Iowa § 563.1 Resting wall on neighbor’s land

Iowa Statutes

§ 563.1 — Resting wall on neighbor’s land

Iowa § 563.1

Title XIVPROPERTY

Ch. 563WALLS IN COMMON

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Bluebook

Iowa Code § 563.1 (2026).

Text

Where building lots have been surveyed and plats thereof recorded, anyone who is about
to build contiguous to the land of another may, if there be no wall on the line between them,
build a brick, reinforced concrete, or stone wall thereon, when the whole thickness of such
wall above the cellar wall does not exceed eighteen inches exclusive of the plastering, and
rest one-half thereof on the adjoining land, but the adjoining owner shall not be compelled
to contribute to the expense of building said wall.

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Where building lots have been surveyed and plats thereof recorded, anyone who is about
to build contiguous to the land of another may, if there be no wall on the line between them,
build a brick, reinforced concrete, or stone wall thereon, when the whole thickness of such
wall above the cellar wall does not exceed eighteen inches exclusive of the plastering, and
rest one-half thereof on the adjoining land, but the adjoining owner shall not be compelled
to contribute to the expense of building said wall.