Iowa Code
Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS

Section 468.41 - Assessment for lateral ditches — reclassification of benefited lands. - 468.41 Assessment for lateral ditches — reclassification of benefited lands....

Section 468.42 - Railroad property — collection. - 468.42 Railroad property — collection. The commissioners to assess benefits...

Section 468.43 - Public highways and state-owned lands. - 468.43 Public highways and state-owned lands. 1. When any public...

Section 468.44 - Report of commissioners. - 468.44 Report of commissioners. The commissioners, within the time fixed...

Section 468.45 - Notice of hearing. - 468.45 Notice of hearing. 1. The board shall fix a...

Section 468.46 - Hearing and determination. - 468.46 Hearing and determination. At the time fixed or at...

Section 468.47 - Evidence — conclusive presumption. - 468.47 Evidence — conclusive presumption. At such hearing, the board...

Section 468.48 - Notice of increased assessment. - 468.48 Notice of increased assessment. The board shall cause notice...

Section 468.49 - Classification as basis for future assessments. - 468.49 Classification as basis for future assessments. 1. A classification...

Section 468.50 - Levy — interest. - 468.50 Levy — interest. When the board has finally determined...

Section 468.51 - Lien of tax. - 468.51 Lien of tax. Such taxes shall be a lien...

Section 468.52 - Levy for deficiency. - 468.52 Levy for deficiency. If the first assessment made by...

Section 468.53 - Record of drainage taxes. - 468.53 Record of drainage taxes. All drainage or levee tax...

Section 468.54 - Funds — disbursement — interest. - 468.54 Funds — disbursement — interest. The taxes when collected...

Section 468.55 - Assessments — maturity and collection. - 468.55 Assessments — maturity and collection. If a landowner selects...

Section 468.56 - Payment of assessments. - 468.56 Payment of assessments. All assessments for benefits, as corrected...

Section 468.57 - Installment payments — waiver. - 468.57 Installment payments — waiver. 1. If the owner of...

Section 468.58 - Installment payments after appeal. - 468.58 Installment payments after appeal. When an owner takes an...

Section 468.59 - Notice of half and full completion. - 468.59 Notice of half and full completion. Within two days...

Section 468.60 - Lien of deferred installments. - 468.60 Lien of deferred installments. No deferred installment of the...

Section 468.61 - Surplus funds — application of. - 468.61 Surplus funds — application of. When one-half or more...

Section 468.62 - Change of conditions — modification of plan. - 468.62 Change of conditions — modification of plan. If, after...

Section 468.63 - Drainage subdistrict. - 468.63 Drainage subdistrict. After the establishment of a drainage district,...

Section 468.64 - Presumption — jurisdiction. - 468.64 Presumption — jurisdiction. Such connecting ditch or drain which...

Section 468.65 - Reclassification. - 468.65 Reclassification. 1. When, after a drainage or levee district...

Section 468.66 - Bids required. - 468.66 Bids required. If the board determines that a change...

Section 468.67 - Procedure governing reclassification. - 468.67 Procedure governing reclassification. The proceedings for such reclassification shall...

Section 468.68 - Drainage warrants received for assessments. - 468.68 Drainage warrants received for assessments. Warrants drawn upon the...

Section 468.69 - Bonds received for assessments. - 468.69 Bonds received for assessments. Bonds issued for the cost...

Section 468.70 - Installment assessments — interest-bearing warrants — improvement certificates. - 468.70 Installment assessments — interest-bearing warrants — improvement certificates. 1....

Section 468.71 - Form, negotiability, and effect. - 468.71 Form, negotiability, and effect. Each improvement certificate shall state...

Section 468.72 - Interest — place of payment. - 468.72 Interest — place of payment. Improvement certificates issued under...

Section 468.73 - Sale at par — right to pay. - 468.73 Sale at par — right to pay. Any person...

Section 468.74 - Drainage bonds. - 468.74 Drainage bonds. 1. When a drainage district has been...

Section 468.75 - Form. - 468.75 Form. Each of such bonds shall be numbered and...

Section 468.76 - Amount — interest — maturity. - 468.76 Amount — interest — maturity. In no case shall...

Section 468.77 - Maturity — interest — highway benefits. - 468.77 Maturity — interest — highway benefits. The board shall...

Section 468.78 - Sale or application at par — premium. - 468.78 Sale or application at par — premium. Such bonds...

Section 468.79 - Deficiency levy — additional bonds. - 468.79 Deficiency levy — additional bonds. If any levy of...

Section 468.80 - Funding or refunding indebtedness. - 468.80 Funding or refunding indebtedness. Drainage districts may settle, adjust,...

Section 468.81 - Record of bonds. - 468.81 Record of bonds. A record of the numbers, amounts,...

Section 468.82 - Payment. - 468.82 Payment. The board, at the time of making the...

Section 468.83 - Appeals. - 468.83 Appeals. 1. Any person aggrieved may appeal from any...

Section 468.84 - Time and manner. - 468.84 Time and manner. All appeals shall be taken within...

Section 468.85 - Transcript. - 468.85 Transcript. When notice of any appeal with the bond...

Section 468.86 - Petition — docket fee — waiver — dismissal. - 468.86 Petition — docket fee — waiver — dismissal. Within...

Section 468.87 - Pleadings on appeal. - 468.87 Pleadings on appeal. It shall not be necessary for...

Section 468.88 - Proper parties — employment of counsel. - 468.88 Proper parties — employment of counsel. In all actions...

Section 468.89 - Plaintiffs and defendants. - 468.89 Plaintiffs and defendants. In all appeals or actions adversary...

Section 468.90 - Right of board and district to sue. - 468.90 Right of board and district to sue. In all...

Section 468.91 - Trial on appeal — consolidation. - 468.91 Trial on appeal — consolidation. Appeals from orders or...

