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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 161A.5, subsection 2, Code 1995, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  The governing body of each district shall consist of
  1  4 five commissioners elected on a nonpartisan basis for
  1  5 staggered six-year four-year terms commencing on the first day
  1  6 of January that is not a Sunday or holiday following their
  1  7 election.  Any eligible elector residing in the district is
  1  8 eligible to the office of commissioner, except that no more
  1  9 than one commissioner shall at any one time be a resident of
  1 10 any one township.  A vacancy is created in the office of any
  1 11 commissioner who changes residence into a township where
  1 12 another commissioner then resides.  If a commissioner is
  1 13 absent for sixty or more percent of monthly meetings during
  1 14 any twelve-month period, the other commissioners by their
  1 15 unanimous vote may declare the member's office vacant.  A
  1 16 vacancy in the office of commissioner shall be filled by
  1 17 appointment of the state soil conservation committee until the
  1 18 next succeeding general election, at which time the balance of
  1 19 the unexpired term shall be filled as provided by section
  1 20 69.12.
  1 21    Sec. 2.  Section 161A.6, unnumbered paragraph 3, Code 1995,
  1 22 is amended to read as follows:
  1 23    A commissioner shall not receive no compensation for the
  1 24 commissioner's services but the commissioner may be paid
  1 25 expenses, including traveling expenses, necessarily incurred
  1 26 in the discharge of the commissioner's duties, if.  However,
  1 27 to the extent funds are available, for that purpose a
  1 28 commissioner is entitled to receive actual expenses
  1 29 necessarily incurred in the discharge of the commissioner's
  1 30 duties, including reimbursement for mileage at the rate
  1 31 provided under section 70A.9 for state business use.
  1 32    Sec. 3.  Section 161A.48, subsection 1, Code 1995, is
  1 33 amended to read as follows:
  1 34    1.  An owner or occupant of agricultural land in this state
  1 35 is not required to establish any new permanent or temporary
  2  1 soil and water conservation practice unless cost-share or
  2  2 other public moneys have been specifically approved for that
  2  3 land and made available to the owner or occupant pursuant to
  2  4 section 161A.74.
  2  5    Sec. 4.  Section 161A.72, subsection 2, Code 1995, is
  2  6 amended to read as follows:
  2  7    2.  The commissioners of a district shall, to the extent
  2  8 funding is available, contract with the a person who is an
  2  9 owner or occupant of land within the district applying to
  2 10 establish soil and water conservation practices as provided in
  2 11 this chapter.  Under the agreement, the owner or occupant
  2 12 person shall receive financial incentives to establish
  2 13 permanent soil and water conservation practices and management
  2 14 practices, in consideration for promising to maintain the
  2 15 practices according to rules adopted by the division.  If the
  2 16 land subject to an agreement is converted to a nonagricultural
  2 17 use that does not require a permanent soil and water
  2 18 conservation practice which has been established with
  2 19 financial incentives, the permanent soil and water
  2 20 conservation practice shall not be removed, until the owner
  2 21 pays an amount to the district, which shall be deposited into
  2 22 a fund established by the district for use in providing
  2 23 financial incentives under this chapter.  The amount shall be
  2 24 a prorated share of the amount paid in financial incentives to
  2 25 establish the practice, as provided in rules adopted by the
  2 26 division.
  2 27    Sec. 5.  Section 161A.73, subsection 1, Code 1995, is
  2 28 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  2 29    NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  The allocation of cost-share moneys as
  2 30 financial incentives for the same purposes that are supported
  2 31 from the soil and water enhancement account of the resources
  2 32 enhancement and protection fund as provided in section
  2 33 455A.19, or by the water protection practices account of the
  2 34 water protection fund established pursuant to section 161C.4.
  2 35 The financial incentives shall not exceed fifty percent of the
  3  1 estimated cost of establishing the practices, or fifty percent
  3  2 of the actual cost, whichever is less.
  3  3    Sec. 6.  APPLICABILITY.  Notwithstanding section 1 of this
  3  4 Act, a person who has been elected or appointed to serve as a
  3  5 soil and water conservation district commissioner prior to the
  3  6 effective date of this Act shall continue to serve for the
  3  7 member's term as provided in section 161A.5, subsection 2,
  3  8 Code 1995.  
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