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18.12 Duties---state property---employees---reports---lease-purchase---appropriation.

In addition to other duties the director shall:

1. See that all visitors, at proper hours, are properly escorted over capitol grounds and capitol buildings, free of expense.

2. Have at all times, charge of and supervision over the janitors, and other employees of the department in and about the capitol and other state buildings, except the buildings and grounds referred to in section 216B.3, subsection 6, at the seat of government.

3. Institute, in the name of the state, and with the advice and consent of the attorney general, civil and criminal proceedings against any person for injury or threatened injury to any public property, including but not limited to intangible and intellectual property, under the person's control.

4. Keep in the director's office a complete record containing an itemized account of all state property, including furniture and equipment, under the director's care and control, and plans and surveys of the public grounds, buildings, and underground constructions at the seat of government.

5. Under the direction of the governor, provide, furnish, and pay for public utilities service, heat, maintenance, minor repairs, and equipment in operating and maintaining the official residence of the governor of Iowa.

6. At the time provided by law, make a verified report which shall cover all transactions for the preceding annual, fiscal or calendar period and show in detail:

a. All expenditures made on account of the department for public buildings and property.

b. The condition of all real and personal property of the state under the director's care and control, together with a report of any loss or destruction, or injury to any such property, with the causes thereof.

c. The measures necessary for the care and preservation of the property under the director's control.

d. Any recommendations as to methods which would tend to render the public service more efficient and economical.

e. Any other matter ordered by the governor.

7. Contract, with the approval of the executive council, for the repair, remodeling or, if the condition warrants, demolition of all buildings and grounds of the state at the seat of government and the institutions of the department of human services and the department of corrections for which no specific appropriation has been made, if the cost of repair, remodeling or demolition will not exceed one hundred thousand dollars when completed. The cost of repair projects for which no specific appropriation has been made shall be paid from the fund provided in section 7D.29.

8. Dispose of all personal property of the state under the director's control when it becomes unnecessary or unfit for further use by the state. If the director concludes that the personal property is contaminated, contains hazardous waste, or is hazardous waste, the director may charge the state agency responsible for the property for removal and disposal of the personal property.

The director may dispose of personal property by any of the following means:

a. The director may dispose of unfit or unnecessary personal property by sale. Proceeds from the sale of personal property shall be deposited in the general fund of the state.

b. If the director concludes that the personal property has little or no value, the director may enter into an agreement with a not-for-profit organization or governmental agency to dispose of the personal property. The not-for- profit organization or governmental agency may charge the state agency in control of the property with the cost of removing and transporting the property. Title to the personal property shall transfer when the personal property is in the possession of the not-for-profit organization or governmental agency. If a governmental agency adds value to the property transferred to it and sells it, the proceeds from the sale shall be deposited with the governmental agency and not in the general fund of the state.

The director shall adopt rules establishing the procedures for inspecting, selecting, and removing personal property from state agencies or from state storage.

9. Lease all buildings and office space necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter or necessary for the proper functioning of any state agency at the seat of government, with the approval of the executive council if no specific appropriation has been made. The cost of any lease for which no specific appropriation has been made shall be paid from the fund provided in section 7D.29.

When the general assembly is not in session, the director of general services may request funds from the executive council for moving state agencies located at the seat of government from one location to another. The request may include moving costs, telephone costs, repair costs, or any other costs relating to the move. The executive council may approve and shall pay the costs from funds provided in section 7D.29 if it determines the agency or department has no available funds for these expenses.

10. Unless otherwise provided by law, the director shall coordinate the location, design, plans and specifications, construction, and ultimate use of the real or personal property to be purchased by a state agency for whose benefit and use the property is being obtained. If the purchase of real or personal property is to be financed pursuant to section 12.28, the department shall cooperate with the treasurer of state in providing the information necessary to complete the financing of the property. Upon awarding the contract for construction of a building or for site development, the director shall have sole authority to administer the contract.

A contract for acquisition, construction, erection, demolition, alteration, or repair by a private person of real or personal property to be lease-purchased by the treasurer of state pursuant to section 12.28 is exempt from section 18.6, subsections 1 and 9, unless the lease- purchase contract is funded in advance by a deposit of the lessor's moneys to be administered by the treasurer of state under a lease-purchase contract which requires rent payments to commence upon delivery of the lessor's moneys to the lessee.

