Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 384.6 (2026)

Trust and agency funds

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A city may establish trust and agency funds for the following purposes:

1. Accounting for pension and related employee benefit funds as provided by the city finance committee. A city may certify taxes to be levied for a trust and agency fund in the amount necessary to meet its obligations.

a. A city may make contributions to a retirement system other than the Iowa public employees’ retirement system for its city manager, or city administrator performing the duties of city manager, in an annual amount not to exceed the amount that would have been contributed by the employer under section 97B.11.

b. If a police chief or fire chief has submitted a written request to the board of trustees to be exempt from chapter 411, authorized in section 411.3, subsection 1, a city shall make contributions for the chief, in an amount not to exceed the amount that would have been contributed by the city under section 411.8, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, to the international city management association retirement corporation.

c. A city which has contracted with another city or governmental entity for the provision of public safety services, including but not limited to police protection, fire protection, ambulance, or hazardous materials response, may, pursuant to contract, make contributions for pension and related employee benefits for personnel of the other city or governmental entity providing such services to the city. The city may make such contributions in an annual amount not to exceed the amount of contributions for pension and related employee benefits that would otherwise be paid by the other city or governmental entity for such personnel.

2. Accounting for gifts received by the city for a particular purpose.

3. Accounting for money and property received and handled by the city as trustee or custodian or in the capacity of an agent. [C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §404.16; C75, 77, 79, 81, §384.6] 85 Acts, ch 195, §45; 2006 Acts, ch 1130, §1; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §82 Referred to in §364.25, 384.15, 411.15 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1980–1980 · leading case: Niffennegger v. City of Des Moines, 289 N.W.2d 606 (Iowa 1980).

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Niffennegger v. City of Des Moines, 289 N.W.2d 606 (Iowa 1980). · cites it 6× “It then placed the monies in a trust and agency fund authorized by section 384.6, The Code 1979, and paid them into the firemen’s pension accumulation fund only at the end of the fiscal year.”

— Iowa Code § 384.6(1) — 1 case

Niffennegger v. City of Des Moines, 289 N.W.2d 606 (Iowa 1980). “It then placed the monies in a trust and agency fund authorized by section 384.6, The Code 1979, and paid them into the firemen’s pension accumulation fund only at the end of the fiscal year.”

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