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IA Code § 331.909 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 331 - COUNTY HOME RULE IMPLEMENTATION|Section 331.909 - Multidisciplinary community services teams.

331.909 Multidisciplinary community services teams.   1. A county or multicounty consortium of agencies providing health, counseling, economic assistance, education, law enforcement, or therapeutic services may establish a multidisciplinary team for the more effective planning and delivery of services to an individual or family under the following conditions:   a. The team complies with federal regulations regarding confidentiality.   b. The agencies comprising the team have written confidentiality standards.   c. The agencies comprising the team enter into an annual interagency agreement to comply with confidentiality standards specified in the agreement.   d. An agency initiating a multidisciplinary team obtains a signed agreement from an individual authorizing the team to share information concerning the individual or the individual’s family on a confidential basis.   2. The activities of a multidisciplinary community services team shall not duplicate the activities of a multidisciplinary team for child abuse under section 235A.13, dependent adult abuse activities under section 235B.6, or child victim services provided under section 915.35.   3. A multidisciplinary community services team shall select a chairperson and other officers as deemed necessary by the members of the team. A multidisciplinary community services team is not a governmental body as defined in section 21.2 and is not subject to the provisions of chapter 21, relating to open meetings. Notwithstanding chapter 22, the confidentiality of information in the possession of a multidisciplinary team which is required by law to be confidential shall be maintained except as specifically provided by this section.   4. The members of a multidisciplinary community services team are expressly authorized to orally disclose personally identifying information to one another which is otherwise required by law to be confidential. Disclosure of confidential information other than oral information between team members under provisions of this section is expressly prohibited.   5. A member of a multidisciplinary community services team shall not use confidential information obtained from another team member except in the best interests of the subject of the confidential information and shall not disclose such information to another person except as otherwise authorized by law. A member of a multidisciplinary community services team who willfully uses or discloses confidential information in violation of this section commits a serious misdemeanor. Notwithstanding section 903.1, the penalty for a person convicted pursuant to this subsection is a fine of not more than five hundred dollars in the case of a first offense and not more than five thousand dollars in the case of each subsequent offense.  96 Acts, ch 1156, §1; 98 Acts, ch 1090, §70, 84; 2003 Acts, ch 180, §61
IA Code § 333A.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 333A - COUNTY FINANCE COMMITTEE|Section 333A.1 - Definition.

333A.1 Definition.   As used in this chapter, “committee” means the county finance committee.  [C81, §333A.1]
IA Code § 333A.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 333A - COUNTY FINANCE COMMITTEE|Section 333A.2 - County finance committee.

333A.2 County finance committee.   1. There is created a county finance committee consisting of eight members. The members of the committee shall be:   a. The auditor of state or a designee of the auditor of state.   b. Five elected county officials who are regularly involved in budget preparation. One county official shall be from a county with a population of less than eleven thousand five hundred, one from a county with a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred but not more than sixteen thousand, one from a county with a population of more than sixteen thousand but not more than twenty-two thousand five hundred, one from a county with a population of more than twenty-two thousand five hundred but not more than eighty thousand and one from a county with a population of more than eighty thousand. The governor shall select and appoint the county officials, subject to the approval of two-thirds of the members of the senate.   c. A certified public accountant experienced in governmental accounting selected and appointed by the governor with the approval of two-thirds of the members of the senate.   d. An operations research analyst experienced in cost effectiveness analysis of county services appointed jointly by the majority and minority leaders of the senate and the speaker and the minority leader of the house of representatives.   2. The members of the committee appointed by the governor are appointed for four-year terms except that of the initial appointments, two county official members shall be appointed to two-year terms. When a county official member no longer holds the office which qualified the official for appointment, the official shall no longer be a member of the committee. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed to serve the unexpired term. Any member is eligible for reappointment, but a member shall not be appointed to serve more than two four-year terms.  [C81, §333A.2]  86 Acts, ch 1245, §116; 2008 Acts, ch 1156, §43, 58  Referred to in §2.32A, 331.424A
IA Code § 333A.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 333A - COUNTY FINANCE COMMITTEE|Section 333A.3 - Office — staff — compensation.

