Any person or agency may file a petition for rule making with
the department at the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department,
7900 Hickman Road, Suite 500, Windsor Heights, Iowa 50324. A petition is deemed
filed when it is received by that office. The department must provide the
petitioner with a file-stamped copy of the petition if the petitioner provides
the department an extra copy for this purpose. The petition must be typewritten
or legibly handwritten in ink and must substantially conform to the following
form:
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The petition must provide the following information:
1. A statement of the specific rule-making
action sought by the petitioner including the text or a summary of the contents
of the proposed rule or amendment to a rule and, if it is a petition to amend
or repeal a rule, a citation and the relevant language to the particular
portion or portions of the rule proposed to be amended or repealed.
2. A citation to any law deemed relevant to
the department's authority to take the action urged or to the desirability of
that action.
3. A brief summary of
the petitioner's arguments in support of the action urged in the
petition.
4. A brief summary of any
data supporting the action urged in the petition.
5. The names and addresses of other persons,
or a description of any class of persons, known by petitioner to be affected by
or interested in, the proposed action which is the subject of the
petition.
6. Any request by
petitioner for a meeting provided by rule
605-2.4 (17A).
(1) The petition must be dated and signed by
the petitioner or the petitioner's representative. It must also include the
name, mailing address, and telephone number of the petitioner and petitioner's
representative, and a statement indicating the person to whom communications
concerning the petition should be directed.
(2) The homeland security and emergency
management department may deny a petition because it does not substantially
conform to the required form.
Notes
Iowa Admin. Code r.
605-2.1
ARC 8933B, lAB 7/14/10,
effective 8/18/10
Amended by
IAB
December 9, 2015/Volume XXXVIII, Number 12, effective
1/13/2016
