384.19 - WRITTEN PROTEST.

        384.19  WRITTEN PROTEST.         Within a period of ten days after the final date that a budget or      amended budget may be certified to the county auditor, persons      affected by the budget may file a written protest with the county      auditor specifying their objections to the budget or any part of it.      A protest must be signed by registered voters equal in number to      one-fourth of one percent of the votes cast for governor in the last      preceding general election in the city, but the number shall not be      less than ten persons and the number need not be more than one      hundred persons.         Upon the filing of any such protest, the county auditor shall      immediately prepare a true and complete copy of the written protest,      together with the budget to which the objections are made, and shall      transmit the same forthwith to the state appeal board, and shall also      send a copy of the protest to the council.         The state appeal board shall proceed to consider the protest in      accordance with the same provisions that protests to budgets of      municipalities are considered under chapter 24.  The state appeal      board shall certify its decision with respect to the protest to the      county auditor and to the parties to the appeal as provided by rule,      and the decision shall be final.         The county auditor shall make up the records in accordance with      the decision and the levying board shall make its levy in accordance      with the decision.  Upon receipt of the decision  the council shall      correct its records accordingly, if necessary.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C39, § 390.2, 390.7; C46, 50, 54, § 24.26, 24.31; C58, 62,      66, 71, 73, § 24.27, 24.32; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 384.19; 82 Acts, ch      1079, § 7] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         2001 Acts, ch 56, §32         Referred to in § 331.502, 384.18