2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.4 - PRECINCTS DRAWN BY COUNTY BOARD.

        49.4  PRECINCTS DRAWN BY COUNTY BOARD.
         Where action by the board of supervisors is necessary or deemed
      advisable by the board of supervisors or the temporary county
      redistricting commission, the boundaries of precincts shall be
      definitely fixed by ordinance.  A public hearing shall be held before
      final action is taken to adopt changes in the precinct boundaries.
      Notice of the date, time, and place of the hearing shall be given as
      provided in chapter 21.  In the absence of contrary action by the
      board of supervisors or the temporary county redistricting
      commission, each civil township which does not include any part of a
      city of over two thousand population, and the portion of each civil
      township containing any such city which lies outside the corporate
      limits of that city or those cities, shall constitute an election
      precinct.  If no action is necessary to change the county election
      precincts, the board of supervisors shall certify the retained
      boundaries to the state commissioner, as required by section 49.7.
         1.  Where a civil township, or the portion of a civil township
      outside the corporate limits of any city of over two thousand
      population contained therein, is divided into two or more election
      precincts, the precincts shall be so drawn that their total
      populations shall be reasonably equal on the basis of data available
      from the most recent federal decennial census.
         2.  Counties using alternative supervisor representation plans
      "two" or "three", as described in section 331.206, shall be
      apportioned into single-member supervisor districts on the basis of
      population. In counties using representation plan "three", the
      boundaries of supervisor districts shall follow the boundaries of
      election precincts.
         3. a.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
      Indian settlement land held in trust by the secretary of the interior
      of the United States for the Sac and Fox tribe of the Mississippi in
      Iowa and its trust land contiguous to the Indian settlement lying in
      Tama, Toledo and Indian Village townships of Tama county shall be an
      election precinct.  The polling place of that precinct shall be
      located on the Indian settlement in a structure designated by the
      election commissioner of Tama county.
         b.  The Indian settlement precinct shall be redrawn to include
      land contiguous to the Indian settlement when such land is purchased
      by the settlement and added to the Indian settlement land held in
      trust by the secretary of the interior of the United States.  Upon
      recording of the deed transferring the land to the United States in
      trust, the county recorder shall notify the county commissioner of
      that fact.  If the commissioner is notified more than seventy days
      before the next scheduled election, the commissioner shall redraw the
      precinct for that election.  The commissioner shall notify the board
      of supervisors of the redrawn precinct boundaries and shall certify
      the redrawn boundaries to the state commissioner.  Land completely
      surrounded by the boundaries of the Indian settlement precinct, but
      not included in the settlement precinct, shall be included in the
      precinct in which such land was located prior to redrawing of the
      Indian settlement precinct.  The commissioner shall notify registered
      voters in each of the redrawn precincts of the change in the
      precincts and the proper polling place for those affected voters.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C73, § 603; C97, § 1090; S13, § 1090; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §
      722, 725; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, § 49.4, 49.7; C75, 77,
      79, 81, S81, § 49.4; 81 Acts, ch 117, § 1203] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         94 Acts, ch 1179, §6; 99 Acts, ch 17, §2; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §
      201
         Referred to in § 49.3, 49.7, 49.8, 49.11, 273.8, 331.210A, 331.383