1. The office of levee safety, in cooperation with the Iowa geological survey, shall conduct a statewide analysis of the condition of the state’s levees. The office and survey shall identify each levee requiring repair or reconstruction based on a scale adopted by the office which assigns a number based on the levee’s level of critical need. The office shall consider all of the following:
- a. Deficiencies in the construction, maintenance, and operation of each levee in a levee district.
- b. The amount of capital expenditures required for the repair or reconstruction for each levee in a levee district.
- c. Payment obligations creating legal indebtedness incurred by the levee district, including those evidenced by bonds, warrants, certificates, contracts, or judgments.
- d. The current total revenue collected by the levee district, and the budgeted revenue ceiling of the levee district based on a maximum assessment rate for classified lands used to maintain the levee as apportioned to each owner of such land.
- 2. The governing body of each levee district shall assist the office in conducting the analysis for the governing body’s levee district.
- 3. This section is repealed July 1, 2028.
2023 Acts, ch 163, §6, 10
Referred to in §8.57D, 418A.5