FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Iowa Code § 29B.46 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29B / Section 29B.46
Pleas of the accused.
Status: in_force

(1) If the accused after arraignment makes an irregular pleading, or after a plea of guilty sets up defenses inconsistent with the plea, or if it appears that the accused has entered the plea of guilty improvidently or through lack of understanding of its meaning and effect, or if the accused fails or refuses to plead, a plea of not guilty shall be entered in the record, and the court shall proceed as though the accused had pleaded not guilty.

(2) With respect to any charge or specification to which a plea of guilty has been made by the accused and accepted by the military judge, or by a court-martial without a military judge, a finding of guilty of the charge or specification may, if permitted by rules of the adjutant general be entered immediately without vote. This finding shall constitute the finding of the court unless the plea of guilty is withdrawn prior to the announcement of the sentence, in which case the proceedings shall continue as though the accused had pleaded not guilty.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29B.46; 82 Acts, ch 1042, §27]
Iowa Code § 453B.6 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 453B / Section 453B.6
Chapter not applicable to lawful possession.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not require persons lawfully in possession of a taxable substance to pay the tax required under this chapter or to purchase, acquire, or affix the stamps, labels, or other official indicia otherwise required by this chapter.

90 Acts, ch 1251, §42C91, §421A.6C93, §453B.6
Iowa Code § 461A.47 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 461A / Section 461A.47
Camping.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2018 Acts, ch 1129, §2; . See §455A.14.
Iowa Code § 275.56 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 275 / Section 275.56
Increasing enrollment.
Status: in_force

If the enrollment of a school district increases or is expected to increase because an adjacent district has dissolved or is expected to dissolve, the board of directors of the school district shall determine whether there is a need to hire additional licensed or unlicensed employees. If the board of directors determines that there is a need to hire additional employees, the board shall determine the nature and number of the necessary new positions. Individuals who were employees of the dissolved district may apply for the new positions. The board shall hire those applicants who were employees of the dissolved district whenever the applicant is licensed for the new position or, in the case of unlicensed personnel, is otherwise qualified. If two employees of the dissolved district apply for a single licensed position, the applicant who is best qualified in the opinion of the board shall be hired. The board is not required to hire applicants who were employees of the dissolved district if the district has been dissolved for one or more school years. Applicants who are reemployed under this section shall maintain in the reemploying district vacation, salary or alternatively placement on a salary schedule based on the employee’s years of experience, sick leave, and completion of probationary status as defined by section 279.19.

[C81, §275.56]89 Acts, ch 265, §40; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §157
Iowa Code § 484A.6 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 484A / Section 484A.6
Penalty.
Status: in_force

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

[C77, 79, 81, §110B.6]C93, §484A.6
Iowa Code § 453A.47B — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 453A / Section 453A.47B
Requirements for mailing or shipping alternative nicotine products or vapor products.
Status: in_force

A retailer shall not mail, ship, or otherwise cause to be delivered any alternative nicotine product or vapor product in connection with a delivery sale unless the retailer meets all of the following conditions:

(1) Prior to sale to the purchaser, the retailer verifies that the purchaser is at least twenty-one years of age through or by one of the following:

(1) (a) A commercially available database, or aggregate of databases, that is regularly used by government and businesses for the purpose of age and identity verification.

(1) (b) Obtaining a copy of a valid government-issued document that provides the name, address, and date of birth of the purchaser.

(2) The retailer uses a method of mailing, shipping, or delivery that requires the signature of a person who is at least twenty-one years of age before the shipping package is released to the purchaser.

2017 Acts, ch 170, §68; 2020 Acts, ch 1106, §7, 8
Iowa Code § 522.5 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 522 / Section 522.5
Own risk and solvency assessment summary report.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) Beginning in 2015, an insurer shall annually submit to the commissioner an own risk and solvency assessment summary report or any combination of reports that together contain the information described in the own risk and solvency assessment guidance manual that is applicable to the insurer or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member.

(1) (b) If the insurer is a member of an insurance group, the insurer shall submit the report or reports required by this section to the state commissioner that is the lead state commissioner of the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, as determined by the procedures contained in the financial analysis handbook adopted by the national association of insurance commissioners.

(1) (c) The own risk and solvency assessment summary report shall be filed after the insurer or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member conducts the insurer’s or insurance group’s strategic planning process. The insurer or insurance group shall notify the commissioner as to the date that the summary report will be filed.

(2) The own risk and solvency assessment summary report shall include the signature of the insurer’s or insurance group’s chief risk officer or another executive having responsibility for the oversight of the insurer’s enterprise risk management process, attesting that to the best of that person’s belief and knowledge the insurer applies the enterprise risk management process described in the summary report and that a copy of the summary report has been provided to the insurer’s or insurance group’s board of directors or the appropriate committee of that board.

