PERMITTING CITY UTILITIES AND CERTAIN CITIES TO DELEGATE THE AUTHORITY TO CERTIFY UNPAID RATES OR CHARGES FOR COLLECTION BY THE COUNTY TREASURER.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

   Section 1.  Section 384.84, subsection 4, paragraph a, subparagraph (1), Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  Except as provided in paragraph “d”, all rates or charges for the services of sewer systems, storm water drainage systems, sewage treatment, solid waste collection, water, solid waste disposal, or any of these services, if not paid as provided by ordinance of the council or resolution of the trustees, are a lien upon the property or premises served by any of these services upon certification to the county treasurer that the rates or charges are due.  The governing body of a city utility may, by resolution, delegate to a designee named in the resolution the city utility’s authority to certify unpaid rates or charges to the county treasurer. The city council of a city that is contracting with a city utility for joint billing or collection or both pursuant to chapter 28E may, by ordinance, delegate to such city utility, 

or the city utility’s designee, the city’s authority to certify unpaid rates or charges to the county treasurer.

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KRAIG PAULSEN
Speaker of the House

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JOHN P. KIBBIE
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 454, Eighty-fourth General Assembly.

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W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2011

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TERRY E. BRANSTAD
Governor