Terms Used In Iowa Code 321.347

  • Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 321H.2
  • highway: means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular travel, except in public areas in which the boundary shall be thirty-three feet each side of the center line of the roadway. See Iowa Code 321I.1
 Notwithstanding section 321.345, at intersections of through highways with boulevards or heavy traffic streets in cities, the city council, subject to the approval of the department, may determine that the through highway traffic shall come to a stop, may erect traffic-control signals, or may adopt such other means of handling the traffic as may be deemed practical and proper.