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House Journal: Page 1333: Thursday, April 6, 1995

Jacobs of Polk offered amendment H-3777 filed by Jacobs et. al.
as follows:

H-3777

 1     Amend House File 222 as follows:
 2     1.  By striking everything after the enacting
 3   clause and inserting the following:
 4     "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  358C.1  DEFINITIONS.
 5     As used in this chapter, unless the context
 6   otherwise requires:
 7     1.  "Board" means the board of trustees of a real
 8   estate improvement district.
 9     2.  "Construction" includes materials, labor, acts,
10   operations, and services necessary to complete a
11   public improvement.
12     3.  "Cost" of a public improvement includes the
13   cost of engineering, preliminary reports, property
14   valuations, estimates, plans, specifications, notices,
15   legal services, acquisition of land, consequential
16   damages, easements, rights-of-way, construction,
17   repair, supervision, inspection, testing, notices and
18   publication, interest during construction and for not
19   more than six months thereafter, and printing and sale
20   of bonds.
21     4.  "District" means a real estate improvement
22   district as created in this chapter.
23     5.  "Public improvement" includes the principal
24   structures, works, component parts, and accessories of
25   the facilities or systems specified in section 358C.3.
26     6.  "Repair" includes materials, labor, acts,
27   operations, and services necessary for the
28   reconstruction, reconstruction by widening, or
29   resurfacing of a public improvement.
30     Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  358C.2  REAL ESTATE
31   IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CREATED.
32     1.  A majority of the owners having an interest in
33   the real property within the limits of a proposed
34   district may file a petition in the office of county
35   auditor of the county in which the proposed district
36   or major part of the proposed district is located,
37   requesting that the question be submitted to the
38   registered voters of the proposed district of whether
39   the territory within the boundaries of the proposed
40   district shall be organized as a real estate
41   improvement district as provided in this chapter.
42   Areas of contiguous and noncontiguous territory may be
43   incorporated within a district.  The petition shall be
44   addressed to the board of supervisors if all or part
45   of the proposed district includes territory located
46   outside the boundaries of a city, shall be submitted
47   to and approved by the board of supervisors before it
48   is filed with the county auditor, and shall set forth

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