Title IX, LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Ch. 331 - 420)

The department, subject to approval by the board, shall adopt administrative rules pursuant to chapter 17A necessary to administer the flood mitigation program. The department shall provide the board with assistance in implementing administrative functions and providing technical…

1. The board shall establish and the department, subject to direction and approval by the board, shall administer a flood mitigation program to assist governmental entities in undertaking projects approved under this chapter . The flood mitigation program shall include projects a…

1. a. A governmental entity shall submit an application to the board for approval of a project plan. The board shall not approve a project for inclusion in the program if the application is submitted after January 1, 2016. b. The application shall specify whether the governmental…

For the purposes of this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Board” means the flood mitigation board created in section 418.5 . 2. “Department” means the department of homeland security and emergency management created in section 29C.5 . 3. “Hazardous event” mean…

The purpose of this chapter is to reduce and manage risks associated with a hazardous event caused by a levee’s inadequate design, structural performance, or operational control. 2023 Acts, ch 163, §4, 10

1. An office of levee safety is created within the department. 2. a. In administering this chapter , all of the following apply: (1) The office shall cooperate with the flood mitigation board. (2) The office and the board shall cooperate with the Iowa geological survey. b. The of…

1. The office of levee safety, in cooperation with the Iowa geological survey, shall conduct a statewide analysis of the condition of the state’s levees. The office and survey shall identify each levee requiring repair or reconstruction based on a scale adopted by the office whic…

1. A levee improvement program is established to provide for the repair or reconstruction of those levees requiring immediate capital expenditure in order to reduce and manage a hazardous event. The program shall be administered by the flood mitigation board acting in cooperation…

1. The department of homeland security and emergency management shall prepare and submit a statewide levee assessment report to the governor and general assembly not later than January 5 of each year. 2. a. (1) The statewide levee assessment report must include a summary of the c…

As used in this chapter , unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Beginning businessperson” means an individual with an aggregate net worth of the individual and the individual’s spouse and children of less than one hundred thousand dollars. Net worth means total assets minus …

In case of a default in the payment of any revenue bonds, issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter , the municipality which defaulted in such payment shall be precluded from entering into any activity of its own except to release the property for some industrial activity…

1. a. Any municipality acquiring, purchasing, constructing, reconstructing, improving, or extending any industrial buildings, buildings used as headquarters facilities or pollution control facilities, as provided in this chapter , shall annually pay out of the revenue from such i…

The municipality may accept any bona fide offer to purchase which is sufficient to pay all the outstanding bonds, interest, taxes, special levies, and other costs that have been incurred. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.12 ]

The provisions of sections 73A.12 through 73A.16 shall not apply to bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter . [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.13 ] 2021 Acts, ch 80, §246

No land acquired by a municipality by the exercise of condemnation through eminent domain can be used to effectuate the purposes of this chapter . [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.14 ] Referred to in §419.17

No action shall be brought questioning the legality of any contract, lease, mortgage, proceedings or bonds executed in connection with any project or improvements authorized by this chapter from and after three months from the time the bonds are ordered issued by the proper autho…

In order to provide available alternatives to enable municipalities to accomplish the purposes of this chapter in the manner deemed most advisable by their governing bodies, it is the intent of this chapter that a lessee or contracting party under a sale contract or loan agreemen…

1. Cities may also issue revenue bonds for projects located within a qualified urban renewal area or an area designated a revitalization area pursuant to sections 404.1 through 404.7 . The revenue bonds shall be issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and all provisions…

In order to provide greater sources of financing and to encourage an increase in the capacity of grain and soybean storage facilities within the state, cities and counties may issue revenue bonds, to be originally purchased by financial institutions or other bond purchasers which…

A municipality shall not have the power to operate any project financed under this chapter , as a business or in any manner except as specifically provided in this chapter . In addition to any other powers which it may now have, each municipality shall have the following powers: …

1. All bonds issued by a municipality, under the authority of this chapter , shall be limited obligations of the municipality. The principal of and interest on such bonds shall be payable solely out of the revenues derived from the project to be financed by the bonds so issued un…

1. The principal of and interest on any bonds, issued under authority of this chapter , shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues out of which such bonds shall be made payable. They may be secured by a mortgage covering all or any part of the project from which the revenues so…

1. Prior to entering into a lease, sale contract or loan agreement with respect to any project, the governing body must determine the amount necessary in each year to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds proposed to be issued to finance such project; the amount nece…

