218.94 - DIRECTOR MAY BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE -- OPTIONS.

        218.94  DIRECTOR MAY BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE --
      OPTIONS.
         The director of the department of human services shall have full
      power to secure options to purchase real estate, to acquire and sell
      real estate, and to grant utility easements, for the proper uses of
      said institutions.  Real estate shall be acquired and sold and
      utility easements granted, upon such terms and conditions as the
      director may determine.  Upon sale of the real estate, the proceeds
      shall be deposited with the treasurer of state and credited to the
      general fund of the state.  There is hereby appropriated from the
      general fund of the state a sum equal to the proceeds so deposited
      and credited to the general fund of the state to the department of
      human services, which may be used to purchase other real estate or
      for capital improvements upon property under the director's control.

         The costs incident to securing of options, acquisition and sale of
      real estate and granting of utility easements, including, but not
      limited to, appraisals, invitations for offers, abstracts, and other
      necessary costs, may be paid from moneys appropriated for support and
      maintenance to the institution at which such real estate is located.
      Such fund shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 218.94] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 86 Acts, ch 1244, § 29