Executive orders · Governor Robert D. Ray

Executive Order 29

Signed by Governor Robert D. Ray on December 7, 1977.

What it does

AI summary This order certifies that the State of Iowa provides coverage for its buildings and contents that is equal to the coverage required under a standard flood insurance policy. This applies to all state departments, agencies, and commissions that own structures vulnerable to flooding.1

The Legislature’s description: Certifies that the State of Iowa provides a level of flood-insurance coverage for its structures and their contents equal to coverage required under standard flood insurance policies.

Read the order

WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER TWENTY-NINE The State of Iowa, its departments, agencies and commissions own buildings and other structures which are vulnerable to flooding and its related hazards; and the State is responsible for the repair and restoration of said structures and their contents damaged as a result of floods and flood-related hazards; and federal disaster assistance is available to repair and restore these •structures and their contents at levels above that which would otherwise be available under a Standard Flood Insurance policy; and the .state Disaster Contingency Fund, authorized under SS 29C.20, provides funds to repair, rebuild, or restore any state property injured, destroyed, or lost by fire, storm, theft, or unavoidable cause; NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert D. Ray, Governor of the State of Iowa, do hereby certify, for the aforementioned reasons, that the State of Iowa provides coverage for its structures and their contents equal to that which would otherwise be required under a standard flood insurance policy. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed. Don~at Des Moines, Iowa, this 7 .1, ''- day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventy-seven.

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)