2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS
306B.5 - REMOVAL AFTER NOTICE.

        306B.5  REMOVAL AFTER NOTICE.
         Any advertising device erected or maintained adjacent to any
      interstate system after May 21, 1965 in violation of this chapter or
      the rules promulgated by the department, is a public nuisance and may
      be removed by the department upon thirty days' notice, by certified
      mail, to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the
      land on which the advertising device is located.  The notice shall
      require such owners to remove the advertising device if it is
      prohibited or to cause it to conform to this chapter or rules
      promulgated by the department if it is not prohibited.
         1.  If the owner of the advertising device or the landowner fails
      to act within thirty days as required in the notice, the advertising
      device shall be deemed to be forfeited and the department may enter
      upon the land and remove the advertising device. Such entry after
      notice, shall not be deemed a trespass and the department may be
      aided by injunction to abate the nuisance and to insure peaceful
      entry.
         2.  The cost of removal, including fees, costs and expenses which
      arise out of an action brought by the department to insure peaceful
      entry and removal, may be assessed against the owner of the
      advertising device.  If the owner of the advertising device fails to
      pay the fees, costs, or expenses within thirty days after assessment,
      the department may commence an action to collect the fees, costs, or
      expenses, which when collected shall be paid into the "highway
      beautification fund".  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 306B.5] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 186, § 10067, 10201
         Referred to in § 306B.4, 306C.10
         Nuisances in general, chapter 657