6B.56A Disposition of condemned property — five-year time period.
1. When five years have elapsed since property was condemned and all or a portion of the property has not been used for the purpose stated in the application filed pursuant to section 6B.3, and the acquiring agency has not taken action to dispose of the unused property pursuant to section 6B.56, the acquiring agency shall, within sixty days, adopt a resolution reaffirming the purpose for which the unused property will be used or offering the unused property for sale to the prior owner at a price as provided in section 6B.56. However, if all or a portion of such property was condemned for the creation of a lake subject to the requirements of section 6A.22, subsection 2, paragraph “c”, subparagraph (1), subparagraph division (b), the acquiring agency shall not adopt a resolution reaffirming the purpose for which the property was to be used and shall instead adopt a resolution offering the property for sale to the prior owner at a price as provided in section 6B.56. If the resolution adopted approves an offer of sale to the prior owner, the offer shall be made in writing and mailed by certified mail to the prior owner. The prior owner has one hundred eighty days after the offer is mailed to purchase the property from the acquiring agency.
2. If the acquiring agency has not adopted a resolution described in subsection 1 within the sixty-day time period, the prior owner may, in writing, petition the acquiring agency to offer the property for sale to the prior owner at a price as provided in section 6B.56. Within sixty days after receipt of such a petition, the acquiring agency shall adopt a resolution described in subsection 1. If the acquiring agency does not adopt such a resolution within sixty days after receipt of the petition, the acquiring agency is deemed to have offered the property for sale to the prior owner.
3. The acquiring agency shall give written notice to the owner of the right to purchase the property under this section at the time damages are paid to the owner.
4. This section does not apply to property acquired for street and highway projects undertaken by the state, a county, or a city.
2006 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 1001, §23, 49; 2015 Acts, ch 138, §147, 148, 150
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.