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House Journal: Page 908: Wednesday, March 22, 1995

46   chapter 29C.
47     e.  Unusual need for additional moneys to finance
48   existing programs which would provide substantial
49   benefit to county residents or compelling need to
50   finance new programs which would provide substantial
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 1   benefit to county residents.  The increase in taxes
 2   levied under this exception for the fiscal year
 3   beginning July 1, 1999, is limited to no more than the
 4   product of the total tax dollars levied in the fiscal
 5   year beginning July 1, 1998, and the percent change,
 6   computed to two decimal places, in the price index for
 7   government purchases by type for state and local
 8   governments computed for the third quarter of calendar
 9   year 1998 from that computed for the third quarter of
10   calendar year 1997.
11     For purposes of this paragraph, the price index for
12   government purchases by type for state and local
13   governments is defined by the bureau of economic
14   analysis of the United States department of commerce
15   and published in table 7.11 of the national income and
16   products accounts.  For the fiscal year beginning July
17   1, 1999, the price index used shall be the revision
18   published in the November 1998 of the United States
19   department of commerce publication, "survey of current
20   business".  For purposes of this paragraph, tax
21   dollars levied in the fiscal year beginning July 1,
22   1998, shall not include funds levied for paragraphs
23   "a", "b", and "c" of this subsection.
24     Application of this exception shall require an
25   original publication of the budget and a public
26   hearing and a second publication and a second hearing
27   both in the manner and form prescribed by the director
28   of the department of management, notwithstanding the
29   provisions of section 331.434.  The publications and
30   hearings prescribed in this paragraph shall be held
31   and the budget certified no later than March 15.  The
32   taxes levied for counties whose budgets are certified
33   after March 15, 1999, shall be frozen at the fiscal
34   year beginning July 1, 1998, level.
35     3.  APPEAL PROCEDURES.  In lieu of the procedures
36   in sections 24.48 and 331.426, which procedures do not
37   apply for taxes payable in the fiscal year beginning
38   July 1, 1999, if a county needs to raise property tax
39   dollars from a tax levy in excess of the limitations
40   imposed by subsection 1, the following procedures
41   apply:
42     a.  Not later than March 1, and after the
43   publication and public hearing on the budget in the
44   manner and form prescribed by the director of the
45   department of management, notwithstanding section
46   331.434, the county shall petition the state appeal

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