House File 28 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  WISE


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                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to county enterprise authority.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 1470HH 81
  4 sc/sh/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 331.461, subsection 2, Code 2005, is
  1  2 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1  3    NEW PARAGRAPH.  i.  Port facilities or port facilities
  1  4 systems, including without limitation, real and personal
  1  5 property, water, buildings, improvements, and equipment useful
  1  6 and suitable for taking care of the needs of commerce and
  1  7 shipping, and also including without limitation, wharves,
  1  8 docks, basins, piers, quay walls, warehouses, tunnels, belt
  1  9 railway facilities, cranes, dock apparatus, and other
  1 10 machinery necessary for the convenient and economical
  1 11 accommodation and handling of watercraft of all kinds and of
  1 12 freight and passengers.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14    Counties and cities are authorized by statute to create
  1 15 county or city enterprises for certain purposes which are
  1 16 specified in statute under the definitions of "county
  1 17 enterprise" and "city enterprise".  A board of supervisors (or
  1 18 city council) may establish by ordinance rates to be charged
  1 19 for the services of a county (or city) enterprise.  Debt may
  1 20 be incurred to finance county (or city) enterprise projects
  1 21 and such debt is payable from the net revenues of the county
  1 22 (or city) enterprise.
  1 23    This bill adds port facilities and port facilities systems
  1 24 to the definition of county enterprise.  Currently, port
  1 25 facilities and port facilities systems are included in the
  1 26 definition of city enterprise in Code section 384.24.
  1 27 LSB 1470HH 81
  1 28 sc/sh/8