568.1  Sale authorized.
  All land between high-water mark and the center of the former channel of any navigable stream, where such channel has been abandoned, so that it is no longer capable of use, and is not likely again to be used for the purposes of navigation, and all land within such abandoned river channels, and all bars or islands in the channels of navigable streams not heretofore surveyed or platted by the United States or the state of Iowa, and all within the jurisdiction of the state of Iowa shall be sold and disposed of in the manner hereinafter provided.
[S13, §2900-a2; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10221; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §568.1]