2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 47 - ELECTION COMMISSIONERS
47.8 - VOTER REGISTRATION COMMISSION -- COMPOSITION -- DUTIES.

        47.8  VOTER REGISTRATION COMMISSION -- COMPOSITION --
      DUTIES.
         1.  A state voter registration commission is established which
      shall meet at least quarterly to make and review policy, adopt rules,
      and establish procedures to be followed by the registrar in
      discharging the duties of that office, and to promote interagency
      cooperation and planning.
         a.  The commission shall consist of the state commissioner of
      elections or the state commissioner's designee, the state
      chairpersons of the two political parties whose candidates for
      president of the United States or governor, as the case may be,
      received the greatest and next greatest number of votes in the most
      recent general election, or their respective designees, and a county
      commissioner of registration appointed by the president of the Iowa
      state association of county auditors, or an employee of the
      commissioner.
         b.  The commission membership shall be balanced by political
      party affiliation pursuant to section 69.16.  Members shall serve
      without additional salary or reimbursement.
         c.  The state commissioner of elections, or the state
      commissioner's designee, shall serve as chairperson of the state
      voter registration commission.
         2.  The registration commission shall prescribe the forms required
      for voter registration by rules promulgated pursuant to chapter 17A.

         3. a.  The registrar shall provide staff services to the
      commission and shall make available to it all information relative to
      the activities of the registrar's office in connection with voter
      registration policy which may be requested by any commission member.
      The registrar shall also provide to the commission at no charge
      statistical reports for planning and analyzing voter registration
      services in the state.
         b.  The commission may authorize the registrar to employ such
      additional staff personnel as it deems necessary to permit the duties
      of the registrar's office to be adequately and promptly discharged.
      Such personnel shall be employed pursuant to chapter 8A, subchapter
      IV.
         4.  The registration commission shall annually adopt a set of
      standard charges to be made for the services the registrar is
      required to offer to the several commissioners, and for furnishing of
      voter registration records which are requested by persons other than
      the registrar, the state commissioner or any commissioner pursuant to
      section 48A.38.  These charges shall be sufficient to reimburse the
      state for the actual cost of furnishing such services or information,
      and shall be specified by unit wherever possible.  The standard
      charges shall be adopted by the commission by January 15 of each
      calendar year.
         5.  In complaint proceedings held pursuant to section 47.1 in
      which one of the respondents is the state commissioner of elections,
      the presiding officer shall be a panel consisting of all members of
      the state voter registration commission, except the state
      commissioner of elections or the state commissioner's designee.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C77, 79, 81, § 47.8] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         93 Acts, ch 143, § 11; 94 Acts, ch 1169, §48; 95 Acts, ch 189, §6,
      7; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §152; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §5, 37; 2008 Acts, ch
      1032, §146
         Referred to in § 39.3, 47.1