316.9  Rules.
  1.  The department shall adopt administrative rules pursuant to chapter 17A as necessary to effect the provisions of this chapter and to assure:
  a.  Compliance with the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, Pub. L. No. 91-646, as amended by the Uniform Relocation Act Amendments of 1987, Tit. IV, Pub. L. No. 100-17.
  b.  The payments authorized by this chapter are fair and reasonable and as uniform as practicable.
  c.  A displaced person who makes proper application for a payment authorized by this chapter is paid promptly after a move or, in hardship cases, is paid in advance.
  2.  A person aggrieved by a determination as to eligibility for assistance or a payment authorized by this chapter, or the amount of a payment, upon application may have the matter reviewed.
  3.  Rules governing reviews shall provide for a prompt one-step uncomplicated fact-finding process. Such a review is an appeal of an agency action as defined in section 17A.2, subsection 2, and is not a contested case. The decision rendered shall be the displacing agency’s final agency action.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §316.9]
88 Acts, ch 1209, §1; 89 Acts, ch 20, §13; 2010 Acts, ch 1069, §85