Iowa · statute · Iowa Code ch. 309 · 57 active provisions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Book”, “list”, “record”, or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1. 2. “Bridge” includes any structure including supports, erected over a…
The secondary bridge system of a county shall embrace all bridges and culverts on secondary roads as defined in section 306.3.
1. Notwithstanding section 310.4, if the board of supervisors of a county does not plan to utilize its farm-to-market road fund allocation for the succeeding fiscal year for farm-to-market projects, the board may annually, by stipulation in the secondary road construction program and secondary road budget submitted to…
The department shall when requested by the board of supervisors advise with said board as to the manner of constructing and maintaining the secondary roads.
The board of supervisors shall employ one or more licensed civil engineers as county engineers. The board shall fix the term of employment for county engineers, which shall not exceed three years, but the tenure of office may be terminated at any time by the board.
1. The board of supervisors shall fix the compensation of the county engineers. 2. The county engineers shall, in the performance of their duties, work under the directions of the board and shall give bonds for the faithful performance of their duties in a sum not less than two thousand nor more than five thousand doll…
The boards of supervisors of two or more counties may enter into an agreement to jointly employ a county engineer, employ professional and clerical assistants for the engineer, and to provide such services as can be carried on jointly and will operate to their mutual benefit. Such agreement shall be written and entered…
County engineers and their assistants shall file an itemized and verified account with the board of supervisors for the reimbursement of all expenses incurred. Mileage may be claimed as provided in section 70A.9.
All construction and maintenance work shall be performed under the direct and immediate supervision of the county engineer who shall be deemed responsible for the efficient, economical and good-faith performance of said work.
1. On or before May 15 of each year the board of supervisors, with the assistance of the county engineer, shall, subject to the approval of the department, adopt a secondary road construction program which shall include a project accomplishment list for the next fiscal year, and a project priority list for the succeedi…
On or before September 15 of each year, the county engineer of each county in the state shall certify and file a report with the department, as part of the annual report required under section 309.22, detailing the manner in which moneys received by the county that originated from the road use tax fund were used to rep…
The secondary road construction program is subject to review by the department under section 309.94 and subject to program operation requirements under section 309.96, subsection 2.
The secondary road construction program or project shall be planned on the basis of one general, uniform, and unified plan for the complete and permanent construction of the roads embraced in the program or project as to bridge, culvert, tile, and grading or other improvements.
In planning and in adopting the secondary road program or project by the board of supervisors, the board and the county engineer shall give due and careful consideration, to the location of primary roads, and of roads previously improved as county roads, to the market centers and main roads leading thereto, and to rura…
The board after due consultation with the county engineer, shall first select in a provisional way the roads which they then consider advisable to embrace in the secondary road program. The board shall direct the county engineer to make a reconnaissance survey and estimate of all of the roads selected, or of such part…
In addition to meeting the requirements of sections 309.22 through 309.26, the county engineer, when so ordered by the board, shall make a written report to the board designating, in the order of importance, the roads which, in the engineer’s judgment, are most urgently in need of construction.
The county engineer may in the engineer’s report recommend that certain definitely described roads or parts of a road be omitted from or added to the provisional program or project. In such a case, the county engineer shall clearly enter on the report the reasons for the recommendations.
A map of the county showing the location of the proposed program or project shall accompany the report of the county engineer.
Additional reconnaissance surveys and estimates may be ordered by the board when it deems the same necessary or advisable.
After the construction program or project is finally determined, the county auditor shall record the same at length in a county road book.
Before proceeding to the construction of any road or roads included in the secondary road construction program where the grading, exclusive of bridges and culverts, is estimated to cost over ten thousand dollars per mile, the county engineer shall cause detailed surveys and plans for the road or roads to be prepared.
The county engineer’s survey shall be on the basis of the permanent improvement of said roads, as to bridge, culvert, tile, and road work.
The county engineer’s survey shall show all of the following: 1. A division into sections of all of the roads embraced in said provisional program, a designation of each section by some appropriate number, name, or letter, the starting point and terminus of each section, and the mileage of each section. 2. An accurate…
The county engineer may adopt any existing survey of any road or part of a road which is embraced in the program or project, provided that the existing survey substantially complies, or is made to comply, with the requirements of this chapter.
The various contracts for the carrying out of said construction program or project in the most efficient, practicable and economical manner shall, as far as possible, be accompanied by standard specifications, and no traveled roadway shall be less than twenty-two feet from shoulder to shoulder.