Iowa Code § 28A.3
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(1) This subchapter is enabling legislation for the quad cities interstate metropolitan authority compact, a compact entered into by the states of Illinois and Iowa as provided in section 28A.1.
(2) The authority shall engage in operations and services that can best be conducted on an area basis benefiting the entire greater metropolitan area, and at the same time improving the quality of life for the greater metropolitan area. The authority may include the following areas of operation and service:
(2) (a) Intermodal water port operations.
(2) (b) Waste disposal systems.
(2) (c) Mass transit.
(2) (d) Airports.
(2) (e) Bridges.
(2) (f) Parks and recreation.
(2) (g) Related facilities, fixtures, equipment, and property necessary, appurtenant, or incidental to the operations and services specified in paragraphs “a” through “f”. The authority shall be supportive of, and refrain from unnecessary and unreasonable competition with, private sector operations when possible.
(3) The establishment, maintenance, and operation of safe, adequate, and necessary metropolitan facilities, and the creation of the authority having powers necessary or desirable for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the metropolitan facilities beneficial to the territory of the authority, and the powers and the corporate purposes and functions of the authority are public and governmental in nature and essential to the public interest in the territory of the authority.
91 Acts, ch 198, §2CS91, §330B.3C93, §28A.32016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
(2) The authority shall engage in operations and services that can best be conducted on an area basis benefiting the entire greater metropolitan area, and at the same time improving the quality of life for the greater metropolitan area. The authority may include the following areas of operation and service:
(2) (a) Intermodal water port operations.
(2) (b) Waste disposal systems.
(2) (c) Mass transit.
(2) (d) Airports.
(2) (e) Bridges.
(2) (f) Parks and recreation.
(2) (g) Related facilities, fixtures, equipment, and property necessary, appurtenant, or incidental to the operations and services specified in paragraphs “a” through “f”. The authority shall be supportive of, and refrain from unnecessary and unreasonable competition with, private sector operations when possible.
(3) The establishment, maintenance, and operation of safe, adequate, and necessary metropolitan facilities, and the creation of the authority having powers necessary or desirable for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the metropolitan facilities beneficial to the territory of the authority, and the powers and the corporate purposes and functions of the authority are public and governmental in nature and essential to the public interest in the territory of the authority.
91 Acts, ch 198, §2CS91, §330B.3C93, §28A.32016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
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