314.9 - ENTERING PRIVATE PROPERTY.

        314.9  ENTERING PRIVATE PROPERTY.         The agency in control of a highway may after thirty days' written      notice by restricted certified mail addressed to the owner and also      to the occupant, enter upon private property for the purpose of      making surveys, soundings, drillings, appraisals, and examinations as      the agency deems appropriate or necessary to determine the      advisability or practicability of locating and constructing a highway      on the property or for the purpose of determining whether gravel or      other material exists on the property of suitable quality and in      sufficient quantity to warrant the purchase or condemnation of the      property.  The entry shall not be deemed a trespass, and the agency      may be aided by injunction to insure peaceful entry.  The agency      shall pay actual damages caused by the entry, surveys, soundings,      drillings, appraisals, or examinations.         Any damage caused by the entry, surveys, soundings, drillings,      appraisals, or examinations shall be determined by agreement or in      the manner provided for the award of damages in condemnation of the      property for highway purposes.  Soundings or drillings shall not be      done within one hundred fifty feet of the dwelling house or within      fifty feet of other buildings without written consent of the owner.      
         Section History: Early Form
         [C27, 31, 35, § 4658-a1; C39, § 4658.1; C46, § 309.65; C50, §      308A.18; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 314.9] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         96 Acts, ch 1126, §3