358.35 Conducting hearing.
The board of supervisors to whom the petition is addressed shall preside at the hearing and shall continue the same in session with adjournments from day to day, if necessary, and until completed, without being required to give further notice. At the hearing, all persons interested in the matter of the conveyance and discontinuance of the sanitary district may appear and shall be heard, for and against the conveyance and discontinuance, and the board shall examine into the matter and the equitable distribution of the assets, and equitable distribution and assumption of the liabilities which have accrued during the time the sanitary district has been in existence. The board shall receive evidence on the question from the parties interested, and, after hearing and reviewing the statements, evidence, and suggestions made and offered at the hearing, if it finds that the sanitary district lies wholly or partially within the corporate limits of a city or that the depository of the district is a municipal sanitary sewage system, that the public health, comfort, convenience or welfare will be promoted by the conveyance and discontinuance of the sanitary district and the assumption of the duties, responsibilities and functions of the sanitary district by the city, and that the city has agreed to assume the duties, responsibilities and functions of the sanitary district, shall enter an order specifying the matter and specifying the equitable distribution of the assets, and the equitable distribution and assumption of the liabilities and responsibilities of the sanitary district and setting an effective date of the conveyance and discontinuance.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §358.29; S81, §358.35]
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 358 - SANITARY DISTRICTS
Section 358.1A - Incorporation.
Section 358.1B - Combined water and sanitary district.
Section 358.2 - Petition — deposit.
Section 358.3 - Jurisdiction — decisions — records.
Section 358.4 - Date and notice of hearing.
Section 358.5 - Hearing of petition and order.
Section 358.6 - Notice of election.
Section 358.8 - Expenses and costs of election.
Section 358.9 - Selection of trustees — term of office.
Section 358.10 - Trustee’s bond.
Section 358.11 - Sanitary district to be a body corporate.
Section 358.12 - Board of trustees — powers.
Section 358.13 - Ordinances — publication or posting — time of taking effect.
Section 358.14 - Proof of ordinances.
Section 358.15 - Personal interest in contracts.
Section 358.16 - Power to provide for sewage disposal.
Section 358.17 - Power to acquire and dispose of property.
Section 358.18 - Taxes — power to levy — tax sales.
Section 358.19 - Records and disbursements.
Section 358.20 - Rentals and charges.
Section 358.21 - Debt limit — borrowing — bonds — purposes.
Section 358.22 - Special assessments and connection fees.
Section 358.23 - Appeal to district court.
Section 358.24 - Contracts outside of district.
Section 358.25 - Revenue bonds.
Section 358.27 - Hearing on annexation — date and notice.
Section 358.28 - Annexation hearing.
Section 358.29 - Notice, election, and expenses — costs.
Section 358.30 - Annexation of land by a city — compensation.
Section 358.30A - Severance of territory by resolution.
Section 358.31 - Petition filed.
Section 358.32 - Jurisdiction by board of supervisors.
Section 358.33 - Hearing on petition.
Section 358.35 - Conducting hearing.
Section 358.36 - Filing order of discontinuance.
Section 358.37 - Pending rights or liabilities.
Section 358.38 - Indebtedness assumed.