2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT)
307.43 - FEDERAL DONATIONS.

        307.43  FEDERAL DONATIONS.
         If the government of the United States provides for free
      distribution among the states of machinery or other equipment
      suitable for use in road improvement, the director may receive and
      receipt for the machinery and equipment, and take action to secure to
      the state the benefit of any such tenders by the federal authorities.
      The director may make an apportionment of the machinery or other
      equipment among the counties of the state which in the director's
      judgment will best facilitate work in progress or contemplated by the
      counties, but the title and right of possession of the property
      received from the federal government is at all times in the director
      for the use and benefit of the state.  

         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1924