Iowa Code 320.6 – Conditions — damages
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1. Mains, pipes, and cattleways erected and maintained under this chapter shall not interfere with public travel or with the future improvement of the highway. The owner of the mains, pipes, and cattleways shall be responsible for all damages arising from laying, maintaining, or erecting the mains, pipes, or cattleways or from the mains, pipes, or cattleways not being kept in a proper state of repair.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 320.6
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- 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
- Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having the property right in or title to an all-terrain vehicle. See Iowa Code 321I.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. The location of mains or pipes may be changed, on reasonable notice, when change is necessary due to the improvement or maintenance of the highway.