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Iowa Code Title IX. Local Government [Chs. 331-420] § 418A.4. Statewide analysis

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

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1. The office of levee safety, in cooperation with the Iowa geological survey, shall conduct a statewide analysis of the condition of the state's levees. The office and survey shall identify each levee requiring repair or reconstruction based on a scale adopted by the office which assigns a number based on the levee's level of critical need. The office shall consider all of the following:

a. Deficiencies in the construction, maintenance, and operation of each levee in a levee district.

b. The amount of capital expenditures required for the repair or reconstruction for each levee in a levee district.

c. Payment obligations creating legal indebtedness incurred by the levee district, including those evidenced by bonds, warrants, certificates, contracts, or judgments.

d. The current total revenue collected by the levee district, and the budgeted revenue ceiling of the levee district based on a maximum assessment rate for classified lands used to maintain the levee as apportioned to each owner of such land.

2. The governing body of each levee district shall assist the office in conducting the analysis for the governing body's levee district.

3. This section is repealed July 1, 2028.

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