355.9 Descriptions.
A description defining land boundaries written for conveyance or other purposes shall be complete, providing definite and unequivocal identification of the property lines or boundaries. The description shall be sufficient to enable the description to be platted and retraced. The description shall commence at or relate to a physically monumented corner or boundary line of record.
1. If the land is located in a recorded subdivision, the description shall contain the number or other description of the lot, block, or other part of the subdivision, or shall describe the land by reference to a known corner of the lot, block, or other part.
2. If the land is not located in a recorded subdivision, the description shall identify the section, township, range, and county, and shall describe the land by reference to government lot, by quarter-quarter section, by quarter section, or by metes and bounds commencing with a corner marked and established in the United States public land survey system.
90 Acts, ch 1236, §9
C91, §114A.9
C93, §355.9
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 355 - STANDARDS FOR LAND SURVEYING
Section 355.2 - Applicability.
Section 355.4 - Boundary location.
Section 355.6 - Monumentation.
Section 355.6A - Monument preservation certificate.
Section 355.7 - Plats of survey.
Section 355.7A - Retracement plats of survey.
Section 355.8 - Plats for subdivisions.
Section 355.11 - United States public land survey corner certificate.
Section 355.12 - Indexing of survey documents by recorder.
Section 355.13 - Surveys authorized by the United States government.
Section 355.14 - Federal surveys — defacement.
Section 355.16 - Iowa plane coordinate system defined.
Section 355.17 - Designation of coordinate zones.