House File 552 - Introduced



                                      HOUSE FILE       
                                      BY  COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION

                                      (SUCCESSOR TO HF 28)


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

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act concerning the appointment of airport commissioners.
  2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  3 TLSB 1215HV 83
  4 dea/nh/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 330.20, Code 2009, is amended to read
  1  2 as follows:
  1  3    330.20  APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSION == TERMS.
  1  4    When a majority of the voters favors airport control and
  1  5 management by a commission, the governing body shall, within
  1  6 ten days, appoint an airport commission of three or five
  1  7 resident voters members, each of whom shall be a resident of
  1  8 the city or county establishing the commission or a resident
  1  9 of a city or county served by the airport.  The governing body
  1 10 shall by ordinance set the commencement dates of office and
  1 11 the length of the terms of office which shall be no more than
  1 12 six and no less than three years.  The terms of the first
  1 13 appointees of a newly created commission shall be staggered by
  1 14 length of term and all subsequent appointments shall be for
  1 15 full terms.  The governing body shall also provide for
  1 16 staggered terms of office for the appointees of commissions
  1 17 existing on July 1, 1991.  Vacancies shall be filled as
  1 18 original appointments are made.  Members of the airport
  1 19 commission shall serve without compensation.  Each
  1 20 commissioner shall execute and furnish a bond in an amount
  1 21 fixed by the governing body and filed with the city clerk or
  1 22 county auditor.  The commission shall elect from its own
  1 23 members a chairperson and a secretary who shall serve for a
  1 24 term as the commission shall determine.
  1 25                           EXPLANATION
  1 26    This bill provides that a person appointed by the governing
  1 27 body of a city or county to serve on an airport commission
  1 28 must be either a resident of that city or county or a resident
  1 29 of a city or county served by the airport.  Under current law,
  1 30 only resident voters of the city or county that established
  1 31 the airport commission may serve as members of the commission.
  1 32    The bill also strikes obsolete language from Code section
  1 33 330.20 relating to members' terms of office for commissions in
  1 34 existence in 1991.
  1 35 LSB 1215HV 83
  2  1 dea/nh/14