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2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.6 - New and existing facilities — grade-crossing eliminations.

306A.6 New and existing facilities — grade-crossing eliminations.
1. Cities and highway authorities having jurisdiction and control over the highways of the state, as provided by chapter 306, may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The state or any of its subdivisions shall have authority to provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing state and county roads, and city or village streets, by grade separation or service road, or by closing off such roads and streets at the right-of-way boundary line of such controlled-access facility.
2. The provisions of sections 306.11 through 306.17 shall apply and govern the procedure for the closing of a road or street and the method of ascertaining damages sustained by any person as a consequence of the closing, provided, however, that the highway authority desiring the closing of such road or street shall conduct the hearing and carry out the procedure therefor and pay any damages, including any allowed on appeal, as a consequence thereof, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
3. After the establishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway or street which is not part of said facility shall intersect the same at grade. A city or village street, county or state highway, or other public way shall not be opened into or connected with any such controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the highway authority in the state, county, city, or village having jurisdiction over the controlled-access facility. Such consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest shall be served thereby.
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.6]
2020 Acts, ch 1063, §133
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.7 - Authority of local units to consent.

306A.7 Authority of local units to consent.
Cities and highway authorities having jurisdiction and control over the highways of the state, as provided by chapter 306 are authorized to enter into agreements with each other, or with the federal government, respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of controlled-access facilities or other public ways in their respective jurisdictions, to facilitate the purposes of this chapter.
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.7]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.8 - Local service roads.

306A.8 Local service roads.
In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility cities and highway authorities having jurisdiction and control over the highways of the state, as provided by chapter 306, are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street, and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as is authorized over controlled-access facilities under the terms of this chapter, if, in their opinion, such local service roads and streets are necessary or desirable. Such local service roads or streets shall be of appropriate design, and shall be separated from the controlled-access facility proper by means of all devices designated as necessary or desirable by the proper authority.
[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.8]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.10 - Notice to relocate — costs paid.

306A.10 Notice to relocate — costs paid.
Whenever the state department of transportation, a city, or a county determines that relocation or removal of any utility facility now located in, over, along, or under any highway or street, is necessitated by the construction of a project on routes of the national system of interstate and defense highways including extensions within cities or on streets or highways resulting from interstate substitutions in a qualified metropolitan area under Tit. 23, U.S.C., the utility owning or operating the facility shall relocate or remove the facility in accordance with statutory notice. The costs of relocation or removal, including the costs of installation in a new location, shall be ascertained by the authority having jurisdiction over the project or as determined in condemnation proceedings for such purposes and may be paid from participating federal aid or other funds.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.10]
83 Acts, ch 198, §15; 2021 Acts, ch 76, §57
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.11 - What costs included.

306A.11 What costs included.
Cost of relocation or removal shall include the entire amount paid by such utility properly attributable to such relocation or removal except the cost of land or any rights or interest in land, after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage value derived from the old facility.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.11]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.12 - Limitation on reimbursement.

306A.12 Limitation on reimbursement.
A reimbursement shall not be made for any relocation or removal of facilities under this chapter unless funds to be provided by federal aid amount to at least eighty-five percent of each reimbursement payment.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.12]
83 Acts, ch 198, §16
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306A - CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAYS › Section 306A.13 - Definition.

306A.13 Definition.
The term “utility” includes all privately, publicly, municipally, or cooperatively owned systems for supplying water, sewer, electric lights, street lights and traffic lights, gas, power, telegraph, telephone, transit, pipeline, heating plants, railroads, and bridges, or the like service to the public, or any part of such a system if the system is authorized by law to use the streets or highways for the location of its facilities.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306A.13]
2022 Acts, ch 1021, §56
Section amended
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.1 - Definitions.

