§ Iowa Code § 49.4Precincts drawn by county board

49.4 Precincts drawn by county board.
Where action by the board of supervisors is necessary or deemed advisable by the board
of supervisors or the temporary county redistricting commission, the boundaries of precincts
shall be definitely fixed by ordinance. A public hearing shall be held before final action is
taken to adopt changes in the precinct boundaries. Notice of the date, time, and place of the
hearing shall be given as provided in chapter 21. In the absence of contrary action by the
board of supervisors or the temporary county redistricting commission, each civil township
which does not include any part of a city of over two thousand population, and the portion
of each civil township containing any such city which lies outside the corporate limits of that
city or those cities, shall constitute an election precinct. If no action is necessary to change
the county election precincts, the board of supervisors shall certify the retained boundaries
to the state commissioner, as required by section 49.7.
1. Where a civil township, or the portion of a civil township outside the corporate limits of
any city of over two thousand population contained within the civil township, is divided into
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two or more election precincts, the precincts shall be so drawn that their total populations
shall be reasonably equal on the basis of data available from the most recent federal decennial
census, except where the division is necessary to comply with section 49.3, subsection 1,
paragraph “c”.
2. Counties using alternative supervisor representation plans “two” or “three”, as
described in section 331.206, shall be apportioned into single-member supervisor districts
on the basis of population. In counties using representation plan “three”, the boundaries of
supervisor districts shall follow the boundaries of election precincts.
3. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Indian settlement land held
in trust by the secretary of the interior of the United States for the Sac and Fox tribe of the
Mississippi in Iowa and its trust land contiguous to the Indian settlement lying in Tama, Toledo
and Indian Village townships of Tama county shall be an election precinct. The polling place
of that precinct shall be located on the Indian settlement in a structure designated by the
election commissioner of Tama county.
b. The Indian settlement precinct shall be redrawn to include land contiguous to the
Indian settlement when such land is purchased by the settlement and added to the Indian
settlement land held in trust by the secretary of the interior of the United States. Upon
recording of the deed transferring the land to the United States in trust, the county recorder
shall notify the county commissioner of that fact. If the commissioner is notified more than
seventy days before the next scheduled election, the commissioner shall redraw the precinct
for that election. The commissioner shall notify the board of supervisors of the redrawn
precinct boundaries and shall certify the redrawn boundaries to the state commissioner.
Land completely surrounded by the boundaries of the Indian settlement precinct, but not
included in the settlement precinct, shall be included in the precinct in which such land was
located prior to redrawing of the Indian settlement precinct. The commissioner shall notify
registered voters in each of the redrawn precincts of the change in the precincts and the
proper polling place for those affected voters.