2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 317 - WEEDS
317.18 - ORDER FOR WEED CONTROL ON ROADS.

        317.18  ORDER FOR WEED CONTROL ON ROADS.
         The board of supervisors may order all noxious weeds, within the
      right-of-way of all roads under county jurisdiction to be cut,
      burned, or otherwise controlled to prevent seed production, either
      upon its own motion or upon receipt of written notice requesting the
      action from any residents of the township in which the roads are
      located, or any person regularly using the roads.  The order shall be
      consistent with the county integrated roadside vegetation management
      plan, if the county has adopted such a plan, and the order shall
      define the roads along which noxious weeds are required to be cut,
      burned, or otherwise controlled and shall require the weeds to be
      cut, burned, or otherwise controlled within fifteen days after the
      publication of the order in the official newspapers of the county or
      as prescribed in the county's integrated roadside vegetation
      management plan.  The order shall provide that spraying for control
      of noxious weeds shall be limited to those circumstances when it is
      not practical to mow or otherwise control the weeds.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C39, § 4829.18; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79,
      81, § 317.18] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 123, § 122, 209; 85 Acts, ch 171, §5; 89 Acts, ch 246,
      §10; 98 Acts, ch 1075, §14