COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

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Tit. XII, Ch. 2. POWERS AND DUTIES OP SUPERVISORS. § 3130.
20 may on the day fixed for letting said contract adjourn the hearing
21 to some later date and place, of which all parties shall take notice.
22 The board may reject any and all bids and advertise for new ones.
23 Bonds for the faithful performance of the contract shall be required,
24 and every bond so given shall be construed as giving the county the
25 right to withhold any payment provided for in the contract until all
26 claims for which the county might be made liable under section sixty-
27 five hundred thirty-two of the compiled code, are receipted for or
28 released, whether such right is inserted into the contract or not. The
29 detailed plans and specifications for the erection or repair of such
30 building shall be on file and open to public inspection in the office of
31 the auditor of the county in which the work is to be done before adver-
32 tisement for bids.
33 6. To cause the county buildings to be insured in the name of the
34 county, or otherwise, for its benefit, and in case there are no county
35 buildings, to provide suitable rooms for county purposes.
36 7. To set off, organize and change the boundaries of townships
37 in the respective counties, designate and give names thereto, and de-
38 fine the place of holding the first election.
39 8. To grant licenses for keeping ferries in the respective counties,
40 as provided by law.
41 9. To purchase, for the use of the county, any real estate neces-
42 sary for the erection of buildings for county purposes ; to remove the
43 site of, or designate a new site for, any county buildings required to
44 be at the county seat, when such site shall not be beyond the limits
45 of the town, village or city at which the county seat is, at the time of
46 such proposed change, located, and in case of such removal or change
47 of site for county building to sell any interest the county may have
48 in the real estate and the improvements thereon, which were thereto-
49 fore used and occupied for that purpose, and to permit any person,
50 persons, or corporation to use any portion of the lands owned by the
51 county for ornamental or art purposes, or for the erection of any
52 monument or fountain under such restrictions and regulations as the
53 board of supervisors may from time to time enact ; provided that such
54 use does not interfere with the use for which such real estate was
55 originally acquired by the county, and-to lease or sell to school dis-
56 tricts real estate owned by the county and not needed for county
57 purposes.
58 10. To require any county officer to make a report, under oath,
59 to it on any subject connected with the duties of his office, and to re-
60 quire any such officer to give such bonds, or additional bonds, as shall
61 be reasonable or necessary for the faithful performance of his duty;
62 any such officer who shall neglect or refuse to make such report or
63 give such bonds within twenty days after being so required may be
64 removed from office by the board by a vote of a majority of the mem-
65 bers elected thereto.
66 11. To represent the respective counties, and to have the care and
67 management of the property and business thereof, in all cases where
68 no other provision shall be made.
69 12. To manage and control the school fund of the respective coun-
70 ties as shall be provided by law.
71 13. To appoint commissioners to act with similar commissioners
72 duly appointed in any other county or counties, and to authorize them