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Iowa Code § 468.111 (2026)

Bridges at natural waterway — costs

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The cost of building, rebuilding, constructing, reconstructing, changing, or repairing, as the case may be, any culvert or bridge, when such improvement is located at the place of the natural waterway or place provided by the railroad company for the flow of the water, shall be borne by such railroad company without reimbursement therefor. [S13, §1989-a18; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7542; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.121] 89 Acts, ch 126, §2 CS89, §468.111

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Cited in 3 cases, 1995–2013 · leading case: Chicago Cent. & Pac. R.R. Co. v. Calhoun Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, Acting as Tr. for the Drainage Dist. No. 86, 816 N.W.2d 367 (Iowa 2012).
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Chicago Cent. & Pac. R.R. Co. v. Calhoun Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, Acting as Tr. for the Drainage Dist. No. 86, 816 N.W.2d 367 (Iowa 2012). · cites it 13× “Iowa Code § 468.111 (2009). 2 . CCP also claimed that the Board did not raise the issue of immunity at the hearing or in the answer to CCP’s petition and that "[t]he failure to assert the defense should be sufficient to reject the defense.”
Hardin Cnty. Drainage Dist. 55, Div. 3, Lateral 10 v. Union Pac. R.R. Co., 826 N.W.2d 507 (Iowa 2013). · cites it 8× “Iowa Code § 468.111 . The legislature clearly intended that the railroad bear the expense of ensuring that water would continue as it would without the obstruction of a railroad.”
Chicago & North W. Transp. Co. v. Webster Cnty. Bd. of Supervisorsors, 880 F. Supp. 1290 (N.D. Iowa 1995). · cites it 11× “110 , and the cost was to be borne by the railroad by operation of Iowa Code § 468.111 . The railroad contends that these provisions do not apply because of federal law.”
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