349.1 Time of selection. The board of supervisors shall, at the January session each year, select the newspapers in which the official proceedings shall be published for the ensuing year. [R60, §314; C73, §307; C97, §441; SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5397; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, […]
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, […]
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 […]
349.12 Transcript. The auditor shall forthwith file with the clerk of the district court a transcript of all the proceedings before the board, together with all papers filed in connection with said matter. [SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5407; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §349.12]
349.13 Trial of appeal. Said appeal shall be triable de novo as an equitable action without formal pleadings at any time after the expiration of twenty days following the filing of such transcript. [SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5408; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §349.13] Trial […]
349.14 Publication pending contest — interest payable. After the selection by the board of supervisors of official newspapers, no publisher shall receive pay for publishing official proceedings until the contest is finally determined, insofar as the publisher is concerned. After determination of the contest, payment for publications made during the contest shall include interest at […]
349.15 Division of compensation. If in any county the publishers of two or more newspapers, at least one of which by reason of its location and circulation is entitled to be selected as a county official newspaper, have entered into an agreement to publish the official proceedings or have united in a request to have […]
349.16 What published. There shall be published in each of the official newspapers at the expense of the county during the ensuing year: 1. The proceedings of the board of supervisors, as furnished by the county auditor, excluding from the publication of those proceedings the canvass of the various elections, as provided by law; the […]
349.17 Official publication fee. The cost of official publications provided for in section 349.16 shall not exceed the fee provided in section 618.11 for the publication of legal notices. An official publication shall not be printed in type smaller than six point. [C73, §307; C97, §441; SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5412; C46, […]
349.18 Supervisors’ proceedings — each payee listed — publication. 1. All proceedings of each regular, adjourned, or special meeting of a board of supervisors, including the schedule of bills allowed, shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. 2. The publication of the schedule of the bills allowed shall include a list of […]
349.2 Source of selection. Such selection shall be from newspapers published, and having the largest number of bona fide yearly subscribers, within the county. When counties are divided into two divisions for district court purposes, each division shall be regarded as a county. [C73, §307; C97, §441; SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5398; […]
349.3 Number. The number of such newspapers to be selected shall be as follows: 1. In counties having a population of less than fifteen thousand, two such newspapers, or one, if there be but one published therein. 2. In counties having a population of more than fifty thousand, divided into two divisions for court purposes, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