Section 468.92 - Conclusive presumption on appeal. - 468.92 Conclusive presumption on appeal. 1. On the trial of...

Section 468.93 - Order as to damages — duty of clerk. - 468.93 Order as to damages — duty of clerk. If...

Section 468.94 - Costs. - 468.94 Costs. Unless the result on the appeal is more...

Section 468.95 - Decree as to establishing district or including lands. - 468.95 Decree as to establishing district or including lands. On...

Section 468.96 - Appeal as exclusive remedy — nonappellants. - 468.96 Appeal as exclusive remedy — nonappellants. Upon appeal the...

Section 468.97 - Reversal by court — rescission by board. - 468.97 Reversal by court — rescission by board. In any...

Section 468.98 - Setting aside establishment — procedure. - 468.98 Setting aside establishment — procedure. After the court on...

Section 468.99 - Reassessment to cure illegality. - 468.99 Reassessment to cure illegality. Whenever any special assessment upon...

Section 468.100 - Monthly estimate — payment. - 468.100 Monthly estimate — payment. 1. The supervising engineer shall,...

Section 468.101 - Completion of work — report — notice. - 468.101 Completion of work — report — notice. When the...

Section 468.102 - Objections. - 468.102 Objections. Any party interested in the said district or...

Section 468.103 - Final settlement — claims for damages. - 468.103 Final settlement — claims for damages. 1. If the...

Section 468.104 - Abandonment of work. - 468.104 Abandonment of work. In case any contractor abandons or...

Section 468.105 - New contract — suit on bond. - 468.105 New contract — suit on bond. Unless the contractor...

Section 468.106 - Construction on or along highway. - 468.106 Construction on or along highway. When a levee or...

Section 468.107 - Establishment of highways. - 468.107 Establishment of highways. The board shall have power to...

Section 468.108 - Bridges. - 468.108 Bridges. 1. When a levee, ditch, drain, or change...

Section 468.109 - Construction across railroad. - 468.109 Construction across railroad. Whenever the board of supervisors shall...

Section 468.110 - Duty to construct. - 468.110 Duty to construct. Upon receiving the notice provided in...

Section 468.111 - Bridges at natural waterway — costs. - 468.111 Bridges at natural waterway — costs. The cost of...

Section 468.112 - Construction when company refuses. - 468.112 Construction when company refuses. If a railroad company does...

Section 468.113 - Cost of construction across railway. - 468.113 Cost of construction across railway. The cost of constructing...

Section 468.114 - Passing drainage equipment across railway. - 468.114 Passing drainage equipment across railway. It shall be the...

Section 468.115 - Passage across other public utilities. - 468.115 Passage across other public utilities. The owner or operator...

Section 468.116 - Failure to comply. - 468.116 Failure to comply. If the owner or operator of...

Section 468.117 - Expenses attending passage. - 468.117 Expenses attending passage. The work necessary to afford such...

Section 468.118 - Abandoned right-of-way. - 468.118 Abandoned right-of-way. 1. If a railroad or other utility...

Section 468.119 - Annexation of additional lands. - 468.119 Annexation of additional lands. 1. After the establishment of...

Section 468.120 - Proceedings on report. - 468.120 Proceedings on report. If the report recommends the annexation...

Section 468.121 - Levy on annexed lands. - 468.121 Levy on annexed lands. After annexation is made the...

Section 468.122 - Use of former and abandoned surveys. - 468.122 Use of former and abandoned surveys. In cases where...

Section 468.123 - Unsuccessful procedure — reestablishment. - 468.123 Unsuccessful procedure — reestablishment. When proceedings have been instituted...

Section 468.124 - New district including old district. - 468.124 New district including old district. If any levee or...

Section 468.125 - Credit for old improvement. - 468.125 Credit for old improvement. When such district as contemplated...

Section 468.126 - Repairs and improvements. - 468.126 Repairs and improvements. 1. When any levee or drainage...

Section 468.127 - Payment. - 468.127 Payment. 1. The costs of the repair or improvements...

Section 468.128 - Impounding areas and erosion control devices. - 468.128 Impounding areas and erosion control devices. Levee and drainage...

Section 468.129 - Revenues used for operation, maintenance, and construction. - 468.129 Revenues used for operation, maintenance, and construction. Levee and...

Section 468.130 - City may discharge treated sewage. - 468.130 City may discharge treated sewage. Any board, as defined...

Section 468.131 - Reclassification required. - 468.131 Reclassification required. When an assessment for improvements as provided...

Section 468.132 - Improvement of common outlet — notice of hearing. - 468.132 Improvement of common outlet — notice of hearing. When...

Section 468.133 - Commissioners to apportion benefits — interest prohibited. - 468.133 Commissioners to apportion benefits — interest prohibited. 1. For...

Section 468.134 - Time of report — notice of hearing. - 468.134 Time of report — notice of hearing. When said...

Section 468.135 - Report and review — appeal. - 468.135 Report and review — appeal. 1. The commissioners shall...

Section 468.136 - Levy under original classification. - 468.136 Levy under original classification. If the amount finally charged...

Section 468.137 - Levy under reclassification. - 468.137 Levy under reclassification. If the amount finally charged against...

Section 468.138 - Removal of obstructions. - 468.138 Removal of obstructions. The board shall cause to be...

Section 468.139 - Trees and hedges. - 468.139 Trees and hedges. When it becomes necessary to destroy...

Section 468.140 - Outlet for lateral drains — specifications. - 468.140 Outlet for lateral drains — specifications. The owner of...

Section 468.141 - Subdistricts in intercounty districts. - 468.141 Subdistricts in intercounty districts. The board of supervisors of...

