956 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
DESTRUCTION OF WEEDS. 
AN ACT providing for the destruction of weeds a.nd noxious weeds on 
the public highways and lands adjacent thereto; and the destruction 
of noxious weeds on railway right-of-ways and grounds and making 
it the duty of the township trustees and county supervisors to en- 
force the provisions of this a,ct; amending the law as it appears in 
sections one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight (1528), of the 
Supplement to the Code, 19 07, and repealing the law as it appears 
in sections one thousand five hundred and sixty-two (1562) and one 
thousand five hundred and sixtj^-two-a (1582-a) of the Supplement 
to the Code, 1907, and sections one thousand five hundred and sixty- 
four (1564), one thousand five hundred and sixty-five (1565) and 
five thousand and twentj'-fcur (5024) of the code. 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 
Section 1. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation 
owning, occupying or controlling lands, town and city lots, land used 
as right of way, depot grounds or for other purposes to cut burn or 
otherwise entirely destroy all weeds of the kinds mentioned in section 
two (2) hereof at such times in each year and in such manner as shall 
prevent the said weeds from blooming or coming to maturity. 
Sec. 2. The following weeds are hereby declared to be noxious 
weeds, namely, quack grass (agropyron repens), Canada thistle (cir- 
sium arvense), cocklebur (xanthium canadense), wild mustard (bras- 
sica arvensis), sour or curled dock (Rumex crispus), smooth dock 
(rumex altissimus), buckhorn or ribbed plantain (plantago lanceo- 
lata,), and wild parsnip (pastinaca sativa), horse nettle (solanum 
carolinense) and velvet weed or button weed (abutilon theophrasti) 
and burdock (arctium lappa). 
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the township trustees or other officers 
responsible for the care of public highways in each township or county 
in this state to destroy or cause to be destroyed all noxious weeds men- 
tioned in section two (2) hereof or unnecessary brush on the highways 
in such manner as to effectually prevent the production of their seeds 
or their propagation in any other manner, to warn out labor or to 
employ labor for this purpose in the same manner as for repairs to the 
highways, and for neglect or failure to perform this v/ork they shall 
be subjected to the penalties in this act. If any occupant of lands 
adjacent to the public highways neglect or refuse to destroy the noxious 
weeds upon his land, or shall fail to prevent the said noxious weeds 
from blooming or coming to maturity, when such wee3s are likely to 
be the means of infesting the public highway, or upon complaint of 
any land owner to the township trustees that his lan-Js have been 
or are likely to be infested by weeds from the lands of another includ- 
ing railway right of way, the trustees shall make investigation of such 
condition or complaint and if the same appears to be well founded 
they shall make an order fixing the time within which the weeds shall 
be prevented from maturing seed, and an order that within one year 
such noxious weeds shall be permanently destroyed, and prescribing 
