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Iowa Statutes § 49.17 Conduct of elections - funding

⤴ Up to Chapter 49: Method of Conducting Elections

Statute Text

1. The state commissioner or a county commissioner or political subdivision of the state shall only accept funding from the following sources for the purposes of conducting an election:
a. Lawful appropriations of public moneys from the government of the United States.
b. Lawful appropriations of public moneys from the state of Iowa.
c. Lawful appropriations of public moneys from a political subdivision of the state for the conduct of an election in the political subdivision.
2. The state commissioner, a county commissioner, or a political subdivision of the state shall not accept or expend a grant, gift, or other source of funding from a source other than those listed in subsection 1, including from a private person, corporation, partnership, political party, nonparty political organization, committee as defined in section 68A.102 , or other organization for the purpose of conducting an election.
3. This section does not prohibit the state commissioner or a county commissioner or political subdivision from issuing and collecting fees as otherwise provided by law.
4. This section does not apply to the contribution of a building for use as a polling place pursuant to section 49.21 .

History

Added by 2022 Iowa , ch 1153 , s 29 , eff. 6/21/2022 .