Section 468.142 - District by mutual agreement — presumption. - 468.142 District by mutual agreement — presumption. The owners of...

Section 468.143 - What the agreement shall contain. - 468.143 What the agreement shall contain. Such agreements shall contain...

Section 468.144 - Board to establish. - 468.144 Board to establish. When such agreement is filed, the...

Section 468.145 - Procedure. - 468.145 Procedure. The board shall proceed to carry out the...

Section 468.146 - Outlet in adjoining county or in another state. - 468.146 Outlet in adjoining county or in another state. 1....

Section 468.147 - Tax. - 468.147 Tax. The board of supervisors shall have authority to...

Section 468.148 - Injuring or diverting — damages. - 468.148 Injuring or diverting — damages. Any person who shall...

Section 468.149 - Obstructing or damaging. - 468.149 Obstructing or damaging. 1. A person is guilty of...

Section 468.150 - Nuisance — abatement. - 468.150 Nuisance — abatement. Any ditch, drain, or watercourse which...

Section 468.151 - Actions — settlement — counsel. - 468.151 Actions — settlement — counsel. 1. Levee or drainage...

Section 468.152 - Waste banks — private use. - 468.152 Waste banks — private use. The landowner may have...

Section 468.153 - Preliminary expenses — how paid. - 468.153 Preliminary expenses — how paid. If the proposed district...

Section 468.154 - Additional help for auditor. - 468.154 Additional help for auditor. If the work in the...

Section 468.155 - Employment of counsel. - 468.155 Employment of counsel. The board is authorized to employ...

Section 468.156 - Compensation of appraisers. - 468.156 Compensation of appraisers. Persons appointed to appraise and award...

Section 468.157 - Payment. - 468.157 Payment. All compensation for services rendered, fees, costs, and...

Section 468.158 - Purchase at tax sale. - 468.158 Purchase at tax sale. When land in a levee,...

Section 468.159 - Tax deed — sale or lease. - 468.159 Tax deed — sale or lease. 1. If no...

Section 468.160 - Purchase of tax certificate. - 468.160 Purchase of tax certificate. When land in a drainage...

Section 468.161 - Terms of redemption. - 468.161 Terms of redemption. Redemption from said tax sale shall...

Section 468.162 - Payment — assignment of certificate. - 468.162 Payment — assignment of certificate. When such money is...

Section 468.163 - Funds. - 468.163 Funds. Payment to the county treasurer for such certificate...

Section 468.164 - Lease or sale of land. - 468.164 Lease or sale of land. If said certificate goes...

Section 468.165 - Duty of treasurer. - 468.165 Duty of treasurer. Repealed by 2003 Acts, ch 24,...

Section 468.166 - Purchase by bondholder. - 468.166 Purchase by bondholder. In any event where upon the...

Section 468.167 - Voting power. - 468.167 Voting power. In case any proposition arises in said...

Section 468.168 - Inspection of improvements. - 468.168 Inspection of improvements. The board of any county into...

Section 468.169 - Watchpersons. - 468.169 Watchpersons. When a levee has been established and constructed...

Section 468.170 - Technical defects. - 468.170 Technical defects. The collection of drainage taxes and assessments...

Section 468.171 - Conclusive presumption of legality. - 468.171 Conclusive presumption of legality. The final order establishing such...

Section 468.172 - Drainage record book. - 468.172 Drainage record book. The board shall provide a drainage...

Section 468.173 - Records belong to district. - 468.173 Records belong to district. All reports, maps, plats, profiles,...

Section 468.174 - Membership in the national drainage association. - 468.174 Membership in the national drainage association. 1. Any drainage...

Section 468.175 - Membership fee. - 468.175 Membership fee. The cost of membership fees and dues...

Section 468.176 - Other associations. - 468.176 Other associations. Levee or drainage districts are authorized to...

Section 468.177 - Receiver authorized. - 468.177 Receiver authorized. Whenever the governing board of any drainage...

Section 468.178 - Hearing and notice thereof. - 468.178 Hearing and notice thereof. Upon the filing of the...

Section 468.179 - Appointment — grounds. - 468.179 Appointment — grounds. Said application shall be heard by...

Section 468.180 - Bond. - 468.180 Bond. The cost of the premium of the bond...

Section 468.181 - Avoidance of receivership. - 468.181 Avoidance of receivership. The owner of any such tract...

Section 468.182 - Preference in leasing. - 468.182 Preference in leasing. In the event a receiver is...

Section 468.183 - Rents — application of. - 468.183 Rents — application of. The rents, issues and profits...

Section 468.184 - Land classification and assessment in district. - 468.184 Land classification and assessment in district. 1. a. (1)...

Section 468.185 - Warrants not paid for want of funds. - 468.185 Warrants not paid for want of funds. Repealed by...

Section 468.186 - Easements through a drainage or levee district. - 468.186 Easements through a drainage or levee district. As used...

Section 468.187 - Agreements with owners or other districts. - 468.187 Agreements with owners or other districts. 1. Levee and...

Section 468.188 - Public improvements which divide a district — procedure. - 468.188 Public improvements which divide a district — procedure. 1....

Section 468.189 - Closing agricultural drainage wells — assessment of costs within a drainage district. - 468.189 Closing agricultural drainage wells — assessment of costs within...

Section 468.190 - Farm mediation not applicable. - 468.190 Farm mediation not applicable. A case, dispute, or other...

Section 468.201 - Plan of improvement. - 468.201 Plan of improvement. 1. Whenever the government of the...

Section 468.202 - Agreement in advance. - 468.202 Agreement in advance. The agreement with the federal government...

Section 468.203 - Engineer appointed. - 468.203 Engineer appointed. After the filing of the plan contemplated...

Section 468.204 - Engineer’s report. - 468.204 Engineer’s report. The engineer shall examine the plan filed...

