House Study Bill 81



                                    HOUSE FILE       
                                    BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                        LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL
                                        BY CHAIRPERSON WAGNER)

                                         A BILL FOR

     1 An Act permitting city utilities and certain cities to delegate
     2    the authority to certify unpaid rates or charges for
     3    collection by the county treasurer.
     4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 384.84, subsection 4, paragraph a,
  1  2 subparagraph (1), Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    (1)  Except as provided in paragraph "d", all rates or
  1  4 charges for the services of sewer systems, storm water drainage
  1  5 systems, sewage treatment, solid waste collection, water,
  1  6 solid waste disposal, or any of these services, if not paid
  1  7 as provided by ordinance of the council or resolution of the
  1  8 trustees, are a lien upon the property or premises served
  1  9 by any of these services upon certification to the county
  1 10 treasurer that the rates or charges are due.  The governing
  1 11 body of a city utility may, by resolution, delegate to a
  1 12 designee named in the resolution the city utility's authority
  1 13 to certify unpaid rates or charges to the county treasurer.
  1 14 The city council of a city that is contracting with a city
  1 15 utility for joint billing or collection or both pursuant to
  1 16 chapter 28E may, by ordinance, delegate to such city utility,
  1 17 or the city utility's designee, the city's authority to certify
  1 18 unpaid rates or charges to the county treasurer.
  1 19                           EXPLANATION
  1 20    This bill relates to the certification to a county treasurer
  1 21 of unpaid rates or charges due for the services of sewer
  1 22 systems, storm water drainage systems, sewage treatment, solid
  1 23 waste collection, water, or solid waste disposal.
  1 24    The bill would allow for a city utility to delegate its
  1 25 certification authority to a designee by a resolution of the
  1 26 utility's governing board.  The bill also allows for a city
  1 27 council to delegate its certification authority, by ordinance
  1 28 of the city council, to a city utility if it has contracted
  1 29 with the city utility under Code chapter 28E for joint billing
  1 30 or collection services, or to that utility's designee.
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