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House File 2541

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  1  1                                           HOUSE FILE 2541
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT 
  1  4 EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF COUNTIES THAT MAY DESIGNATE
  1  5    UNINCORPORATED AREAS CONTAINING PRIVATE LAKES AS RURAL
  1  6    IMPROVEMENT ZONES AND SETTING THE LIMITS FOR THE STANDBY 
  1  7    TAXES IMPOSED IN THOSE ZONES.
  1  8 
  1  9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1 10 
  1 11    Section 1.  Section 357H.1, Code 1999, is amended to read
  1 12 as follows:
  1 13    357H.1  RURAL IMPROVEMENT ZONES.
  1 14    The board of supervisors of a county with less than eleven
  1 15 eighteen thousand five hundred residents but more than ten
  1 16 thousand five hundred residents, based upon the 1990 certified
  1 17 federal census, and with a private lake development shall
  1 18 designate an area surrounding the lake, if it is an
  1 19 unincorporated area of the county, a rural improvement zone
  1 20 upon receipt of a petition pursuant to section 357H.2, and
  1 21 upon the board's determination that the area is in need of
  1 22 improvements.  For purposes of this chapter, "improvements"
  1 23 means dredging, installation of erosion control measures, land
  1 24 acquisition, and related improvements, including soil
  1 25 conservation practices, within or outside of the boundaries of
  1 26 the zone.
  1 27    For purposes of this chapter, "board" means the board of
  1 28 supervisors of the county.
  1 29    Sec. 2.  Section 357H.8, subsection 4, Code 1999, is
  1 30 amended to read as follows:
  1 31    4.  To further secure the payment of the certificates, the
  1 32 board of trustees shall, by resolution, provide for the
  1 33 assessment of an annual levy of a standby tax upon all taxable
  1 34 property within the rural improvement zone.  The rate of the
  1 35 standby tax shall be not less than fifty cents per thousand
  2  1 dollars of the assessed value of the taxable property and not
  2  2 more than two dollars and fifty cents per thousand dollars of
  2  3 the assessed value of the taxable property.  A copy of the
  2  4 resolution shall be sent to the county auditor.  The revenues
  2  5 from the standby tax shall be deposited in a special fund and
  2  6 shall be expended only for the payment of principal of and
  2  7 interest on the certificates issued as provided in this
  2  8 section, when the receipt of tax revenues pursuant to section
  2  9 357H.9 is insufficient.  If payments are necessary and made
  2 10 from the special fund, the amount of the payments shall be
  2 11 promptly repaid into the special fund from the first available
  2 12 payments received which are not required for the payment of
  2 13 principal of or interest on certificates due.  No reserves may
  2 14 be built up in the special fund in anticipation of a projected
  2 15 default.  The board of trustees shall adjust the annual
  2 16 standby tax levy for each year to reflect the amount of
  2 17 revenues in the special fund and the amount of principal and
  2 18 interest which is due in that year.  
  2 19 
  2 20 
  2 21                                                             
  2 22                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  2 23                               Speaker of the House
  2 24 
  2 25 
  2 26                                                             
  2 27                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 28                               President of the Senate
  2 29 
  2 30    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2 31 is known as House File 2541, Seventy-eighth General Assembly.
  2 32 
  2 33 
  2 34                                                             
  2 35                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  3  1                               Chief Clerk of the House
  3  2 Approved                , 2000
  3  3 
  3  4 
  3  5                            
  3  6 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  3  7 Governor
     

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