25B.3 - DEFINITIONS.
25B.3 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Political subdivision" means a city, county, township, or
school district.
2. "State mandate" means a statutory requirement or
appropriation which requires a political subdivision of the state to
establish, expand, or modify its activities in a manner which
necessitates additional combined annual expenditures of local revenue
by all affected political subdivisions of at least one hundred
thousand dollars, or additional combined expenditures of local
revenue by all affected political subdivisions within five years of
enactment of five hundred thousand dollars or more, excluding an
order issued by a court of this state. Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 142, §3; 92 Acts, ch 1123, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1173, §3