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Section 161E.9 – Tax levy.

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 […]

Section 161E.10 – Assumption of obligations.

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 […]

Section 161E.11 – Highway law applicable.

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 […]

Section 161E.12 – Payments from federal government.

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 […]

Section 161E.13 – Allocation to secondary road funds.

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 […]