Senate File 366 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  BOETTGER


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the election of county sheriff on a
  2    nonpartisan basis and providing an effective date.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2673SS 82
  5 sc/es/88

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 39.17, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code
  1  2 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    There shall be elected in each county at the general
  1  4 election to be held in the year 1976 and every four years
  1  5 thereafter, an auditor and a sheriff, each to hold office for
  1  6 a term of four years.
  1  7    Sec. 2.  Section 39.21, Code 2007, is amended to read as
  1  8 follows:
  1  9    39.21  NONPARTISAN OFFICES.
  1 10    1.  There shall be elected at each general election, on a
  1 11 nonpartisan basis, the following officers:
  1 12    1. a.  County public hospital trustees as required by
  1 13 section 347.25.
  1 14    2. b.  Soil and water conservation district commissioners
  1 15 as required by section 161A.5.
  1 16    3. c.  County agricultural extension council members as
  1 17 provided in section 176A.6.
  1 18    4. d.  Township officers as provided in section 39.22,
  1 19 subsection 2.
  1 20    2.  There shall be elected in each county at the general
  1 21 election to be held in the year 2008 and every four years
  1 22 thereafter, on a nonpartisan basis, a sheriff to hold office
  1 23 for a term of four years.
  1 24    Sec. 3.  Section 69.14A, subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph
  1 25 1, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1 26    A vacancy in any of the offices listed in section 39.17 or
  1 27 in the office of county sheriff shall be filled by one of the
  1 28 two following procedures:
  1 29    Sec. 4.  Section 97B.49C, subsection 1, paragraph e, Code
  1 30 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  1 31    e.  "Sheriff" means a county sheriff as defined described
  1 32 in section 39.17 39.21.
  1 33    Sec. 5.  Section 97B.49G, subsection 7, paragraph a,
  1 34 unnumbered paragraph 3, subparagraph (1), Code 2007, is
  1 35 amended to read as follows:
  2  1    (1)  As a county sheriff as defined described in section
  2  2 39.17 39.21.
  2  3    Sec. 6.  Section 331.651, subsection 1, unnumbered
  2  4 paragraph 1, Code 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  2  5    The office of sheriff is an a nonpartisan elective office.
  2  6 However, if a vacancy occurs in the office, the first deputy
  2  7 shall assume the office after qualifying as provided in this
  2  8 section.  The first deputy shall hold the office until a
  2  9 successor is appointed or elected to the unexpired term as
  2 10 provided in chapter 69.  If a sheriff is suspended from
  2 11 office, the district court may appoint a sheriff until a
  2 12 temporary appointment is made by the board as provided in
  2 13 section 66.19.
  2 14    Sec. 7.  Section 331.661, subsection 3, Code 2007, is
  2 15 amended to read as follows:
  2 16    3.  The office of multicounty sheriff is created effective
  2 17 on January 1 of the year following the next general election
  2 18 at which the county sheriff is elected as provided by this
  2 19 section and section 39.17 39.21.
  2 20    Sec. 8.  IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed
  2 21 of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  2 22                           EXPLANATION
  2 23    This bill provides that the county sheriff shall be elected
  2 24 on a nonpartisan basis beginning with the general election in
  2 25 November 2008.
  2 26    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  2 27 LSB 2673SS 82
  2 28 sc:nh/es/88