2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 303 - DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
303.1A - DIRECTOR'S DUTIES.

        303.1A  DIRECTOR'S DUTIES.
         The duties of the director shall include, but are not limited to,
      the following:
         1.  Adopt rules that are necessary for the effective
      administration of the department.
         2.  Direct and administer the programs and services of the
      department.
         3.  Prepare the departmental budget request by September first of
      each year on the forms furnished, and including the information
      required by the department of management.
         4.  Accept, receive, and administer grants or other funds or gifts
      from public or private agencies including the federal government for
      the various divisions and the department.
         5.  Appoint and approve the technical, professional, secretarial,
      and clerical staff necessary to accomplish the purposes of the
      department subject to chapter 8A, subchapter IV.
         6.  Administer the Iowa cultural trust as provided in chapter 303A
      and do all of the following:
         a.  Develop and adopt by rule criteria for the issuance of
      trust fund credits by measuring the efforts of qualified
      organizations, as defined in section 303A.3, to increase their
      endowment or other resources for the promotion of the arts, history,
      or the sciences and humanities in Iowa.  If the director determines
      that the organizations have increased the amount of their endowment
      and other resources, the director shall certify the amount of
      increase in the form of trust fund credits to the treasurer, who
      shall deposit in the Iowa cultural trust fund, from moneys received
      for purposes of the trust fund as provided in section 303A.4,
      subsection 2, an amount equal to the trust fund credits.  If the
      amount of the trust fund credits issued by the director exceeds the
      amount of moneys available to be deposited in the trust fund as
      provided in section 303A.4, subsection 2, the outstanding trust fund
      credits shall not expire but shall be available to draw down
      additional moneys which become available to be deposited in the trust
      fund as provided in section 303A.4, subsection 2.
         b.  Develop and implement, in accordance with chapter 303A, a
      grant application process for grants issued to qualified
      organizations as defined in section 303A.3.
         c.  Develop and adopt by rule criteria for the approval of
      Iowa cultural trust grants.  The criteria shall include, but shall
      not be limited to, the future stability and sustainability of a
      qualified organization.
         d.  Compile, in consultation with the Iowa arts council and
      the state historical society of Iowa, a list of grant applications
      recommended for funding in accordance with the amount available for
      distribution as provided in section 303A.6, subsection 3.  The list
      of recommended grant applications shall be submitted to the Iowa
      cultural trust board of trustees for approval.
         e.  Monitor the allocation and use of grant moneys by
      qualified organizations to determine whether moneys are used in
      accordance with the provisions of this subsection and chapter 303A.
      The director shall annually submit the director's findings and
      recommendations in a report to the Iowa cultural trust board of
      trustees prior to final board action in approving grants for the next
      succeeding fiscal year.
         The director may appoint a member of the staff to be acting
      director who shall have the powers delegated by the director in the
      director's absence.  The director may delegate the powers and duties
      of that office to the administrators.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1302; 87 Acts, ch 211, § 4; 93 Acts, ch 48,
      §49; 2002 Acts, ch 1115, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §235
         Referred to in § 303A.4, 303A.6

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