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1 1 SENATE FILE 357
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 RELATING TO ELECTION OR APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES OF A CITY
1 5 HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE FACILITY.
1 6
1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 8
1 9 Section 1. Section 392.6, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
1 10 2003, is amended to read as follows:
1 11 If a hospital or health care facility is established by a
1 12 city, the city shall by ordinance provide for the election, at
1 13 a general, city, or special election, of three trustees, whose
1 14 terms of office shall be four years. However, at the first
1 15 election, three shall be elected and hold their office, one
1 16 for four years and two for two years, and they shall by lot
1 17 determine their respective terms. A candidate for hospital or
1 18 health care facility trustee must be a resident of the
1 19 hospital or health care facility service area within the
1 20 boundaries of the state at the time of the election at which
1 21 the person's name appears on the ballot. A board of trustees
1 22 elected pursuant to this section shall serve as the sole and
1 23 only board of trustees for any and all institutions
1 24 established by a city as provided for in this section.
1 25 Sec. 2. Section 392.6, unnumbered paragraph 3, Code 2003,
1 26 is amended to read as follows:
1 27 Terms of office of trustees elected pursuant to general or
1 28 city elections shall begin at noon on the first day in January
1 29 which is not a Sunday or legal holiday. Terms of office of
1 30 trustees appointed to fill a vacancy or elected pursuant to
1 31 special elections shall begin at noon on the tenth day after
1 32 appointment or the special election which is not a Sunday or
1 33 legal holiday. The trustees shall begin their terms of office
1 34 by taking the oath of office, and organize as a board by the
1 35 election of one of their number as chairperson and one as
2 1 secretary, but no bond shall be required of them. Terms of
2 2 office of trustees shall extend to noon on the first day in
2 3 January which is not a Sunday or legal holiday or until their
2 4 successors are elected and qualified. Vacancies on the board
2 5 of trustees may, until the next general or regular city
2 6 election, be filled by appointment by the remaining members of
2 7 the board of trustees, unless within fourteen days after the
2 8 appointment is made, there is filed with the city clerk a
2 9 petition which requests a special election to fill the
2 10 vacancy. Trustees who are appointed to fill a vacancy or who
2 11 are elected at special elections shall serve the unexpired
2 12 terms of office or until their successors are elected and
2 13 qualified.
2 14
2 15
2 16
2 17 MARY E. KRAMER
2 18 President of the Senate
2 19
2 20
2 21
2 22 CHRISTOPHER C. RANTS
2 23 Speaker of the House
2 24
2 25 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
2 26 is known as Senate File 357, Eightieth General Assembly.
2 27
2 28
2 29
2 30 MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
2 31 Secretary of the Senate
2 32 Approved , 2003
2 33
2 34
2 35
3 1 THOMAS J. VILSACK
3 2 Governor
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