333A.3 Office — staff — compensation.   1. The committee is located for administrative purposes within the department of management. The director shall provide office space, staff assistance, and necessary supplies and equipment for the committee. The director shall budget funds to pay the compensation and expenses of the committee.   2. Each member is entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of committee duties. Each member, except officers and employees of the state and full-time elected county officials, is entitled to receive a per diem as specified in section 7E.6 for each day spent in the performance of committee duties.   3. The committee shall select its own officers and meet at the call of the director of the department of management or at the request of a majority of the committee.  [C81, §333A.3]  86 Acts, ch 1245, §117; 90 Acts, ch 1250, §3; 90 Acts, ch 1256, §46
IA Code § 333A.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 333A - COUNTY FINANCE COMMITTEE|Section 333A.4 - Powers and duties of the committee.

333A.4 Powers and duties of the committee.   The committee shall:   1. Design budget forms required by section 331.434 and annual financial report forms required by section 331.403 for all county funds.   2. Establish guidelines for program budgeting and accounting and the preparation of capital improvement plans. It shall, where practicable, use recommendations of the national council on governmental accounting or its successor organization.   3. Review and comment on county budgets to county officials and provide assistance to enable counties to improve upon and use sound financial procedures.   4. Conduct studies of county revenues and expenditures.   5. Advise and make recommendations annually to the governor and the general assembly concerning county budgets and finance.   6. Promulgate its rules in compliance with chapter 17A.  [C81, §333A.4]  83 Acts, ch 123, §155, 209
IA Code § 335.1 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.1 - Where applicable.

335.1 Where applicable.   The provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to any county of the state at the option of the board of supervisors of any such county.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.1]  C93, §335.1  Referred to in §335.25
IA Code § 335.2 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.2 - Farms exempt.

335.2 Farms exempt.   1. Except to the extent required to implement section 335.27, no ordinance adopted under this chapter applies to land, farm houses, farm barns, farm outbuildings, or other buildings or structures that are primarily adapted, by reason of nature and area, for use for agricultural purposes, while so used. However, the ordinances may apply to any structure, building, dam, obstruction, deposit, or excavation in or on the floodplains of any river or stream.   2. A county shall not require an application, an approval, or the payment of a fee in order for an ordinance to be deemed inapplicable to land, farm barns, farm outbuildings, or other buildings or structures that are primarily adapted for use for agricultural purposes under this section.   3. Land, farm houses, farm barns, farm outbuildings, or other buildings or structures may qualify under this section independently or in combination with other agricultural uses. Land enrolled in a soil or water conservation program shall be considered land primarily adapted for use for agricultural purposes under this section.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, §358A.2; 81 Acts, ch 117, §1070; 82 Acts, ch 1245, §16]  C93, §335.2  2019 Acts, ch 24, §104; 2020 Acts, ch 1034, §1, 5, 6  Referred to in §335.3, 368.26, 414.23  Section amended and numbered pursuant to directive
IA Code § 335.3 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.3 - Powers.

335.3 Powers.   1. Subject to section 335.2, the board of supervisors may by ordinance regulate and restrict the height, number of structures, and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts, and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures, and land for trade, industry, residence, or other purposes, and may regulate, restrict, and prohibit the use for residential purposes of tents, trailers, and portable or potentially portable structures. However, such powers shall be exercised only with reference to land and structures located within the county but lying outside of the corporate limits of any city.   2. When there is a replacement of a preexisting manufactured, modular, or mobile home with another manufactured, modular, or mobile home containing no more than the original number of dwelling units, or a replacement of a preexisting site-built dwelling unit with a manufactured, modular, or mobile home or site-built dwelling unit, within a manufactured home community or a mobile home park, the board of supervisors shall not adopt or enforce any ordinance, regulation, or restriction that would prevent the continuance of the property owner’s lawful nonconforming use that had existed relating to the preexisting home unless any of the following apply:   a. A discontinuance is necessary for the safety of life or property.   b. The nonconforming use has been discontinued for the period of time established by ordinance, unless such discontinuance is caused by circumstances outside the control of the property owner. The period of time so established shall be not less than one year.   c. The replacement results in the overall nature and character of the present use being substantially or entirely different from the original lawful preexisting nonconforming use.   d. The replacement results in an obstruction to a shared driveway or shared sidewalk providing vehicular or pedestrian access to other homes and uses unless the property owner makes modifications to such shared driveway or sidewalk that extinguishes such obstruction or the effects of such obstruction.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, §358A.3; 81 Acts, ch 117, §1071]  C93, §335.3  2019 Acts, ch 43, §1
IA Code § 335.4 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.4 - Areas and districts.

