House File 523 - Enrolled
House File 523
AN ACT
DESIGNATING CERTAIN COUNTY FLOOD MITIGATION ACTIVITIES AS AN
ESSENTIAL COUNTY PURPOSE.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 331.441, subsection 2, paragraph b, Code
2 2021, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph:
3 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH. (20) The construction, reconstruction,
4 and improvement of all waterways, and real and personal
5 property, useful for the protection or reclamation of property
6 from floods or high waters, and for the protection of property
7 from the effects of flood waters, including the deepening,
8 widening, alteration, change, diversion, or other improvement
9 of watercourses, the construction of levees, embankments,
10 structures, impounding reservoirs, pumping stations or
11 conduits, and the establishment, improvement, and widening of
12 streets, avenues, boulevards, and alleys across and adjacent
13 to the project, as well as the development and beautification
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14 of the banks and other areas adjacent to flood control
15 improvements.
______________________________ ______________________________
PAT GRASSLEY JAKE CHAPMAN
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 523, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2021 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 331.441
Enrolled: 331.441