Bill Text: IA HF523 | 2021-2022 | 89th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: A bill for an act designating certain county flood mitigation activities as an essential county purpose. (Formerly HSB 56.) Effective date: 07/01/2021.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-10 - Signed by Governor. H.J. 1099. [HF523 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2021-HF523-Enrolled.html
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AN
ACT
DESIGNATING
CERTAIN
COUNTY
FLOOD
MITIGATION
ACTIVITIES
AS
AN
ESSENTIAL
COUNTY
PURPOSE.
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
Section
1.
Section
331.441,
subsection
2,
paragraph
b,
Code
2021,
is
amended
by
adding
the
following
new
subparagraph:
NEW
SUBPARAGRAPH
.
(20)
The
construction,
reconstruction,
and
improvement
of
all
waterways,
and
real
and
personal
property,
useful
for
the
protection
or
reclamation
of
property
from
floods
or
high
waters,
and
for
the
protection
of
property
from
the
effects
of
flood
waters,
including
the
deepening,
widening,
alteration,
change,
diversion,
or
other
improvement
of
watercourses,
the
construction
of
levees,
embankments,
structures,
impounding
reservoirs,
pumping
stations
or
conduits,
and
the
establishment,
improvement,
and
widening
of
streets,
avenues,
boulevards,
and
alleys
across
and
adjacent
to
the
project,
as
well
as
the
development
and
beautification
House
File
523,
p.
2
of
the
banks
and
other
areas
adjacent
to
flood
control
improvements.
______________________________
PAT
GRASSLEY
Speaker
of
the
House
______________________________
JAKE
CHAPMAN
President
of
the
Senate
I
hereby
certify
that
this
bill
originated
in
the
House
and
is
known
as
House
File
523,
Eighty-ninth
General
Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN
NELSON
Chief
Clerk
of
the
House
Approved
_______________,
2021
______________________________
KIM
REYNOLDS
Governor