335.4 Areas and districts.   The board of supervisors may divide the county, or any area or areas within the county, into districts of such number, shape, and area as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this chapter; and within such districts it may regulate and restrict the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, or use of buildings, structures, or land. All such regulations and restrictions shall be uniform for each class or kind of buildings throughout each district, but the regulations in one district may differ from those in other districts.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.4]  C93, §335.4  2020 Acts, ch 1063, §180  Referred to in §335.7  Section amended
IA Code § 335.6 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.6 - Procedure — hearings — notice.

335.6 Procedure — hearings — notice.   The board of supervisors shall provide for the manner in which the regulations and restrictions and the boundaries of the districts shall be determined, established, and enforced, and from time to time amended, supplemented, or changed. However, the regulation, restriction, or boundary shall not become effective until after a public hearing, at which parties in interest and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. Notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be published as provided in section 331.305. The notice shall state the location of the district affected by naming the township and section, and the boundaries of the district shall be expressed in terms of streets or roads if possible. The regulation, restriction, or boundary shall be adopted in compliance with section 331.302.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.6]  87 Acts, ch 31, §1; 87 Acts, ch 43, §12  C93, §335.6  Referred to in §329.9, 335.7, 427B.1, 427B.20, 657.9
IA Code § 335.7 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.7 - Changes — protest.

335.7 Changes — protest.   The regulations, restrictions, and boundaries may be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed. Notwithstanding section 335.4, as a part of an ordinance changing land from one zoning district to another zoning district or an ordinance approving a site development plan, a board of supervisors may impose conditions on a property owner which are in addition to existing regulations if the additional conditions have been agreed to in writing by the property owner before the public hearing required under this section or any adjournment of the hearing. The conditions must be reasonable and imposed to satisfy public needs which are directly caused by the requested change. In case, however, of a protest against the change signed by the owners of twenty percent or more either of the area included in the proposed change, or of the area immediately adjacent to the proposed change and within five hundred feet of the boundaries of the proposed change, the amendment shall not become effective except by the favorable vote of at least sixty percent of all of the members of the board of supervisors. The provisions of section 335.6 relative to public hearings and official notice shall apply equally to all changes or amendments.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.7]  85 Acts, ch 9, §1  C93, §335.7
IA Code § 335.8 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.8 - Commission appointed — powers and duties.

335.8 Commission appointed — powers and duties.   1. In order to avail itself of the powers conferred by this chapter, the board of supervisors shall appoint a commission consisting of eligible electors, as defined in section 39.3, who reside within the county, but outside the corporate limits of any city, to be known as the county zoning commission. The commission may recommend the boundaries of the various districts and appropriate regulations and restrictions to be enforced in the districts. The commission shall, with due diligence, prepare a preliminary report and hold public hearings on the preliminary report before submitting the commission’s final report. The board of supervisors shall not hold its public hearings or take action until it has received the final report of the commission. After the adoption of the regulations, restrictions, and boundaries of districts, the zoning commission may, from time to time, recommend to the board of supervisors amendments, supplements, changes, or modifications. The commission’s report and any recommendations may include a proposed ordinance or amendments to an ordinance.   2. The zoning commission may recommend to the board of supervisors for adoption a comprehensive plan pursuant to section 335.5, or amendments thereto.   3. The zoning commission, with the approval of the board of supervisors, may contract with professional consultants, regional planning commissions, the economic development authority, or the federal government, for local planning assistance.  [C50, 54, 58, §358A.8; C62, 66, 71, 73, §358A.8, 373.21; C75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.8]  C93, §335.8  2010 Acts, ch 1184, §22; 2011 Acts, ch 118, §85, 89; 2020 Acts, ch 1034, §3, 6, 8; 2020 Acts, ch 1121, §116, 118, 119  Referred to in §329.9, 331.321, 335.5, 657.9  2020 amendment to subsection 1 applies retroactively to June 1, 2020, to members of county zoning commissions and county boards of adjustment holding office on or after that date; 2020 Acts, ch 1034, §6, 8; 2020 Acts, ch 1121, §119  Subsection 1 amended
IA Code § 335.9 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.9 - Administrative officer.

