257B.4 Division and appraisement.
The board of supervisors may, as preliminary to a sale, authorize the trustees of a township, where the sixteenth section or land selected in lieu of the sixteenth section has not been sold, to lay out the section into tracts as in their judgment will be for the best interests of the permanent school fund, conforming, as far as the interests of the fund will permit, to the legal subdivisions of the United States surveys, and appraise each tract at what they believe to be its true value, and certify to the board the divisions and appraisements made by them. The division and appraisement shall be approved or disapproved by the board at its first meeting after the report, and in case it disapproves, it may at once order another division and appraisement. If the board of supervisors approves, the county auditor shall make and keep a record of the division, appraisement, and approval; but school lands shall not be sold for less than the appraised value per acre, except as provided. A member of the board of supervisors, county auditor, township trustee, or a person who was engaged in the division and appraisement of the land, shall not be directly or indirectly interested in the purchase of the land; and any sale made, where the parties have an interest in the land, shall be void.
[R60, §1970, 1971; C73, §1845 – 1847; C97, §2840; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4472; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §302.4]
83 Acts, ch 185, §9, 62
C93, §257B.4
Structure Iowa Code
Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Section 257B.1A - Permanent fund.
Section 257B.1B - Interest for Iowa schools fund — transfer of interest.
Section 257B.2 - Lands and escheats.
Section 257B.4 - Division and appraisement.
Section 257B.5 - Notice — sale.
Section 257B.6 - Sale without appraisement.
Section 257B.7 - Sale on credit — taxation — waste.
Section 257B.8 - Sale of lands bid in.
Section 257B.9 - Cash or collateral security.
Section 257B.10 - Uniform interest date.
Section 257B.11 - School fund accounts — audit of losses.
Section 257B.12 - Bonds to cover losses.
Section 257B.17 - Liability of county.
Section 257B.18 - Exemption of county.
Section 257B.20 - Investment of permanent fund.
Section 257B.28 - Statute of limitation.
Section 257B.30 - Release of mortgage.
Section 257B.31 - School fund account — settlement.
Section 257B.32 - Notice of default.
Section 257B.33 - Suit — attorney fee.
Section 257B.34 - Bid at execution sale.
Section 257B.35 - Sheriff’s deed to state.
Section 257B.36 - Resale by state.
Section 257B.37 - Proceeds on resale.
Section 257B.38 - Excess — loss borne by county.
Section 257B.39 - Report as to sales — interest.
Section 257B.40 - Interest charged to counties.
Section 257B.41 - Uncollected interest.