SF 593 (LSB 2739SV (3) 91)

SENATE FILE 593

BY  COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

(SUCCESSOR TO SSB 1178)

(As Amended and Passed by the Senate 2025-03-24)

A BILL FOR

An Act providing for the preparation and filing of a district parcel record that identifies all parcels contained within a drainage or levee district that is part of a county.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 468.27, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  3.  a.  When the county auditor first receives either the survey and report, or a permanent survey, plat, and profile, as provided in subsection 2, the county auditor shall prepare and file with the county recorder a district parcel record that identifies all parcels contained within the district that is part of the county. The parcel record filed by the county auditor with the county recorder must also include the legal description, parcel identification number, if known, and names of the owners as shown in transfer books in the office of the auditor, for each forty-acre tract or fraction thereof. The county auditor shall provide the county recorder with any amendment to the district parcel record within a reasonable period after receiving the amendment.
   b.  (1)  A county auditor who has not filed a document described in paragraph “a” as a district parcel record with the county recorder before the effective date of this Act shall prepare and file the district parcel record on or before June 30, 2026.
   (2)  This paragraph “b” is repealed July 1, 2026.