Section 468.205 - Supplemental reports. - 468.205 Supplemental reports. Upon the filing of such report the...

Section 468.206 - Notice and hearing. - 468.206 Notice and hearing. If upon consideration of the plan...

Section 468.207 - Form of notice. - 468.207 Form of notice. 1. The notice under section 468.206...

Section 468.208 - Amendment — new parties. - 468.208 Amendment — new parties. The board may continue the...

Section 468.209 - Entry of order — effect. - 468.209 Entry of order — effect. 1. If the board,...

Section 468.210 - Appraisement. - 468.210 Appraisement. The board shall thereupon appoint three appraisers of...

Section 468.211 - Assessment of benefits. - 468.211 Assessment of benefits. Appointment of commissioners to assess benefits...

Section 468.212 - Installments — warrants. - 468.212 Installments — warrants. The board shall levy the costs...

Section 468.213 - Subsequent levies. - 468.213 Subsequent levies. The board shall make such subsequent levies...

Section 468.214 - Applicable statutes. - 468.214 Applicable statutes. Except as otherwise provided in this part,...

Section 468.215 - Scope of plan. - 468.215 Scope of plan. The provisions of this part shall...

Section 468.216 - Districts under trustees. - 468.216 Districts under trustees. When a district is in the...

Section 468.220 - Occupancy and use permitted — assessments paid. - 468.220 Occupancy and use permitted — assessments paid. 1. Any...

Section 468.221 - Written communication delivered to the state or a local government. - 468.221 Written communication delivered to the state or a local...

Section 468.230 - Administrators appointed. - 468.230 Administrators appointed. The county board of supervisors of any...

Section 468.231 - Administrator areas. - 468.231 Administrator areas. When establishing a board of county drainage...

Section 468.232 - Compensation. - 468.232 Compensation. The members of the board of county drainage...

Section 468.233 - How paid. - 468.233 How paid. The compensation and expenses of the county...

Section 468.234 - Soil and water conservation districts. - 468.234 Soil and water conservation districts. The governing board of...

Section 468.240 - Supervisors of county over two hundred thousand may establish. - 468.240 Supervisors of county over two hundred thousand may establish....

Section 468.250 - Jurisdiction to dissolve districts and abandon or transfer improvements. - 468.250 Jurisdiction to dissolve districts and abandon or transfer improvements....

Section 468.251 - Notice of hearing. - 468.251 Notice of hearing. Upon the filing of such petition...

Section 468.252 - Hearing on petition. - 468.252 Hearing on petition. The petition may be amended at...

Section 468.253 - Appeal. - 468.253 Appeal. Appeal may be taken from the order of...

Section 468.254 - Expense — refund. - 468.254 Expense — refund. In case there are sufficient funds...

Section 468.255 - Abandonment of rights-of-way. - 468.255 Abandonment of rights-of-way. If a dissolution is effected pursuant...

Section 468.256 - Initiating dissolution of contained district. - 468.256 Initiating dissolution of contained district. To initiate the dissolution...

Section 468.257 - Procedure for notice of hearing. - 468.257 Procedure for notice of hearing. 1. The board of...

Section 468.258 - Procedure at hearing. - 468.258 Procedure at hearing. The hearing shall be convened at...

Section 468.259 - Election in lieu of hearings. - 468.259 Election in lieu of hearings. In lieu of the...

Section 468.260 - Effect of dissolution, surrender, and acceptance. - 468.260 Effect of dissolution, surrender, and acceptance. When a contained...

Section 468.261 - Costs borne by overlying district. - 468.261 Costs borne by overlying district. The overlying district shall...

Section 468.262 - Purpose. - 468.262 Purpose. The provisions of this part apply to drainage...

Section 468.263 - General. - 468.263 General. 1. A merger must involve two or more...

Section 468.264 - Board participation initiated. - 468.264 Board participation initiated. 1. In order to participate in...

Section 468.265 - Public hearing. - 468.265 Public hearing. 1. A public hearing must be conducted...

Section 468.266 - Meeting and vote. - 468.266 Meeting and vote. 1. Each board of a participating...

Section 468.267 - Joint order. - 468.267 Joint order. 1. A resolution to merge participating drainage...

Section 468.268 - Effect of the merger. - 468.268 Effect of the merger. 1. a. Except as provided...

Section 468.269 - Special assessment — merged land. - 468.269 Special assessment — merged land. 1. In addition to...

Section 468.270 - Petition and bond. - 468.270 Petition and bond. When the levee or drainage district...

Section 468.271 - Commissioners. - 468.271 Commissioners. Upon the filing of such petition in each...

Section 468.272 - Examination and report. - 468.272 Examination and report. The commissioners thus appointed shall examine...

Section 468.273 - Duty of engineer. - 468.273 Duty of engineer. In addition to the report of...

Section 468.274 - Notice. - 468.274 Notice. Immediately upon the filing of the report of...

Section 468.275 - Contents of notice — service. - 468.275 Contents of notice — service. Such notice shall state...

Section 468.276 - Claims for damages — filing — waiver. - 468.276 Claims for damages — filing — waiver. Any person...

Section 468.277 - Organization and procedure — adjournments. - 468.277 Organization and procedure — adjournments. At the time set...

Section 468.278 - Tentative adoption of plans. - 468.278 Tentative adoption of plans. The said boards by their...

Section 468.279 - Appraisers. - 468.279 Appraisers. If the said boards shall adopt a tentative...

Section 468.280 - Duty of appraisers — procedure. - 468.280 Duty of appraisers — procedure. The appraisers shall proceed...

Section 468.281 - Meetings of joint boards. - 468.281 Meetings of joint boards. The board of supervisors of...

Section 468.282 - Equalizing voting power. - 468.282 Equalizing voting power. When the boards are of unequal...