335.9 Administrative officer.   The board of supervisors shall appoint an administrative officer authorized to enforce the resolutions or ordinances adopted by the board of supervisors. The administrative officer may be a person holding other public office in the county, or in a city or other governmental subdivision within the county, and the board of supervisors is authorized to pay to the officer compensation as it deems fit.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.9]  83 Acts, ch 123, §161, 209  C93, §335.9  Referred to in §331.321
IA Code § 335.10 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.10 - Board of adjustment — review and remand.

335.10 Board of adjustment — review and remand.   1. The board of supervisors shall provide for the appointment of a board of adjustment, and in the regulations and restrictions adopted pursuant to the authority of this chapter shall provide that the said board of adjustment may, in appropriate cases, and subject to appropriate conditions and safeguards, make special exceptions to the terms of the ordinances or regulations in harmony with its general purpose and intent and in accordance with the general or specific rules contained in the ordinances or regulations, and provide that any property owner aggrieved by the action of the board of supervisors in the adoption of such regulations and restrictions may petition the said board of adjustment direct to modify regulations and restrictions as applied to such property owners.   2. The board of supervisors may provide for its review of variances granted by the board of adjustment before their effective date. The board of supervisors may remand a decision to grant a variance to the board of adjustment for further study. If remanded, the effective date of the variance is delayed for thirty days from the date of the remand.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.10]  89 Acts, ch 55, §1  C93, §335.10  2020 Acts, ch 1063, §181  Referred to in §329.12, 331.321  Section amended
IA Code § 335.11 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.11 - Membership of board.

335.11 Membership of board.   The board of adjustment shall consist of five members who are eligible electors, as defined in section 39.3, and who reside within the county, but outside the corporate limits of any city, each to be appointed for a term of five years, excepting that when the board shall first be created one member shall be appointed for a term of five years, one for a term of four years, one for a term of three years, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of one year. Members shall be removable for cause by the appointing authority upon written charges and after public hearing. Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term of any member whose term becomes vacant.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.11]  C93, §335.11  2020 Acts, ch 1034, §4, 6, 8; 2020 Acts, ch 1121, §117 – 119  Referred to in §331.321  2020 amendment applies retroactively to June 1, 2020, to members of county zoning commissions and county boards of adjustment holding office on or after that date; 2020 Acts, ch 1034, §6, 8; 2020 Acts, ch 1121, §119  Section amended
IA Code § 335.12 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.12 - Rules.

335.12 Rules.   The board shall adopt rules in accordance with the provisions of any regulation or ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter. Meetings of the board shall be held at the call of the chairperson and at such other times as the board may determine. Such chairperson, or in the chairperson’s absence, the acting chairperson, may administer oaths and compel the attendance of witnesses. All meetings of the board shall be open to the public. The board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, showing the vote of each member upon each question, or if absent or failing to vote, indicating such fact, and shall keep records of its examinations and other official actions, all of which shall be immediately filed in the office of the board and shall be a public record.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.12]  C93, §335.12  Referred to in §329.12
IA Code § 335.13 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.13 - Appeals to board.

335.13 Appeals to board.   Appeals to the board of adjustment may be taken by any person aggrieved or by any officer, department, board or bureau of the county affected by any decision of the administrative officer. Such appeal shall be taken within a reasonable time, as provided by the rules of the board of adjustment, by filing with the officer from whom the appeal is taken and with the board of adjustment a notice of appeal specifying the grounds thereof. The officer from whom the appeal is taken shall forthwith transmit to the board of adjustment all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.13]  C93, §335.13  Referred to in §8C.7A, 329.12
IA Code § 335.14 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title IX - LOCAL GOVERNMENT|Chapter 335 - COUNTY ZONING|Section 335.14 - Stay of proceedings.

335.14 Stay of proceedings.   An appeal stays all proceedings in furtherance of the action appealed from, unless the officer from whom the appeal is taken certifies to the board of adjustment after the notice of appeal shall have been filed with the officer that by reason of facts stated in the certificate a stay would, in the officer’s opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property. In such case proceedings shall not be stayed otherwise than by a restraining order which may be granted by the board of adjustment or by a court of record on application on notice to the officer from whom the appeal is taken and on due cause shown.  [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358A.14]  C93, §335.14  Referred to in §329.12