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) \5 A BILL FOR \1 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 departmentif the fire department serves an area with a population of not more than two thousandor 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 -1-