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Iowa Code § 724.4C — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 724 / Section 724.4C
Possession or carrying of dangerous weapons while under the influence.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subsection 2, a person commits a serious misdemeanor if the person is intoxicated as provided under the conditions set out in section 321J.2, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, “b”, or “c”, and the person does any of the following:

(1) (a) Carries a dangerous weapon on or about the person.

(1) (b) Carries a dangerous weapon within the person’s immediate access or reach while in a vehicle.

(2) This section shall not apply to any of the following:

(2) (a) A person who carries or possesses a dangerous weapon while in the person’s own dwelling, place of business, or on land owned or lawfully possessed by the person.

(2) (b) The transitory possession or use of a dangerous weapon during an act of justified self-defense or justified defense of another, provided that the possession lasts no longer than is immediately necessary to resolve the emergency.

2010 Acts, ch 1178, §4, 19; 2017 Acts, ch 69, §8; 2017 Acts, ch 170, §47
Iowa Code § 29A.20 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29A / Section 29A.20
Officers.
Status: in_force

Officers of the national guard shall be selected from the classes of persons having the qualifications prescribed by federal law and regulations. They shall be appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of their superiors in the chain of command, provided that they shall have successfully passed such tests as to physical, moral, and professional fitness, as shall be prescribed by law and regulations. Each officer shall take an oath of office and shall hold office until the officer shall have attained the maximum age of retirement that is prescribed by federal law or regulations pertaining to officers of the armed forces of the United States, unless the officer’s commission or warrant is sooner vacated by resignation, death, or as provided in this chapter. In case the officer has no immediate superiors, within the state, in the chain of command, the officer shall be appointed, as provided in this section, upon the recommendation of the adjutant general. A commission shall designate the arm or branch of service in which the officer is commissioned. Provided, however, that no person shall be appointed a commissioned or warrant officer who has not reached the person’s eighteenth birthday at or prior to the time of such appointment.

[C51, §624, 626 – 628; R60, §1005, 1007 – 1009; C73, §1047, 1048; C97, §2176 – 2180; S13, §2215-f10; C24, 27, 31, §441; C35, §467-f11; C39, §467.11; C46, 50, §29.11; C54, 58, 62, §29.20; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29A.20]2020 Acts, ch 1063, §17
Iowa Code § 232.74 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 232 / Section 232.74
Evidence not privileged or excluded.
Status: in_force

Sections 622.9 and 622.10 and any other statute or rule of evidence which excludes or makes privileged the testimony of a husband or wife against the other or the testimony of a health practitioner or mental health professional as to confidential communications, do not apply to evidence regarding a child’s injuries or the cause of the injuries in any judicial proceeding, civil or criminal, resulting from a report pursuant to this chapter or relating to the subject matter of such a report.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §235A.8; C79, 81, §232.74]83 Acts, ch 37, §1; 87 Acts, ch 153, §6
Iowa Code § 628.20 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 628 / Section 628.20
Excess payment — credit.
Status: in_force

If the amount paid to the clerk is in excess of the prior bid and liens, the clerk shall refund the excess to the party paying the amount. If the clerk is the clerk of the district court where the judgment giving rise to the lien was entered, the clerk shall credit upon the lien the full amount thereof, including interest and costs, or such less amount as the lienholder is willing to credit therein, as shown by the affidavit filed.

[C51, §1937, 1939, 1941; R60, §3340, 3347, 3349; C73, §3110, 3117, 3119; C97, §4056; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11791; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §628.20]95 Acts, ch 91, §7
Iowa Code § 15E.44 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15E / Section 15E.44
Qualifying businesses.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2025 Acts, ch 136, §68.
Iowa Code § 549.5 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 549 / Section 549.5
Improper licensing practices.
Status: in_force

A performing rights society shall not do any of the following:

(1) Collect or attempt to collect from a proprietor licensed by that performing rights society, a royalty payment except as provided in a contract executed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

(2) Make a misleading or threatening verbal or written communication to a proprietor in connection with a contract for the payment of royalties or an attempt to collect royalties.

(3) State or imply in a verbal or written communication with a proprietor that the performing rights society is an agent or representative of a public body, regulatory agency, or law enforcement agency.

96 Acts, ch 1155, §52024 Acts, ch 1067, §2
Iowa Code § 507C.37 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 507C / Section 507C.37
Special claims.
Status: in_force

(1) The claim of a third party which is contingent only on the third party first obtaining a judgment against the insured shall be considered and allowed as if there were no such contingency.

(2) A claim may be allowed even if contingent, if it is filed in accordance with section 507C.35. It may be allowed and the claimant may participate in all distributions declared after it is filed to the extent that it does not prejudice the orderly administration of the liquidation.

(3) Claims that are due except for the passage of time shall be treated as absolute claims are treated. However, the claims may be discounted at the legal rate of interest.

(4) Claims made under employment contracts by directors, principal officers, or persons in fact performing similar functions or having similar powers are limited to payment for services rendered prior to the issuance of an order of rehabilitation or liquidation under section 507C.13 or 507C.18.