306B.1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
1. “Advertising device” means any outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or any other device designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform, for which remuneration is paid or earned in exchange for its erection, display, or existence by any person, and which is visible from the traveled portion of any highway of the interstate system in this state.
2. “Department” means the state department of transportation.
3. “Interstate system” means the system of highways as described in 23 U.S.C. §103(c) or amendments thereto.
4. “Remuneration” means the exchange of anything of value, including but not limited to money, securities, real property interests, personal property interests, goods, services, future consideration, exchange of favor, or forbearance of debt.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.1]
2010 Acts, ch 1061, §180; 2011 Acts, ch 25, §25; 2021 Acts, ch 39, §1, 2
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.2 - Advertising prohibited — exceptions.

306B.2 Advertising prohibited — exceptions.
An advertising device shall not be erected or maintained within six hundred sixty feet of the edge of the right-of-way of the interstate system except in areas zoned and used for commercial or industrial purposes under authority of law, regulation, or ordinance of this state or a political subdivision of this state. For purposes of this section, “areas zoned and used for commercial or industrial purposes” means an area zoned for commercial or industrial purposes in accordance with chapter 414, in the case of city zoning, or in accordance with chapter 335, in the case of county zoning, in which one or more commercial or industrial activities, as defined under the city or county zoning ordinance, are located.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.2]
97 Acts, ch 104, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1070, §1, 2; 2021 Acts, ch 39, §3
Referred to in §306C.10, 306C.13
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.4 - Purchase of existing signs.

306B.4 Purchase of existing signs.
The department shall acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation all advertising devices existing on May 21, 1965, which violate the provisions of this chapter or which fail to conform to rules promulgated by the said department under this chapter and all rights and interests of all persons in and to such devices; except that in instances involving any authorized device which fails to conform to rules, the said department shall give notice to the owner of the device and to the owner of the land on which the device is located and shall give the owner and landowner time to conform to such rules as provided in section 306B.5 before proceeding as directed in this section. The provisions of chapters 6A and 6B shall be applicable to any such condemnation and the said department shall have the right to take immediate possession of and remove such devices under the procedures of section 6B.25.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.4]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.5 - Removal after notice.

306B.5 Removal after notice.
Any advertising device erected or maintained adjacent to any interstate system after May 21, 1965 in violation of this chapter or the rules promulgated by the department, is a public nuisance and may be removed by the department upon thirty days’ notice, by certified mail, to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the land on which the advertising device is located. The notice shall require such owners to remove the advertising device if it is prohibited or to cause it to conform to this chapter or rules promulgated by the department if it is not prohibited.
1. If the owner of the advertising device or the landowner fails to act within thirty days as required in the notice, the advertising device shall be deemed to be forfeited and the department may enter upon the land and remove the advertising device. Such entry after notice, shall not be deemed a trespass and the department may be aided by injunction to abate the nuisance and to insure peaceful entry.
2. The cost of removal, including fees, costs and expenses which arise out of an action brought by the department to insure peaceful entry and removal, may be assessed against the owner of the advertising device. If the owner of the advertising device fails to pay the fees, costs, or expenses within thirty days after assessment, the department may commence an action to collect the fees, costs, or expenses, which when collected shall be paid into the “highway beautification fund”.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.5]
83 Acts, ch 186, §10067, 10201
Referred to in §306B.4, 306C.10
Nuisances in general, chapter 657
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.6 - Misdemeanor.

306B.6 Misdemeanor.
Whoever erects or maintains an advertising device in violation of this chapter or in violation of rules and regulations promulgated by the department under this chapter shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.6]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.7 - Federal agreements.

306B.7 Federal agreements.
The department may enter into agreements with the secretary of commerce of the United States concerning the erection, maintenance, regulation, location, frequency and related matters of advertising devices permitted under this chapter.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.7]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306B - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING ALONG INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS › Section 306B.8 - Funds accepted.

306B.8 Funds accepted.
The department may accept any allotment of funds by the United States or any department or agency thereof appropriated under Tit. 23 U.S.C. or amendments thereto to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306B.8]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.1 - Definitions.