(3) An insurer may comply with subsection 1 by submitting the most recent and substantially similar report provided by the insurer or another member of the insurance group of which the insurer is a member to the commissioner of insurance of another state or to a supervisor or regulator of a foreign jurisdiction, if that report provides information that is comparable to the information described in the own risk and solvency assessment guidance manual. Any such report that is submitted in a language other than English must be accompanied by a translation of that report into the English language.

2013 Acts, ch 40, §5, 11
Iowa Code § 331.605C — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 331 / Section 331.605C
Electronic transaction fee — audit.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2009 Acts, ch 27, §39.
Iowa Code § 427B.19D — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 427B / Section 427B.19D
Appeal for state assistance.
Status: in_force

For fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 1996, a municipality in which is located an urban renewal district for which debt was incurred prior to June 30, 1996, may appeal to the state appeal board for state assistance to meet such debt obligations for the fiscal year if such debt is not secured by an assessment agreement pursuant to section 403.6, subsection 19, and if the urban renewal area contains property assessed pursuant to section 427B.17. The appeal shall be made by May 15 preceding the fiscal year on forms approved by the department of management.

96 Acts, ch 1049, §8
Iowa Code § 489.1115 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 489 / Section 489.1115
Merger.
Status: in_force

A professional limited liability company shall not merge with any entity except another professional limited liability company subject to this subchapter or a professional corporation subject to chapter 496C. Merger is not permitted unless the surviving or new professional limited liability company is a professional limited liability company that complies with all requirements of this subchapter.

2008 Acts, ch 1162, §101, 155; 2023 Acts, ch 152, §118, 161
Iowa Code § 67.10 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 67 / Section 67.10
Governor to report to general assembly.
Status: in_force

Forthwith after the organization of the general assembly first convening after the making of said order of suspension, the governor shall lay before it the order and all information and evidence relating thereto in the governor’s possession.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1127; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §67.10]
Iowa Code § 8A.437 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8A / Section 8A.437
State employee health flexible spending account trust fund.
Status: in_force

(1) The director shall establish for state employees a health flexible spending account plan which offers multiple benefits to state employees. The state’s health flexible spending account plan shall be established to meet the conditions of section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

(2) A separate, special Iowa state employee health flexible spending account trust fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the department. The trust fund consists of all moneys appropriated to the fund, all monthly administrative charges paid by a state department or agency as authorized by section 8A.451, and any other assets directed to be held in trust for the exclusive benefit of participants in the state’s health flexible spending account plan. Moneys in the fund are not subject to section 8.33. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, interest and earnings from moneys in the trust fund shall be credited to the trust fund and shall be used exclusively for the benefit of plan participants.

(3) The director shall serve as trustee of the trust fund and has the authority to direct expenditures as deemed appropriate to the exclusive benefit of the plan participants.

2003 Acts, ch 145, §73
Iowa Code § 257B.18 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 257B / Section 257B.18
Exemption of county.
Status: in_force

All claims for exemption from liability on account of losses shall be examined into and adjusted by the director of the department of administrative services, upon proof submitted to the director in writing in behalf of the county within three months after the county auditor shall be advised by the director of the director’s readiness to receive the proof. In the absence of evidence, or if that submitted is insufficient, the loss may be charged against the county and be conclusive, but if found sufficient, the director of the department of administrative services shall present the facts in the report to the next general assembly.

[C73, §1860; C97, §2848; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4486; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §302.18]C93, §257B.182003 Acts, ch 145, §286
Iowa Code § 478.25 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 478 / Section 478.25
Wire crossing railroads — supervision.
Status: in_force

The utilities commission shall have general supervision over any and all wires whatsoever crossing under or over any railway track and shall make rules prescribing the manner in which such wires shall cross such track; but in no case shall the commission prescribe a less height for any wire than twenty-two feet above the top of the rails of any railroad track.

[S13, §2120-d, -e, -h; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8333; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §489.24; C66, 71, 73, 75, §489.25; C77, 79, 81, §478.25]2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369
Iowa Code § 468.60 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.60
Lien of deferred installments.
Status: in_force

No deferred installment of the amount assessed as between vendor and vendee, mortgagor and mortgagee shall become a lien upon the property against which it is assessed and levied until June 30 of the preceding fiscal year in which it is due and payable.