84 Acts, ch 1175, §37
Iowa Code § 633.520 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.520
Presumption of death — natural or man-made disaster.
Status: in_force

A written finding of presumed death of a person resulting from a natural or man-made disaster, made by a local, state, or federal officer or employee authorized to make such a finding, or a duly certified copy of such a finding, shall be received by a judge or magistrate as evidence of the death of the person therein found to be dead, and of the date, circumstances, and place of the disappearance. Upon receipt of such evidence the judge or magistrate may enter an order of presumption of death of the person. Upon presentation of a certified court order, a certificate of death shall be filed pursuant to section 144.26.

2002 Acts, ch 1108, §30
Iowa Code § 633.638 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.638
Presumption of fraud.
Status: in_force

If a conservator be appointed, all contracts, transfers, and gifts made by the protected person after the filing of the petition shall be presumed to be a fraud against the rights and interest of the protected person except as otherwise directed by the court pursuant to section 633.637.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12622; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §670.10; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.638]2024 Acts, ch 1009, §70
Iowa Code § 486A.1104 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 486A / Section 486A.1104
Activities not constituting transacting business.
Status: in_force

(1) Activities of a foreign limited liability partnership which do not constitute transacting business for the purpose of this article include all of the following:

(1) (a) Maintaining, defending, or settling an action or proceeding.

(1) (b) Holding meetings of its partners or carrying on any other activity concerning its internal affairs.

(1) (c) Maintaining bank accounts.

(1) (d) Maintaining offices or agencies for the transfer, exchange, and registration of the partnership’s own securities or maintaining trustees or depositories with respect to those securities.

(1) (e) Selling through independent contracts.

(1) (f) Soliciting or obtaining orders, whether by mail or through employees or agents or otherwise, if the orders require acceptance outside this state before they become contracts.

(1) (g) Creating or acquiring indebtedness, with or without a mortgage, or other security interest in property.

(1) (h) Collecting debts or foreclosing mortgages or other security interests in property securing the debts, and holding, protecting, and maintaining property so acquired.

(1) (i) Conducting an isolated transaction that is completed within thirty days and is not one in the course of similar transactions.

(1) (j) Transacting business in interstate commerce.

(2) For purposes of this article, the ownership in this state of income-producing real property or tangible personal property, other than property excluded under subsection 1, constitutes transacting business in this state.

(3) This section does not apply in determining the contracts or activities that may subject a foreign limited liability partnership to service of process, taxation, or regulation under any other law of this state.

98 Acts, ch 1201, §58, 79, 82
Iowa Code § 654.17A — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 654 / Section 654.17A
Sale free of liens.
Status: in_force

At any time during the pendency of the foreclosure, the plaintiff may apply to the court for an order approving an offer for a commercially reasonable sale of the property free of the claims of the parties to the action and other persons served with notice pursuant to section 654.15B. A copy of the offer shall be attached to the application and the application shall contain a written consent to the proposed sale by all equitable titleholders who have not abandoned the property. The court may grant the motion unless a party in interest objects in writing during such time as the court may prescribe. A person filing an objection with a claim junior to the plaintiff shall either apply for assignment of senior claims pursuant to section 654.8, otherwise provide adequate protection to senior creditors, or establish that a sheriff’s sale is substantially more likely than the proposed sale to provide the creditor with more favorable satisfaction of its lien. Pending resolution of the rights of the parties and persons served with notice pursuant to section 654.15B, the court shall place the net proceeds of the sale in escrow after payment of reasonable closing costs. The rights of such persons to the escrowed funds shall be determined in the same manner as their rights to the property that was sold.

2006 Acts, ch 1132, §11, 16
Iowa Code § 135C.20 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 135C / Section 135C.20
Information distributed.
Status: in_force

The department shall prepare, publish and send to licensed health care facilities an annual report of its activities and operations under this chapter and such other bulletins containing fundamental health principles and data as may be deemed essential to assure proper operation of health care facilities, and publish for public distribution copies of the laws, standards and rules pertaining to their operation.

[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §135C.20]
Iowa Code § 691.2 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 691 / Section 691.2
Presumption of qualification — evidence — testimony.
Status: in_force

(1) It shall be presumed that any employee or technician of the criminalistics laboratory is qualified or possesses the required expertise to accomplish any analysis, comparison, or identification done by the employee in the course of the employee’s employment in the criminalistics laboratory. Any report, or copy of a report, or the findings of the criminalistics laboratory shall be received in evidence, if determined to be relevant, in any court, preliminary hearing, grand jury proceeding, civil proceeding, administrative hearing, and forfeiture proceeding in the same manner and with the same force and effect as if the employee or technician of the criminalistics laboratory who accomplished the requested analysis, comparison, or identification had testified in person.