306C.1 Definitions.
For the purposes of this subchapter unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Department” means the state department of transportation.
2. “Interstate highway” includes “interstate road” and “interstate system” and means any highway of the national highway system at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the department and approved by the appropriate authority of the federal government.
3. “Junk” means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber debris, waste, or junked, dismantled, or wrecked automobiles, or parts of automobiles, or iron, steel, or other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material.
4. “Junkyard” means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated, or used primarily for storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk; and the term includes garbage dumps, sanitary fills, and automobile graveyards.
5. “National highway system” means the network designated by the federal highway administration in consultation with the state department of transportation, which consists of interconnected urban and rural principal arterials and highways that serve major population centers, ports, airports, public transportation facilities, other intermodal transportation facilities, and other major travel destinations; meet national defense requirements; and serve interstate and interregional travel.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.1]
2003 Acts, ch 8, §1; 2014 Acts, ch 1123, §2, 3; 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
Referred to in §555B.1
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.2 - Junkyards prohibited — exceptions.

306C.2 Junkyards prohibited — exceptions.
A person shall not establish, operate, or maintain a junkyard, any portion of which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any highway on the national highway system, except:
1. Those which are screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means obscuring them from view from the main-traveled portion of the highway.
2. Those located within areas which are zoned for industrial use under authority of law.
3. Those located within unzoned industrial areas which areas shall be determined from actual land uses and defined by regulations to be promulgated by the department under the provisions of chapter 17A in accordance with the standards, criteria, and rules and regulations promulgated under authority of Tit. 23, United States Code.
4. Those which are not visible from the main-traveled portion of the highway.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.2]
2003 Acts, ch 8, §2; 2014 Acts, ch 1123, §4
Referred to in §306C.6
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.3 - Junkyards lawfully in existence.

306C.3 Junkyards lawfully in existence.
1. Any junkyard located outside a zoned or unzoned industrial area lawfully in existence on July 1, 1972, which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main-traveled portion of any highway on the interstate system shall be screened, if feasible, by the department, or by the owner under rules and direction of the department, at locations on the highway right-of-way or in areas acquired for such purposes outside the right-of-way in order to obscure the junkyard from the main-traveled way of such highways.
2. Any junkyard located outside a zoned or unzoned industrial area lawfully in existence on July 1, 2014, which is within one thousand feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main-traveled portion of any noninterstate highway which is on the national highway system shall be screened, if feasible, by the department, or by the owner under rules and direction of the department, at locations on the highway right-of-way or in areas acquired for such purposes outside the right-of-way in order to obscure the junkyard from the main-traveled way of such highways.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.3]
2003 Acts, ch 8, §3; 2014 Acts, ch 1123, §5
Referred to in §306C.6
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.4 - Requirements as to screening.

306C.4 Requirements as to screening.
The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A governing the location, planting, construction, and maintenance of screening or fencing required by this chapter including materials to be used. However, such rules shall be in accordance with the standards, criteria and rules promulgated under authority of Tit. 23, United States Code.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.4]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.5 - Acquisition of land for screening or removal.

306C.5 Acquisition of land for screening or removal.
When the department determines that it is in the best interests of the state, it may acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, or condemnation, as provided by law, such property or rights or interests in property as may be necessary to provide adequate screening for junkyards. When the department determines that the topography of the land adjoining the highway will not permit adequate screening, or screening would not be economically feasible, the department may acquire such property or rights or interests in property as may be necessary to secure the relocation, removal, or disposal of the junkyard, and shall pay the cost of such relocation, removal, or disposal, with federal participation. However, no plan for relocation, removal, or disposal which qualifies for federal participation shall be undertaken unless the department has received notification from the federal government that the federal share to be paid is immediately available for that purpose.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.5]
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.6 - Nuisance — injunction.

306C.6 Nuisance — injunction.
Any junkyard which does not conform to the requirements of this subchapter and which is not excepted under section 306C.2 or 306C.3, is a public nuisance. The department may apply for an injunction to abate any nuisance arising from a violation of the provisions of this subchapter or rules adopted pursuant to this subchapter.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.6]
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
Nuisances in general, chapter 657
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.7 - Interpretation.

