Terms Used In Iowa Code 314.4

  • Agency: means any governmental body which exercises jurisdiction over any road as provided by law. See Iowa Code 314.13
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
 Partial payments may be made on highway contract work during the progress thereof, but no such partial payment shall be deemed final acceptance of the work nor a waiver of any defect therein. The approval of any claim by the agency in control of the work, or highway on which the work is located, may be evidenced by the signature of the chairperson of said agency, or of a majority of the members of said agency, on the individual claims or on the abstract of a number of claims with the individual claims attached to said abstract.