Iowa Code
Chapter 317 - WEEDS
Section 317.18 - Order for weed control or eradication on roads.

317.18 Order for weed control or eradication on roads.
A county board of supervisors and the state department of transportation shall control or eradicate noxious weeds growing on the roads under their jurisdiction. A board of supervisors may order all noxious weeds, within the right-of-way of all roads under county jurisdiction be controlled or eradicated, either upon its own motion or upon receipt of written notice requesting the action from any residents of the township in which the roads are located, or any person regularly using the roads. The order shall be consistent with the county integrated roadside vegetation management plan, if the county has adopted such a plan. The order shall define the roads along which noxious weeds are required to be controlled or eradicated and shall require the weeds to be controlled or eradicated within fifteen days after the publication of the order in the official newspapers of the county or as prescribed in the county’s integrated roadside vegetation management plan.
[C39, §4829.18; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §317.18]
83 Acts, ch 123, §122, 209; 85 Acts, ch 171, §5; 89 Acts, ch 246, §10; 98 Acts, ch 1075, §14; 2018 Acts, ch 1047, §7

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Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION

Chapter 317 - WEEDS

Section 317.1 - Definitions.

Section 317.1A - Noxious weeds.

Section 317.1B - State weed commissioner.

Section 317.1C - Department — powers and duties.

Section 317.1D - Exemption — Iowa hemp Act.

Section 317.2 - State botanist.

Section 317.3 - Weed commissioner — standards for noxious weed control.

Section 317.4 - Direction and control.

Section 317.5 - Weeds in abandoned cemeteries.

Section 317.6 - Entering land to destroy weeds — notice.

Section 317.7 - Report to board.

Section 317.8 - Duty of secretary of agriculture or secretary’s designee.

Section 317.9 - Duty of board to enforce.

Section 317.10 - Duty of owner or tenant.

Section 317.11 - Weeds on roads — harvesting of grass.

Section 317.12 - Weeds on railroad or public lands and gravel pits.

Section 317.13 - Program of control or eradication.

Section 317.14 - Notice of program.

Section 317.14A - Special requirements for the control or elimination of Palmer amaranth on conservation reserve program land.

Section 317.15 - Loss or damage to crops.

Section 317.16 - Failure to comply.

Section 317.17 - Additional noxious weeds.

Section 317.18 - Order for weed control or eradication on roads.

Section 317.19 - Road clearing appropriation.

Section 317.20 - Equipment and materials — use on private property.

Section 317.21 - Cost of weed destruction.

Section 317.22 - Duty of highway maintenance personnel.

Section 317.23 - Duty of county attorney.

Section 317.24 - Punishment of officer.

Section 317.25 - Invasive plants prohibited — exception — penalty.

Section 317.26 - Alternative remediation practices.