HF 415 (LSB 2264YH (2) 86)

HOUSE FILE 415

BY  KLEIN

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.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 455B.103, subsection 4, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2015, is amended to read as follows:

   Conduct investigations of complaints received directly or referred by the commission created in section 455A.6 or other investigations deemed necessary. While conducting an investigation, the director may enter at any reasonable time in and upon any private or public property to investigate any actual or possible violation of this chapter, chapter 459, chapter 459A, chapter 459B, or the rules or standards adopted under this chapter, chapter 459, chapter 459A, or chapter 459B. However, the owner or person in charge shall be notified and allowed to be present and observe while the director investigates any actual or possible violation on that property or in the watershed of that property.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill allows a property owner or person in charge of the property to be present and observe the director of the department of natural resources or the director’s designee during an investigation into any actual or possible violation on that property or in the watershed of that property.