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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