§ 297.1 Location
§ 297.2 Ten-acre limitation
§ 297.3 Thirty-acre limitation
§ 297.4 Vacancy notification
§ 297.6 Condemnation
§ 297.7 Construction, renovation, and repair of school buildings — review of plans — aviation programs
§ 297.8 Emergency repairs
§ 297.9 Use for other than school purposes
§ 297.10 Compensation
§ 297.11 Use forbidden
§ 297.12 Renting schoolroom
§ 297.14 Barbed wire
§ 297.15 Reversion of schoolhouse site
§ 297.16 Appraisers
§ 297.17 Notice
§ 297.18 Appraisement
§ 297.19 Public sale
§ 297.20 Sale of improvements
§ 297.22 Power to sell, lease, or dispose of property — tax
§ 297.25 Rule of construction
§ 297.26 Sale by department
§ 297.27 Preference to owner of tract
§ 297.28 Appraisers
§ 297.29 Report filed
§ 297.30 Public sale
§ 297.31 Improvements
§ 297.32 Equipment and supplies
§ 297.36 Loan agreements

Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 297 - Schoolhouses and Schoolhouse Sites

  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Loan: means a deposit of property not accompanied by a transfer of title to the property. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Property: means a tangible object, animate or inanimate, under a museum's care which has intrinsic historic, artistic, scientific, or cultural value. See Iowa Code 305B.2
  • real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • School: means an agency of the state or political subdivision of the state, individual, partnership, company, firm, society, trust, association, corporation, or any combination which meets any of the following criteria:
  • 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
  • Student: means a person who enrolls in or seeks to enroll in a course of instruction offered or conducted by a school. See Iowa Code 261B.2
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1