165.18 - BRUCELLOSIS AND TUBERCULOSIS ERADICATION FUND.
165.18 BRUCELLOSIS AND TUBERCULOSIS ERADICATION
FUND.
1. A brucellosis and tuberculosis eradication fund is created in
the office of the secretary of agriculture, to be used together with
state and federal funds available to pay:
a. The indemnity and other expenses provided in this chapter.
b. The indemnity as set out in section 164.21 and other
expenses provided in chapter 164.
c. The expenses of the inspection and testing program
provided in chapter 163A, but only to the extent that the moneys in
the fund are not required for expenses incurred under chapter 164 or
this chapter.
d. Indemnities as provided in section 159.5, subsection 12,
but only to the extent that the moneys in the fund are not required
to pay expenses under chapter 163A, chapter 164, or this chapter.
2. If it appears to the secretary of agriculture that the balance
in the fund on January 20 is insufficient to carry on the work in the
state for the following fiscal year, the secretary shall notify the
board of supervisors of each county to levy an amount sufficient to
pay the expenses estimated to be incurred under subsection 1 for the
following fiscal year, subject to a maximum levy of thirty-three and
three-fourths cents per thousand dollars of assessed value of all
taxable property in the county.
3. Not later than December 15 or June 15 of a year in which the
tax is collected, the county treasurer shall transmit the amount of
the tax levied and collected to the treasurer of state, who shall
credit it to the brucellosis and tuberculosis eradication fund. Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 123, § 74, 209; 84 Acts, ch 1178, §1; 2007 Acts, ch
22, §44
Referred to in § 159.5, 163.10, 164.21, 331.512, 331.559