2019 Iowa Code
Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS
Section 468.43 - Public highways and state-owned lands.

468.43 Public highways and state-owned lands.

1. When any public highway or other public land extends into or through a levee or drainage district, the commissioners to assess benefits shall ascertain and return in their report the amount of benefits and the apportionment of costs and expenses to such highway or other public land, and the board of supervisors shall assess the same against such highway and land.

2. Such assessments against primary highways and other state-owned lands under the jurisdiction of the state department of transportation shall be paid by the state department from the primary road fund on due certification of the amount by the county treasurer to the department, and against all secondary roads and other county owned lands under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors, from county funds.

3. When state-owned land under the jurisdiction of the department of natural resources is situated within a levee or drainage district, the commissioners assessing benefits shall ascertain and return in their report the amount of benefits and the apportionment of costs and expenses to the land, and the board of supervisors shall assess the amount against the land. In estimating benefits to land which is a state-owned lake or state-owned wetland, the commissioners shall ascertain benefits as provided in section 468.40.

4. The assessments against lands under the jurisdiction of the department of natural resources shall be paid as an expense from the appropriations addressed in section 7D.29, if authorized by the executive council upon certification of the amount by the county treasurer.

[S13, §1989-a19, -a26; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7470; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.50]

83 Acts, ch 123, §183, 209; 85 Acts, ch 267, §3; 86 Acts, ch 1008, §1; 89 Acts, ch 126, §2

CS89, §468.43

97 Acts, ch 194, §1; 2011 Acts, ch 59, §3, 4; 2011 Acts, ch 131, §36, 158

Referred to in §331.429, 468.8, 468.13, 468.65, 468.184