Any bonds, issued under the provisions of this chapter and at any time outstanding, may at any time and from time to time be refunded by a municipality by the issuance of its refunding bonds in such amount as the governing body may deem necessary but not exceeding an amount suffi…

The proceeds from the sale of any bonds, issued under authority of this chapter , shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued and if, for any reason, any portion of such proceeds shall not be needed for the purpose for which the bonds were issued, such u…

Prior to the issuance of any bonds under authority of this chapter , the municipality shall conduct a public hearing on the proposal to issue said bonds. Notice of intention to issue the bonds, specifying the amount and purpose thereof and the time and place of hearing, shall be …

Political parties in special charter cities having a population of fifty thousand or more shall hold a city convention within the city on the second Friday following the primary election. The city central committee shall set the time and place of the convention and shall file the…

Delegates to city conventions of their respective political parties shall be elected at precinct caucuses held at 8:00 p.m. on the third Monday in August of the same year in which the city general election is conducted. The precinct caucuses shall be convened within the boundarie…

The precinct caucus shall elect, by a majority vote of those present, a chairperson and secretary who shall certify to the city central committee and city clerk the names and addresses of those elected as delegates to the city convention. The number of delegates from each voting …

The delegates shall hold office from the day following the election for a period of two years. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §420.129 ] Referred to in §376.3

Candidates for city precinct committee member shall cause their names to be printed on the primary ballot by filing an affidavit as provided for in section 43.18 with the county commissioner of elections at least forty days prior to the day fixed for conducting the primary electi…

Two persons for each political party shall be elected from each precinct to the city central committee at the primary election. They shall hold office for a period of two years immediately following the adjournment of the city convention, or until their successors are duly electe…

The city central committee shall commence performing their duties on the day of the city convention and vacancies occurring therein may be filled by the city chairperson subject to confirmation of the central committee. [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §420.132 ] Referred to in §376…

Election judges shall make returns of the election of members of the city central committee in the same manner as returns are conducted for other officers except that the election judges shall canvass the returns as to members of the city central committee, and certify the result…

After the canvass of votes by the county board of supervisors, the county commissioner of elections shall notify the members of the central committee who have been elected of the time and place of holding the city convention, and shall deliver a certified list of those elected to…

The city convention shall be composed of the delegates elected at the last preceding city precinct caucus, and the city clerk shall forward a certified list of said elected delegates at least ten days prior to the city convention to the chairperson of the city central committee. …

The city clerk shall keep a certified list of delegates to the city convention elected at the precinct caucuses and a record of the precinct committee members elected at the primary election. The city clerk shall maintain a current list of all members of the city central committe…

All laws governing political parties and the nomination of candidates in elections shall, as far as applicable, govern the political parties and nomination and election of candidates in cities acting under a special charter in 1973 and having a population of fifty thousand or mor…

Any city acting under special charter, which is bounded in part or divided by a river, may improve said waterfront by constructing retaining walls, filling, grading, paving, macadamizing, or riprapping the same and may improve and beautify its waterfront and the river bank and ne…

In the event that the proceeds of such tax in any one year shall be insufficient to pay for the improvements of that year, or if the city council shall deem best to extend the payment over a number of years, then upon a majority vote of said council approving the same, said citie…

With respect to any lands title to which has been or may be granted by the state to any municipal corporation of the state, acting under special charter, sections 327F.4 and 327F.5 shall not, after the occurrence of such grant, continue to apply, excepting only that permanent str…

Special chartered cities which collect both rubbish and garbage by a monthly can tax shall have the power by ordinance to declare the service a benefit to the property so served and in case of failure to pay said monthly charge to assess the actual cost thereof against the proper…

The council shall have power to levy and collect taxes for all general and special purposes in this chapter authorized, upon all property within the city not exempted from taxation by the general law of the state, and to fix the amount to be levied on the value thereof, which sha…

Sections 426A.11 through 426A.15 , 427.1 , 427.8 through 427.11 , 428.4 , 428.20 , 428.22 , 428.23 , 437.1 , 437.3 , 441.21 , 443.1 through 443.3 , 444.2 through 444.4 , and 447.9 through 447.13 , so far as applicable, apply to cities acting under special charters. [S13, §1322-3a…

Such cities shall have power and shall provide by ordinance when general or special taxes and assessments shall become delinquent, and the rate of interest which they shall thereafter bear, not exceeding ten percent per annum on the whole amount thereof, including penalty, and fo…

In the sale of real property for taxes and assessments, the notice of the time and place of such sale shall be given by the treasurer or the collector, and shall contain the description of each separate tract to be sold, as taken from the tax list; the amount of taxes for which i…