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IA Code § 468.266 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.266 - Meeting and vote.

468.266 Meeting and vote.   1. Each board of a participating drainage or levee district shall meet to vote on a resolution which includes the question whether or not to approve the proposed merger. A board must vote on the resolution within forty-five days of the last public hearing conducted pursuant to section 468.265.   2. The board shall only consider written objections to the proposed merger as filed in the office of the county auditor as provided in the notice for a public hearing or comments made at a public hearing conducted pursuant to section 468.265.   3. Two or more boards may approve a joint meeting and vote upon a joint resolution. If the board for the participating dominant district votes at the joint meeting, the dominant board shall pay any costs associated with conducting the joint meeting, regardless of the vote’s outcome.  2014 Acts, ch 1075, §5  Referred to in §468.267
IA Code § 468.267 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.267 - Joint order.

468.267 Joint order.   1. A resolution to merge participating drainage or levee districts approved by their respective boards as provided in section 468.266 shall be effectuated according to the terms and conditions of a joint order for merger entered by those boards.   2. Each board shall file the joint order with the auditors of their respective counties. Upon receipt of a joint order, the auditor shall include the joint order as part of the drainage record.   3. The auditor shall not file an order unless all territory within the merged drainage or levee district is contiguous, and includes any land required to be annexed as a condition of the merger.   4. Upon the filing of the joint order with the county auditor as provided in subsection 2, title to all real estate, other property, improvement, and any right-of-way held by the participating drainage or levee district is vested in the merged drainage or levee district, subject to any condition which applied immediately prior to the merger.   5. The auditor of a county designated by the board governing the merged drainage or levee district shall prepare and file with the recorder of each county where the merged district is situated all conveyances and other documentation necessary to effect the transfers referenced in the joint order.   6. The merged drainage or levee district assumes all existing obligations of a participating drainage or levee district subject to the joint order.  2014 Acts, ch 1075, §6  Referred to in §468.269
IA Code § 468.268 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.268 - Effect of the merger.

468.268 Effect of the merger.   1. a. Except as provided in this subsection, a legal or equitable proceeding pending against a participating drainage or levee district prior to a merger shall continue as if the merger did not occur.   b. The merged drainage or levee district shall be substituted for the participating drainage or levee district standing as a party.   c. The board governing the merged drainage or levee district may apportion the costs of a legal or equitable proceeding against the landowners of the participating drainage or levee district based upon the classification of land and assessments applicable to the participating drainage or levee district prior to the merger.   2. Except as provided in section 468.269, the merger does not affect the classification of land or the levy of an assessment.   3. The original cost and the subsequent cost of improvements in a participating drainage or levee district under this part shall be added to and become a part of the original cost and the subsequent cost of improvements in the merged drainage or levee district.   4. The surviving board of a merged drainage or levee district shall pay any remaining costs associated with the merger.  2014 Acts, ch 1075, §7
IA Code § 468.269 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.269 - Special assessment — merged land.

468.269 Special assessment — merged land.   1. In addition to assessments imposed pursuant to sections 468.49 and 468.50, the surviving board of a merged drainage or levee district may impose a special assessment on land situated in the merged district which was a participating servient district prior to the merger.   2. The special assessment shall apply to costs of improvements made within the participating dominant district prior to the merger for not longer than five years prior to the date that the joint order was filed with the county auditor by the surviving board for the participating dominant district pursuant to section 468.267.   3. In order to impose a special assessment under this section all of the following must apply:   a. The board must approve a report by an engineer appointed by the board as provided in part 1 stating those improvements directly benefiting land situated in the participating servient district were made within the five-year period provided in subsection 2.   b. The notice for a public hearing required in section 468.265 must have stated that the board may impose a special assessment under this section.   4. The board shall not impose the special assessment under this section on land that was annexed as part of the merger. However, such land is subject to a special assessment pursuant to sections 468.119 through 468.121.  2014 Acts, ch 1075, §8; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §149  Referred to in §468.265, 468.268
IA Code § 468.270 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.270 - Petition and bond.

468.270 Petition and bond.   When the levee or drainage district embraces land in two or more counties, a duplicate of the petition of any owner of land to be affected or benefited by such improvement shall be filed with the county auditor of each county into which said levee or drainage district will extend, accompanied by a duplicate bond to be filed with the auditor of each of the said counties as provided when the district is wholly within one county, in an amount and with sureties approved by the auditor of the county in which the largest acreage of the district is situated, which bond shall run in favor of the several counties in which it is filed.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7599; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.1]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.270  Referred to in §468.305  Procedure for converting several intracounty districts into one intercounty district, see subchapter II, part 2
IA Code § 468.271 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.271 - Commissioners.

468.271 Commissioners.   Upon the filing of such petition in each county and the approval of such duplicate bond by the proper auditor, the board of each of such counties shall appoint a commissioner and the joint boards shall appoint a competent engineer who shall also act as a commissioner.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7600; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.2]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.271  Referred to in §468.305
IA Code § 468.272 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.272 - Examination and report.

