798 WEED FLORA OF IOWA 



the same shall have been destroyed and to the owners or owner 

 thereof and be collected in the same manner as is provided for the 

 expense of proceeding under section three (3) hereof. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of all officers directly responsible for 

 the care of public highways to make complaint to the proper town- 

 ship trustees or town councils or commissions, as the case may be, 

 whenever it shall appear that the provisions of section one (1) 

 hereof may not be complied with in time to prevent the blooming 

 and maturing of noxious weeds or the unlawful growth of weeds, 

 whether in the streets or highways for which they are responsible 

 or upon lands adjacent to the same. 



Sec. 6. All of the provisions of this section relating to the duty 

 of the owner of the lands to prevent the blooming and maturing of 

 noxious weeds thereon and to destroy such growths of other weeds 

 thereon as may interfere with the use of highways shall apply also 

 to cities and towns and the proper officers there as to all streets, 

 highways and lands of any kind within their borders the fee of 

 which shall rest in the public. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the township clerk between the 

 first and fifteenth days of May of each year to post in two conspic- 

 uous places in each school district of the township a notice calling 

 attention to the weed law of the state of Iowa and giving a list of 

 the noxious weeds contained therein and notifying the property 

 owners to meet the requirements of the law. 



Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the township clerk between the 

 fifteenth and thirteenth days of October of each year to make a re- 

 port to the board of supervisors of the county in which this town- 

 ship is situated as to the presence and location of noxious weeds 

 that have been reported or found within the township and the steps 

 taken to bring about the destruction thereof, a copy of which report 

 shall be forwarded to the board of supervisors to be kept on file 

 and a copy of same to be forwarded by them to the secretary of the 

 Iowa department of agriculture not later than the first day of De- 

 cember following. 



Sec. 9. Any township trustee or road officer or other officer 

 who neglects or fails to perform the duties incumbent upon him 

 under the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 

 and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars 

 ($100.00). 



Sec. 10. Chapter ninety-six (96) of the acts of the Thirty-third 

 General Assembly is hereby repealed. 



