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Executive orders · Governor Terry E. Branstad

Executive Order 47

Signed by Governor Terry E. Branstad on March 29, 1993.

What it does

AI summary Governor Terry E. Branstad accepts a federal offer to share legislative jurisdiction with the state over approximately 88.73 acres of land at Fort Des Moines. This order changes the land from having exclusive federal jurisdiction to having concurrent state and federal jurisdiction, though two parcels under the Department of the Navy are excluded. The order became effective immediately upon its execution on March 29, 1993.1

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

Read the order

WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, INTHE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITYOFTHE STATE Of IOWA EXECUTI VE ORDER 47 1990 Iowa Acts, ch . 1146 (codified as Iowa Code s 1 . 17 (1991), empowers the Governor to accept on behalf of the state of Iowa, retrocessi on of Federal Jurisdiction if offered by the appropriate authority. The Secretary of the Army is authorized by 10 U.S.C. S 2683 to share concurrent legislative jurisdiction with the State of Iowa as necessary to exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction over Federal •lands containing 88.73 acres, more or less, at Fort Des Moines, Iowa . By letter dated June 21, 1991 , to the Governor of Iowa, the Secretary of the Army offered to retrocede and relinquish is exclusive legislative jurisdiction as. necessary to enable the exercise of concurrent state and federal legislative jurisdiction over the subject federal property . The subject 88~73 acres, more or less, is the land described shown on the map entitled "U.S.A.R.C . /FORT DES MOINES IOWA" which accompanied the offer of retrocession. The letter and map are attached and marked, respectively, Exhibits "A" and "B." The subject: 88.73 acres is l egally described on the attachment marked Exhibxt · "C" which also describes two excepted parcels. The two parcels excepted from the of fer of retrocession are real estate under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy, the boundaries of which are del ineated on the attached plat marked Exhibit "D." NOW, THEREFORE, I , TERRY E. BRANSTAD, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF IOWA, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the Sta te of Iowa, do accept the offer of assignment of concurrent jurisdiction. This Executive Order shal l become effective immediately upon its execut ion. 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 29th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred ~e~~ 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, XV, No. 22 (04/28/1993) p. 2206.