Terms Used In Iowa Code 384.40

  • and: includes the disjunctive "or" and the use of the disjunctive "or" includes the conjunctive "and" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Iowa Code 384.23
  • Private property: means all property within the district except streets. See Iowa Code 384.37
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • property owner: means the contract purchaser if there is one of record, otherwise the record holder of legal title. See Iowa Code 364.12
  • Public improvement: includes the principal structures, works, component parts and accessories of any of the following:
     a. See Iowa Code 384.37
  • Publication: means public notice given in the manner provided in section 362. See Iowa Code 384.37
  • Repair: includes materials, labor, acts, operations and services necessary for the repair, reconstruction, reconstruction by widening or resurfacing of a public improvement. See Iowa Code 384.37
  • Sewer: means structures designed, constructed and used for the purpose of controlling or carrying off streams, surface waters, waste or sanitary sewage. See Iowa Code 384.37
  • Street: means a public street, highway, boulevard, avenue, alley, parkway, public place, plaza, mall or publicly owned right-of-way or easement within the limits of the city. See Iowa Code 384.37
  • week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
 A city may include underground gas, water, heating, sewer, or electrical connections to the street or property line for private property as a part of the public improvement, or a city may order the property owner to make, repair, or relocate such connections by publication of a notice once each week for two consecutive weeks in the manner provided by section 362.3, and if the order is not complied with at the end of thirty days after the date of the first publication, the city may cause the work to be done and assess the cost against the property served by the connection.
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