161E.1 Authority of board. If a county, soil and water conservation district, subdistrict of a soil and water conservation district, political subdivision of the state, or other local agency engages or participates in a project for flood or erosion control, flood prevention, or the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, in cooperation with the […]
161E.10 Assumption of obligations. This chapter contemplates that actual direction of the project, or projects, and the actual work done in connection with them, will be assumed by the soil and water conservation district, a subdistrict of a soil and water conservation district, or the federal government, and that the county or other state subdivisions […]
161E.11 Highway law applicable. The counties in maintaining the structures or improvements made under such a project shall do so in a like manner and under like procedure as that used in the maintenance of its highways. Any cooperative agreements with other state subdivisions or instrumentalities shall conform with such an agreement as to the […]
161E.12 Payments from federal government. Whenever there shall be payable by the federal government to counties or school districts of the state any sums of money because of the fact that such school districts or counties are entitled to a share of the receipts from the operation of the federal government of flood control projects […]
161E.13 Allocation to secondary road funds. Upon receipt of any such payments or payment by the county treasurer twenty-five percent of such amount shall be credited to the secondary road funds of the counties which are principally affected by the construction of such federal flood control projects, and the board of supervisors shall determine which […]
161E.14 Allocation. 1. Sixty-five percent of any such payments or payment received from the federal government shall be distributed to the general fund of the school districts of the county after the county auditor has determined the districts which are principally affected by the federal flood control project involved in an amount deemed to be […]
161E.15 Taxes canceled. The treasurer of any county wherein is situated any land acquired by the federal government for flood control projects is hereby authorized to cancel any taxes or tax assessments against any such land so acquired where the tax has been extended but has not become a lien thereon at the time of […]
161E.2 Federal aid. A county may, in accordance with this chapter, accept federal funds for aid in a project for flood or soil erosion control, flood prevention, or the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, and may cooperate with the federal government or a department or agency of the federal government, a soil and […]
161E.3 Cooperation. The counties, soil and water conservation districts, and subdistricts of soil and water conservation districts concerned, shall advise and consult with each other, upon the request of any of them or any affected landowners, and may cooperate with each other or with other state subdivisions or instrumentalities, and affected landowners, as well as […]
161E.4 Structures or levees. When structures or levees necessary for flood or soil erosion control, flood prevention, or the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, are constructed on county roads, the cost in total or in part shall be considered a part of the cost of road construction. [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, […]
161E.5 Maintenance cost. If construction of projects has been completed by the soil and water conservation district, subdistricts of soil and water conservation districts, political subdivisions of the state, or other local agencies, or the federal government, or a department or agency of the federal government, on private lands under the easement granted to the […]
161E.6 Estimate. 1. In the proceedings to establish such a project the government engineer shall set forth in the engineer’s report separately from other items, the amount of the cost of construction on county property and on private lands, and the engineer’s estimate of the cost of the maintenance of the project. 2. If the […]
161E.7 Projects on private land. Any flood or soil erosion control, flood prevention, or the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water, projects built on private land with federal or other funds when dedicated to the county use, shall be maintained in the same manner as its own county-owned or controlled property. [C50, 54, 58, […]
161E.8 Conservation commissioners. In counties where soil and water conservation districts exist the commissioners in said county shall be responsible for the inspection of all flood and erosion control structures built on private land under easement to the county, shall furnish such technical assistance as they may have available in making estimates of needed repairs […]
161E.9 Tax levy. The county board of supervisors may annually levy a tax not to exceed six and three-fourths cents per thousand dollars of assessed value of all agricultural lands in the county, to be used for flood and erosion control, including acquisition of land or interests in land, and repair, alteration, maintenance, and operation […]
