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IA Code § 418.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.5 - Flood mitigation board.

418.5 Flood mitigation board.   1. The flood mitigation board is established consisting of nine voting members and five ex officio, nonvoting members, and is located for administrative purposes within the department. The director of the department shall provide office space, staff assistance, and necessary supplies and equipment for the board. The director shall budget funds to pay the necessary expenses of the board. In performing its functions, the board is performing a public function on behalf of the state and is a public instrumentality of the state.   2. The voting membership of the board shall include all of the following:   a. Four members of the general public. Two general public members shall have demonstrable experience or expertise in the field of natural disaster recovery and two general public members shall have demonstrable experience or expertise in the field of flood mitigation.   b. The director of the department of natural resources or the director’s designee.   c. The secretary of agriculture or the secretary’s designee.   d. The treasurer of state or the treasurer’s designee.   e. The director of the department or the director’s designee.   f. The executive director of the Iowa finance authority or the executive director’s designee.   3. The general public members shall be appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate. The appointments shall comply with sections 69.16 and 69.16A.   4. The chairperson and vice chairperson of the board shall be designated by the governor from the board members listed in subsection 2. In case of the absence or disability of the chairperson and vice chairperson, the members of the board shall elect a temporary chairperson by a majority vote of those members who are present and voting.   5. The members appointed under subsection 2, paragraph “a”, shall be appointed to three-year staggered terms and the terms shall commence and end as provided by section 69.19. If a vacancy occurs, a successor shall be appointed to serve the unexpired term. A successor shall be appointed in the same manner and subject to the same qualifications as the original appointment.   6. The board’s ex officio membership shall be comprised of the following:   a. Four members of the general assembly with one each appointed by the majority leader of the senate, the minority leader of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the minority leader of the house of representatives. A legislative member serves for a term as provided in section 69.16B in an ex officio, nonvoting capacity and is eligible for per diem and expenses as provided in section 2.10.   b. The director of revenue or the director’s designee.   7. A majority of the voting members constitutes a quorum.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §6, 18; 2012 Acts, ch 1138, §69, 84, 85; 2013 Acts, ch 29, §51, 52; 2013 Acts, ch 140, §65; 2015 Acts, ch 116, §26  Referred to in §418.1
IA Code § 418.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.6 - Expenses of board members.

418.6 Expenses of board members.   The voting members of the board are entitled to receive reimbursement for actual expenses incurred while engaged in the performance of official duties. A member of the board is not eligible to receive the additional expense allowance provided in section 7E.6, subsection 2.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §7, 18
IA Code § 418.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.7 - Department duties.

418.7 Department duties.   The department, subject to approval by the board, shall adopt administrative rules pursuant to chapter 17A necessary to administer the flood mitigation program. The department shall provide the board with assistance in implementing administrative functions and providing technical assistance and application assistance to applicants under the program.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §8, 18; 2013 Acts, ch 29, §53  Referred to in §418.8
IA Code § 418.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.8 - Flood mitigation program.

418.8 Flood mitigation program.   1. The board shall establish and the department, subject to direction and approval by the board, shall administer a flood mitigation program to assist governmental entities in undertaking projects approved under this chapter. The flood mitigation program shall include projects approved by the board to utilize either financial assistance from the flood mitigation fund created under section 418.10 or sales tax revenues remitted to the governmental entity under section 418.12. A governmental entity shall not be approved by the board to utilize both financial assistance from the flood mitigation fund and sales tax revenues remitted to the governmental entity.   2. The board shall, by rules adopted under section 418.7, prescribe application instructions, forms, and other requirements deemed necessary to operate the flood mitigation program.   3. The board may contract with or otherwise consult with the Iowa flood center, established under section 466C.1, to assist the board in administering the flood mitigation program.   4. The board shall submit a written report to the governor and the general assembly on or before January 15 of each year. The report shall include information relating to all projects approved by the board for inclusion in the flood mitigation program, the status of such projects, summaries of each report submitted to the board under section 418.4, subsection 6, information relating to the types of funding being used for each approved project, including all indebtedness incurred by the applicable governmental entities, and any recommendations for legislative action to modify the provisions of this chapter.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §9, 18; 2013 Acts, ch 29, §54
IA Code § 418.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.10 - Flood mitigation fund.

