231.23 - DEPARTMENT ON AGING -- DUTIES AND AUTHORITY.
231.23 DEPARTMENT ON AGING -- DUTIES AND AUTHORITY.
The department on aging director shall:
1. Develop and administer a state plan on aging.
2. Assist the commission in the review and approval of area
plans.
3. Pursuant to commission policy, coordinate state activities
related to the purposes of this chapter and all other chapters under
the department's jurisdiction.
4. Advocate for older individuals by reviewing and commenting
upon all state plans, budgets, laws, rules, regulations, and policies
which affect older individuals and by providing technical assistance
to any agency, organization, association, or individual representing
the needs of older individuals.
5. Assist the commission in dividing the state into distinct
planning and service areas.
6. Assist the commission in designating for each area a public or
private nonprofit agency or organization as the area agency on aging
for that area.
7. Pursuant to commission policy, take into account the views of
older Iowans.
8. Assist the commission in adopting a formula for the
distribution of funds available from the federal Act.
9. Assist the commission in assuring that preference will be
given to providing services to older individuals with the greatest
economic or social needs, with particular attention to low-income
minority older individuals.
10. Assist the commission in developing, adopting, and enforcing
administrative rules, by issuing necessary forms and procedures.
11. Apply for, receive, and administer grants, devises,
donations, gifts, or bequests of real or personal property from any
source to conduct projects consistent with the purposes of the
department. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys received by the
department pursuant to this section are not subject to reversion to
the general fund of the state.
12. Administer state authorized programs.
13. Provide annual training for area agency on aging board of
directors members.
14. Establish a procedure for an area agency on aging to use in
selection of members of the agency's board of directors. The
selection procedure shall be incorporated into the bylaws of the
board of directors.
15. Provide oversight to ensure that the composition of the area
agency on aging board of directors complies with the rules of the
department. Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1011
C87, § 249D.23
C93, § 231.23
2003 Acts, ch 141, §5; 2005 Acts, ch 45, §6; 2006 Acts, ch 1184,
§106; 2007 Acts, ch 81, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 23, §20, 21
Referred to in § 231.33