2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT)
307.36 - PROJECT NEEDS -- RETENTION OF PROPERTY.

        307.36  PROJECT NEEDS -- RETENTION OF PROPERTY.
         It is the intent of the general assembly that not later than July
      1, 1992, the state department of transportation shall dispose of all
      right-of-way owned by the department and not needed for projects.  In
      determining need, the department shall consider both its five-year
      program requirements and its long-range, statewide corridor
      development needs, including the development of the network of
      commercial and industrial highways.  The department may also act to
      preserve right-of- way for improvements to the network of commercial
      and industrial highways by acquiring options, easements, rights of
      first refusal, or other property interests less than fee title.  In
      determining need based upon long-range, statewide corridor
      development, the department shall give careful consideration to
      economically depressed urban areas not served directly by the
      national system of interstate and defense highways.  

         83 Acts, ch 114, § 1; 89 Acts, ch 134, §3