Section 468.283 - Commissioners to classify and assess. - 468.283 Commissioners to classify and assess. If the boards of...

Section 468.284 - Notice and service thereof — objections. - 468.284 Notice and service thereof — objections. Upon the filing...

Section 468.285 - Levies — certificates and bonds. - 468.285 Levies — certificates and bonds. After the amount to...

Section 468.286 - Bonds or proceeds made available. - 468.286 Bonds or proceeds made available. When drainage bonds are...

Section 468.287 - Supervising engineer. - 468.287 Supervising engineer. At the time of finally establishing the...

Section 468.288 - Duty of engineer. - 468.288 Duty of engineer. The duties of the supervising engineer...

Section 468.289 - Notice of letting work — applicable procedure. - 468.289 Notice of letting work — applicable procedure. If the...

Section 468.290 - Contracts. - 468.290 Contracts. All contracts made for engineering work and the...

Section 468.291 - Monthly estimate — payment. - 468.291 Monthly estimate — payment. The engineer in charge of...

Section 468.292 - Final settlement. - 468.292 Final settlement. When the work to be done on...

Section 468.293 - Failure of board to act. - 468.293 Failure of board to act. When the establishment of...

Section 468.294 - Transfer to district court. - 468.294 Transfer to district court. If such boards shall fail...

Section 468.295 - Transcript, docket, and trial. - 468.295 Transcript, docket, and trial. Within thirty days after completion...

Section 468.296 - Decree. - 468.296 Decree. The court shall enter judgment and decree dismissing...

Section 468.297 - Law applicable. - 468.297 Law applicable. Except as otherwise stipulated in this part...

Section 468.298 - Records of intercounty districts. - 468.298 Records of intercounty districts. A record of all proceedings...

Section 468.299 - County with largest acreage to keep funds. - 468.299 County with largest acreage to keep funds. When an...

Section 468.305 - Intracounty districts converted into intercounty district. - 468.305 Intracounty districts converted into intercounty district. Whenever one or...

Section 468.306 - Benefited land only included. - 468.306 Benefited land only included. Neither any land nor any...

Section 468.307 - Appeal by landowner. - 468.307 Appeal by landowner. Any landowner affected by the establishment...

Section 468.308 - Procedure on appeal. - 468.308 Procedure on appeal. The procedure for taking such appeal...

Section 468.309 - Appeal by trustees or boards. - 468.309 Appeal by trustees or boards. Trustees or boards of...

Section 468.315 - Authority to include city. - 468.315 Authority to include city. A county board of supervisors...

Section 468.316 - Inclusion of city — notice. - 468.316 Inclusion of city — notice. Notice of the filing...

Section 468.317 - Assessments — notice. - 468.317 Assessments — notice. When the streets, alleys, public ways,...

Section 468.318 - Objections — appeal. - 468.318 Objections — appeal. The council or clerk of such...

Section 468.319 - Assessments — interest. - 468.319 Assessments — interest. Such assessment as finally made shall...

Section 468.320 - Bonds, certificates, and waivers. - 468.320 Bonds, certificates, and waivers. The board of supervisors and...

Section 468.321 - Funding bonds. - 468.321 Funding bonds. Such cities may issue their funding bonds...

Section 468.322 - Jurisdiction relinquished. - 468.322 Jurisdiction relinquished. If the board of supervisors of any...

Section 468.323 - Request for relinquishment. - 468.323 Request for relinquishment. When a county board of supervisors...

Section 468.324 - Duty to accept. - 468.324 Duty to accept. It shall be the duty of...

Section 468.325 - Jurisdiction of municipality. - 468.325 Jurisdiction of municipality. After the drainage district has been...

Section 468.326 - City council to control district. - 468.326 City council to control district. The council of any...

Section 468.327 - Trustee control. - 468.327 Trustee control. A district formed pursuant to this part,...

Section 468.335 - Establishment. - 468.335 Establishment. Whenever, in the opinion of the board of...

Section 468.336 - Powers. - 468.336 Powers. Such district, when established, shall have the powers...

Section 468.337 - Initiation without petition. - 468.337 Initiation without petition. When the board of supervisors determines...

Section 468.338 - Engineer. - 468.338 Engineer. The board shall appoint a competent engineer for...

Section 468.339 - Survey and report. - 468.339 Survey and report. The engineer shall make a survey...

Section 468.340 - Assessment — report. - 468.340 Assessment — report. The commission for assessment of benefits...

Section 468.341 - Advanced payments. - 468.341 Advanced payments. The board on construction of the improvement...

Section 468.342 - Payment from road funds. - 468.342 Payment from road funds. The amount fixed by the...

Section 468.343 - Dismissal — costs. - 468.343 Dismissal — costs. If such proceedings are dismissed or...

Section 468.344 - Condemnation of right-of-way. - 468.344 Condemnation of right-of-way. When in the judgment of the...

Section 468.345 - Laws applicable. - 468.345 Laws applicable. All proceedings for the construction and maintenance...

Section 468.346 - Removal of trees from highway. - 468.346 Removal of trees from highway. When the roots of...

Section 468.347 - Trees outside of highways. - 468.347 Trees outside of highways. When the roots of trees...

Section 468.355 - Authorization. - 468.355 Authorization. The board of supervisors of any county or...

Section 468.356 - Petition — procedure — emergency pumping station. - 468.356 Petition — procedure — emergency pumping station. 1. A...

Section 468.357 - Additional pumping station. - 468.357 Additional pumping station. After the establishment of a drainage...

Section 468.358 - Transfer of pumps. - 468.358 Transfer of pumps. If the board or boards determine...

Section 468.359 - Costs. - 468.359 Costs. 1. The cost of the establishment of such...

