297.1 Location.
1. The board of each school district may fix the site for each schoolhouse, which shall be upon some public highway already established or procured by such board and not in any public park, and except in cities and villages, not less than thirty rods from the residence of any landowner who objects thereto.
2. In fixing such site, the board shall take into consideration the number of scholars residing in the various portions of the school district and the geographical location and convenience of any proposed site.
[R60, §2037; C73, §1724, 1825, 1826; C97, §2773, 2814; S13, §2773, 2814; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4359; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §297.1]
Structure Iowa Code
Title VII - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Chapter 297 - SCHOOLHOUSES AND SCHOOLHOUSE SITES
Section 297.2 - Ten-acre limitation.
Section 297.3 - Thirty-acre limitation.
Section 297.4 - Vacancy notification.
Section 297.8 - Emergency repairs.
Section 297.9 - Use for other than school purposes.
Section 297.10 - Compensation.
Section 297.11 - Use forbidden.
Section 297.12 - Renting schoolroom.
Section 297.13 - Fence around schoolhouse sites.
Section 297.15 - Reversion of schoolhouse site.
Section 297.18 - Appraisement.
Section 297.20 - Sale of improvements.
Section 297.21 - Sale of unnecessary schoolhouse sites.
Section 297.22 - Power to sell, lease, or dispose of property — tax.
Section 297.25 - Rule of construction.
Section 297.26 - Sale by department.
Section 297.27 - Preference to owner of tract.
Section 297.29 - Report filed.
Section 297.31 - Improvements.
Section 297.32 - Equipment and supplies.