2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 309 - SECONDARY ROADS
309.1 - DEFINITIONS.

        309.1  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Book", "list", "record", or "schedule" kept
      by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other
      county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1.
         2.  "Bridge" includes any structure including supports,
      erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a
      highway, or railway.  A bridge has a track or passageway for carrying
      traffic or other moving loads and has an opening measured along the
      center of the roadway of more than twenty feet.  The measurement
      shall be between the inside faces of abutments, the inside faces of
      the exterior walls of multiple box culverts, the spring lines of
      arches, and the horizontal measurement of circular or elliptical
      structures.
         a.  The length of a bridge is the overall measurement from
      back to back of backwalls and abutments measured along the center of
      the roadway.
         b.  Multiple pipes, where the distance between openings is
      less than half the smaller contiguous opening, may be included as a
      bridge, provided the pipes meet the other definitional requirements
      for bridges in this subsection.
         3.  "Culvert" includes any structure not classified as a
      bridge which provides an opening under any roadway, except that this
      term does not include tile crossing the road, or intakes thereto,
      where the tile are a part of a tile line or system designed to aid
      subsurface drainage.
         4.  "Department" means the state department of transportation.

         5.  "Fiscal year" means the period of twelve months beginning
      on July 1 and ending on June 30.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 309.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         84 Acts, ch 1102, § 2; 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1119,
      §40, 200, 201