137F.3A - MUNICIPAL CORPORATION INSPECTIONS -- CONTINGENT APPROPRIATION.
137F.3A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION INSPECTIONS --
CONTINGENT APPROPRIATION.
1. a. The department of inspections and appeals may employ
additional full-time equivalent positions to enforce the provisions
of this chapter and chapters 137C and 137D, with the approval of the
department of management, if either of the following apply:
(1) A municipal corporation operating pursuant to a chapter 28E
agreement with the department of inspections and appeals to enforce
the chapters either fails to renew the agreement effective after
April 1, 2007, or discontinues, after April 1, 2007, enforcement
activities in one or more jurisdictions during the agreement time
frame.
(2) The department of inspections and appeals cancels an
agreement after April 1, 2007, due to noncompliance with the terms of
the agreement.
b. Before approval may be given, the director of the
department of management must have determined that the expenses
exceed the funds budgeted by the general assembly for food
inspections to the department of inspections and appeals. The
department of inspections and appeals may hire no more than one
full-time equivalent position for each six hundred inspections
required pursuant to this chapter and chapters 137C and 137D.
2. Notwithstanding chapter 137D, and sections 137C.9 and 137F.6,
if the conditions described in this section are met, fees imposed
pursuant to that chapter and those sections shall be retained by and
are appropriated to the department of inspections and appeals each
fiscal year to provide for salaries, support, maintenance, and
miscellaneous purposes associated with the additional inspections.
The appropriation made in this subsection is not applicable in a
fiscal year for which the general assembly enacts an appropriation
made for the purposes described in this subsection. Section History: Recent Form
2006 Acts, ch 1185, §46, 53; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §214, 221; 2009
Acts, ch 133, §39