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<br /> <br />to construct levees or drainage facilities on or across the lands <br />of others on payment of damages therefor as fixed by the <br />trustees in their determination authorizing and locating such <br />facilities, <br /> <br />c, Municipalities <br /> <br />General powers delegated by the legislature to cities and <br />towns include authority to provide drainage systems for flood <br />and other surface waters, sewer systems and disposal plants <br />and to require and regulate connection thereto and authority to <br />establish, purohase, maintain and regulate the use of parks, <br />playgrounds and recreational facilities, <br /> <br />Other statutes grant specific power to cities and towns <br />to establish water and sewer systems, flood control systems, <br />park commissions, river-front improvement commissions, <br />and municipal zoning commissions, <br /> <br />Cities and towns may regulate use of land and <br />structures thereon including use of flood plains with respect to <br />flood hazard, Water recreational areas may be established by <br />municipalities (or corporations organized for that purpose only), <br />on petition to and approval of the State Conservation Commis- <br />sion and the Iowa Natural Resources Council, <br /> <br />48 <br />