418.10 Flood mitigation fund.   1. A flood mitigation fund is created as a separate and distinct fund in the state treasury under the control of the board and consists of moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any other moneys available to and obtained or accepted by the board for placement in the fund. Moneys in the fund shall only be used for the purposes of this section.   2. Payments of interest, repayments of moneys loaned pursuant to this chapter, and recaptures of grants, if provided for in the financial assistance agreements, shall be deposited in the fund.   3. The moneys in the fund shall be used to provide assistance in the form of grants, loans, and forgivable loans. The board may only provide financial assistance from moneys in the fund.   4. Moneys credited to the fund are not subject to section 8.33 and shall not be transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered except as provided in this chapter. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund.   5. If any portion of the moneys appropriated for deposit in the fund have not been awarded during the fiscal year for which the appropriation is made, the portion which has not been awarded may be utilized by the board to provide financial assistance under the program in subsequent fiscal years.   6. The board may make a multiyear commitment to a governmental entity of up to four million dollars in any one fiscal year.   7. Moneys received by a governmental entity from the fund shall be deposited in the governmental entity’s flood project fund under section 418.13.   8. The board is not required to award financial assistance pursuant to this section unless moneys are appropriated to and available from the fund.   9. Following completion of all projects approved to utilize financial assistance from the fund and upon a determination by the board that remaining moneys in the fund are no longer needed for the program, all moneys remaining in the fund or subsequently deposited in the fund shall be credited for deposit in the general fund of the state.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §11, 18  Referred to in §321.34, 418.4, 418.8, 418.9, 418.13
IA Code § 418.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.11 - Sales tax increment calculation.

418.11 Sales tax increment calculation.   1. The department of revenue shall calculate quarterly the amount of increased sales tax revenues for each governmental entity approved to use sales tax increment revenues and the amount of such revenues to be transferred to the sales tax increment fund pursuant to section 423.2A, subsection 2.   2. The department of revenue shall calculate the amount of the increase for purposes of subsection 1 as follows:   a. Determine the amount of sales subject to the tax under section 423.2 in each applicable area specified in subsection 3, during the corresponding quarter in the base year from retail establishments in such areas.   b. Determine the amount of sales subject to the tax under section 423.2 in each applicable area specified in subsection 3, during the corresponding quarter in each subsequent calendar year from retail establishments in such areas.   c. Subtract the base year quarterly amount determined under paragraph “a” from the subsequent calendar year quarterly amount in paragraph “b”.   d. If the amount determined under paragraph “c” is positive, the product of the amount determined under paragraph “c” times the tax rate imposed under section 423.2 shall constitute the amount of increased sales tax revenue pursuant to subsection 1.   3. a. For projects approved for a governmental entity as defined in section 418.1, subsection 4, paragraph “a”, the area used to determine the sales tax increment shall include only the unincorporated areas of the county.   b. For projects approved for a governmental entity as defined in section 418.1, subsection 4, paragraph “b”, the area used to determine the sales tax increment shall include only the incorporated areas of the city.   c. For projects approved for a governmental entity as defined in section 418.1, subsection 4, paragraph “c”, the area used to determine the sales tax increment shall include the incorporated areas of each participating city, the unincorporated areas of each participating county, the area of any participating drainage district not otherwise included in the areas of the participating cities or county, and the area served by any sanitary district or combined water and sanitary district and not otherwise included in the areas of the participating cities or counties, as applicable.   d. For all projects, the area used to determine the sales tax increment shall not include any parcels of real property that are included in a reinvestment district designated pursuant to chapter 15J.   4. Each governmental entity shall assist the department of revenue in identifying retail establishments in the governmental entity’s applicable area that are collecting sales tax. This process shall be ongoing until the governmental entity ceases to utilize sales tax revenue under this chapter.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §12, 18; 2015 Acts, ch 120, §16, 17, 24, 25; 2018 Acts, ch 1161, §152, 229  Referred to in §418.9, 418.12, 418.15, 423.2A
IA Code § 418.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.13 - Flood project fund.

