Iowa Code
Chapter 478 - ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES
Section 478.33 - Cancellation.

478.33 Cancellation.
A person seeking to acquire an easement or other property interest for the construction, maintenance, or operation of an electric transmission line shall:
1. Allow the landowner or a person serving in a fiduciary capacity in the landowner’s behalf to cancel any agreement granting an easement or other interest by certified mail with return requested to the company’s principal place of business if received by the company within seven days, excluding Saturday and Sunday, of the date of the contract and inform the landowner or such fiduciary in writing of the right to cancel prior to the signing of the agreement by the landowner or such fiduciary.
2. Provide the landowner or a person serving in a fiduciary capacity in the landowner’s behalf with a form in duplicate for the notice of cancellation.
3. Not record any agreement until after the period for cancellation has expired.
4. Not include in the agreement any waiver of the right to cancel in accordance with this section. The landowner or a person serving in a fiduciary capacity in the landowner’s behalf may exercise the right of cancellation only once for each transmission line project.
[C81, §478.33]
Section not amended; editorial change applied

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Iowa Code

Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES

Chapter 478 - ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION LINES

Section 478.1 - Franchise.

Section 478.2 - Petition for franchise — informational meetings held.

Section 478.3 - Petition — requirements.

Section 478.4 - Franchise — hearing.

Section 478.5 - Notice — objections filed.

Section 478.6 - Taking under eminent domain.

Section 478.6A - Merchant line franchises — requirements — limitations.

Section 478.7 - Form of franchise.

Section 478.8 - Valuation of franchise.

Section 478.9 - Exclusive rights — duration of franchise.

Section 478.10 - Franchise transferable — notice.

Section 478.11 - Record of franchises.

Section 478.12 - Acceptance of franchise.

Section 478.13 - Extension of franchise — public notice.

Section 478.14 - Service furnished.

Section 478.15 - Eminent domain — procedure — entering on land — reversion on nonuse.

Section 478.16 - Electric transmission lines — federally registered planning authority transmission plans.

Section 478.17 - Access to lines — damages.

Section 478.18 - Supervision of construction — location.

Section 478.19 - Manner of construction.

Section 478.20 - Distance from buildings.

Section 478.21 - Nonuse — revocation of franchise — extensions of time.

Section 478.22 - Action for violation.

Section 478.23 - Prior franchises — legislative control.

Section 478.24 - Violations.

Section 478.25 - Wire crossing railroads — supervision.

Section 478.26 - Wires across railroad right-of-way at highways.

Section 478.27 - Wires — how strung.

Section 478.28 - Examination of existing wires.

Section 478.29 - Civil penalties.

Section 478.30 - Crossing highway.

Section 478.31 - Temporary permits for lines less than one mile.

Section 478.32 - Rehearing — judicial review.

Section 478.33 - Cancellation.