CHAPTER 29
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC DEFENSE

  29.1  Department of public defense.
  The department of public defense is composed of the military division and the homeland security and emergency management division. The adjutant general is the director of the department of public defense and the budget and personnel of all of the divisions are subject to the approval of the adjutant general. The Iowa emergency response commission established by section 30.2 is attached to the department of public defense for organizational purposes.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29.1]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §1701; 89 Acts, ch 204, §1; 92 Acts, ch 1139, §20; 92 Acts, ch 1140, §3; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §157

Appointment, §29A.11 

  29.2  Military division.
  There shall be within the department of public defense, as a division thereof, a state military agency which shall be styled and known as the “military division, department of public defense”, with the adjutant general as the administrator thereof. The term military division shall include the office of the adjutant general and all functions, responsibilities, powers and duties of the adjutant general of the state of Iowa and the military forces of the state of Iowa as provided in the laws of the state.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29.2]

  29.2A  Airport fire fighters — maximum age.
  The maximum age for a person to be employed as an airport fire fighter by the military division of the department of public defense is sixty-five years of age.
98 Acts, ch 1183, §106

  29.3  Homeland security and emergency management division.
  There shall be within the department of public defense of the state government, as a division of the department, an office of emergency management which shall be known as the “homeland security and emergency management division, department of public defense”, with an administrator of the division who shall be the head of the division. The adjutant general, as the director of the department of public defense, shall exercise supervisory authority over the division.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29.3]
92 Acts, ch 1139, §21; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §157
See chapter 29C 
  29.4  Repealed by 92 Acts, ch 1140, §  38.