House File 478 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  RANTS

                                       (COMPANION TO SF 13 BY WARNSTADT)


    Passed House, Date               Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act allowing certain cities to appoint additional civil
  2    service commissioners.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1589YH 82
  5 eg/sh/8

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 than one hundred seventy
  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 1589YH 82
  1 27 eg:sc/sh/8