468.139  Trees and hedges.

When it becomes necessary to destroy any trees or hedges outside the right of way of any ditch, lateral, or drain in order to prevent obstruction by the roots thereof, if the board and the owners of such trees or hedges cannot agree upon the damage for the destruction thereof, the board may proceed to acquire the right to destroy and remove such trees or hedges by the same proceedings provided for acquiring right of way for said drainage improvement in the first instance.

Section History: Early form

  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 7570; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 455.149]

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 126, § 2

  CS89, § 468.139

Footnotes

  Condemnation procedure, chapter 6B

  Similar provision, § 468.347


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