SF 2023 (LSB 5591XS (2) 83)

SENATE FILE 2023

BY  WARNSTADT

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to prohibited activities of certain public employees and officials in connection with urban renewal projects.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 403.16, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   No public official or employee of a municipality, or board or commission thereof, who has been vested by a municipality with urban renewal project powers under section 403.14, and no commissioner or employee of an urban renewal agency, which has been vested by a municipality with urban renewal project powers under section 403.14, shall voluntarily acquire any personal interest, as hereinafter defined, whether direct or indirect, in any urban renewal project, or in any property included or planned to be included in any urban renewal project of such municipality, or in any contract or proposed contract in connection with such urban renewal project. Where such acquisition is not voluntary, the interest acquired shall be immediately disclosed in writing to the local governing body, and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body. If any such official, commissioner or employee presently owns or controls, or has owned or controlled within the preceding two years, any interest, as hereinafter defined, whether direct or indirect, in any property which the official, commissioner or employee knows is included or planned to be included in an urban renewal project, the official, commissioner or employee shall immediately disclose this fact in writing to the local governing body, and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the governing body; and any such official, commissioner or employee shall not participate in any action by the municipality, or board or commission thereof, or urban renewal agency affecting such property, as the terms of such proscription are hereinafter defined. For the purposes of this section the following definitions and standards of construction shall apply:
EXPLANATION
   Current Code section 403.16 provides that no public official or employee of a municipality, or board or commission of a municipality, and no commissioner or employee of an urban renewal agency, which has been vested by a municipality with urban renewal project powers, shall voluntarily acquire any direct or indirect personal interest in any urban renewal project, including any property or contract in connection with such urban renewal project. This bill specifies that only those public officials and employees of a municipality who have been vested by a municipality with urban renewal project powers are restricted from acquiring a personal interest in connection with an urban renewal project.