[SS15, §1989-a12; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7488; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.67]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.60
Iowa Code § 16.40 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 16 / Section 16.40
Housing assistance fund.
Status: in_force

(1) A housing assistance fund is created within the authority. The moneys in the fund shall be used by the authority to protect, preserve, create, and improve access to safe and affordable housing. The authority shall establish programs utilizing the fund by administrative rules adopted pursuant to chapter 17A and provide the requirements for the proper administration of the programs.

(2) Moneys in the fund, including moneys which are annually appropriated to the authority, may be allocated for any use authorized by this chapter unless otherwise specified.

(3) The authority may use moneys in the fund to provide financial assistance to a housing sponsor or an individual in the form of a loan, loan guaranty, grant, or interest subsidy, or by other means under the general powers of the authority.

(4) Moneys in the fund may be used for but are not limited to the following purposes:

(4) (a) Home ownership programs including all of the following:

(4) (a) Authority bond issues and loans to facilitate and ensure equal access across the state to funds for first-time homebuyers programs.

(4) (a) Home ownership incentive programs not restricted to first-time homebuyers, including down payment and closing costs assistance.

(4) (a) Programs for home maintenance and repair, new construction, acquisition, and rehabilitation.

(4) (a) Support for home ownership education and counseling programs.

(4) (b) Rental programs, including rental subsidy, rehabilitation, preservation, new construction, and acquisition.

(4) (c) Programs that provide a continuum of housing services, including construction, operation, and maintenance of homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, and transitional housing and supportive services to lower income and very low-income families.

(4) (d) Technical assistance programs that increase the capacity of for-profit and nonprofit housing entities.

(5) Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the housing assistance fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund or any other fund but shall remain in the housing assistance fund for expenditure for subsequent fiscal years.

(6) The authority may establish, by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 17A, an annual administration fee to be charged to the housing assistance fund. The annual fee shall not exceed four percent of the moneys, loans, or other assets held in the fund.

(7) During each regular session of the general assembly, the authority shall present to the appropriate joint appropriations subcommittee a report concerning the total estimated resources to be available for expenditure under this section for the next fiscal year and the amount the authority proposes to allocate to each program created pursuant to this section.

85 Acts, ch 252, §29CS85, §220.4088 Acts, ch 1145, §1C93, §16.4097 Acts, ch 201, §18; 2007 Acts, ch 54, §24; 2014 Acts, ch 1080, §40, 78
Iowa Code § 249A.17 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 249A / Section 249A.17
Transitional medical assistance.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 97 Acts, ch 41, §29.
Iowa Code § 330A.20 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 330A / Section 330A.20
Dissolution of an authority.
Status: in_force

When an authority has fully discharged all of its debts and obligations or has arranged for the assumption of its debts and obligations by another public agency, it may be dissolved by unanimous consent of the member municipalities upon enactment of an ordinance to dissolve the authority by each member municipality. If all members withdraw from the authority, the authority is dissolved. When the business and affairs of an authority have been closed upon dissolution, that fact shall be certified by the chairperson of the board to the recorders of the counties in which the authority was situated and to the secretary of state.

89 Acts, ch 182, §8
Iowa Code § 279.7A — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 279 / Section 279.7A
Interest in public contracts prohibited exceptions.
Status: in_force

(1) A member of the board of directors of a school corporation shall not have an interest, direct or indirect, in a contract for the purchase of goods, including materials and profits, and the performance of services for the director’s school corporation. A contract entered into in violation of this section is void.

(2) This section does not apply to contracts for the purchase of goods or services which benefit a director, or to compensation for part-time or temporary employment which benefits a director, if the benefit to the director does not exceed twenty thousand dollars in a fiscal year, and contracts made by a school board, upon competitive bid in writing, publicly invited and opened.

(3) This section does not apply to a contract that is a bond, note, or other obligation of a school corporation if the contract is not acquired directly from the school corporation, but is acquired in a transaction with a third party, who may or may not be the original underwriter, purchaser, or obligee of the contract, or to a contract in which a director has an interest solely by reason of employment if the contract is made by competitive bid in writing, publicly invited and opened, or if the remuneration of employment will not be directly affected as a result of the contract and the duties of employment do not directly involve the procurement or preparation of any part of the contract.

(4) The competitive bid qualification of this section does not apply to a contract for professional services not customarily awarded by competitive bid.

90 Acts, ch 1209, §2; 91 Acts, ch 258, §40; 2000 Acts, ch 1187, §1; 2001 Acts, ch 53, §2; 2003 Acts, ch 36, §1; 2019 Acts, ch 74, §1; 2022 Acts, ch 1006, §2, 3
Iowa Code § 2.8 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 2 / Section 2.8
Oaths.
Status: in_force

Any member may administer oaths necessary in the course of business of the house of which that person is a member, and, while acting on a committee, in the course of business of such committee.