306C.7 Interpretation.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any lawful ordinance, regulation, or resolution, which are more restrictive than the provisions of this subchapter.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.7]
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.8 - Agreements with the United States authorized.

306C.8 Agreements with the United States authorized.
The department may enter into agreements with the United States secretary of transportation as provided by Tit. 23, United States Code, relating to control of junkyards in areas adjacent to the interstate system, and take action in the name of the state to comply with the terms of such agreements.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.8]
2003 Acts, ch 8, §4
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.9 - Compensation.

306C.9 Compensation.
Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as permitting the taking of private property or the restriction of the reasonable and existing uses of such property without just compensation and in accordance with the provisions of chapter 6B and Tit. 23, United States Code.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.9]
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.12 - None visible from highway.

306C.12 None visible from highway.
An advertising device shall not be constructed or reconstructed beyond the adjacent area in unincorporated areas of the state if it is visible from the main-traveled way of any primary highway. Any advertising device permitted beyond an adjacent area in unincorporated areas of the state shall be subject to the applicable permit provisions of section 306C.18.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.12]
2006 Acts, ch 1068, §2; 2014 Acts, ch 1123, §8; 2021 Acts, ch 39, §10
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.14 - Existing signs — six-year limit.

306C.14 Existing signs — six-year limit.
Any advertising device lawfully in existence in an adjacent area on July 1, 1972, which does not conform with the provisions of this subchapter, shall be required to be brought into conformity or removed within six years after July 1, 1972. Any advertising device lawfully erected after said date which subsequently becomes nonconforming, shall be required to be brought into conformity or removed within five years after the date the nonconformity occurs. However, no advertising device shall be acquired or be required to be removed pursuant to this subchapter unless the department has received notification from the federal government that the federal share of just compensation to be paid is immediately available to contribute to the cost of acquisition or removal; this requirement shall not apply to the acquisition or removal of advertising devices for which no federal share is payable.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.14]
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
Referred to in §306C.24
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.15 - Acquisition of signs.

306C.15 Acquisition of signs.
The department shall acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation, and shall pay just compensation upon the removal of any of the following advertising devices which are not in conformity with the provisions of this subchapter:
1. Advertising devices lawfully in existence on July 1, 1972.
2. Advertising devices lawfully in existence on land adjoining any highway made an interstate, freeway primary, or primary highway after July 1, 1972.
3. Advertising devices lawfully erected on or after July 1, 1972, but which subsequently become nonconforming.
4. Any advertising device erected on the mistaken or negligent advice of any official or employee of the state of Iowa as to the interpretation, effect, or operation of this subchapter, chapter 306B, or rules promulgated by the department.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.15]
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
Referred to in §306C.16, 306C.18
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.16 - Compensation.

306C.16 Compensation.
Compensation required by section 306C.15 or 306C.24 shall be paid for the following:
1. The taking from the owner of such advertising device of all right, title, leasehold, and interest in such advertising device.
2. The taking from the owner of real property on which an advertising device is located, of the right to erect and maintain such advertising devices upon that real property.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.16]
89 Acts, ch 317, §24
Referred to in §306C.24
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.17 - Condemnation.

306C.17 Condemnation.
The provisions of chapters 6A and 6B shall be applicable to any such condemnation commenced pursuant to this subchapter, and the department may take immediate possession of and remove such advertising devices under the procedures of section 6B.25.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.17]
2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.18 - Permit required.

