1. Any real estate, owned by a school district, containing less than two acres, situated wholly outside of a city, and not adjacent thereto, and heretofore used as a schoolhouse site shall revert to the then owner of the tract from which the same was taken, provided that said \n Tue Dec 09 22:17:26 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 297 (35, 0) §297.15, SCHOOLHOUSES AND SCHOOLHOUSE SITES 4\n\nowner of the tract last aforesaid shall, within the time hereinafter prescribed, pay the value thereof to such school district.
2. Any such schoolhouse site containing two or more acres shall be subject to the law as otherwise provided. [C73, §1828; C97, §2816; S13, §2816; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4379; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §297.15] Referred to in §297.22 \n
Notes of Decisions
Rouse v. Union Twp., 530 N.W.2d 714 (Iowa 1995).
· cites it 24× “See Iowa Code §§ 297.15 (“Any real estate, owned by a school district .”
Calamus Cmty. Sch. Dist. in Clinton Cnty. v. Rusch, 299 N.W.2d 489 (Iowa 1980).
· cites it 2× “At no time have the defendants asserted any reversionary right by reason of section 297.15, The Code 1979. They do not claim to have complied with the requirements under this section and this failure to comply forfeits any statutory reversionary right.”
Maxwell v. Custer, 30 N.W.2d 177 (Iowa 1947).
· cites it 15× “Defendants contend that the sale of the one-acre school site and schoolhouse to Glenn Custer, the present owner of the tract or quarter section from which the site was taken, was proper under the record and within the provisions of section 297.15, of the 1946 Code, which is: ‘‘…”
Suck v. Benton Twp., 66 N.W.2d 434 (Iowa 1954).
· cites it 7× “Being no longer used for school purposes, at the apparent instance of the plaintiffs’ grantors, defendants purported to convey the premises to the plaintiffs by quitclaim deed, but with *4 out compliance with the provisions of Code sections 297.15 to 297.19, Code of Iowa, 1954.”
Johnston v. Dist. Twp. of Ellsworth, 93 N.W.2d 132 (Iowa 1958).
· cites it 2× “The railroad cases cited by appellee are governed by specific statutes which have no application to the ease- at bar. III. The rights of reversion to schoolhouse sites are wholly statutory and hence are subject to such changes as the Legislature may make.”
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