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Iowa Code Title IX. Local Government [Chs. 331-420] § 357H.1. Rural improvement zones--definitions

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

1. The board of supervisors of a county with less than twenty thousand residents, not counting persons admitted or committed to an institution enumerated in section 218.1 or 904.102, based upon the most recent certified federal census, and with a private real estate development adjacent to or abutting in part a lake may designate an area surrounding the lake, if it is an unincorporated area of the county, a rural improvement zone upon receipt of a petition pursuant to section 357H.2, and upon the board's determination that the area is in need of improvements.

2. For purposes of this chapter:

a. “Board” means the board of supervisors of the county.

b. “Improvements” means dredging, installation of erosion control measures, water quality activities, land acquisition, and related improvements, including soil conservation practices, within or outside of the boundaries of the zone.

c. “Lake” means a body of water that is located entirely in a single county and that has a surface area of at least eighty acres.

d. “Water quality activities” includes but is not limited to creation or maintenance of grass waterways or wetlands, bank stabilization, watershed protection, activities on lands outside the rural improvement zone which affect water quality within the zone, and any other activity which will improve water quality of a stream, river, or lake.

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