2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 303 - DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
303.44 - DATE AND NOTICE OF HEARING.

        303.44  DATE AND NOTICE OF HEARING.
         The board of supervisors to whom the petition is addressed, at its
      next regular, special, or adjourned meeting, shall set the time and
      place when it will meet for a hearing upon the petition, and direct
      the county auditor in whose office the petition is filed to cause
      notice to be given to all persons whom it may concern, without naming
      them, of the pendency and prayer of the petition, by publication of a
      notice once each week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper of
      general circulation published in the proposed district.  The last
      publication shall not be less than twenty days prior to the date set
      for the hearing of the petition.  If no such newspaper is published
      in the proposed district, then notice shall be by posting at least
      five copies of the notice in the proposed district at least twenty
      days before the hearing.  Proof of giving notice shall be made by
      affidavit of the publisher or affidavit of the person who posted the
      notices, and the proof shall be on file with the county auditor at
      the time the hearing begins.  The notice of hearing shall be directed
      to all persons it may concern, and shall state the following:
         1.  That a petition has been filed with the county auditor of that
      county for establishment of a proposed land use district and the name
      of the proposed district.
         2.  An intelligible description of the boundaries of the territory
      to be embraced in the district.
         3.  The date, hour, and place where the petition will come on for
      hearing before the board of supervisors of the named county.
         4.  That the board of supervisors will fix and determine the
      boundaries of the proposed district as described in the petition, and
      at the hearing all interested persons shall have an opportunity to be
      heard regarding the location and boundaries of the proposed district
      and to make suggestions regarding it.  

         83 Acts, ch 108, § 4
         Referred to in § 303.45, 303.46, 303.48, 303.64