Section 468.360 - Dividing districts. - 468.360 Dividing districts. When a drainage district has been created...

Section 468.361 - Notice — publication. - 468.361 Notice — publication. If the engineer recommends such division...

Section 468.362 - Hearing — jurisdiction of divided districts. - 468.362 Hearing — jurisdiction of divided districts. At the time...

Section 468.363 - Division in other cases. - 468.363 Division in other cases. After a levee or drainage...

Section 468.364 - Assessments not affected — maintenance tax. - 468.364 Assessments not affected — maintenance tax. Each district after...

Section 468.365 - Election and apportionment of trustees. - 468.365 Election and apportionment of trustees. If said district, before...

Section 468.366 - Settling basin — condemnation. - 468.366 Settling basin — condemnation. If, before a district operating...

Section 468.367 - Funding bonds. - 468.367 Funding bonds. When the owners of ten percent of...

Section 468.368 - Form of bonds. - 468.368 Form of bonds. Such bonds shall be issued in...

Section 468.369 - Formal execution. - 468.369 Formal execution. Such bonds shall be numbered consecutively, signed...

Section 468.370 - Resolution — requisites — record. - 468.370 Resolution — requisites — record. All bonds issued under...

Section 468.371 - Registration. - 468.371 Registration. When bonds have been executed as provided in...

Section 468.372 - Liability of treasurer — reports. - 468.372 Liability of treasurer — reports. The treasurer shall stand...

Section 468.373 - Sale — application of proceeds. - 468.373 Sale — application of proceeds. The county treasurer shall,...

Section 468.374 - Levy. - 468.374 Levy. Drainage districts issuing funding or refunding bonds under...

Section 468.375 - Refunding bonds. - 468.375 Refunding bonds. Refunding bonds for the purposes set out...

Section 468.376 - Funds available to pay bonds. - 468.376 Funds available to pay bonds. 1. When refunding bonds...

Section 468.377 - Limitation of actions. - 468.377 Limitation of actions. No action shall be brought questioning...

Section 468.378 - Bankruptcy proceedings. - 468.378 Bankruptcy proceedings. All drainage districts with pumping plant and...

Section 468.379 - Part applicable to districts with pumping stations. - 468.379 Part applicable to districts with pumping stations. The provisions...

Section 468.380 - Construction near levee prohibited. - 468.380 Construction near levee prohibited. No person, firm or corporation...

Section 468.381 - Penalty. - 468.381 Penalty. Every person who shall violate any provisions of...

Section 468.382 - Action to restrain or abate. - 468.382 Action to restrain or abate. In the event that...

Section 468.383 - Liability for damage. - 468.383 Liability for damage. In addition to all other penalties...

Section 468.390 - United States levees — cooperation of board. - 468.390 United States levees — cooperation of board. In any...

Section 468.391 - Manner of cooperation. - 468.391 Manner of cooperation. Any United States government levee under...

Section 468.392 - Report of engineer — payment authorized. - 468.392 Report of engineer — payment authorized. In the proceedings...

Section 468.393 - Costs assessed. - 468.393 Costs assessed. If said district is established, the entire...

Section 468.394 - Annual installments. - 468.394 Annual installments. If the proposed improvement is the maintenance...

Section 468.395 - Collection of tax. - 468.395 Collection of tax. The assessment required under sections 468.393...

Section 468.396 - Cost of maintaining. - 468.396 Cost of maintaining. The board of supervisors shall have...

Section 468.397 - Laws applicable. - 468.397 Laws applicable. In the establishment and maintenance of levee...

Section 468.400 - Cooperation — procedure. - 468.400 Cooperation — procedure. When proceedings for the drainage of...

Section 468.401 - Agreement as to costs. - 468.401 Agreement as to costs. The board shall have power,...

Section 468.402 - Contracts let by joint agreement. - 468.402 Contracts let by joint agreement. When the bids for...

Section 468.403 - Separate contracts. - 468.403 Separate contracts. The contract or contracts for the construction...

Section 468.404 - Conditions precedent. - 468.404 Conditions precedent. No contract shall be let until the...

Section 468.405 - Assessments, bonds, and costs — limitation. - 468.405 Assessments, bonds, and costs — limitation. All proceedings except...

Section 468.500 - Trustees authorized. - 468.500 Trustees authorized. 1. a. In the manner provided in...

Section 468.501 - Petition. - 468.501 Petition. A petition shall be filed in the office...

Section 468.502 - Election. - 468.502 Election. The board, at the next regular, adjourned, or...

Section 468.503 - Intercounty district. - 468.503 Intercounty district. If the district extends into two or...

Section 468.504 - Election districts. - 468.504 Election districts. When a petition has been filed for...

Section 468.505 - Record and plat of election districts. - 468.505 Record and plat of election districts. At the time...

Section 468.506 - Eligibility of trustees. - 468.506 Eligibility of trustees. Each trustee shall be a citizen...

Section 468.507 - Notice of election. - 468.507 Notice of election. The board, or, if in more...

Section 468.508 - Assessment to determine right to vote. - 468.508 Assessment to determine right to vote. Before any election...

Section 468.509 - New owner entitled to vote. - 468.509 New owner entitled to vote. Anyone who has acquired...

Section 468.510 - Qualifications of voters. - 468.510 Qualifications of voters. Each landowner eighteen years of age...

Section 468.511 - Votes determined by assessment. - 468.511 Votes determined by assessment. 1. When a petition asking...

Section 468.512 - Vote by agent. - 468.512 Vote by agent. Except where the provisions of section...

Section 468.513 - Vote of minor or person under legal incompetency. - 468.513 Vote of minor or person under legal incompetency. The...

Section 468.514 - Ballots — petition for printed ballots. - 468.514 Ballots — petition for printed ballots. Candidates for drainage...

