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Iowa Code § 28A.4 (2026)

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “Authority” means the quad cities interstate metropolitan authority created as provided in this subchapter.

2. “Board” means the board of commissioners of the authority.

3. “Cost” of any project for a metropolitan facility includes construction contract costs and the costs of engineering, architectural, technical, and legal services, preliminary reports, property valuations, estimates, plans, specifications, notices, acquisition of real and personal property, consequential damages or costs, easements, rights-of-way, supervision, inspection, testing, publications, printing and sale of bonds, if any, and provisions for contingencies.

4. “Greater metropolitan area” means the combined area of Rock Island county, Illinois, and Scott county, Iowa.

5. “Metropolitan area” means Rock Island county, Illinois, as a separate and distinct area, or Scott county, Iowa, as a separate and distinct area, or each as a part of the greater metropolitan area.

6. “Metropolitan facility” means a structure, fixture, equipment, or property of any kind or nature related to or connected with an intermodal water port, waste disposal system, mass transit system, airport, park, recreation, or bridge, which the authority may construct, acquire, own, lease, or operate, including all related facilities necessary, appurtenant, or incidental to the facilities.

7. “Person” means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative of any of the entities.

8. “Waste disposal system” means a facility or service for collection, transportation, processing, storage, or disposal of solid waste including a facility or service established pursuant to chapter 28G. 91 Acts, ch 198, §3 CS91, §330B.4 C93, §28A.4 2016 Acts, ch 1011, §121 \n

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1970–1983 · leading case: Keeler v. Iowa State Bd. of Pub. Instruction, 331 N.W.2d 110 (Iowa 1983).

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Keeler v. Iowa State Bd. of Pub. Instruction, 331 N.W.2d 110 (Iowa 1983). · cites it 2× “Under the open meetings law, specifically section 28A.4(1) of the Iowa Code (1981), a governmental body is required to “give notice of the time, date, and place of each meeting, and its tentative agenda, in a manner calculated to apprise the public of that information.”

Widmer v. Reitzler, 182 N.W.2d 177 (Iowa 1970). “, § 28A.4 (1967), states in material part: “Each public agency shall give advance public notice of the time and place of each meeting, by notifying the communications media or in some other way which gives reasonable notice to the public.”

— Iowa Code § 28A.4(1) — 1 case

Keeler v. Iowa State Bd. of Pub. Instruction, 331 N.W.2d 110 (Iowa 1983). “Under the open meetings law, specifically section 28A.4(1) of the Iowa Code (1981), a governmental body is required to “give notice of the time, date, and place of each meeting, and its tentative agenda, in a manner calculated to apprise the public of that information.”

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