Iowa Code
Chapter 317 - WEEDS
Section 317.22 - Duty of highway maintenance personnel.

317.22 Duty of highway maintenance personnel.
All officers directly responsible for the care of public highways shall make a complaint to the weed commissioners or board of supervisors, if it appears that the provisions of this chapter may not be complied with in time to prevent the blooming and maturity of noxious weeds or the unlawful growth of weeds or marijuana, whether in the streets or highways for which they are responsible or upon lands adjacent to the same.
[S13, §1565-c, -e; C24, 27, 31, 35, §4826; C39, §4829.20; C46, §317.21; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §317.22]
90 Acts, ch 1179, §3

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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.