306C.18 Permit required.
The owner of every advertising device regulated by section 306C.11, subsection 1, shall be required to make application to the department for a permit.
1. The application for a permit shall be on a form provided by the department and shall contain the name and address of the owner of the advertising device and the name and address of the owner of the real property on which it is located; the date of its erection; a description of its location; its dimensions; and such other information required by the department, together with a permit fee as provided in this section or rule adopted by the department.
2. After July 1, 1972, no new advertising device for which an application for a permit is required may be erected without first obtaining a permit from the department, except in the case of advertising devices lawfully in existence in areas adjacent to any highway made an interstate, freeway primary, or primary highway after July 1, 1972. The owner shall be required to make application for a permit as provided for in this section within thirty days after the date the said highway acquired said designation.
3. Upon receipt of an application containing all the required information in due form and properly executed together with the fee required, the department shall issue a permit to be affixed to the advertising device if the advertising device will not violate any provision of this subchapter or chapter 306B, or any rule promulgated by the department, provided that in the case of advertising devices to be acquired pursuant to section 306C.15, a provisional permit shall be issued.
4. The fee for both types of permits for calendar years 1997 and 1998 shall be one hundred dollars for the initial fee and fifteen dollars for each annual renewal for signs up to three hundred seventy-five square feet in area, twenty-five dollars for each annual renewal for signs at least three hundred seventy-six, but not more than nine hundred ninety-nine, square feet in area, and fifty dollars for each annual renewal for signs one thousand square feet or more in area. Beginning January 1, 1999, fees shall be as determined by rule by the department. The fees collected for the above permits shall be credited to the highway beautification fund created in section 306C.11, subsection 2, and all salaries and expenses incurred in administering this chapter shall be paid from this fund or from specific appropriations for this purpose, except that surveillance of, and removal of, advertising devices performed by regular maintenance personnel are not to be charged against the fund.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.18]
91 Acts, ch 176, §1; 96 Acts, ch 1218, §34; 97 Acts, ch 104, §3; 2006 Acts, ch 1068, §3; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §74; 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121; 2021 Acts, ch 39, §14
Referred to in §306C.12, 306C.24
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.19 - Removal after notice.

306C.19 Removal after notice.
Any advertising device erected or maintained after July 1, 1972, in violation of this subchapter or the rules promulgated by the department, is a public nuisance and may be removed by the department upon thirty days’ notice, by certified mail, to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the land on which the advertising device is located. The notice shall require such owners to remove the advertising device if it is prohibited, or to cause it to conform to this subchapter or rules promulgated by the department if it is not prohibited.
1. If the owner of the advertising device or the landowner fails to act within thirty days as required in the notice, the advertising device shall be deemed to be forfeited and the department may enter upon the land and remove the advertising device. Such entry after notice, shall not be deemed a trespass and the department may be aided by injunction to abate the nuisance and to insure peaceful entry.
2. The cost of removal, including fees, costs and expenses which arise out of an action brought by the department to insure peaceful entry and removal, may be assessed against the owner of the advertising device. If the owner of the advertising device fails to pay the fees, costs, or expenses within thirty days after assessment, the department may commence an action to collect the fees, costs, or expenses, which when collected shall be paid into the highway beautification fund.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.19]
83 Acts, ch 186, §10068, 10201; 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
Nuisances in general, chapter 657
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.20 - Bonus funds agreements.

306C.20 Bonus funds agreements.
The department shall enter into agreements with the duly constituted federal authorities in order to secure for the state all bonus federal funds allotted and appropriations to the state and to avoid loss or reduction, under 23 U.S.C. §131, of federal aid funds apportioned or to be apportioned to the state under 23 U.S.C. §104. The department may accept funds from whatever source, including any allotment of funds by the United States, or any of its departments or agencies, appropriated to carry out the purposes of 23 U.S.C. §131. The department shall take such steps as may be necessary to obtain from the United States or any of its departments or agencies, funds allotted and appropriated for the purpose of paying the federal share of just compensation to be paid to advertising device owners and owners of the real property under the terms of this chapter and 23 U.S.C. §131(g). All moneys received pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in the highway beautification fund.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.20]
2010 Acts, ch 1061, §51
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.21 - Information centers and rest areas.

