2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 308 - MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARKWAY
308.3 - DEFINITIONS.

        308.3  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter:
         1.  "Conservation area" means land in which the state
      department of transportation or the department of natural resources
      has acquired rights, other than that land necessary for a
      right-of-way.
         2.  "Great river road" means a scenic and recreational highway
      consisting of a designated system of roads and streets along the
      Mississippi river in this state.
         3.  "National parkway" has the same meaning as defined in Pub.
      L. No. 93-87, first session, Ninety-third Congress of the United
      States.
         4.  "Right-of-way" means land area dedicated to public use for
      a highway and its maintenance, and includes land acquired in fee
      simple or by permanent easement for highway purposes, but does not
      include temporary easements or rights for supplementary highway
      appurtenances.
         5.  "A scenic and recreational highway" means a public highway
      designated to allow enjoyment of aesthetic and scenic views, points
      of historical, archaeological and scientific interest, state parks
      and other recreational areas and includes both the right-of-way and
      conservation area.
         6.  "Scenic easement" means a servitude which is acquired by
      gift, purchase, exchange or condemnation and is designed to permit
      land to remain in private ownership for its normal agricultural,
      residential or other use and, at the same time, to restrict and
      control the future use of the land for the purpose of preserving,
      restoring or enhancing the natural and historic beauty of the land
      subject to the scenic easement.
         7.  "Secretary", "parkway", "scenic landscape",
      "sightly or safety easement", "access", "parkway road",
      "parkway development", "frontage" and other similar terms
      have the same meaning as defined in any Act of the Congress of the
      United States related to a national parkway.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 308.3] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1928; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §85; 2008 Acts, ch
      1032, §44