468.272 Examination and report.   The commissioners thus appointed shall examine the application and make an inspection of all the lands embraced in the proposed district and shall determine what improvements in the way of levees, ditches, drains, settling basins, or change of natural watercourse are necessary for the drainage of the lands described in the petition. Such commissioners, including the engineer, shall file a detailed report of their examination and their findings and file a duplicate thereof in the office of the auditor of each of said counties.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7601; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.3]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.272
IA Code § 468.273 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.273 - Duty of engineer.

468.273 Duty of engineer.   In addition to the report of the commissioners as a whole, the engineer so appointed shall perform the same duties and in the same manner required of the engineer by subchapter I, parts 1 through 5 when the proposed district is located wholly within one county, and the engineer’s surveys, plats, profiles, field notes, and reports of the engineer’s surveys shall be made and filed in duplicate in each county.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7602; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.4]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.273
IA Code § 468.274 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.274 - Notice.

468.274 Notice.   Immediately upon the filing of the report of the commissioners and the engineer, if the same recommends the establishment of such district, notice shall be given by the auditor of each county to the owners of all the lots and tracts of land in the auditor’s own county respectively embraced within such district as recommended by the commissioners as shown by the transfer books in the office of the auditor of each of said counties, and also to the persons in actual occupancy of all the lots or tracts of land in such district, and also to each lienholder or encumbrancer of any of such lots or tracts as shown by the records of the respective counties.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7603; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.5]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.274
IA Code § 468.275 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.275 - Contents of notice — service.

468.275 Contents of notice — service.   Such notice shall state the time and place, when and where the boards of the several counties will meet in joint session for the consideration of said petition and the report of the commissioners and engineer thereon, and shall in other respects be the same and served in the same time and manner as required when the district is wholly within one county, except that the auditor of each county shall give notice only to the owners, occupants, encumbrancers, and lienholders of the lots and tracts of land embraced within the proposed district in the auditor’s own county as shown by the records of such county.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7604; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.6]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.275  Notice and service, §468.14 et seq.
IA Code § 468.276 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.276 - Claims for damages — filing — waiver.

468.276 Claims for damages — filing — waiver.   Any person filing objections or claiming damages or compensation on account of the construction of such improvement shall file the same in writing in the office of the auditor of the county in which the person’s land is situated, at or before the time set for hearing. The person may, however, file it at the time and place of hearing. If the person shall fail to file such claim at the time specified the person shall be held to have waived the person’s right thereto, but claims for land taken for right-of-way for any open ditch or for settling basins need not be filed.  [S13, §1989-a30; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7605; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.7]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.276
IA Code § 468.277 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.277 - Organization and procedure — adjournments.

468.277 Organization and procedure — adjournments.   At the time set for hearing such petition, the boards of the several counties shall meet at the place designated in said notice. They shall organize by electing a chairperson and a secretary, and when deemed advisable may adjourn to meet at the call of such chairperson at such time and place as the chairperson may designate, or may adjourn to a time and place fixed by said joint boards. They shall sit jointly in considering the petition, the report and the recommendations of the engineer, in the same manner as if the district were wholly within one county.  [S13, §1989-a31; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7606; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.8]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.277
IA Code § 468.278 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.278 - Tentative adoption of plans.

468.278 Tentative adoption of plans.   The said boards by their joint action may dismiss the petition and refuse to establish such district, or they may approve and tentatively adopt the plans and recommendations of the engineer for the said district.  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7607; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.9]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.278
IA Code § 468.279 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.279 - Appraisers.

468.279 Appraisers.   If the said boards shall adopt a tentative plan for the district, the board of each county shall select an appraiser and the several boards by joint action shall employ an engineer, and the said appraisers and engineer shall constitute the appraisers to appraise the damages and value of all right-of-way required for open ditches and of all lands required for settling basins.  [S13, §1989-a31; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7608; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.10]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.279
IA Code § 468.280 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.280 - Duty of appraisers — procedure.

468.280 Duty of appraisers — procedure.   The appraisers shall proceed in the same manner and make return of their findings and appraisement the same as when the district is wholly within one county, except that a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the auditor’s office of each of the several counties. After the filing of the report of the appraisers, all further proceedings shall be the same as where the district is wholly within one county, except as otherwise provided.  [S13, §1989-a31; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7609; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.11]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.280  Procedure, §468.24 et seq.
IA Code § 468.281 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.281 - Meetings of joint boards.

468.281 Meetings of joint boards.   The board of supervisors of any county in which a petition for the establishment of a levee or drainage district to extend into or through two or more counties is on file, may meet with the board or boards of any other county or counties in which such petition is on file, for the purpose of acting jointly with such other board or boards in reference to said petition or any business relating to such district. Any such joint meetings held in either of the counties in which such petition is on file shall constitute a valid and legal meeting of said joint boards for the transaction of any business pertaining to said petition or to the business of such district.  [S13, §1989-a37; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7610; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.12]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.281
IA Code § 468.282 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.282 - Equalizing voting power.