306C.21 Information centers and rest areas.
1. The department may establish or enter into agreements with private persons, firms, or corporations for the establishment of information centers in rest areas on the interstate, freeway primary, and primary highways, subject to the approval of the appropriate authority of the federal government. After January 1, 1997, private persons, firms, or corporations entering into an agreement with the department under this section shall not develop, establish, or own any commercial business located on land adjacent to the rest area which is subject to the agreement.
2. An interstate rest area shall be located entirely on the interstate right-of-way, including, but not limited to, all entrance and exit ramps, all rest area buildings including information centers, and all parking facilities. Department money and resources shall not be used for any other type of interstate rest area. Whenever an interstate rest area is reconstructed, the area available for parking shall be equal to or more than the area available for parking prior to the reconstruction.
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306C.21]
97 Acts, ch 76, §1; 2021 Acts, ch 76, §150
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306C - JUNKYARD BEAUTIFICATION AND BILLBOARD CONTROL › Section 306C.24 - Compensation for sign removal.

306C.24 Compensation for sign removal.
1. Definition. As used in this section, “off-premises advertising device” means an advertising device which does not qualify as an “on-premises sign” under rules adopted by the department pursuant to chapter 17A.
2. Just compensation required. Political subdivisions of this state shall not remove, take, alter, or cause to be removed, taken, or altered a lawfully erected off-premises advertising device without paying just compensation in cash to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the real property on which the advertising device is located, as provided in section 306C.16. The department shall not remove, take, alter or cause to be removed, taken, or altered a lawfully erected off-premises advertising device subject to control under chapter 306B or this chapter without paying just compensation when required under 23 U.S.C. §131(g) to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the real property on which the advertising device is located, as provided in section 306C.16. For the department, the sole intent of this section is to comply with 23 U.S.C. §131(g) and it is not the intent of this section to, in any manner, relinquish any powers of the department relating to the control and removal of advertising devices under police power.
3. Exceptions. This section does not apply to the removal, taking, or altering of an off-premises advertising device under any of the following conditions:
a. The device is unlawfully erected or is being maintained in violation of the provisions of section 306C.13, subsection 7, or section 306C.18.
b. The device has been abandoned or not used for a period of at least six months.
4. Department authorization. If required by 23 U.S.C. §131(g), the department may acquire through purchase or condemnation and shall pay just compensation as provided in section 306C.16 for off-premises advertising devices removed after July 1, 1989, through amortization by an ordinance of a political subdivision enacted prior to July 1, 1989. Notwithstanding the requirements of section 306C.14, the department may first pay just compensation from the highway beautification fund and then claim reimbursement for the federal share of the payment from the federal government.
5. Savings clause. If any provision of this section which relates to the department is inconsistent or conflicts with, or is not required by, 23 U.S.C. §131 to avoid the loss of federal funds, the provision shall be suspended but only to the extent necessary to eliminate the inconsistency, conflict, or requirement. If any part of this section is found to be invalid or unconstitutional, such judgment shall not affect the validity of the section as a whole or any provision or part of the section not found to be invalid or unconstitutional.
89 Acts, ch 317, §25; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §83
Referred to in §306C.16
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306D - SCENIC ROUTES › Section 306D.1 - Statement of purpose — intent.

306D.1 Statement of purpose — intent.
1. The general assembly finds that:
a. The state offers numerous regions through which people can drive for the pleasure of viewing unusually scenic and interesting landscapes; however, routes to and through these areas have not been adequately identified for Iowans and state visitors.
b. Among those things that attract motorists to the state’s landscape are agricultural lands, forests, river basins, distinctive landforms, interesting architecture, metropolitan areas, small rural towns, and historic sites.
c. The landscape qualities of unusually scenic routes throughout the state have not been protected from visual and resource deterioration particularly along routes which pass near the state’s nationally significant areas such as the bluffs of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the Amana colonies, the Herbert Hoover national historic site, federal reservoirs, communities surrounding the state’s natural lakes, the Des Moines river greenbelt, the great river road, and many others.
d. A principal goal of economic development in this state is to increase the influence which travel and tourism have on the state’s economic expansion.
e. Iowans and visitors should be encouraged to travel to and through unusually scenic areas of the state.
f. A program should be established, following a statewide plan, to identify and promote highways and secondary routes which pass through unusually scenic landscapes and to protect and enhance the scenic qualities of the landscape through which these routes pass.
2. In addition to other goals for the program, it is the intention of the general assembly that the scenic highways program be coordinated with the state’s open space program under chapter 465A.
87 Acts, ch 175, §1; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §64
Referred to in §306D.2
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306D - SCENIC ROUTES › Section 306D.2 - Statewide scenic highways program — objectives and agency duties.

