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House File 581

Partial Bill History

Bill Introduced: H.J. 691
Committee Report Issued: S.J. 957
Passed House: H.J. 758 H.J. 1266
Passed Senate: S.J. 1064
Signed by Governor: H.J. 1627
Complete Bill History

Bill Text

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  1  1                                         HOUSE FILE 581
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO THE SIZE OF DRAINAGE OR LEVEE DISTRICTS HAVING
  1  5    ELECTION DISTRICTS.  
  1  6 
  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  8 
  1  9    Section 1.  Section 468.504, Code 2001, is amended to read
  1 10 as follows:
  1 11    468.504  ELECTION DISTRICTS.
  1 12    When a petition has been filed for the election of trustees
  1 13 to manage a district containing three twenty thousand acres or
  1 14 more, the board, or, if the district extends into more than
  1 15 one county, the boards of such the counties by joint action,
  1 16 shall, before the election, divide the district into three
  1 17 election districts for the purpose of securing a proper
  1 18 distribution of trustees in such the district, and such the
  1 19 division shall be so made that each election district will
  1 20 have substantially equal voting power and acreage, as nearly
  1 21 as may be.  After such the division is made there shall be
  1 22 elected one trustee for each of said the election districts,
  1 23 but at such the election all the qualified voters for the
  1 24 entire district shall be entitled to vote for each trustee.
  1 25 The division here provided for shall be for the purposes only
  1 26 of a proper distribution of trustees in the district and shall
  1 27 not otherwise affect said the district or its management and
  1 28 control.  
  1 29 
  1 30 
  1 31                                                             
  1 32                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  1 33                               Speaker of the House
  1 34 
  1 35 
  2  1                                                             
  2  2                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2  3                               President of the Senate
  2  4 
  2  5    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  2  6 is known as House File 581, Seventy-ninth General Assembly.
  2  7 
  2  8 
  2  9                                                             
  2 10                               MARGARET THOMSON
  2 11                               Chief Clerk of the House
  2 12 Approved                , 2001
  2 13 
  2 14 
  2 15                            
  2 16 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  2 17 Governor

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