Executive orders · Governor Terry E. Branstad

Executive Order 41

Signed by Governor Terry E. Branstad on November 6, 1990.

What it does

AI summary Governor Terry E. Branstad accepts a federal offer to share jurisdiction over specific federal properties with the State of Iowa. This allows the state to administer Iowa criminal, health, and safety laws at the U.S. Courthouse in Des Moines, Buildings 87 and 309 at Ft. Des Moines, and the Federal Building and Courthouse in Davenport. The United States will continue to administer federal laws at these locations.1

The Legislature’s description: Accepts a federal offer of assignment of concurrent jurisdiction.

Read the order

WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, EXECUTIVE ORDER 41 1990 Iowa Acts ch 1146 empowers the Governor to accept on behalf of the State of Iowa, retrocession of Federal Jurisdiction if offered by the appropriate Federal authority. Section 5 of the Public Buildings Amendme nts of 1988 (Public Law 100-678), 102 Stat . 4050, gives General Services Administration (GSA) the authority to offer an assignment of jurisdiction for the administration of criminal, health and safety laws for property under their charge and control. on September 13, 1990, GSA offered assignment of jurisdiction to the State of Iowa for the administration of Iowa criminal laws and health and safety laws; provided that such jurisdiction is to be concurrent with jurisdiction of the United States who will continue to administer Federal laws. the offer of assignment and concurrent jurisdiction pertains to the following Federal properties: U.S. Courthouse, 123 East Walnut Street, Des Moines, Iowa Ft. Des Moines, Iowa, Buildings 87 and 309 Federal Building and Courthouse, 4th and Perry, Davenport, Iowa NOW, THEREFORE, I, TERRY E. BRANSTAD, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF IOWA, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Consti tution and laws of the State of Iowa, do accept the offer of assignment of concurrent jurisdiction. This Executive Order shall become effective immediately upon its execution. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. Done at Des Moines, Iowa this 6th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundr ed ninety. . ~~~~GOVERN~ .

From the text in the order’s PDF. Older orders were scanned, so a few words may be garbled; the signed PDF is the official version.

Signed order (PDF)

Printed in the Iowa Administrative Bulletin, XIII, No. 12 (12/12/1990) p. 1163.