306D.2 Statewide scenic highways program — objectives and agency duties.
1. The state department of transportation shall prepare a statewide, long-range plan for the protection, enhancement, and identification of highways and secondary roads which pass through unusually scenic areas of the state as identified in section 306D.1. The department of natural resources, department of economic development, and department of cultural affairs, private organizations, county conservation boards, city park and recreation departments, and the federal agencies having jurisdiction over land in the state shall be encouraged to assist in preparing the plan. The plan shall be coordinated with the state’s open space plan if a state open space plan has been approved by the general assembly. The plan shall include, but is not limited to, the following elements:
a. Preparation of a statewide inventory of scenic routes and ranking of relative uniqueness for each route. The degree to which these routes suffer from negative visual intrusions shall be documented.
b. Recommended techniques for preserving and enhancing the scenic qualities associated with each route.
c. Forecasts of significant changes in traffic volumes and environmental, social, and economic impacts if scenic routes are publicly identified and promoted as tourism attractions.
d. Recommended techniques for incorporating scenic highway routes in state and local tourism development and marketing programs.
e. Landscape management needs including maintenance, rehabilitation, and improvements to scenic areas.
f. Funding levels needed to accomplish the statewide scenic highway program.
g. Recommendations of how federal and state transportation programs can be modified or developed to assist the state’s scenic highway program.
2. The preparation of the plan is subject to an appropriation by the general assembly for that purpose. The plan shall be submitted to the general assembly by January 15, 1988. Prior to submission of the plan to the general assembly, the department shall request comments on the proposed plan from state agencies, federal agencies, and private organizations with interests in scenic highways. The comments shall be submitted to the general assembly.
87 Acts, ch 175, §2; 2011 Acts, ch 118, §85, 89; 2012 Acts, ch 1021, §64
Duties of former department of economic development were assumed by economic development authority beginning July 1, 2011, pursuant to 2011 Acts, ch 118
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306D - SCENIC ROUTES › Section 306D.3 - Plan recommendations and pilot projects.

306D.3 Plan recommendations and pilot projects.
1. The department’s recommendations to the general assembly shall include proposed legislation for the state to acquire and protect scenic landscapes along public roads and highways.
2. Before January 1, 1989, the department shall identify four pilot scenic highway routes across two or more counties each for trial promotion in the state’s tourism marketing program.
87 Acts, ch 175, §3
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 306D - SCENIC ROUTES › Section 306D.4 - Scenic highway advertising.

306D.4 Scenic highway advertising.
1. The department of transportation shall have the authority to adopt rules to control the erection of new advertising devices on a highway designated as a scenic highway or scenic byway in order to comply with federal requirements concerning the implementation of a scenic byways program.
2. Notwithstanding subsection 1, if an advertising device was lawfully erected along an interstate highway within the corporate limits of a city prior to designation of the highway as a scenic byway and, after such designation occurs, the advertising device is displaced due to the reconstruction, improvement, or relocation of the highway, the advertising device may be relocated to a location determined by the department to be substantially the same location, subject to approval by the federal highway administration, and shall not be considered an erection of a new advertising device, if all of the following apply:
a. The location conforms to the requirements of chapters 306B and 306C.
b. The materials, number and type of supports, lighting, face size, and height of the advertising device remain the same.
95 Acts, ch 135, §4; 2013 Acts, ch 140, §22
Referred to in §306C.11
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.1 - Definitions.

307.1 Definitions.
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Director” means the director of transportation or the director’s designee.
2. “Department” means the state department of transportation.
3. “Commission” means the state transportation commission established in section 307A.1A.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §307.1; 81 Acts, ch 22, §2]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §1903; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §40
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.2 - Department of transportation.

