2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 317 - WEEDS
317.16 - FAILURE TO COMPLY.

        317.16  FAILURE TO COMPLY.
         1.  In case of a substantial failure to comply by the date
      prescribed in any order of destruction of weeds made pursuant to this
      chapter, the weed commissioner may do any of the following:
         a.  Enter upon the land as provided in section 317.6 and
      provide for the destruction of the weeds as provided in section
      317.6.
         b.  Impose a maximum penalty of a ten dollar fine for each
      day, up to ten days, that the owner or person in possession or
      control of the land fails to comply.  If a penalty is imposed and the
      owner or person in possession or control of the land fails to comply,
      the weed commissioner shall cause the weeds to be destroyed.
         2.  If the weed commissioner enters the land and causes the weeds
      to be destroyed, the actual cost and expense of cutting, burning, or
      otherwise destroying the weeds, along with the cost of providing
      notice and special meetings or proceedings, if any, shall be paid by
      the county and, together with the additional assessment to apply
      toward costs of supervision and administration, be recovered by an
      assessment against the tract of real estate on which the weeds were
      growing, as provided in section 317.21.  Any fine imposed under this
      section shall be recovered by a similar assessment.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 1565-c, -d; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 4823; C39, § 4829.16;
      C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 317.16] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 123, § 121, 209; 85 Acts, ch 171, §4; 2005 Acts, ch
      39, §2
         Referred to in § 317.21