Unless the context otherwise requires, for purposes of this subsection and subsection 12, "state agency" means a board, commission, bureau, division, office, department, or branch of state government.

11. Establish rental fees for space owned by the state and provided by the department to a state agency to which the general assembly has specifically appropriated funds to pay the rental fees.

The director shall notify each state agency provided space by the department to which an appropriation for the rental of that space has been made of the rental fee for the space. The fee shall be based on the cost of the space, services provided to the agency by the division of buildings and grounds, maintenance, utilities, administration, and other property management costs. The state agency shall pay the fee to the department in the same manner as other expenses of the state agency are paid. Fees collected shall be deposited in the general fund of the state.

12. Coordinate the leasing of buildings and office space by state agencies throughout the state and develop cooperative relationships with the state board of regents to promote the colocation of state agencies.

13. With the authorization of a constitutional majority of each house of the general assembly and approval by the governor, dispose of real property belonging to the state and its state agencies upon terms, conditions, and consideration as the director may recommend. If real estate subject to sale under this subsection has been purchased or acquired from appropriated funds, the proceeds of the sale shall be deposited with the treasurer of state and credited to the general fund of the state or other fund from which appropriated. There is appropriated from that same fund, with the prior approval of the executive council and in cooperation with the director, a sum equal to the proceeds so deposited and credited to the state agency to which the disposed property belonged or by which it was used, for purposes of the state agency.

14. Subject to the selection procedures of section 12.30, employ financial consultants, banks, insurers, underwriters, accountants, attorneys, and other advisors or consultants necessary to implement the provisions of subsection 10.

15. Prepare annual status reports for all ongoing capital projects of all state agencies, as defined in section 8.3A, and submit the status reports to the legislative capital projects committee.

16. Call upon any state agency, as defined in section 8.3A, for assistance the director may require in performing the director's duties under subsection 15 regarding capital project status reports. All state agencies, upon the request of the director and with the approval of the director of the department of management, shall assist the director and are authorized to make available to the director any existing studies, surveys, plans, data, and other materials in the possession of the state agencies which are relevant to the director's duties.

17. In carrying out the requirements of section 64.6, the state may purchase an individual or a blanket surety bond insuring the fidelity of state officers. The department may self-assume or self-insure fidelity exposures for state officials and employees. A state official is deemed to have furnished surety if the official has been covered by a program of insurance or self-insurance established by the department. To the extent possible, all bonded state employees shall be covered under one or more blanket bonds or position schedule bonds.

18. The management of state property loss exposures and state liability risk exposures shall be reviewed by the director for the capitol complex. Insurance coverage may include self-insurance or any type of insurance protection sold by insurers, including but not limited to, full coverage, partial coverage, coinsurance, reinsurance, and deductible insurance coverage.

19. Establish a monument maintenance account in the state treasury under the control of the department. Funds for the maintenance of a state monument, whether received by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, shall be deposited in the account. Funds in the account shall be deposited in an interest-bearing account. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, interest earned on the account shall be deposited in the account and shall be used to maintain the designated monument. Any maintenance funds for a state monument held by the state as of July 1, 1996, shall immediately be transferred to the account and the funds and interest earned on the funds shall be used to maintain the designated monument. Notwithstanding section 8.33, unencumbered or unobligated receipts in the monument maintenance account at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund of the state.

20. Perform all other duties required by law.

Section History: Early form

[C73, § 120; C97, § 147, 148, 150, 151, 164; S13, § 150, 151, 164, 165; SS15, § 147; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 273, 274, 296, 300; C46, § 18.2, 18.3, 19.18, 19.23; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, § 18.2, 18.3, 18.6, 19.18, 19.23; C73, § 19B.12; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 18.12; 81 Acts, ch 5, § 8, ch 6, § 10, ch 10, § 8]

Section History: Recent form

86 Acts, ch 1245, § 307; 87 Acts, ch 233, § 130; 88 Acts, ch 1180, § 1--;3; 88 Acts, ch 1277, § 25; 89 Acts, ch 76, § 2, 3; 89 Acts, ch 298, § 28; 90 Acts, ch 1168, §8; 91 Acts, ch 268, § 607, 608; 94 Acts, ch 1188, §32; 95 Acts, ch 214, § 3; 96 Acts, ch 1085, § 2--;4; 96 Acts, ch 1177, §3

Internal References

Referred to in § 2.47A, 18.16, 231.58, 303.2, 303.9


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