then outstanding. 3. A board shall make to the council a detailed annual report, including a complete financial statement. 4. Immediately following a regular or special meeting of autilityboard, the secretary shall prepare a condensed statement of the proceedings of the board and cause the statement to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the city. The statement must include a list ofall claims allowed, showing the name ofthe person or firm making the claim, thereason for the claim, and the amount of the claim. Ifthe reason for the claims isthe same, two or more claims made by the same vendor, supplier, or claimant may be consolidated if the number of claims consolidated and the total consolidated claim amount are listed in the statement. However, the utilityboard shall provide at itsoffice upon request an unconsolidated listof all claims allowed. Salary claims must show the gross amount of the claim except that salaries paid to persons regularly employed by the utility,for services regularly performed by them, must be published once annually showing the gross amount of the salary. In cities having more than one hundred fiftythousand population, the utilityboard shall each month prepare in pamphlet form the statement herein required for the preceding month and furnish copies tothe city library, the daily newspapers of the city,the city clerk, and to persons who apply at the office of the secretary, and the pamphlet shall constitute publication as required. Failure by the secretary to make publication is a simple misdemeanor. [S13, §1056-a7, -c24; C24, §5678, 6149; C27, 31, 35, §5676-a2, 6149, 6159-a1; C39, §5676.2, 6149, 6159.1; C46, 50, §363.52, 397.34, 398.11; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §368A.7, 368A.24, 397.34, 398.11; C75, 77, 79, 81, §388.4]
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