6B.8  Notice of assessment.

The applicant, or the owner or any lienholder or encumbrancer of any land described in the application, may, at any time after the appointment of the commissioners, have the damages to the lands of any such owner assessed by giving the other party, if a resident of this state, thirty days' notice, in writing. The notice shall specify the day and the hour when the compensation commission will meet, view the premises, and assess the damages. The notice shall be personally served upon all necessary parties in the same manner provided by the Iowa rules of civil procedure for the personal service of original notice. If a city or county, or an agency of a city or county, is seeking to condemn agricultural land for an industry as that term is defined in section 260E.2, the notice shall inform the landowner that the landowner may request that the compensation commission review the application as provided in section 6B.4A.

Section History: Early form

  [R60, § 1318; C73, § 1245; C97, § 2000; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 7829; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 472.8]

Section History: Recent form

  C93, § 6B.8

  99 Acts, ch 171, §9, 42; 2000 Acts, ch 1179, §15, 30

Internal References

  Referred to in §6B.4, 6B.4A

Footnotes

  Manner of service, R.C.P. 49-64

  1999 amendments apply to state highway construction projects approved for commencement by the transportation commission on or after July 1, 1999, and to all other condemnation proceedings in which the application for condemnation is filed on or after July 1, 1999; see 99 Acts, ch 171, §42


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