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House Amendment 1406

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  1  1    Amend House File 686 as follows:
  1  2    #1.  Page 1, by striking lines 25 through 29, and
  1  3 inserting the following:  "local governing bodies to
  1  4 designate areas of a municipality as economic
  1  5 development areas for commercial and industrial
  1  6 enterprises, public improvements related to housing
  1  7 and residential development, or construction of
  1  8 housing for low and moderate income families; and that
  1  9 it is also necessary to".
  1 10    #2.  Page 2, by inserting before line 1, the
  1 11 following:
  1 12    "Sec.    .  Section 403.4, subsection 1, Code 2003,
  1 13 is amended to read as follows:
  1 14    1.  One or more slum, or blighted or economic
  1 15 development areas exist in the municipality.
  1 16    Sec.    .  Section 403.5, subsection 1, Code 2003,
  1 17 is amended to read as follows:
  1 18    1.  A municipality shall not approve an urban
  1 19 renewal project for an urban renewal area unless the
  1 20 governing body has, by resolution, determined the area
  1 21 to be a slum area, or blighted area, economic
  1 22 development area or a combination of those areas, and
  1 23 designated the area as appropriate for an urban
  1 24 renewal project.  The local governing body shall not
  1 25 approve an urban renewal plan until a general plan for
  1 26 the municipality has been prepared.  For this purpose
  1 27 and other municipal purposes, authority is vested in
  1 28 every municipality to prepare, to adopt and to revise
  1 29 from time to time, a general plan for the physical
  1 30 development of the municipality as a whole, giving due
  1 31 regard to the environs and metropolitan surroundings.
  1 32 A municipality shall not acquire real property for an
  1 33 urban renewal project unless the local governing body
  1 34 has approved the urban renewal project in accordance
  1 35 with subsection 4."
  1 36    #3.  Page 3, by inserting after line 28, the
  1 37 following:
  1 38    "Sec.    .  Section 403.5, subsection 4, paragraph
  1 39 b, subparagraph (2), unnumbered paragraph 2, Code
  1 40 2003, is amended by striking the unnumbered
  1 41 paragraph."
  1 42    #4.  Page 5, by inserting after line 27, the
  1 43 following:
  1 44    "Sec.    .  Section 403.7, Code 2003, is amended to
  1 45 read as follows:
  1 46    403.7  CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY.
  1 47    A municipality shall have the right to acquire by
  1 48 condemnation any interest in real property, including
  1 49 a fee simple title thereto, which it may deem
  1 50 necessary for or in connection with an urban renewal
  2  1 project under this chapter.  However, a municipality
  2  2 shall not condemn agricultural land included within an
  2  3 economic development area unless the owner of the
  2  4 agricultural land consents to condemnation or unless
  2  5 the agricultural land is to be acquired for industry
  2  6 as that term is defined in section 260E.2.  A
  2  7 municipality may exercise the power of eminent domain
  2  8 in the manner provided in chapter 6B, and Acts
  2  9 amendatory to that chapter or supplementary to that
  2 10 chapter, or it may exercise the power of eminent
  2 11 domain in the manner now or which may be hereafter
  2 12 provided by any other statutory provisions for the
  2 13 exercise of the power of eminent domain.  Property
  2 14 already devoted to a public use may be acquired in
  2 15 like manner.  However, real property belonging to the
  2 16 state, or any political subdivision of this state,
  2 17 shall not be acquired without its consent, and real
  2 18 property or any right or interest in the property
  2 19 owned by any public utility company, pipeline company,
  2 20 railway or transportation company vested with the
  2 21 right of eminent domain under the laws of this state,
  2 22 shall not be acquired without the consent of the
  2 23 company, or without first securing, after due notice
  2 24 to the company and after hearing, a certificate
  2 25 authorizing condemnation of the property from the
  2 26 board, commission or body having the authority to
  2 27 grant a certificate authorizing condemnation.  In a
  2 28 condemnation proceeding, if a municipality proposes to
  2 29 take a part of a lot or parcel of real property, the
  2 30 municipality shall also take the remaining part of the
  2 31 lot or parcel if requested by the owner."
  2 32    #5.  Page 6, by striking lines 9 through 33, and
  2 33 inserting the following:
  2 34    "Sec.    .  Section 403.17, subsection 10, Code
  2 35 2003, is amended by striking the subsection."
  2 36    #6.  Page 6, by inserting before line 34, the
  2 37 following:
  2 38    "Sec.    .  Section 403.17, subsection 23, Code
  2 39 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  2 40    23.  "Urban renewal area" means a slum area, or
  2 41 blighted area, economic development area, or
  2 42 combination of the areas, which the local governing
  2 43 body designates as appropriate for an urban renewal
  2 44 project.
  2 45    Sec.    .  Section 403.17, subsection 25,
  2 46 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2003, is amended to read
  2 47 as follows:
  2 48    "Urban renewal project" may include undertakings
  2 49 and activities of a municipality in an urban renewal
  2 50 area for the elimination and for the prevention of the
  3  1 development or spread of slums and blight, may include
  3  2 the designation and development of an economic
  3  3 development area in an urban renewal area, and may
  3  4 involve slum clearance and redevelopment in an urban
  3  5 renewal area, or rehabilitation or conservation in an
  3  6 urban renewal area, or any combination or part thereof
  3  7 in accordance with an urban renewal program.  The
  3  8 undertakings and activities may include:
  3  9    Sec.    .  Section 403.17, subsection 25, paragraph
  3 10 a, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  3 11    a.  Acquisition of a slum area, or blighted area,
  3 12 economic development area, or portion of the areas;".
  3 13    #7.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  3 14 
  3 15 
  3 16                               
  3 17 FORD of Polk
  3 18 HF 686.203 80
  3 19 sc/sh

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