28D.3 - AUTHORITY TO INTERCHANGE EMPLOYEES.

        28D.3  AUTHORITY TO INTERCHANGE EMPLOYEES.
         1.  Any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state,
      county, city, municipality, land-grant college, or college or
      university operated by the state or any local government is
      authorized to participate in a program of interchange of employees
      with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the federal
      government, another state or locality, or other agencies,
      municipalities, or instrumentalities of this state as a sending or
      receiving agency.
         2.  The period of individual assignment or detail under an
      interchange program shall not exceed twenty-four months, except that
      an employee may be assigned for an additional twenty-four-month
      period upon the agreement of the employee and both the sending and
      receiving agencies.  No employee shall be assigned or detailed
      without the employee's expressed consent or by using undue coercion
      to obtain said consent.  Details relating to any matter covered in
      this chapter may be the subject of an agreement between the sending
      and receiving agencies.  Elected officials shall not be assigned from
      a sending agency nor detailed to a receiving agency.
         3.  The period of individual assignment or detail may be
      terminated if the receiving agency offers a permanent appointment to
      the employee and both the sending and receiving agencies agree.
         4.  Persons employed by the department of natural resources,
      department of administrative services, and the Iowa communications
      network under this chapter are not subject to the twenty-four-month
      time limitation specified in subsection 2.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 28D.3] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         88 Acts, ch 1134, § 16; 92 Acts, ch 1096, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1162,
      §30; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §83, 129
         Referred to in § 28D.4, 28D.6