6B.2B Acquisition negotiation.
The acquiring agency shall make a good faith effort to negotiate with the owner to purchase the private property or property interest before filing an application for condemnation or otherwise proceeding with the condemnation process. An acquiring agency shall not make an offer to purchase the property or property interest that is less than the fair market value the acquiring agency has established for the property or property interest pursuant to the appraisal required in section 6B.45 or less than the value determined under the acquiring agency’s waiver procedure established pursuant to section 6B.54, subsection 2, for acquisition of property with a low fair market value. A purchase offer made by an acquiring agency shall include provisions for payment to the owner of expenses, including relocation expenses, expenses listed in section 6B.54, subsection 10, and other expenses required by law to be paid by an acquiring agency to a condemnee. However, in the alternative, the acquiring agency may make, and the owner may accept, a purchase offer from the acquiring agency that is an amount equal to one hundred thirty percent of the appraisal amount plus payment to the owner of expenses listed in section 6B.54, subsection 10, once those expenses have been determined. If the owner accepts such a purchase offer, the owner is barred from claiming payment from the acquiring agency for any other expenses allowed by law. An acquiring agency need not make an offer in excess of the amounts described in this section in order to satisfy the requirement to negotiate in good faith. The option to make an alternative purchase offer does not apply when property is being acquired for street and highway projects undertaken by the state, a county, or a city.
99 Acts, ch 171, §3, 42; 2000 Acts, ch 1179, §5, 6, 30;
2006 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 1001, §6, 49
Referred to in §6B.54
Structure Iowa Code
Title I - STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND MANAGEMENT
Chapter 6B - PROCEDURE UNDER EMINENT DOMAIN
Section 6B.1A - Procedure provided.
Section 6B.2 - By whom conducted.
Section 6B.2A - Notice of proposed public improvement.
Section 6B.2B - Acquisition negotiation.
Section 6B.2C - Approval of the public improvement.
Section 6B.2D - Notice of intent to approve acquisition of property by eminent domain.
Section 6B.3 - Application — recording — notice — time for appraisement — new proceedings.
Section 6B.3A - Challenge by owner.
Section 6B.4 - Commission to assess damages.
Section 6B.4A - Review of applications by compensation commission.
Section 6B.5 - Challenges to commissioners — filling vacancies on commission.
Section 6B.6 - Sheriff to coordinate meeting of commissioners and provide meeting place.
Section 6B.7 - Commissioners to qualify.
Section 6B.8 - Notice of assessment.
Section 6B.9 - Form of notice — signature.
Section 6B.11 - Filing of notices and return of service.
Section 6B.12 - Notice when residence unknown.
Section 6B.13 - Service outside state.
Section 6B.14 - Appraisement — report.
Section 6B.16 - Power of guardian.
Section 6B.17 - When appraisement final.
Section 6B.18 - Notice of appraisement — appeal of award — notice of appeal.
Section 6B.19 - Service of notice — highway matters.
Section 6B.21 - Appeals — how docketed and tried.
Section 6B.22 - Pleadings on appeal.
Section 6B.23 - Question determined.
Section 6B.24 - Reduction of damages — interest on increased award.
Section 6B.25 - Right to take possession of lands — title — damages award.
Section 6B.26 - Dispossession of landowner or injury to property — limitation.
Section 6B.30 - Additional deposit.
Section 6B.31 - Payment by public authorities.
Section 6B.32 - Removal of condemner.
Section 6B.33 - Costs and attorney fees.
Section 6B.34 - Refusal to pay final award.
Section 6B.35 - Sheriff to file record.
Section 6B.36 - Clerk to file record.
Section 6B.37 - Form of record — certificate.
Section 6B.38 - Record of proceedings — fee — effect.
Section 6B.40 - Failure to record — liability.
Section 6B.42 - Eminent domain — payment to displaced persons.
Section 6B.44 - Taking property for highway — buildings and fences moved.
Section 6B.45 - Mailing copy of appraisal.
Section 6B.46 - Special proceedings to condemn existing utility.
Section 6B.52 - Renegotiation of damages.
Section 6B.53 - Procedure for homesteading projects.
Section 6B.54 - Acquisition policies for acquiring agencies.
Section 6B.55 - Buildings, structures, and improvements — policies for acquiring agencies.
Section 6B.56 - Disposition of condemned property.
Section 6B.56A - Disposition of condemned property — five-year time period.
Section 6B.57 - Procedural compliance.
Section 6B.59 - Sale of acquired property — reimbursement to landowner.
Section 6B.60 - Rental charges prohibited.
Section 6B.61 - Approval of local elected officials required.