468.28 - DISMISSAL ON REMONSTRANCE.
468.28 DISMISSAL ON REMONSTRANCE. If, at or before the time set for final hearing as to the establishment of a proposed levee, drainage, or improvement district, except subdrainage district, there shall have been filed with the county auditor, or auditors, in case the district extends into more than one county, a remonstrance signed by a majority of the landowners in the district, and these remonstrants must in the aggregate own seventy percent or more of the lands to be assessed for benefits or taxed for said improvements, remonstrating against the establishment of said levee, drainage, or improvement district, setting forth the reasons therefor, the board or boards as the case may be, shall assess to the petitioners and their sureties or apportion the costs among them as the board or boards may deem just or as said parties may agree upon. When all such costs have been paid, the board or boards of supervisors shall dismiss said proceedings and cause to be filed with the county auditor all surveys, plats, reports, and records in relation to the proposed district.
Section History: Early Form [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 7453; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 455.34]
Section History: Recent Form 89 Acts, ch 126, § 2 CS89, § 468.28 Referred to in § 468.119