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House Journal: Page 1670: Monday, April 28, 1997

26   special election if requested by the petitioners at no
27   cost to the county, the question of which fair shall
28   be designated as the official county fair.  Notice of
29   the election shall be given as provided in section
30   49.53.  The fair receiving a majority of the votes
31   cast on the question shall be designated the official
32   county fair.
33     Sec. 36.  Section 174.12, unnumbered paragraph 1,
34   Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
35     The department of revenue and finance shall issue a
36   warrant to a society for the amount due in state aid,
37   less five hundred dollars, as provided in this
38   chapter.  The treasurer of state Iowa state fair
39   foundation must certify to the department that the
40   society is eligible under this chapter to receive the
41   amount due provided in section 174.10.  The department
42   shall issue a warrant to the society for the remaining
43   five hundred dollars, if all of the following apply:
44     Sec. 37.  NEW SECTION.  461A.3A  RESTORE THE
45   OUTDOORS PROGRAM.
46     1.  The department shall establish a restore the
47   outdoors program.  The purpose of the program is to
48   provide funding for projects involving existing
49   vertical infrastructure as defined in section 8.57,
50   subsection 5, paragraph "c", or the construction of

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 1   new vertical infrastructure if the new construction is
 2   required due to increased demand for facilities at the
 3   park or if it is not cost-effective to repair or
 4   renovate the existing vertical infrastructure.
 5   Projects shall be limited to existing state parks and
 6   other public facilities managed by the department.
 7     2.  There is appropriated from the rebuild Iowa
 8   infrastructure fund for each fiscal year of the fiscal
 9   period beginning July 1, 1997, and ending June 30,
10   2001, the sum of four million dollars to the
11   department for use in the restore the outdoors program
12   of which, one million dollars shall be used to fund
13   projects in parks of governmental subdivisions which
14   are connected by a recreational trail to a state park
15   or the state recreational trail system.
16   Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or
17   unobligated moneys remaining at the end of a fiscal
18   year shall not revert but shall remain available for
19   expenditure during the following fiscal year for
20   purposes of the restore the outdoors program.
21     The department shall provide in its annual budget
22   documentations to the governor and general assembly a
23   report on the use of moneys under the program since
24   the last report and the projected use of future
25   moneys."

Iowa General Assembly

Index: House Journal (77th General Assembly: Session 1)

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