Mowing roadside vegetation on the rights-of-way or medians on any primary highway, interstate highway, or secondary road prior to July 15 is prohibited, except as follows:
 1. Within two hundred yards of an inhabited dwelling.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 314.17

  • 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
  • road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. On rights-of-way within one mile of the corporate limits of a city.
 3. To promote native species of vegetation or other long-lived and adaptable vegetation.
 4. To establish control of damaging insect populations, noxious weeds, and invasive plant species.
 5. For visibility and safety reasons.
 6. Within rest areas, weigh stations, and wayside parks.
 7. Within fifty feet of a drainage tile or tile intake.
 8. For access to a mailbox or for other accessibility purposes.
 9. On rights-of-way adjacent to agricultural demonstration or research plots.
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