15C.1 - DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE FOR STATE INVOLVEMENT IN IOWA WORLD TRADE CENTER. - Iowa Statutes

15C.1 DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE FOR STATE INVOLVEMENT IN IOWA WORLD TRADE CENTER. It is found and declared that there exists a need to promote, develop, maintain, and expand export and trade opportunities for agricultural, commercial, and manufactured products and services and any other products and services of the state in order to protect and advance the welfare and interests of residents of the state; that such export and trade opportunities with other nations can be promoted, developed, maintained, and expanded by the Iowa world trade center; that jobs can be maintained and created in the state as a result of increased export and trade opportunities; and that such economic results will benefit all residents of the state. It is further found and declared that the promotion, development, maintenance, and expansion of exports and trade opportunities are public purposes and uses for which public moneys may be expended, advanced, loaned, or granted; that such activities serve a public purpose in improving export and trade opportunities or otherwise benefiting the people of this state; and that the state's purchase, operation and marketing of a building or facility as part of a world trade center will aid in accomplishing these purposes.          Section History: Recent Form 85 Acts, ch 33, §501 CS85, § 18C.1 C93, § 15C.1