House File 435 - Introduced HOUSE FILE BY WHITEAD Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to allowing certain cities to appoint additional 2 civil service commissioners. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2518HH 82 5 eg/es/88 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 400.1, Code 2007, is amended to read as 1 2 follows: 1 3 400.1 APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION. 1 4 In cities having a population of eight thousand or over and 1 5 having a paid fire department or a paid police department, the 1 6 mayor, one year after a regular city election, with the 1 7 approval of the council, shall appoint three civil service 1 8 commissioners who shall hold office, one until the first 1 9 Monday in April of the second year, one until the first Monday 1 10 in April of the third year, and one until the first Monday in 1 11 April of the fourth year after such appointment, whose 1 12 successors shall be appointed for a term of four years. In 1 13 cities having a population of more thanone hundredseventy 1 14 thousand, the city council may establish, by ordinance, the 1 15 number of civil service commissioners at not less than three. 1 16 For the purpose of determining the population of a city 1 17 under this chapter, the federal census conducted in 1980 shall 1 18 be used. 1 19 EXPLANATION 1 20 Currently, only those cities having a population of more 1 21 than 100,000 can appoint more than three civil service 1 22 commissioners; cities of lesser population can only appoint 1 23 three commissioners. This bill gives cities having a 1 24 population of more than 70,000 the option to appoint three or 1 25 more civil service commissioners. 1 26 LSB 2518HH 82 1 27 eg:sc/es/88