Title IX, LOCAL GOVERNMENT (Ch. 331 - 420)

An appeal under section 349.11 shall be triable de novo as an equitable action without formal pleadings at any time after the expiration of twenty days following the filing of the transcript as provided in section 349.12 . [SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 5408; C46, 50, 54, 58…

After the selection by the board of supervisors of official newspapers, no publisher shall receive pay for publishing official proceedings until the contest is finally determined, insofar as the publisher is concerned. After determination of the contest, payment for publications …

If in any county the publishers of two or more newspapers, at least one of which by reason of its location and circulation is entitled to be selected as a county official newspaper, have entered into an agreement to publish the official proceedings or have united in a request to …

There shall be published in each of the official newspapers at the expense of the county during the ensuing year: 1. The proceedings of the board of supervisors, as furnished by the county auditor, excluding from the publication of those proceedings the canvass of the various ele…

The cost of official publications provided for in section 349.16 shall not exceed the fee provided in section 618.11 for the publication of legal notices. An official publication shall not be printed in type smaller than six point. [C73, §307; C97, §441; SS15, §441; C24, 27, 31, …

1. All proceedings of each regular, adjourned, or special meeting of a board of supervisors, including the schedule of bills allowed, shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. 2. The publication of the schedule of the bills allowed shall include a list …

Such selection shall be from newspapers published, and having the largest number of bona fide yearly subscribers, within the county. When counties are divided into two divisions for district court purposes, each division shall be regarded as a county. [C73, §307; C97, §441; SS15,…

The number of such newspapers to be selected shall be as follows: 1. In counties having a population of less than fifteen thousand, two such newspapers, or one, if there be but one published therein. 2. In counties having a population of more than fifty thousand, divided into two…

Any publisher who desires that the publisher’s newspaper be so selected may make written application therefor to the board of supervisors at any time prior to the making of the selection. If more applications are filed than there are newspapers to be selected, a contest shall exi…

In case of a contest, each applicant shall deposit with the county auditor, in a sealed envelope, a statement, verified by the applicant, showing the names of the applicant’s bona fide yearly subscribers living within the county and the place at which each such subscriber receive…

1. The county auditor shall, on the direction of the board while it is in session, open the envelopes which have been deposited as provided under section 349.5 . The board may receive other evidence of circulation. In counties in which two newspapers are to be selected, the two n…

The board of supervisors shall determine the bona fide yearly subscribers of a newspaper within the county, as follows: 1. Those subscribers listed by the publisher whose papers are delivered, by or for the publisher, by mail or otherwise, upon an order or subscription for same b…

When newspapers are, by equality of circulation, equally entitled to selection as an official newspaper, the board shall, in the presence of the contestants, determine the question by lot. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 5403; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §349.8 ] 202…

No newspaper shall be selected as an official newspaper when it is made to appear that the verified list deposited by the applicant contains the names of persons who are not bona fide subscribers within the county and that such names were knowingly and willfully entered on such l…