316.9 Rules.
1. The department shall adopt administrative rules pursuant to chapter 17A as necessary to effect the provisions of this chapter and to assure:
a. Compliance with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, Pub. L. No. 91-646, as amended by the Uniform Relocation Act Amendments of 1987, Tit. IV, Pub. L. No. 100-17.
b. The payments authorized by this chapter are fair and reasonable and as uniform as practicable.
c. A displaced person who makes proper application for a payment authorized by this chapter is paid promptly after a move or, in hardship cases, is paid in advance.
2. A person aggrieved by a determination as to eligibility for assistance or a payment authorized by this chapter, or the amount of a payment, upon application may have the matter reviewed.
3. Rules governing reviews shall provide for a prompt one-step uncomplicated fact-finding process. Such a review is an appeal of an agency action as defined in section 17A.2, subsection 2, and is not a contested case. The decision rendered shall be the displacing agency’s final agency action.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §316.9]
88 Acts, ch 1209, §1; 89 Acts, ch 20, §13; 2010 Acts, ch 1069, §85
Referred to in §6B.54
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 316 - RELOCATION OF PERSONS DISPLACED BY HIGHWAYS
Section 316.2 - Effect on acquisitions and condemnations.
Section 316.3 - Declaration of policy — authorization — divisibility of application.
Section 316.4 - Moving and related expenses.
Section 316.5 - Replacement housing for homeowner.
Section 316.6 - Replacement housing for tenants and certain others.
Section 316.7 - Relocation assistance advisory services.
Section 316.8 - Housing replacement by the displacing agency.
Section 316.12 - Payments to displaced persons not to be considered as income.
Section 316.13 - Administration.
Section 316.15 - Federal grants — payment of right-of-way and relocation assistance benefits.