Bill Text: IA HF485 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act allowing city council members to serve a city’s volunteer fire department without compensation in any position or capacity. (Formerly HF 264.) Effective 7-1-17.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-04-21 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 1142. [HF485 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2017-HF485-Enrolled.html
House File 485 - Enrolled
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON LOCAL
GOVERNMENT
(SUCCESSOR TO HF 264)
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A BILL FOR
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House File 485
AN ACT
ALLOWING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SERVE A CITY'S
VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN ANY POSITION OR CAPACITY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section 372.13, subsection 10, Code 2017, is
amended to read as follows:
10. A council member, during the term for which that member
is elected, is not precluded from holding the office of chief
of the volunteer fire department if the fire department serves
an area with a population of not more than two thousand or from
serving the volunteer fire department in any other position
or capacity. A person holding the office of chief of such a
volunteer fire department at the time of the person's election
to the city council may continue to hold the office of chief of
the fire department during the city council term for which that
person was elected.
LINDA UPMEYER
JACK WHITVER
CARMINE BOAL
TERRY E. BRANSTA
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