317.4 Direction and control.
Each commissioner, subject to direction and control by the county board of supervisors, shall supervise the control and destruction of all noxious weeds in the county, including those growing within the limits of cities, within the confines of abandoned cemeteries, and along streets and highways unless otherwise provided. A commissioner shall notify the department of public safety of the location of marijuana plants found growing on public or private property. A commissioner may enter upon any land in the county at any time for the performance of the commissioner’s duties, and shall hire the labor and equipment necessary subject to the approval of the board of supervisors.
[S13, §1565-c, -d, -f; C24, 27, 31, 35, §4817; C39, §4829.04; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, §317.4; 81 Acts, ch 117, §1047]
83 Acts, ch 123, §120, 209; 90 Acts, ch 1179, §2; 2010 Acts, ch 1069, §87
Structure Iowa Code
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 317.15 - 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.