[C51, §10; R60, §7; C73, §10; C97, §10; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §2.7; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §2.8]
Iowa Code § 488.1205 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 488 / Section 488.1205
Savings clause.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not affect an action commenced, proceeding brought, or right accrued before January 1, 2005.

2004 Acts, ch 1021, §106, 118; 2018 Acts, ch 1026, §153
Iowa Code § 68B.35A — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 68B / Section 68B.35A
Personal financial disclosure statements of state officials and employees — internet access.
Status: in_force

Personal financial disclosure statements filed with the chief clerk of the house or the secretary of the senate shall be recorded on the legislative internet site or copies of the personal financial disclosure statements shall be forwarded to the secretary of state for the recording of the information on an internet site. The board shall record personal financial disclosure statements filed with the board on an internet site.

93 Acts, ch 163, §22; 94 Acts, ch 1023, §82; 2004 Acts, ch 1091, §12; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §257
Iowa Code § 524.1803 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 524 / Section 524.1803
Offer to purchase stock.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2006 Acts, ch 1015, §22.
Iowa Code § 274.41 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 274 / Section 274.41
Application of proceeds of sale.
Status: in_force

The proceeds of the sale of the property of a school district under the authority granted in sections 274.39 and 274.40 shall be deposited with the treasurer of the county and applied so far as necessary to the payment of the outstanding indebtedness of such school district.

[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §274.41]
Iowa Code § 15E.195 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15E / Section 15E.195
Enterprise zone commission.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2014 Acts, ch 1130, §41.
Iowa Code § 285.9 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 285 / Section 285.9
Powers and duties of area boards.
Status: in_force

The powers and duties of the respective area education agency boards shall be to:

(1) Enforce all laws and all rules and regulations of the department of education relating to transportation.

(2) Review and approve all transportation arrangements between districts in the agency and in all districts in the agency not operating high schools. If such transportation arrangements, designations, and contracts are not in conformity to law or established uniform standards for the locating and operating of bus routes, the agency board shall, after receiving all facts, make such alterations or changes as necessary to make the arrangements, designations, and contracts conform to the legal and established requirements and shall notify local board of such action.

(3) Approve all bus routes outside the boundary of the district of the school operating buses.

(4) When a local board fails to make designations and other necessary arrangements for transportation as required by law, the agency board shall, after due notice to the local board, make necessary arrangements in conformity with law and established requirements. Notice shall be given to the local board of the arrangements as made. The arrangements shall be binding on the local board which shall pay the costs for service as arranged.

[C35, §4274-e1, -e2; C39, §4274.03, 4274.04; C46, §282.10, 282.11, 285.9; C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §285.9]
Iowa Code § 533.405A — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 533 / Section 533.405A
Involuntary dissolution.
Status: in_force

(1) If the superintendent has taken over management of the property and business of a state credit union pursuant to section 533.502, and determined that the state credit union cannot be reorganized or merged with another credit union, the superintendent may move for the involuntary dissolution of the state credit union and shall apply to the district court for appointment as receiver with the authority to dissolve the state credit union.

(2) If a state credit union is in the process of a voluntary dissolution, and pursuant to section 533.405, the superintendent finds that the state credit union is not making reasonable progress toward terminating its affairs, the superintendent may move for the involuntary dissolution of the state credit union and shall apply to the district court for appointment as receiver with the authority to dissolve the state credit union.

(3) The provisions of section 533.503 shall apply when the superintendent is acting as receiver, and as receiver the superintendent shall distribute the assets pursuant to the provisions of section 533.404.

2014 Acts, ch 1011, §5
Iowa Code § 135H.8A — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 135H / Section 135H.8A
Provisional license.
Status: in_force

The department may issue a provisional license, effective for not more than one year, to a licensee whose psychiatric institution does not meet the requirements of this chapter, if, prior to issuance of the license, written plans to achieve compliance with the applicable requirements are submitted to and approved by the department. The plans shall specify the deadline for achieving compliance.

95 Acts, ch 51, §2
Iowa Code § 522E.12 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 522E / Section 522E.12
Policy forms.
Status: in_force

An insurer that provides insurance to be sold by a licensed portable electronics vendor shall file a copy of the policy form issued to a consumer, or of any policy or certificate issued under a group or master policy to an organization through an insurance producer licensed under chapter 522B or through a licensed portable electronics vendor, with the commissioner, who shall make the policy form available to the public.

2015 Acts, ch 87, §12, 16
Iowa Code § 256.67A — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 256 / Section 256.67A
Insurance eligibility.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2011 Acts, ch 132, §66, 106.