137F.3A  Municipal corporation inspections — contingent appropriation.
  1.  a.  The department of inspections and appeals may employ additional full-time equivalent positions to enforce the provisions of this chapter and chapters 137C and 137D, with the approval of the department of management, if either of the following apply:
  (1)  A municipal corporation operating pursuant to a chapter 28E agreement with the department of inspections and appeals to enforce the chapters either fails to renew the agreement effective after April 1, 2007, or discontinues, after April 1, 2007, enforcement activities in one or more jurisdictions during the agreement time frame.
  (2)  The department of inspections and appeals cancels an agreement after April 1, 2007, due to noncompliance with the terms of the agreement.
  b.  Before approval may be given, the director of the department of management must have determined that the expenses exceed the funds budgeted by the general assembly for food inspections to the department of inspections and appeals. The department of inspections and appeals may hire no more than one full-time equivalent position for each six hundred inspections required pursuant to this chapter and chapters 137C and 137D.
  2.  Notwithstanding chapter 137D, and sections 137C.9 and 137F.6, if the conditions described in this section are met, fees imposed pursuant to that chapter and those sections shall be retained by and are appropriated to the department of inspections and appeals each fiscal year to provide for salaries, support, maintenance, and miscellaneous purposes associated with the additional inspections. The appropriation made in this subsection is not applicable in a fiscal year for which the general assembly enacts an appropriation made for the purposes described in this subsection.
2006 Acts, ch 1185, §46, 53; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §214, 221; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §39
For fiscal years beginning July 1, 2011, through July 1, 2014, department of inspections and appeals to retain license fees generated as a result of actions under this section occurring during the fiscal period beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2015, for the purpose of enforcing chapters 137C, 137D, and 137F; 2011 Acts, ch 127, §15, 73, 89; 2012 Acts, ch 1131, §17; 2013 Acts, ch 135, §15, 43