2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT)
307.22 - PLANNING AND RESEARCH.

        307.22  PLANNING AND RESEARCH.
         The department's administrator of planning and research shall:
         1.  Assist the director in planning all modes of transportation in
      order to develop an integrated transportation system providing
      adequate transportation services for all citizens of the state.
         2.  Develop and maintain transportation statistical data for the
      department.
         3.  Assist the director in establishing, analyzing, and evaluating
      alternative transportation policies for the state.
         4.  Coordinate planning and research duties and responsibilities
      with the planning functions carried on by other administrators of the
      department.
         5. a.  Annually report by July 1 of each year, for both
      secondary and farm-to-market systems, miles of earth, granular, and
      paved surface roads; the daily vehicle miles of travel; and lineal
      feet of bridge deck under the jurisdiction of each county's secondary
      road department, as of the preceding January 1, taking into account
      roads whose jurisdiction has been transferred from the department to
      a county or from a county to the department during the previous year.
      The annual report shall include those roads transferred to a county
      pursuant to section 306.8A.
         b.  Miles of secondary and farm-to-market roads shall not
      include those miles of farm-to-market extensions within cities under
      five hundred population that are placed under county secondary road
      jurisdiction pursuant to section 306.4.
         c.  The annual report of updated road and bridge data of both
      the secondary and farm-to-market roads shall be submitted to the Iowa
      county engineers association service bureau.
         6.  Perform such other planning functions as may be assigned by
      the director.
         The functions of planning and research do not include the detailed
      design of highways or other modal transportation facilities, but are
      restricted to the needs of this state for multimodal transportation
      systems.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 307.22] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1912, 1913; 2002 Acts, ch 1063, §6, 16; 2003
      Acts, ch 144, §4; 2005 Acts, ch 20, §2; 2005 Acts, ch 142, §1