Section 349.4 – Application — contest.
349.4 Application — contest. Any publisher who desires that the publisher’s newspaper be so selected may make written application therefor to the board of supervisors at any time prior to the making of the selection. If more applications are filed than there are newspapers to be selected, a contest shall exist. [C24, 27, 31, 35, […]
Section 349.5 – Contest — verified statements.
349.5 Contest — verified statements. In case of a contest, each applicant shall deposit with the county auditor, in a sealed envelope, a statement, verified by the applicant, showing the names of the applicant’s bona fide yearly subscribers living within the county and the place at which each such subscriber receives such newspaper, and the […]
Section 349.6 – Determination of contest — evidence.
349.6 Determination of contest — evidence. 1. The county auditor shall, on the direction of the board while it is in session, open the envelopes which have been deposited as provided under section 349.5. The board may receive other evidence of circulation. In counties in which two newspapers are to be selected, the two newspapers […]
Section 349.7 – Subscribers — how determined.
349.7 Subscribers — how determined. The board of supervisors shall determine the bona fide yearly subscribers of a newspaper within the county, as follows: 1. Those subscribers listed by the publisher whose papers are delivered, by or for the publisher, by mail or otherwise, upon an order or subscription for same by the subscriber, and […]
Section 349.8 – Tie lists.
349.8 Tie lists. When newspapers are, by equality of circulation, equally entitled to selection as an official newspaper, the board shall, in the presence of the contestants, determine the question by lot. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5403; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §349.8] 2020 Acts, ch 1063, […]
Section 349.9 – Fraudulent lists.
349.9 Fraudulent lists. No newspaper shall be selected as an official newspaper when it is made to appear that the verified list deposited by the applicant contains the names of persons who are not bona fide subscribers within the county and that such names were knowingly and willfully entered on such list by the applicant, […]
Section 349.10 – New date fixed if all rejected.
349.10 New date fixed if all rejected. If all certified statements are rejected under the provisions of section 349.9, the board shall fix a new date for the selection of official newspapers and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the applicants so rejected from filing new certified statements. [SS15, §441; C24, 27, […]
Section 349.11 – Appeal.
349.11 Appeal. Any applicant may, within twenty days after the selection of official newspapers, appeal to the district court from the decision of the board of supervisors as to the selection of any or all newspapers so selected by filing in the office of the county auditor a bond for costs, in a sum and […]