The general assembly finds that the health, welfare, and prosperity of all Iowans require the provision of adequate, efficient, reliable, environmentally safe, and least-cost energy at prices which accurately reflect the long-term cost of using such energy resources and which are equitable to all Iowans. The goals and objectives of this policy are to ensure the following:
1. Efficiency. The provision of reliable energy at the least possible cost to Iowans in such manner that:
a. Physical, human, natural, and financial resources are allocated efficiently.
b. All supply and demand options are considered and evaluated using comparable terms and methods in order to determine how best to meet consumers’ demands for energy at the least cost.
2. Environmental quality. The protection of the environment from the adverse external costs of an energy resource utilization so that:
a. Environmental costs of proposed actions having a significant impact on the environment and the environmental impact of the alternatives are identified, documented, and considered in the resource development.
b. The prudently and reasonably incurred costs of environmental controls are recovered. 88 Acts, ch 1179, §1 C89, §93.2 C93, §473.2 2008 Acts, ch 1126, §20, 33 See also chapter 470 for life cycle cost analysis provisions \n
Notes of Decisions
McKinley v. Waterloo R.R., 368 N.W.2d 131 (Iowa 1985).
· cites it 26× “Iowa Code § 473.2 (1975). This statute governs railroad rights of way acquired by condemnation, since they constitute easements for right of way.”
Chadek v. Alberhasky, 111 N.W.2d 297 (Iowa 1961).
· cites it 12× “The court found that, if reversion under the statute could be considered, section 473.2 rather than 473.1 is applicable.”
Byker v. Rice, 360 N.W.2d 572 (Iowa Ct. App. 1984).
· cites it 8× “77 is not expressly made retrospective, so section 473.2 is the proper law to apply.”
Notelzah, Inc. v. Destival, 537 N.W.2d 687 (Iowa 1995).
· cites it 12× “appeals the district court’s decision quieting title to portions of the land in the defendants under Iowa Code section 473.2 (1975), denying its claim for compensation under Iowa Code chapter 560 (1993), awarding adjacent landowners rent for the years in which No-telzah was in…”
Atkin v. Westfall, 69 N.W.2d 523 (Iowa 1955).
· cites it 6× “” Section 473.2 states: “Failure to operate or construct railway.”
Jacobs v. Miller, 111 N.W.2d 673 (Iowa 1961).
· cites it 4× “1 relating to reversion of a wholly abandoned right of way by the relocation of the line, or section 473.2 relating to reversion for failure to use, operate or construct for a period of eight years.”
Notelzah, Inc. v. Destival, 489 N.W.2d 744 (Iowa 1992).
· cites it 4× “The interstate commerce commission entered its order authorizing abandonment in September of that year and credible testimony, which we accept as true, shows that no trains ran thereafter.”
Haack v. Burlington N., Inc., 309 N.W.2d 147 (Iowa Ct. App. 1981).
· cites it 2× “Plaintiffs requested a declaratory judgment that, upon abandonment by defendants, the right of way reverted to them under section 473.2, The Code 1971 (now section 327G.”
Turner v. Unknown of a Strip of Land One Hundred Feet in Width, 207 N.W.2d 544 (Iowa 1973).
“The legislature has provided in § 473.2, Code 1973: If a railway, or any part thereof, shall not be used or operated for a period of eight years, or if, its construction having been commenced, work on the same has ceased and has not been in good faith resumed for eight years,…”
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