House File 2179      



                                    HOUSE FILE       
                                    BY  ROGERS

                                         A BILL FOR

     1 An Act related to filing requirements for certain petitions to
     2    the city development board.
     3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 368.11, subsection 1, Code 2011, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  A petition for incorporation, discontinuance, or
  1  4 boundary adjustment may be filed with the board by a city
  1  5 council, a county board of supervisors, a regional planning
  1  6 authority, or five percent of the registered voters of a
  1  7 city or territory involved in the proposal.  A petition for
  1  8 discontinuance or boundary adjustment may be filed with the
  1  9 board by a city council, a county board of supervisors, a
  1 10 regional planning authority, or five percent of the registered
  1 11 voters of the city involved in the proposal. Notice of the
  1 12 filing, including a copy of the petition, must be served upon
  1 13 the council of each city for which a discontinuance or boundary
  1 14 adjustment is proposed, the board of supervisors for each
  1 15 county which contains a portion of a city to be discontinued or
  1 16 territory to be incorporated, annexed or severed, the council
  1 17 of a city if an incorporation includes territory within the
  1 18 city's urbanized area, and any regional planning authority for
  1 19 the area involved.
  1 20                           EXPLANATION
  1 21    This bill modifies the filing requirements for petitions
  1 22 to the city development board involving involuntary city
  1 23 development action by specifying that a petition for
  1 24 incorporation must be filed with the city development board
  1 25 by 5 percent of registered voters of a territory involved in
  1 26 the proposal, and a petition for discontinuance or boundary
  1 27 adjustment must be filed with the city development board by
  1 28 5 percent of registered voters of the city involved in the
  1 29 proposal.
  1 30    Current law which allows petitions for incorporation,
  1 31 discontinuance, or boundary adjustments to also be filed by
  1 32 a city council, a county board of supervisors, or a regional
  1 33 planning authority involved in the proposal is maintained.
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