Bill Text: IA HF469 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the election of commissioners of soil and water conservation districts. (Formerly HF 244.) Effective 7-1-17.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-04-12 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 1008. [HF469 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF469-Enrolled.html

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House File 469 - Enrolled




                              HOUSE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON
                                  AGRICULTURE

                              (SUCCESSOR TO HF 244)
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                                         House File 469

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF COMMISSIONERS OF SOIL AND
    WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  Section 161A.5, subsection 2, Code 2017, is
 amended to read as follows:
    2.  a.  The governing body of each district shall consist of
 five commissioners elected on a nonpartisan basis for staggered
 four=year terms commencing on the first day of January that is
 not a Sunday or holiday following their election.
    b.  Any eligible elector residing in the district is eligible
 to the office of commissioner, except that no not more than
 one commissioner two commissioners shall at any one time be
 a resident of any one township. A vacancy is created in
 the office of any commissioner who changes residence into a
 township where another commissioner two commissioners then
 resides reside.
    c.  If a commissioner is absent for sixty or more percent
 of monthly meetings during any twelve=month period, the other
 commissioners by their unanimous vote may declare the member's
 office vacant. A vacancy in the office of commissioner
 shall be filled by appointment of the state soil conservation
 committee until the next succeeding general election, at which
 time the balance of the unexpired term shall be filled as
 provided by section 69.12.
    Sec. 2.  Section 161A.5, subsection 3, paragraph e, Code
 2017, is amended to read as follows:
    e.  If the canvass shows that the two or three candidates
 receiving the highest and the second highest number of votes
 for the office of district commissioner are both all residents
 of the same township, the board shall certify as elected the
 candidate who received the two candidates receiving the highest
 number of votes for the office and the candidate receiving
 the next highest number of votes for the office who is not
 a resident of the same township as the candidate receiving
 the highest number of votes, if any.  If one commissioner
 whose term has not expired is a resident of the township,
 and the canvass shows that two or three candidates receiving
 the highest number of votes for the office are from the same
 township, the board shall certify as elected the candidate
 receiving the highest number of votes for the office and the
 candidate receiving the next highest number of votes for the
 office who is not a resident of the same township, if any, as
 the candidate receiving the highest number of votes.


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            CARMINE BOAL


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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