418.13 Flood project fund.   1. Sales tax revenue remitted by the department of revenue to a governmental entity under section 418.12 or financial assistance received by a governmental entity pursuant to section 418.10 shall be deposited in the governmental entity’s flood project fund created for purposes of this chapter and shall be used to fund the costs of the governmental entity’s approved project, to reimburse the governmental entity for funds advanced internally or to help make payments on bonds incurred to pay for approved projects, and to pay principal and interest on bonds issued pursuant to section 418.14, if applicable.   2. In addition to the moneys received pursuant to section 418.10 or 418.12, a governmental entity may deposit in the flood project fund any other moneys lawfully received by the governmental entity, including but not limited to local sales and services tax receipts collected under chapter 423B.  2012 Acts, ch 1094, §14, 18; 2018 Acts, ch 1124, §1, 2  Referred to in §418.4, 418.10, 418.12, 418.14
IA Code § 418.16 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 418 - FLOOD MITIGATION PROGRAM|Section 418.16 - Flood recovery fund.

418.16 Flood recovery fund.   1. A flood recovery fund is established in the state treasury under the control of the board. The fund shall consist of moneys appropriated to the fund by the general assembly and any other moneys available to, obtained by, or accepted by the board for deposit in the fund. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the department and shall be used for the purposes designated in this section. Moneys in the fund shall not supplant any federal disaster recovery moneys.   2. The board may award moneys from the fund to eligible political subdivisions of the state. A political subdivision of the state is eligible to receive moneys from the fund if the political subdivision is located in a county designated under presidential disaster declaration DR-4421-IA and is also located in a county where the federal emergency management agency’s individual assistance program has been activated.   3. In order to be awarded moneys from the fund, a political subdivision of the state shall submit a project application to the department for consideration by the board. The board shall prescribe application forms and application instructions. Project applications shall include all of the following:   a. A description of the project and the manner in which the project supports flood response, flood recovery, or flood mitigation activities.   b. A description of the financial assistance needed from the fund.   c. Details on any additional moneys to be applied to the project.   4. a. The board shall review all project applications. During the review of a project application, the board shall consider, at a minimum, all of the following:   (1) Whether the project supports flood response, flood recovery, or flood mitigation activities.   (2) Whether moneys from the fund are essential to meet the necessary expenses or serious needs of the political subdivision related to flood response, flood recovery, or flood mitigation.   b. Upon review of a project application, the board shall approve, defer, or deny the application. If a project application is approved, the board shall specify the amount of moneys from the fund awarded to the political subdivision. The board shall negotiate and execute on behalf of the department all necessary agreements to provide the moneys. If a project application is deferred or denied, the board shall state the reasons for such deferral or denial.   5. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund that remain unencumbered or unobligated at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert but shall remain available for expenditure for the purposes designated in this section. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the fund shall be credited to the fund.  2019 Acts, ch 89, §27, 30
IA Code § 419.5 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.5 - Determination of rent.

419.5 Determination of rent.   1. Prior to entering into a lease, sale contract or loan agreement with respect to any project, the governing body must determine the amount necessary in each year to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds proposed to be issued to finance such project; the amount necessary to be paid each year into any reserve funds which the governing body may deem advisable to establish in connection with the retirement of the proposed bonds and the maintenance of the project; and unless the terms of the lease, sale contract or loan agreement provide that the lessee or contracting party shall maintain the project and carry all proper insurance with respect thereto, the estimated cost of maintaining the project in good repair and keeping it properly insured.   2. The determination and findings of the governing body, required to be made by subsection 1 of this section, shall be set forth in the proceedings under which the proposed bonds are to be issued; provided, however, that the foregoing amounts need not be expressed in dollars and cents in the lease, sale contract or loan agreement or in the proceedings under which the bonds are authorized to be issued, but may be set forth in the form of a formula or formulas. Prior to the issuance of the bonds authorized by this chapter the municipality shall enter into a lease, sale contract or loan agreement with respect to the project which shall require the lessee or contracting party to complete the project and which shall provide for payment to the municipality of such rentals or payments as, upon the basis of such determinations and findings, will be sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds issued to finance the project; to build up and maintain any reserves deemed advisable, by the governing body, in connection therewith and unless the lease, sale contract or loan agreement obligates the lessee or contracting party to pay for the maintenance and insurance on the project, to pay the costs of maintaining the project in good repair and keeping it properly insured.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.5]  Referred to in §419.11
IA Code § 419.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.6 - Refunding bonds.

