§ 468.356 — Petition — procedure — emergency pumping station

Iowa § 468.356

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XI: NATURAL RESOURCES
• Ch. 468: LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS

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1. A pumping station shall not be established or maintained unless a petition shall be
presented to the board signed by not less than one-third of the owners of lands benefited by
the establishment of a pumping station. The lands benefited by a pumping station shall be
determined by the board on the petition and report of the engineer, and such other evidence
as the board may hear. No additional land shall be taken into any such drainage district after
the improvements in the district have been substantially completed, unless one-third of the
owners of the land proposed to be annexed have petitioned or consented in writing to the
annexation.
2. However, the board of supervisors may install a temporary portable pumping station
to remove flood waters in an emergency. The board of supervisors shall levy and collect the
cost of the purchase, operation, and maintenance of the pumping station from the lands
in the district benefited by the pumping station in the same manner as provided for in
the construction and maintenance of a drainage or levee district. For the purpose of this

subsection, an emergency occurs when ponded or standing water does not freely flow to the
outlet ditch and the capacity of the outlet ditch is not fully used.

Legislative History

[S13, §1989-a49; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7652; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §461.2]