307.2 Department of transportation.
There is created a state department of transportation which shall be responsible for the planning, development, regulation and improvement of transportation in the state as provided by law.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §307.2]
Referred to in §7E.5
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.8 - Expenses.

307.8 Expenses.
The director and other employees of the department shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. All expenses and salaries shall be paid from appropriations for such purposes and the department shall be subject to the budget requirements of chapter 8.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §307.8]
2015 Acts, ch 123, §3
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.11 - Director of transportation — qualifications — salary.

307.11 Director of transportation — qualifications — salary.
1. The governor shall appoint a director of transportation, subject to confirmation by the senate, who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and who shall not be a member of the commission. The director shall not hold any other office under the laws of the United States or of this or any other state or hold any other position for profit. The director shall not engage in any occupation, business, or profession interfering with or inconsistent with the director’s duties, serve on or under a committee of a political party, or contribute to the campaign fund of any person or political party. The director shall be appointed on the basis of executive and administrative abilities and shall devote full time to the duties of the position.
2. The director shall receive a salary as fixed by the governor within a salary range set by the general assembly.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §307.11]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §1907, 1908; 2020 Acts, ch 1062, §94
Confirmation; see §2.32
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.13 - Reassignment of personnel.

307.13 Reassignment of personnel.
The director may reassign personnel within the department among the various divisions of the department in order to properly coordinate the work of the divisions and perform the duties and responsibilities of the department efficiently and economically. However, any employee so transferred or transferred from one employment system to another, either administratively or legislatively, shall not be considered to be a probationary employee simply because of this action.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §307.13]
2020 Acts, ch 1062, §42
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.14 - Official Iowa map.

307.14 Official Iowa map.
The department shall publish a map of the state of Iowa. At the request of a citizen of a particular city or town, the department shall add the city or town to the existing map of Iowa and identify the main road leading into the city or town if the city or town meets two or more of the following criteria:
1. Has a zip coded post office in the city or town.
2. Has a population of twenty-five or more.
3. Has a building on the national register of historic places in the city or town.
4. Has an association with a public recreation area managed by the department of natural resources in the city or town.
5. Has a high school, grade school, private school, church, or cemetery in the city or town.
6. Has a retail business in the city or town.
7. Has an annual festival or celebration.
91 Acts, ch 139, §1, 2
2023 Iowa Code › Title VIII - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 307 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) › Section 307.20 - Biodiesel and biodiesel blended fuel revolving fund.

307.20 Biodiesel and biodiesel blended fuel revolving fund.
1. A biodiesel and biodiesel blended fuel revolving fund is created in the state treasury. The biodiesel and biodiesel blended fuel revolving fund shall be administered by the department and shall consist of moneys received from the sale of EPAct credits banked by the department on April 19, 2001, moneys appropriated by the general assembly, and any other moneys obtained or accepted by the department for deposit in the fund. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to and shall be used by the department for the purchase of biodiesel and biodiesel blended fuel for use in department vehicles. The department shall submit an annual report not later than January 31 to the members of the general assembly and the legislative services agency, of the expenditures made from the fund during the preceding fiscal year. Section 8.33 does not apply to any moneys in the fund and, notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, earnings or interest on moneys deposited in the fund shall be credited to the fund.
2. A departmental motor vehicle operating using biodiesel or biodiesel blended fuel shall be affixed with a brightly visible sticker that notifies the traveling public that the motor vehicle uses biodiesel blended fuel.
3. For purposes of this section the following definitions apply:
a. “Biodiesel” and “biodiesel blended fuel” mean the same as defined in section 214A.1.
b. “EPAct credit” means a credit issued pursuant to the federal Energy Policy Act (EPAct), 42 U.S.C. §13201 et seq.
2001 Acts, ch 52, §1, 3; 2003 Acts, ch 35, §45, 49; 2006 Acts, ch 1142, §78