Section 468.515 - Candidates voted for. - 468.515 Candidates voted for. Each qualified voter for the whole...

Section 468.516 - Election — canvass of votes — returns. - 468.516 Election — canvass of votes — returns. On the...

Section 468.517 - Canvass — certificates of election. - 468.517 Canvass — certificates of election. The canvass of the...

Section 468.518 - Tenure of office. - 468.518 Tenure of office. The trustees so elected shall hold...

Section 468.519 - Levee and pumping station districts. - 468.519 Levee and pumping station districts. In levee and drainage...

Section 468.520 - Division of districts under trustees. - 468.520 Division of districts under trustees. When a trustee is...

Section 468.521 - Elections — how conducted. - 468.521 Elections — how conducted. 1. After the first election...

Section 468.522 - Change of date and time. - 468.522 Change of date and time. The date on which...

Section 468.523 - Vacancies. - 468.523 Vacancies. If any vacancy occurs in the membership of...

Section 468.524 - Bonds. - 468.524 Bonds. The trustees shall qualify by giving a bond...

Section 468.525 - Organization. - 468.525 Organization. As soon as the trustees have qualified, they...

Section 468.526 - Powers and duties of trustees. - 468.526 Powers and duties of trustees. Trustees shall have control,...

Section 468.526A - Liability. - 468.526A Liability. A trustee is not personally liable for a...

Section 468.527 - Costs and expenses. - 468.527 Costs and expenses. All costs and expenses necessary to...

Section 468.528 - Disbursement of funds. - 468.528 Disbursement of funds. Drainage and levee taxes when so...

Section 468.529 - Certificates and bonds. - 468.529 Certificates and bonds. The board of trustees of any...

Section 468.530 - Report to auditor. - 468.530 Report to auditor. Such trustees shall, from time to...

Section 468.531 - Compensation — statements required. - 468.531 Compensation — statements required. The compensation of the trustees...

Section 468.532 - Change to supervisor management. - 468.532 Change to supervisor management. Any district which has been...

Section 468.533 - Petition — canvass. - 468.533 Petition — canvass. 1. A petition requesting that a...

Section 468.534 - Remonstrance. - 468.534 Remonstrance. Remonstrances signed by the same persons who are...

Section 468.535 - When change effective. - 468.535 When change effective. If the result of the canvass...

Section 468.536 - Final report of trustees. - 468.536 Final report of trustees. On or before the date...

Section 468.537 - Management by supervisors. - 468.537 Management by supervisors. After such change is made it...

Section 468.538 - Scope. - 468.538 Scope. This part applies when the board of trustees...

Section 468.539 - Qualified application. - 468.539 Qualified application. Part 2 of this subchapter shall also...

Section 468.540 - Refunding bonds. - 468.540 Refunding bonds. The board of supervisors of any county...

Section 468.541 - Petition for refunding. - 468.541 Petition for refunding. Before the time of payment of...

Section 468.542 - Sufficiency of petition — hearing. - 468.542 Sufficiency of petition — hearing. Upon the receipt of...

Section 468.543 - Notice. - 468.543 Notice. The board shall give ten days’ notice of...

Section 468.544 - Requirements of notice. - 468.544 Requirements of notice. The notice shall be directed to...

Section 468.545 - Extending payment of assessments. - 468.545 Extending payment of assessments. If no appeal is taken...

Section 468.546 - Appeal. - 468.546 Appeal. Any person aggrieved by the final action of...

Section 468.547 - Time and manner of appeal. - 468.547 Time and manner of appeal. All appeals shall be...

Section 468.548 - Maximum extension. - 468.548 Maximum extension. The unpaid assessments against said lands within...

Section 468.549 - Form of bonds. - 468.549 Form of bonds. Drainage refunding bonds shall be issued...

Section 468.550 - Numbering, signing, and attestation. - 468.550 Numbering, signing, and attestation. Said bonds shall be numbered...

Section 468.551 - Resolution required. - 468.551 Resolution required. All bonds issued under the provisions of...

Section 468.552 - Record of resolution. - 468.552 Record of resolution. Said resolution shall be entered of...

Section 468.553 - Record of bonds. - 468.553 Record of bonds. When the bonds have been executed...

Section 468.554 - Liability of treasurer — reports. - 468.554 Liability of treasurer — reports. The treasurer shall stand...

Section 468.555 - Sale, exchange, and cancellation. - 468.555 Sale, exchange, and cancellation. The county treasurer shall, under...

Section 468.556 - Redemption from tax sale. - 468.556 Redemption from tax sale. In case any land within...

Section 468.557 - Effect of extension. - 468.557 Effect of extension. The extension of the time of...

Section 468.558 - Additional assessments. - 468.558 Additional assessments. If said assessments should for any reason...

Section 468.559 - Applicability of funds. - 468.559 Applicability of funds. All special assessments, taxes, and sinking...

Section 468.560 - Trust fund. - 468.560 Trust fund. The special assessments out of which said...

Section 468.561 - Liens unimpaired. - 468.561 Liens unimpaired. When drainage refunding bonds are issued, nothing...

Section 468.562 - Limitation of action. - 468.562 Limitation of action. No action shall be brought questioning...

Section 468.563 - Void bonds or assessments. - 468.563 Void bonds or assessments. The provisions of this part...

Section 468.564 - Interpretative clause. - 468.564 Interpretative clause. This part shall be construed as granting...

Section 468.565 - Composition with creditors — federal loans. - 468.565 Composition with creditors — federal loans. For the purpose...

Section 468.566 - Refinancing powers. - 468.566 Refinancing powers. 1. In order to effect a loan...

Section 468.567 - Report and hearing — appeal. - 468.567 Report and hearing — appeal. 1. At the direction...

