IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
257B.5 - NOTICE -- SALE.
257B.5 NOTICE -- SALE.
When the board of supervisors shall offer for sale the sixteenth
section or lands selected in lieu thereof, or any portion of the
same, or any part of the five-hundred-thousand-acre grant, the county
auditor shall give at least forty days' notice, by written or printed
notices posted in five public places in the county, two of which
shall be in the township in which the land to be sold is situated,
and also publish a notice of said sale once each week for two weeks
preceding the same in a newspaper published in the county, describing
the land to be sold and the time and place of such sale. At such
time and place, or at such other time and place as the sale may be
adjourned to, the county auditor shall offer to the highest bidder,
subject to the provisions of this chapter, and sell, either for cash
or one-third cash and the balance on a credit not exceeding ten
years, with interest on the same at the rate of not less than three
and one-half percent per annum, to be paid at the office of the
county treasurer of said county on the first day of January in each
year, delinquent interest to bear the same rate as the principal.
Such county treasurer shall pay to the state treasurer on the first
day of February all interest collected. Section History: Early Form
[R60, § 1971; C73, § 1846; C97, § 2841; S13, § 2841; C24, 27, 31,
35, 39, § 4473; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81,
§ 302.5] Section History: Recent Form
C93, § 257B.5
Referred to in § 331.552