Executive orders · Governor Robert D. Ray
Executive Order 10
Signed by Governor Robert D. Ray on June 16, 1972.
What it does
AI summary This executive order transfers the powers, duties, functions, and programs of the Administration of State Communications and the State Communications Advisory Council to the General Services Department. It also directs the State Comptroller to transfer all appropriated and remaining money from the State Communications Director to the General Services Department. These changes took effect on June 16, 1972.1
The Legislature’s description: Transfers the funding and the powers, duties, and functions of the Administration of State Communications and the State Communications Advisory Council to the General Services Department.
Read the order
EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER TEN WHEREAS, the Governor's Economy Committee, appointed · in 1969, recommended that the general administrative functions of state government should be centralized in one department to increase the effectiveness of all state agencies and reduce the cost of state government; and WHEREAS, the First Session of the 64th I owa General Assembly passed an Act establishing a new General Services Department, which will assume various specif ied duties, powers and responsi - bilities of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, the State Vehicle Dispatcher, the State Printing Board, the Superintendent of Printing, the State Comptroller and the Executive Council over the next 18 months; and WHEREAS, the result of the transfer of these duties to the General Services Department will be better coordination and control of administrative functions of State Government, with consequent financial savings through centralization: NOW, THEREFORE, I Robert D. Ray, Governor of the State of Iowa, pursuant to the powers granted me in Section 14 of Chapter 84 of the Laws of the 64th General Assembly, First Session, do hereby authorize and direct the transfer of the powers, duties, functions, responsibilities and programs under Chapter 8A, 1971 Code of I owa, as given to the Administration of State Communications and the State Communications Advisory Council, to the General Services Department. For purposes of implementing this transfer, I hereby authorize and d i rect the State Comptroller, pursuant to Section 13 of Chapter 84 of the Laws of the 64th General Assembly, First Session, to transfer and allocate the moneys appropriated and remaining in the name of State Communications Director to the General Services Department. The transfers directed above shall take effect on June 16, 1972. Attest: SECRETARY IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. Done a~ Des Moines, Iowa, this /~ day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventy-two.
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.