House File 216 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  ARNOLD, KAUFMANN, SWAIM,
                                           and HUSER


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to what constitutes a pioneer cemetery.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 1977YH 83
  4 av/nh/5

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 331.325, subsection 1, Code 2009, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  As used in this section, "pioneer cemetery" means a
  1  4 cemetery where there have been six twelve or fewer burials in
  1  5 the preceding fifty years.
  1  6    Sec. 2.  Section 523I.102, subsection 39, Code 2009, is
  1  7 amended to read as follows:
  1  8    39.  "Pioneer cemetery" means a cemetery where there were
  1  9 six twelve or fewer burials in the preceding fifty years.
  1 10                           EXPLANATION
  1 11    This bill amends Code section 331.325 to provide that for
  1 12 the purposes of county control and maintenance of pioneer
  1 13 cemeteries, a pioneer cemetery is a cemetery where there have
  1 14 been 12, instead of six, or fewer burials in the preceding 50
  1 15 years.
  1 16    Code section 523I.102 is amended to make the definition of
  1 17 pioneer cemetery consistent with that change.
  1 18 LSB 1977YH 83
  1 19 av/nh/5