Section 468.570 - Extension of payment — application. - 468.570 Extension of payment — application. When drainage district bonds...

Section 468.571 - Petition. - 468.571 Petition. Ten owners of real estate in such district,...

Section 468.572 - Hearing. - 468.572 Hearing. On the filing of such petition the court...

Section 468.573 - Parties — notice — service. - 468.573 Parties — notice — service. The board of supervisors...

Section 468.574 - Jurisdiction of court. - 468.574 Jurisdiction of court. The district court shall have jurisdiction...

Section 468.575 - Conservator appointed. - 468.575 Conservator appointed. If the court finds that the necessary...

Section 468.576 - Report — hearing thereon. - 468.576 Report — hearing thereon. The conservator shall, within thirty...

Section 468.577 - Adjudication on report. - 468.577 Adjudication on report. At the hearing of the conservator’s...

Section 468.578 - Refunding bonds. - 468.578 Refunding bonds. The court shall direct the board of...

Section 468.579 - Lien. - 468.579 Lien. When conservator’s drainage district bonds are issued under...

Section 468.580 - Trustees as parties. - 468.580 Trustees as parties. Should a drainage district in default...

Section 468.581 - Limitation of action. - 468.581 Limitation of action. No action shall be brought, questioning...

Section 468.585 - Definitions. - 468.585 Definitions. As used in this part, unless the context...

Section 468.586 - Assessment of costs of drainage improvements. - 468.586 Assessment of costs of drainage improvements. A county may...

Section 468.587 - Special assessment bonds. - 468.587 Special assessment bonds. A county may issue special assessment...

Section 468.588 - Chapter 28E agreement. - 468.588 Chapter 28E agreement. An agreement entered into between a...

Section 468.589 - Rates and charges for services and connection. - 468.589 Rates and charges for services and connection. If a...

Section 468.590 - Cities subject to debt service tax levy — rates. - 468.590 Cities subject to debt service tax levy — rates....

Section 468.591 - Authority. - 468.591 Authority. The authority of a city or county under...

Section 468.600 - Drainage through land of others — application. - 468.600 Drainage through land of others — application. When the...

Section 468.601 - Notice of hearing — service. - 468.601 Notice of hearing — service. Upon the filing of...

Section 468.602 - Service upon nonresident. - 468.602 Service upon nonresident. In case any such owner is...

Section 468.603 - Service on omitted parties — adjournment. - 468.603 Service on omitted parties — adjournment. If at the...

Section 468.604 - Claims for damages — waiver. - 468.604 Claims for damages — waiver. Any person or corporation...

Section 468.605 - Hearing — sufficiency of application — damages. - 468.605 Hearing — sufficiency of application — damages. At the...

Section 468.606 - Shall locate when — specifications. - 468.606 Shall locate when — specifications. If the supervisors find...

Section 468.607 - Findings — record. - 468.607 Findings — record. The board shall reduce its findings,...

Section 468.608 - Appeal — notice. - 468.608 Appeal — notice. Either party may appeal to the...

Section 468.609 - Transcript. - 468.609 Transcript. In case of appeal, the auditor shall certify...

Section 468.610 - Appeal — how tried — costs. - 468.610 Appeal — how tried — costs. The cause shall...

Section 468.611 - Parties — judgment — orders. - 468.611 Parties — judgment — orders. The party claiming damages...

Section 468.612 - Costs and damages — payment. - 468.612 Costs and damages — payment. The applicant shall pay...

Section 468.613 - Construction. - 468.613 Construction. Before entering on the construction of the drain,...

Section 468.614 - Construction through railroad property. - 468.614 Construction through railroad property. If any such ditch or...

Section 468.615 - Deposit. - 468.615 Deposit. In case such election is filed the applicant...

Section 468.616 - Failure to construct. - 468.616 Failure to construct. If the railroad company shall fail...

Section 468.617 - Repairs. - 468.617 Repairs. In case any dispute shall thereafter arise as...

Section 468.618 - Obstruction. - 468.618 Obstruction. Any person who shall dam up, obstruct, or...

Section 468.619 - Drains on abutting boundary lines. - 468.619 Drains on abutting boundary lines. When any watercourse or...

Section 468.620 - Boundary between two counties. - 468.620 Boundary between two counties. If any controversy referred to...

Section 468.621 - Drainage in course of natural drainage — reconstruction — damages. - 468.621 Drainage in course of natural drainage — reconstruction —...

Section 468.622 - Drainage connection with highway. - 468.622 Drainage connection with highway. 1. When the course of...

Section 468.623 - Private drainage system — record. - 468.623 Private drainage system — record. 1. Any person who...

Section 468.624 - 468.624 Repealed by 2009 Acts, ch 27, §39 .

Section 468.625 - 468.625 Repealed by 2009 Acts, ch 27, §39 .

Section 468.626 - Original plat filed. - 468.626 Original plat filed. In lieu of making the record...

Section 468.627 - Record not part of title. - 468.627 Record not part of title. The drainage records provided...

Section 468.628 - Fees for recording. - 468.628 Fees for recording. When information is filed with the...

Section 468.629 - Lost records — hearing. - 468.629 Lost records — hearing. When the records of any...

Section 468.630 - Mutual drains — establishment as district. - 468.630 Mutual drains — establishment as district. Whenever a landowner...

Section 468.631 - Appeal. - 468.631 Appeal. The decisions and actions of the board of...

Section 468.632 - Record filed with established district. - 468.632 Record filed with established district. When the lands served...

Section 468.633 - Lost or incomplete records. - 468.633 Lost or incomplete records. If the records referred to...

Section 468.634 - Petition to combine with established district. - 468.634 Petition to combine with established district. Upon receipt of...

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Iowa Code Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS

Iowa Code
Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS