Bill Text: IA HF415 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the observation of a department of natural resources investigation by a property owner or person in charge of the property. (See Cmte. Bill HF 578)

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-17 - Withdrawn. H.J. 604. [HF415 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF415-Introduced.html

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House File 415 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  KLEIN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the observation of a department of natural
  2    resources investigation by a property owner or person in
  3    charge of the property.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455B.103, subsection 4, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 1, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    Conduct investigations of complaints received directly
  1  4 or referred by the commission created in section 455A.6 or
  1  5 other investigations deemed necessary. While conducting an
  1  6 investigation, the director may enter at any reasonable time
  1  7 in and upon any private or public property to investigate any
  1  8 actual or possible violation of this chapter, chapter 459,
  1  9 chapter 459A, chapter 459B, or the rules or standards adopted
  1 10 under this chapter, chapter 459, chapter 459A, or chapter
  1 11 459B.  However, the owner or person in charge shall be notified
  1 12 and allowed to be present and observe while the director
  1 13 investigates any actual or possible violation on that property
  1 14 or in the watershed of that property.
  1 15                           EXPLANATION
  1 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 17 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 18    This bill allows a property owner or person in charge of
  1 19 the property to be present and observe the director of the
  1 20 department of natural resources or the director's designee
  1 21 during an investigation into any actual or possible violation
  1 22 on that property or in the watershed of that property.
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