161A.3 - DEFINITIONS.
161A.3 DEFINITIONS.
Wherever used or referred to in this chapter, unless a different
meaning clearly appears from the context:
1. "Agency of this state" includes the government of this
state and any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or
otherwise, of the government of this state.
2. "Book", "list", "record", or "schedule" kept
by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other
county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1.
3. "Commissioner" means one of the members of the governing
body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter.
4. "Committee" or "state soil conservation committee"
means the committee established by section 161A.4.
5. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land
stewardship.
6. "District" or "soil and water conservation district"
means a governmental subdivision of this state, and a public body
corporate and politic, organized for the purposes, with the powers,
and subject to the restrictions in this chapter set forth.
7. "Division" means the division of soil conservation created
within the department.
8. "Due notice" means notice published at least twice, with
an interval of at least six days between the two publication dates,
in a newspaper or other publication of general circulation within the
appropriate area; or, if no such publication of general circulation
be available, by posting at a reasonable number of conspicuous places
within the appropriate area, such posting to include, where possible,
posting at public places where it may be customary to post notices
concerning county or municipal affairs generally. At any hearing
held pursuant to such notice, at the time and place designated in
such notice, adjournment may be made from time to time without the
necessity of renewing such notice for such adjourned dates.
9. "Government" or "governmental" includes the government
of this state, the government of the United States, and any
subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, or
either of them.
10. "Landowner" includes any person, firm, or corporation or
any federal agency, this state or any of its political subdivisions,
who shall hold title to land lying within a proposed district or a
district organized under the provisions of this chapter.
11. "Nominating petition" means a petition filed under the
provisions of section 161A.5 to nominate candidates for the office of
commissioner of a soil and water conservation district.
12. "Petition" means a petition filed under the provisions of
subsection 1 of section 161A.5 for the creation of a district.
13. "State" means the state of Iowa.
14. "United States" or "agencies of the United States"
includes the United States of America, the United States department
of agriculture natural resources conservation service, and any other
agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United
States. Section History: Early Form
[C39, § 2603.04; C46, § 160.3; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 467A.3; 82 Acts, ch 1199, § 72, 96] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1238, § 61; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 646, 647; 87 Acts, ch
23, § 16; 89 Acts, ch 83, § 55
C93, § 161A.3
95 Acts, ch 216, § 25; 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1119,
§200, 201
Referred to in § 161A.42, 669.2, 670.1