House Journal: Page 1016: Thursday, April 1, 1999

Page 3

 1   general circulation in the county where the property
 2   is located.  The hearing shall not take place prior to
 3   two weeks after the second publication.
 4     A county or city hospital shall serve notice before
 5   selling or leasing any personal property pursuant to
 6   sections 347.28 and 347.29.  The notice shall
 7   definitely describe the property and shall be
 8   published by at least one insertion each week for two
 9   consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general
10   circulation in the county where the property is
11   located.
12     Sec. ___  Section 347A.1, unnumbered paragraph 1,
13   Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
14     A county having a population less than one hundred
15   fifty thousand may issue revenue bonds for a county
16   hospital as provided in section 331.461, subsection 2,
17   paragraph "e".  The administration and management of
18   the hospital shall be vested in a board of hospital
19   trustees consisting of five or seven members
20   appointed.  Appointments for a five-member board shall
21   be made by the board of supervisors from among the
22   resident citizens of the county with reference to
23   their fitness for office, and not more than two of the
24   trustees shall be residents of the same township.
25   Expansion from a five-member to a seven-member board
26   of trustees shall occur only on approval of a majority
27   of the five-member board of trustees.  The five-member
28   board of trustees shall appoint members to the
29   additional vacancies; one appointee shall serve until
30   the succeeding general election and the other
31   appointee shall serve until the second succeeding
32   general election at which times successors shall be
33   elected.
34     Sec. ___.  Section 392.6, unnumbered paragraph 2,
35   Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
36     Cities maintaining an institution as provided for
37   in this section which have a board of trustees
38   consisting of three members may by ordinance increase
39   the number of members to five or seven and provide for
40   the appointment of one of the additional member in the
41   expansion to a five-member board or two additional
42   members in the expansion to a seven-member board until
43   the next succeeding general or city election, and for
44   the appointment of the one or two other additional
45   member members until the second succeeding general or
46   city election.  Thereafter, the terms of office of
47   such additional members shall be four years.  However,
48   if a city has adopted an ordinance which increases the
49   number of members of the board of trustees to five or
50   seven members and the terms of office of four of the

© 1999 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa

Comments about this site or page? hjourn@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.

Last update: Fri Apr 2 13:40:03 CST 1999
URL: /DOCS/GA/78GA/Session.1/HJournal/01000/01016.html
jhf