House File 485 - Enrolled House File 485 AN ACT ALLOWING CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SERVE A CITY’S VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT IN ANY POSITION OR CAPACITY. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 372.13, subsection 10, Code 2017, is amended to read as follows: 10. A council member, during the term for which that member is elected, is not precluded from holding the office of chief of the volunteer fire department if the fire department serves an area with a population of not more than two thousand or from serving the volunteer fire department in any other position or capacity . A person holding the office of chief of such a volunteer fire department at the time of the person’s election
House File 485, p. 2 to the city council may continue to hold the office of chief of the fire department during the city council term for which that person was elected. ______________________________ LINDA UPMEYER Speaker of the House ______________________________ JACK WHITVER President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 485, Eighty-seventh General Assembly. ______________________________ CARMINE BOAL Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2017 ______________________________ TERRY E. BRANSTAD Governor