73.14 Minority-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, and female-owned businesses — bond issuance services.
1. The state, board of regents institutions, counties, townships, school districts, community colleges, cities, and other public entities, and every person acting as contracting agent for any such entity, shall, when issuing bonds or other obligations, make a good-faith effort to utilize minority-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned, and female-owned businesses for attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, banks, underwriters, insurers, and other occupations necessary to carry out the issuance of bonds or other obligations by the entity.
2. For purposes of this section:
a. “Female-owned business” means a business that is fifty-one percent or more owned, operated, and actively managed by one or more women.
b. “Minority-owned business” means a business that is fifty-one percent or more owned, operated, and actively managed by one or more minority persons.
c. “Service-disabled veteran-owned business” means a business that is fifty-one percent or more owned, operated, and actively managed by one or more service-disabled veterans, as defined in 15 U.S.C. §632.
2010 Acts, ch 1184, §91; 2015 Acts, ch 136, §35, 36, 54, 55
Referred to in §73.16
Structure Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Section 73.1 - Preference — conditions.
Section 73.2 - Advertisements for bids — form.
Section 73.4 - Domestic laborer — definition.
Section 73.5 - Violations — criminal penalty.
Section 73.9 - Violations — remedy.
Section 73.11 - Inconsistency with federal law.
Section 73.15 - Title and definitions.
Section 73.16 - Procurements from small businesses and targeted small businesses — goals.
Section 73.17 - Targeted small business procurement goals — preliminary procedures.
Section 73.18 - Notice of solicitation for bids — identification of targeted small businesses.
Section 73.19 - Negotiated price or bid contract.