468.282 Equalizing voting power.   When the boards are of unequal membership, for the purpose of equalizing their voting power each member of the smallest board shall cast a full vote and each member of a larger board shall cast such fractional part of a vote as results from dividing the smallest number by such larger number.  [S13, §1989-a29; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7611; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.13]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.282
IA Code § 468.283 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.283 - Commissioners to classify and assess.

468.283 Commissioners to classify and assess.   If the boards of the several counties acting jointly shall establish the district, they shall appoint a commission consisting of one from each county, and in addition thereto a competent engineer who shall within twenty days begin to inspect the premises and classify the lands in said district fixing the percentages and assessments of benefits and the apportionment of costs and expenses and shall complete said work within the time fixed by the boards. The qualifications of said commissioners, their classification of lands, fixing percentages and assessments of benefits and apportionment of costs and the report thereof in all details shall be governed in all respects by the provisions of subchapter I, parts 1 through 5, for districts wholly within one county.  [S13, §1989-a32; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7612; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.14]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.283
IA Code § 468.284 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.284 - Notice and service thereof — objections.

468.284 Notice and service thereof — objections.   Upon the filing of the report of the commissioners to classify lands, fix and assess benefits and apportion costs and expenses, the auditors of the several counties, acting jointly, shall cause notice to be served upon all interested parties of the time when and the place where the boards will meet and consider such report and make a final assessment of benefits and apportionment of costs, which notice shall be the same and served for the time and in the manner and all proceedings thereon shall be the same as provided in subchapter I, parts 1 through 5, in districts wholly within one county, except publication of notice as provided in section 468.15 shall be in each of the counties into which the district extends, and also except that said notice to be published in each of the several counties shall contain only the names of the owners of each tract of land or lot in the district located within the respective county in which said notice is to be published and the total amount of all proposed assessments on the lands located in each of the other counties into which the district extends, and except further that the objections not filed prior to the date of the hearing shall be filed with the boards at the time and place of such hearing.  [S13, §1989-a32; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7613; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.15]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.284
IA Code § 468.285 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.285 - Levies — certificates and bonds.

468.285 Levies — certificates and bonds.   After the amount to be assessed and levied against the several tracts of land shall have been finally determined, the several boards, acting separately, and within their own counties, shall levy and collect the taxes apportioned and levied in their respective counties. They may issue warrants, improvement certificates, or bonds for the payment of the cost of such improvement within their respective counties, with the same right of landowners to pay without interest or in installments all as provided where the district is wholly within one county.  [S13, §1989-a32; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7614; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.16]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.285  Referred to in §468.286  Payment, §468.56 et seq.
IA Code § 468.286 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.286 - Bonds or proceeds made available.

468.286 Bonds or proceeds made available.   When drainage bonds are to be issued under the provisions of section 468.285 they shall be issued at such time that they or the proceeds thereof shall be available for the use of the district at a date not later than ninety days after the actual commencement of the work on the improvement as provided in relation to districts wholly within one county.  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7615; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.17]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.286
IA Code § 468.287 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.287 - Supervising engineer.

468.287 Supervising engineer.   At the time of finally establishing the district, the boards of the several counties, acting jointly, shall employ a competent engineer to have charge and supervision of the construction of the improvement and they shall fix the engineer’s compensation and the engineer shall, before entering upon said work, give a bond running to the several counties for the use and benefit of the district in the same amounts and of like tenor and effect as is provided in districts wholly within one county. A duplicate of such bond shall be filed with the auditor of each of said counties.  [S13, §1989-a34; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7616; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.18]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.287  Bond, §468.33
IA Code § 468.288 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.288 - Duty of engineer.

468.288 Duty of engineer.   The duties of the supervising engineer shall be the same in all respects as is provided by subchapter I, parts 1 through 5, for districts wholly within one county.  [S13, §1989-a34; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7617; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.19]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.288
IA Code § 468.289 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.289 - Notice of letting work — applicable procedure.

468.289 Notice of letting work — applicable procedure.   If the boards, acting jointly, shall establish such district, the auditors of the several counties shall immediately thereafter, acting jointly, cause notice to be given of the time and place of the meeting of the boards for letting contracts for the construction of the improvement. The notices, bids, bonds, and all other proceedings in relation to letting contracts shall be the same as provided where the district is wholly within one county, but duplicates of contractors’ bonds shall be filed with the auditor of each county.  [S13, §1989-a33; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7618; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.20]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.289
IA Code § 468.290 (2021)
2021 Iowa Code|Title XI - NATURAL RESOURCES|Chapter 468 - LEVEE AND DRAINAGE DISTRICTS AND IMPROVEMENTS|Section 468.290 - Contracts.

468.290 Contracts.   All contracts made for engineering work and the work of constructing improvements of an intercounty district shall be made by written contract executed by the contractor and such person as may be authorized by the boards of the several counties and by joint resolution and shall specify the work to be done, the amount of compensation therefor and the times and manner of payment, all as provided in relation to districts wholly within one county.  [S13, §1989-a33; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7619; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.21]  89 Acts, ch 126, §2  CS89, §468.290