161A.48 - MANDATORY ESTABLISHMENT OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION PRACTICES.
161A.48 MANDATORY ESTABLISHMENT OF SOIL AND WATER
CONSERVATION PRACTICES.
1. An owner or occupant of agricultural land in this state is not
required to establish any new permanent or temporary soil and water
conservation practice unless cost-share or other public moneys have
been specifically approved for that land and made available to the
owner or occupant pursuant to section 161A.74.
2. Evidence that an application for cost-share or other public
moneys, from a source or sources having authority to pay a portion of
the cost of work needed to comply with an administrative order issued
pursuant to section 161A.47, has been submitted to the proper officer
or agency constitutes commencement of the work within the meaning of
sections 161A.43 through 161A.53.
3. Upon receiving evidence of the submission of an application,
the commissioners shall forward to the officer or agency to which the
application was made a written request to receive notification of the
disposition of the application. When notified of the approval of the
application, the commissioners shall issue to the same parties who
received the original administrative order, or their successors in
interest, a supplementary order, to be delivered in the same manner
as provided by sections 161A.43 to 161A.53 for delivery of original
administrative orders. The supplementary order shall state a time,
not more than six months after approval of the application for public
cost-sharing funds, by which the work needed to comply with the
original administrative order shall actually be commenced, and a time
thereafter when the work is to be satisfactorily completed. If
feasible, that time shall be within one year after the date of the
supplementary order, but the owner of land on which a soil and water
conservation practice is being established under this section is not
required to incur a cost for the practice in any one calendar year
which exceeds ten dollars per acre for each acre of land belonging to
that owner and located in the county containing the land on which the
required practice is being established or in counties contiguous to
that county. Section History: Early Form
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 467A.48] Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1192, § 1; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 660; 87 Acts, ch 23, §
34; 89 Acts, ch 106, § 8; 90 Acts, ch 1255, § 35; 90 Acts, ch 1260, §
29; 91 Acts, ch 268, §238; 92 Acts, ch 1184, § 5
C93, § 161A.48
96 Acts, ch 1083, § 3
Referred to in § 161A.47, 161A.49, 161A.61, 161A.71, 161A.74