Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 28A.3 (2026)

Purposes

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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:

a. Intermodal water port operations.

b. Waste disposal systems.

c. Mass transit.

d. Airports.

e. Bridges.

f. Parks and recreation.

g. Related facilities, fixtures, equipment, and property necessary, appurtenant, or \n Tue Dec 09 22:32:07 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 28A (30, 0) §28A.3, QUAD CITIES INTERSTATE METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY COMPACT 4\n\nincidental 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, §2 CS91, §330B.3 C93, §28A.3 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 5 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1973–2025 · leading case: Dillon v. City of Davenport, 366 N.W.2d 918 (Iowa 1985).

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Dillon v. City of Davenport, 366 N.W.2d 918 (Iowa 1985). · cites it 2× “5(3) does provide the final action shall be taken in an open session, the same sentence was present in the closed session statute in 1971, Iowa Code § 28A.3 (1971), and was quoted in Anti-Administration Association, 206 N.”

Burlington Cmty. Sch. Dist. v. Pub. Emp. Relations Bd., 268 N.W.2d 517 (Iowa 1978). · cites it 3× “PERB also notes that if the legislature desired that a public employer should be able to determine whether sessions were to be opened or closed, it could and would have specifically provided for such right in § 28A.3, The Code, which permits a public agency to close a meeting by…”

Anti-Admin. Ass'n v. North Fayette Cnty. Cmty. Sch. Dist., 206 N.W.2d 723 (Iowa 1973). · cites it 2× “Section 28A.3 provides exceptions. It accords the agency the power to hold a closed session “ * * * by affirmative vote of two-thirds (⅜) of its members present, when necessary to prevent irreparable and needless injury to the reputation of an individual whose employment or…”

Robert Teig v. Patrick Loeffler, Ashley Vanorney, Dale Todd, Brad Hart, Ann Poe, Tyler Olson & Scott Olson (Iowa Ct. App. 2024). · cites it 4× “3 provided that a closed session could be held “when necessary to prevent irreparable and needless 7 injury to the reputation of an individual whose employment or discharge is under consideration.”

Robert Teig v. Patrick Loeffler, Ashley Vanorney, Dale Todd, Brad Hart, Ann Poe, Tyler Olson & Scott Olson (Iowa Ct. App. 2025). · cites it 4× “3 provided that a closed session could be held “when necessary to prevent irreparable and needless injury to the reputation of an individual whose employment or discharge is under consideration.”

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