Title VII, EDUCATION, HISTORY, AND CULTURE (Ch. 256 - 305B)

1. a. The board of directors of a school district may sell, lease, or dispose of, in whole or in part, a schoolhouse, school site, or other property belonging to the district. If the real property contains less than two acres, is located outside of a city, is not adjacent to a ci…

The board of directors of a school district shall publish information related to all of the following on the school district’s internet site: 1. The square footage of each school building owned by the school district. 2. The enrollment capacity of each attendance center owned by …

1. The board of directors of a school district shall not enter into any agreement that prohibits the sale of real property to an educational institution. 2. If the board of directors of a school district offers to sell real property that contains a building or structure, and an e…

Section 297.22 shall be construed as independent of the power vested in the electors by section 278.1 , and as additional to such power. If a board of directors has exercised its independent power under section 297.22 regarding the disposition of real or personal property of the …

Any school building or any school site, the title of which is vested in the state of Iowa by reason of it having been provided by state mining camp funds for schools in mining camps, shall be sold by the department when the director of the department of education determines it is…

When the buildings or sites are sold, the owners of the tract from which the same was originally taken shall have first option on the purchase of the same. [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §297.27 ] 86 Acts, ch 1245, §1985

If the department and the owner of the tract from which the school site was taken do not agree as to the value of such site or building, the chief judge of the judicial district of the county in which the greater part of such school site is situated shall, on the written applicat…

Such appraisers shall inspect the premises and at the time and place designated in the notice, appraise such site or building in writing, which appraisement, after being duly verified, shall be filed with the sheriff. [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §297.29 ]

Any school district, including a city or village, may take and hold an area equal to two blocks exclusive of the street or highway, for a schoolhouse site, and not exceeding thirty acres for school playground, stadium, or field house, or other purposes for each such site. [C97, §…

If the owner of the tract from which said site was taken fails to pay the amount of such appraisement to the department within thirty days after the filing of the same with the sheriff, the department may sell said site or building to any other person at the appraised value, or m…

If there are improvements on a school site, the improvements may at the request of either party be appraised and sold separately. [C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §297.31 ] 2019 Acts, ch 59, §83

If there is any school equipment, supplies, or other usable school materials, such as desks, blackboards, playground equipment, or the like, in or on said buildings or grounds, the director of the department of education may remove the same and divert their use to other public sc…

1. a. In order to make immediately available proceeds of the voter-approved physical plant and equipment levy which has been approved by the voters as provided in section 298.2 , the board of directors may, with or without notice, borrow money and enter into loan agreements in an…

The board of directors shall notify the cities located within the school district, the counties in which the school district may be located, and the department of administrative services annually of the facilities and buildings owned by the public school corporation which are vac…

If the owner of real estate desired for any purpose for which any school may be authorized to take and hold real estate refuses to convey the same, or is dead or unknown or cannot be found, or if in the judgment of the board of directors of the corporation they cannot agree with …

1. Chapter 26 is applicable to the construction and repair of school buildings and other public improvements as defined in section 26.2 . 2. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, the board of directors of a school district may acquire by purchase, lease, or other arrange…

When emergency repairs costing more than the competitive bid threshold in section 26.3 , or as established in section 314.1B , are necessary in order to ensure the continued use of any school or school facility, the provisions of the law with reference to advertising for bids sha…

The board of directors of any school district may authorize the use of any schoolhouse and its grounds within such district for the purpose of meetings of granges, lodges, agricultural societies, and similar societies, for parent-teacher associations, for community recreational a…

The board of each school district shall estimate the amount of the proposed expenditures and proposed receipts for the general school purposes at a time and in a manner to effectuate the provisions of chapter 257 and sections 256B.9 and 256B.11 . Compliance with chapter 24 shall …

1. The board of directors of a school district may certify for levy by April 30 of a school year, a tax on all taxable property in the school district in order to raise an amount for a necessary cash reserve for a school district’s general fund. The amount raised for a necessary …

1. The county auditor shall, on the first Monday in April and the first Monday in October of each year, apportion the school tax, together with rents on unsold school lands to which the county is entitled as shown in notice from the director of the department of administrative se…

Before the fifteenth day of each month, the county treasurer shall send the amount collected for each fund through the last day of the preceding month for direct deposit into the depository and account designated by the school board. The county treasurer shall send a notice to th…

1. For each fiscal year, the cumulative total of the percents of surtax approved by the board of directors of a school district and collected by the department of revenue under sections 257.21 , 257.29 , and 298.2 , and the enrichment surtax under section 442.15 , Code 1989, and …

