House File 698 H-1058 Amend House File 698 as follows: 1 1. By striking everything after the enacting clause and 2 inserting: 3 < Section 1. Section 331.325, subsection 3, Code 2019, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 3. a. In lieu of management of the cemeteries, the 6 board of supervisors may create, by ordinance, a cemetery 7 commission to assume jurisdiction and management of the pioneer 8 cemeteries in the county. The ordinance shall delineate the 9 number of commissioners, the appointing authority, the term of 10 office, officers, employees, organizational matters, rules of 11 procedure, compensation and expenses, and other matters deemed 12 pertinent by the board. The board may delegate any power and 13 duties relating to cemeteries which that may otherwise be 14 exercised by township trustees pursuant to sections 359.28 15 through 359.40 to the cemetery commission except the commission 16 shall not certify a tax levy pursuant to section 359.30 or 17 359.33 and except that the expenses of the cemetery commission 18 shall be paid from the county general fund. 19 b. The cemetery commission, once created, may continue to 20 assume jurisdiction and management of a cemetery that would 21 no longer qualify as a pioneer cemetery due to recent burials 22 if the cemetery qualified as a pioneer cemetery upon or after 23 creation of the cemetery commission. The choice to continue 24 retaining jurisdiction and control of a cemetery that no longer 25 qualifies as a pioneer cemetery shall be made jointly between 26 the county board of supervisors and the cemetery commission. 27 c. The board of supervisors and the cemetery commission 28 may decide to jointly care for any cemetery that had between 29 thirteen and twenty-four burials within the previous fifty 30 years. However, a cemetery that had thirteen or more burials 31 within the previous fifty years shall not be considered a 32 pioneer cemetery. > 33 -1- HF698.1041 (2) 88 js/rn 1/ 2 #1.