6A.9 Additional purposes.
The department of transportation or a railway corporation may, by condemnation or otherwise, acquire lands for the following additional purposes:
1. For necessary additional depot grounds or yards.
2. For constructing a track or tracks to any mine, quarry, gravel pit, manufacturing plant, warehouse, or mercantile establishment.
3. For additional or new right-of-way for constructing double track, reducing or straightening curves, changing grades, shortening or relocating portions of the line, and for excavations, embankments, or places for depositing waste earth.
4. For the preservation of abandoned railroad right-of-way for future railroad use.
[R60, §1314; C73, §1241, 1242; C97, §1995, 1996, 1998; S13, §1995, 1998; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7811; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §471.9]
83 Acts, ch 121, §10
C93, §6A.9
2009 Acts, ch 97, §2
Structure Iowa Code
Title I - STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND MANAGEMENT
Chapter 6A - EMINENT DOMAIN LAW (CONDEMNATION)
Section 6A.1 - Exercise of power by state.
Section 6A.2 - On behalf of federal government.
Section 6A.3 - Conveyance by state to federal government.
Section 6A.4 - Right conferred.
Section 6A.5 - Right to purchase.
Section 6A.7 - Cemetery lands.
Section 6A.8 - Limitation on right-of-way.
Section 6A.9 - Additional purposes.
Section 6A.10 - Initiating railroad condemnation by railway corporation.
Section 6A.11 - Lands for water stations — how set aside.
Section 6A.12 - Access to water — overflow limited.
Section 6A.13 - Change in streams.
Section 6A.14 - Unlawful diversion prohibited.
Section 6A.16 - Right to condemn abandoned right-of-way.
Section 6A.18 - No double damages.
Section 6A.19 - Interpretative clause.
Section 6A.20 - Description of land furnished.
Section 6A.21 - Condemnation of agricultural land — definitions.
Section 6A.22 - Additional limitations on exercise of power — definitions.
Section 6A.23 - Exception for certain urban renewal areas.
Section 6A.24 - Judicial review of eminent domain authority.