317.19  Road clearing appropriation.
  1.  The board of supervisors may appropriate moneys to be used for the purposes of cutting, burning, or otherwise controlling weeds or brush within the right-of-way of roads under county jurisdiction in a manner consistent with the county’s roadside vegetation management plan, if the county has adopted such a plan, or in time to prevent reseeding, except as provided in section 314.17. The moneys appropriated shall not be spent on spraying for control of weeds except in those circumstances when it is not practical to mow or otherwise control the weeds.
  2.  The board of supervisors may purchase or hire necessary equipment or contract with the adjoining landowner to carry out this section.
83 Acts, ch 123, §123, 209; 84 Acts, ch 1219, §20; 85 Acts, ch 171, §6; 89 Acts, ch 246, §11; 98 Acts, ch 1075, §15; 2010 Acts, ch 1164, §3