Senate Amendment 3106
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 426 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
1 3 following:
1 4 <Section 1. Section 39.17, unnumbered paragraph 1,
1 5 Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 6 There shall be elected in each county at the
1 7 general election to be held in the year 1976 and every
1 8 four years thereafter, an auditor and a sheriff, each
1 9 to hold office for a term of four years.
1 10 Sec. . Section 39.21, Code 2007, is amended to
1 11 read as follows:
1 12 39.21 NONPARTISAN OFFICES.
1 13 1. There shall be elected at each general
1 14 election, on a nonpartisan basis, the following
1 15 officers:
1 16 1. a. County public hospital trustees as required
1 17 by section 347.25.
1 18 2. b. Soil and water conservation district
1 19 commissioners as required by section 161A.5.
1 20 3. c. County agricultural extension council
1 21 members as provided in section 176A.6.
1 22 4. d. Township officers as provided in section
1 23 39.22, subsection 2.
1 24 2. There shall be elected in each county at the
1 25 general election to be held in the year 2008 and every
1 26 four years thereafter, on a nonpartisan basis, a
1 27 sheriff to hold office for a term of four years.>
1 28 #2. Page 1, by inserting after line 19 the
1 29 following:
1 30 <Sec. . Section 69.14A, subsection 2,
1 31 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read
1 32 as follows:
1 33 A vacancy in any of the offices listed in section
1 34 39.17 or in the office of county sheriff shall be
1 35 filled by one of the two following procedures:
1 36 Sec. . Section 97B.49C, subsection 1, paragraph
1 37 e, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 38 e. "Sheriff" means a county sheriff as defined
1 39 described in section 39.17 39.21.
1 40 Sec. . Section 97B.49G, subsection 7, paragraph
1 41 a, unnumbered paragraph 3, subparagraph (1), Code
1 42 2007, is amended to read as follows:
1 43 (1) As a county sheriff as defined described in
1 44 section 39.17 39.21.
1 45 Sec. . Section 331.651, subsection 1,
1 46 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read
1 47 as follows:
1 48 The office of sheriff is an a nonpartisan elective
1 49 office. However, if a vacancy occurs in the office,
1 50 the first deputy shall assume the office after
2 1 qualifying as provided in this section. The first
2 2 deputy shall hold the office until a successor is
2 3 appointed or elected to the unexpired term as provided
2 4 in chapter 69. If a sheriff is suspended from office,
2 5 the district court may appoint a sheriff until a
2 6 temporary appointment is made by the board as provided
2 7 in section 66.19.
2 8 Sec. . Section 331.661, subsection 3, Code
2 9 2007, is amended to read as follows:
2 10 3. The office of multicounty sheriff is created
2 11 effective on January 1 of the year following the next
2 12 general election at which the county sheriff is
2 13 elected as provided by this section and section 39.17
2 14 39.21.>
2 15 #3. Title page, line 1, by inserting after the
2 16 words <relating to> the following: <nonpartisan
2 17 offices by providing for election of county sheriff on
2 18 a nonpartisan basis and by modifying>.
2 19
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2 22 NANCY J. BOETTGER
2 23 SF 426.501 82
2 24 sc/je/7732
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