When a judgment shall be obtained against a school corporation, its board shall order the payment thereof out of the proper fund by an order on the treasurer, not in excess, however, of the funds available for that purpose. [R60, §2095; C73, §1787; C97, §2811; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39…

If the proper fund is not sufficient, then, unless its board has provided by the issuance of bonds for raising the amount necessary to pay a judgment, the cost of the judgment shall be included in the district management levy. [R60, §2095; C73, §1787; C97, §2811; C24, 27, 31, 35,…

1. a. The board of each school corporation shall, when estimating and certifying the amount of money required for general purposes, estimate and certify to the board of supervisors of the proper county for the debt service fund the amount required to pay interest due or that may …

If, in the opinion of the board of a school corporation, after having originally estimated and certified the amount required to pay interest and principal due upon bonded indebtedness incurred before July 1, 1995, an adjustment in the amount certified in excess of that previously…

The board of supervisors of the county to which the certificate is addressed within the contemplation of section 298.18 shall levy the necessary tax to raise the amount estimated, or so much thereof as may be lawful and within the limitation of said section which levy shall be ma…

1. a. A physical plant and equipment levy of not exceeding one dollar and sixty-seven cents per thousand dollars of assessed valuation in the district is established except as otherwise provided in this subsection . The physical plant and equipment levy consists of the regular ph…

For the purpose of providing for the payment of any indebtedness of any school corporation represented by judgments or bonds, the board of directors of such school corporation, at any time or times, may provide by resolution for the issuance of bonds of such school corporation, t…

The board of directors of any school corporation when authorized by the voters at an election held on a date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4 , paragraph “d” , may issue the negotiable, interest-bearing school bonds of the corporation for borrowing money for any or all of …

1. All of said bonds shall be substantially in the form provided for county bonds, but subject to changes that will conform them to the action of the board providing therefor; shall run not more than twenty years, and may be sooner paid if so nominated in the bond; bear a rate of…

Whenever the amount in the hands of the treasurer, belonging to the funds set aside to pay bonds, is sufficient to redeem one or more of the bonds which by their terms are subject to redemption, the treasurer shall give the owner of said bonds thirty days’ written notice of the r…

All redemptions shall be made in the order of their numbers. The treasurer shall keep a record of the parties to whom the bonds are sold, together with their post office addresses, and notice mailed to the address as shown by such record shall be sufficient. [S13, §2812-f; C24, 2…

1. The revenue from the regular and voter-approved physical plant and equipment levies shall be placed in the physical plant and equipment levy fund and expended only for the following purposes: a. The purchase and improvement of grounds. For the purpose of this paragraph: (1) “P…

1. The board of directors of a school district may certify for levy by April 30 of a school year, a tax on all taxable property in the school district for a district management levy. The revenue from the tax levied in this section shall be placed in the district management levy f…

School corporations containing territory in adjoining counties may vote and estimate all taxes for school purposes in dollars and cents per thousand dollars of assessed value. [C97, §2806; S13, §2806; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 4389; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §…

The board of directors of a school district shall, prior to certifying any levy by board approval, or submitting a levy for voter approval, facilitate public access to a complete listing of all outstanding levies within the school district by rate, amount, duration, and the appli…

1. The board of directors of a school corporation in which there is no free public library may contract with a free public library for the free use of the library by the residents of the school district, and pay the library the amount agreed upon for the use of the library as pro…

The board of supervisors shall at the time of levying taxes for county purposes levy the taxes necessary to raise the various funds authorized by law and certified to it by law, but if the amount certified for any such fund is in excess of the amount authorized by law, it shall l…

If the voter-approved physical plant and equipment levy, consisting solely of a physical plant and equipment property tax levy, is approved by the voters at an election held on a date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4 , paragraph “c” , and certified to the board of supervis…

This chapter establishes the fund structure which shall be used by school districts commencing with the school budget year which begins on July 1, 1995. 94 Acts, ch 1029, §1

A debt service fund must be established in any school corporation which issues bonds or other authorized indebtedness. The debt service fund shall be used to pay interest as it becomes due and the amount necessary to pay the principal when due on bonds or other authorized indebte…

A school nutrition fund is an enterprise fund. A school nutrition fund must be established in any school corporation receiving moneys from the school meal program authorized under chapter 283A . 94 Acts, ch 1029, §11 ; 95 Acts, ch 67, §24 Referred to in §283A.11

1. A child care fund is an enterprise fund. A child care fund must be established in any school corporation receiving moneys from the child care program authorized under section 279.49 . 2. If the sum of the fees collected under section 279.49 for participation in a before and af…

Trust, permanent, or custodial funds shall be established by any school corporation to account for gifts it receives to be used for a particular purpose or to account for money and property received and administered by the district as trustee or custodian or in the capacity of an…