ARC #6709C
Rule-Making Document (ARC)
The Transportation Department hereby amends Chapter 800, “Items of General Application for Railroads,” Chapter 810, “Railroad Safety Standards,” and Chapter 821, “Highway-Railroad Grade Crossing Surface Repair Fund,” Iowa Administrative Code. This...
Tagged topics: abandoned property, highways, railroad crossings, railroads, safety, trails, transportation, transportation department
ARC #6574C
Rule-Making Document (ARC)
The Transportation Department hereby proposes to amend Chapter 800, “Items of General Application for Railroads,” Chapter 810, “Railroad Safety Standards,” and Chapter 821, “Highway-Railroad Grade Crossing Surface Repair Fund,” Iowa Administrative...
Tagged topics: abandoned property, highways, railroad crossings, railroads, safety, trails, transportation, transportation department
ARC #6525C
Rule-Making Document (ARC)
The Revenue Department hereby amends Chapter 71, “Assessment Practices and Equalization,” Iowa Administrative Code. This rule making is adopted under the authority provided in Iowa Code sections 421.14, 421.17(1), 421.17(4) and 441.21(9). This rul...
Tagged topics: commercial property, county auditors, iowa code, property, railroads, revenue department
ARC #6429C
Rule-Making Document (ARC)
The Revenue Department hereby proposes to amend Chapter 71, “Assessment Practices and Equalization,” Iowa Administrative Code. This rule making is proposed under the authority provided in Iowa Code sections 421.14, 421.17(1), 421.17(4) and 441.21(...
Tagged topics: commercial property, county auditors, iowa code, property, railroads, revenue department
Section 6A.8 Limitation on right-of-way.
2023 Code of Iowa
Land taken for railway right-of-way, otherwise than by consent of the owner, shall not exceed one hundred feet in width unless greater width is necessary for excavation, embankment, or depositing waste earth.
Tagged topics: railroads
Section 6A.9 Additional purposes.
2023 Code of Iowa
The department of transportation or a railway corporation may, by condemnation or otherwise, acquire lands for the following additional purposes: For necessary additional depot grounds or yards. For constructing a track or tracks to any mine, quarry, ...
Tagged topics: railroads
Section 6A.10 Initiating railroad condemnation by railway corporation.
2023 Code of Iowa
A railway corporation shall apply to the department of transportation for permission to condemn. The railway corporation shall serve notice of the application and hearing and provide a copy of the legal description of the property to be condemned to t...
Tagged topics: railroads
Section 6A.13 Change in streams.
2023 Code of Iowa
When a railway company would have the right to excavate a channel or ditch and thereby change and straighten the course of a stream or watercourse, which is too frequently crossed by such railway, and thereby protect the right-of-way and roadbed, or p...
Tagged topics: railroads, rivers and streams
Section 6A.16 Right to condemn abandoned right-of-way.
2023 Code of Iowa
Railroad right-of-way which has been abandoned by order of the proper authority may be condemned by a railway corporation or the department of transportation before or after the track materials have been removed. The procedure to condemn abandoned rig...
Tagged topics: railroads
ARC #6710C
Rule-Making Document (ARC)
The Transportation Department hereby amends Chapter 811, “Highway-Railroad Grade Crossing Warning Devices,” Chapter 812, “Classifications and Standards for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings,” and Chapter 820, “Highway Grade Crossing Safety Fund,” I...
Tagged topics: highways, railroad crossings, railroads, safety, signals, traffic control, transportation, transportation department, warning devices