2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 316 - RELOCATION OF PERSONS DISPLACED BY HIGHWAYS
316.3 - DECLARATION OF POLICY -- AUTHORIZATION -- DIVISIBILITY OF APPLICATION.

        316.3  DECLARATION OF POLICY -- AUTHORIZATION --
      DIVISIBILITY OF APPLICATION.
         1.  The purpose of this chapter is to establish a uniform policy
      for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced as a result
      of federally assisted programs or projects in order that the persons
      shall not suffer disproportionate injuries as a result of programs or
      projects designed for the benefit of the public as a whole and to
      minimize the hardship of displacement on the persons.  The general
      assembly declares that relocation assistance for persons displaced by
      programs and projects is a necessary and essential part of the
      programs and projects.  This chapter shall be known and may be cited
      as the "Relocation Assistance Law."
         2.  If a displacing agency subject to the provisions of the
      federal Uniform Relocation Act, or if another entity required or
      electing to provide any of the programs or payments authorized by
      this chapter, undertakes a project which results in the acquisition
      of real property or in a person being displaced from the person's
      home, business, or farm, the displacing agency or other entity may
      provide relocation assistance, and make relocation payments to the
      displaced person and do the other acts and follow the procedures and
      practices as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of the
      federal Uniform Relocation Act and this chapter.  Displacing agencies
      may provide all or a part of the program and payments authorized
      under this chapter to persons displaced by any program or project
      regardless of the funding source.  However, to the extent a program
      or a payment is provided, the program or payment shall be provided on
      a uniform basis to all displaced persons.
         3.  If a provision, clause, or phrase of this chapter, or
      application of this chapter to a person or circumstance is adjudged
      invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the judgment shall
      not invalidate the remainder of the chapter, and the application of
      the chapter to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected
      by the adjudication.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 316.3] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 20, §7