6B.45 Mailing copy of appraisal.
1. When any real property or interest in real property is to be purchased, or in lieu thereof to be condemned, the acquiring agency or its agent shall submit to the person, corporation, or entity whose property or interest in the property is to be taken, by ordinary mail, at least ten days prior to the date upon which the acquiring agency or its agent contacts the property owner to commence negotiations, a copy of the appraisal in its entirety upon such real property or interest in such real property prepared for the acquiring agency or its agent, which shall include, at a minimum, an itemization of the appraised value of the real property or interest in the property, any buildings on the property, all other improvements including fences, severance damages, and loss of access. In determining fair market value of property, the acquiring agency shall not consider only the assessed value assigned to such property for purposes of property taxation. The appraisal sent to the condemnee shall be that appraisal upon which the condemnor will rely to establish an amount which the condemnor believes to be just compensation for the real property. All other appraisals made on the property as a result of the condemnation proceeding shall be made available to the condemnee upon request. In lieu of an appraisal, a utility or person under the jurisdiction of the utilities board of the department of commerce, or any other utility conferred the right by statute to condemn private property, shall provide in writing by certified mail to the owner of record thirty days prior to negotiations, the methods and factors used in arriving at an offered price for voluntary easements including the range of cash amount of each component. An acquiring agency may obtain a signed written waiver from the landowner to allow negotiations to commence prior to the expiration of the applicable waiting period for the commencement of negotiations.
2. Only the appraisal prepared under this section shall be forwarded to the compensation commission by the acquiring agency.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §472.45]
C93, §6B.45
99 Acts, ch 171, §18, 42; 2000 Acts, ch 1179, §20, 30
; 2006 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 1001, §17, 49
; 2020 Acts, ch 1062, §94
Referred to in §6B.2B, 6B.54, 22.7(7), 427.2
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.