2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL
306C.19 - REMOVAL AFTER NOTICE.

        306C.19  REMOVAL AFTER NOTICE.
         Any advertising device erected or maintained after July 1, 1972,
      in violation of this division 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 division 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

         [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 306C.19] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 186, § 10068, 10201
         Nuisances in general, chapter 657