419.6 Refunding bonds.   Any bonds, issued under the provisions of this chapter and at any time outstanding, may at any time and from time to time be refunded by a municipality by the issuance of its refunding bonds in such amount as the governing body may deem necessary but not exceeding an amount sufficient to refund the principal of the bonds to be so refunded, any unpaid interest thereon and any premiums and commissions necessary to be paid in connection therewith. Any such refunding may be effected whether the bonds to be refunded shall have matured or shall thereafter mature, either by sale of the refunding bonds and the application of the proceeds thereof for the payment of the bonds to be refunded thereby, or by exchange of the refunding bonds for the bonds to be refunded thereby, but the holders of any bonds to be so refunded shall not be compelled, without their consent, to surrender their bonds for payment or exchange prior to the date on which they are payable by maturity date, option to redeem or otherwise, or if they are called for redemption, prior to the date on which they are by their terms subject to redemption by option or otherwise. All refunding bonds, issued under authority of this chapter, shall be payable solely from the revenues out of which the bonds to be refunded thereby are payable and shall be subject to the provisions contained in section 419.3 and may be secured in accordance with the provisions of section 419.4.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.6]
IA Code § 419.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.7 - Application of proceeds limited.

419.7 Application of proceeds limited.   The proceeds from the sale of any bonds, issued under authority of this chapter, shall be applied only for the purpose for which the bonds were issued and if, for any reason, any portion of such proceeds shall not be needed for the purpose for which the bonds were issued, such unneeded portion of said proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the principal or the interest on said bonds. The cost of any project shall be deemed to include the actual cost of acquiring a site or the cost of the construction of any part of a project which may be constructed including architects’ and engineers’ fees, the purchase price of any part of a project that may be acquired by purchase, all expenses in connection with the authorization, sale and issuance of the bonds to finance such acquisition, an amount to be held as a bond reserve fund, and the interest on such bonds for a reasonable time prior to construction, during construction and for not exceeding six months after completion of construction.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.7]
IA Code § 419.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.8 - No payment by municipality.

419.8 No payment by municipality. Repealed by  2009 Acts, ch 100, §20, 21  .
IA Code § 419.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.9 - Public hearing.

419.9 Public hearing.   Prior to the issuance of any bonds under authority of this chapter, the municipality shall conduct a public hearing on the proposal to issue said bonds. Notice of intention to issue the bonds, specifying the amount and purpose thereof and the time and place of hearing, shall be published at least once not less than fifteen days prior to the date fixed for the hearing in a newspaper published and having a general circulation within the municipality. If there is no newspaper published therein, the notice shall be published in a newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the municipality. At the time and place fixed for the public hearing the governing body of the municipality shall give all local residents who appear at the hearing an opportunity to express their views for or against the proposal to issue the bonds and at the hearing, or any adjournment thereof, shall adopt a resolution determining whether or not to proceed with the issuance of the bonds.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.9]
IA Code § 419.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.10 - Default.

419.10 Default.   In case of a default in the payment of any revenue bonds, issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the municipality which defaulted in such payment shall be precluded from entering into any activity of its own except to release the property for some industrial activity.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.10]
IA Code § 419.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.12 - Purchase.

419.12 Purchase.   The municipality may accept any bona fide offer to purchase which is sufficient to pay all the outstanding bonds, interest, taxes, special levies, and other costs that have been incurred.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.12]
IA Code § 419.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.13 - Exception to budget law and certain bond provisions.

419.13 Exception to budget law and certain bond provisions.   The provisions of sections 73A.12 to 73A.16 shall not apply to bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.13]
IA Code § 419.14 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.14 - Eminent domain not available.

419.14 Eminent domain not available.   No land acquired by a municipality by the exercise of condemnation through eminent domain can be used to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.14]  Referred to in §419.17
IA Code § 419.15 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 419 - MUNICIPAL SUPPORT OF PROJECTS|Section 419.15 - Limitation of actions.

419.15 Limitation of actions.   No action shall be brought questioning the legality of any contract, lease, mortgage, proceedings or bonds executed in connection with any project or improvements authorized by this chapter from and after three months from the time the bonds are ordered issued by the proper authority.  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §419.15]