(2) A party or the party’s attorney may request that an employee or technician testify in person at a criminal trial, administrative hearing, or forfeiture proceeding on behalf of the state or the adverse agency of the state, by notifying the proper county attorney, or in the case of an administrative proceeding the adverse agency, at least ten days before the date of the criminal trial, administrative hearing, or forfeiture proceeding. A party or the party’s attorney in any other civil proceeding may require an employee or technician to testify in person pursuant to a subpoena.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, §749A.2; C79, 81, §691.2]86 Acts, ch 1147, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1029, §1; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §104
Iowa Code § 598.24 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 598 / Section 598.24
Costs if party is in default or contempt.
Status: in_force

When an action for a modification, order to show cause, or contempt of a dissolution, annulment, or separate maintenance decree is brought on the grounds that a party to the decree is in default or contempt of the decree, and the court determines that the party is in default or contempt of the decree, the costs of the proceeding, including reasonable attorney’s fees, may be taxed against that party.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §598.24]84 Acts, ch 1133, §2
Iowa Code § 357A.6 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 357A / Section 357A.6
Findings — order.
Status: in_force

(1) After the hearing, the supervisors may strike off any part of the territory that testimony shows will not be benefited by the creation of the district. If the supervisors do not find that the district is reasonably necessary, they shall dismiss the petition.

(2) If the supervisors find that required notice of the hearing has been given and that the proposed district is reasonably necessary for the public health, convenience, and comfort of the residents, or may be of benefit in providing fire protection, they shall make an order establishing the district as a political subdivision, designating the district’s boundary, and identifying the district by name or number. The order shall be published in the same newspaper which published the notice of hearing. The supervisors shall prepare and preserve a complete record of the hearing on the petition and their findings and action.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §357A.6]91 Acts, ch 134, §7; 2019 Acts, ch 24, §104; 2025 Acts, ch 30, §59
Iowa Code § 124.407 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 124 / Section 124.407
Gatherings where controlled substances unlawfully used penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) It is unlawful for any person to sponsor, promote, or aid, or assist in the sponsoring or promoting of a meeting, gathering, or assemblage with the knowledge or intent that a controlled substance be there distributed, used, or possessed, in violation of this chapter.

(2) (a) Any person who violates this section and where the controlled substance is any one other than marijuana is guilty of a class “D” felony.

(2) (b) Any person who violates this section, and where the controlled substance is marijuana only, is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

(3) The district court shall grant an injunction barring a meeting, gathering, or assemblage if upon hearing the court finds that the sponsors or promoters of the meeting, gathering, or assemblage have not taken reasonable means to prevent the unlawful distribution, use, or possession of a controlled substance. Further injunctive relief may be granted against all persons furnishing goods or services to such meeting, gathering, or assemblage.

(4) The district court may, upon application and a showing of one or more of the grounds provided in section 639.3, grant to the state or governmental subdivision thereof a writ of attachment, ex parte, without bond, in an amount necessary to secure the payment of any fine that may be imposed and the payment of costs. The reasonable expense to the state and governmental subdivisions thereof to provide the necessary law enforcement resulting from a meeting, gathering, or assemblage held in violation of this section may be taxed as costs in the criminal action.

[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §204.407]C93, §124.40799 Acts, ch 135, §13; 2017 Acts, ch 54, §29
Iowa Code § 524.911 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 524 / Section 524.911
Letters of credit.
Status: in_force

A state bank shall have the power to issue, advise, and confirm letters of credit authorizing a beneficiary thereof to draw on or demand payment of the state bank or its correspondent banks.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §524.911]2016 Acts, ch 1011, §101
Iowa Code § 135R.5 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 135R / Section 135R.5
Inspections or investigations.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall make or cause to be made inspections or investigations of ambulatory surgical centers to determine compliance with this chapter and applicable rules and standards. The department shall perform inspections on a schedule that is of the same frequency required for inspections of Medicare-certified ambulatory surgical centers.

(2) The department shall recognize, in lieu of its own licensure inspection, the comparable inspection and inspection findings of a Medicare conditions for coverage survey completed by the department or an accrediting organization survey from an accrediting organization with deeming authority authorized by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services. An ambulatory surgical center utilizing an accrediting organization survey to satisfy the requirements of this section shall submit an accreditation certificate to the department within thirty days of completion of each accrediting organization survey.

(3) A department inspector shall not participate in an inspection or investigation of an ambulatory surgical center in which the inspector or a member of the inspector’s immediate family works or has worked within the last two years or in which the inspector or the inspector’s immediate family has a financial ownership interest. For the purposes of this section, “immediate family member” means a spouse, natural or adoptive parent or grandparent, child, grandchild, sibling, stepparent, stepchild, or stepsibling.

2023 Acts, ch 16, §26; 2024 Acts, ch 1012, §5
Iowa Code § 16.25 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 16 / Section 16.25
Section 16.25
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2007 Acts, ch 54, §45.
Iowa Code § 468.537 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.537
Management by supervisors.
Status: in_force

After such change is made it shall be the duty of the board or boards of supervisors to manage and control the affairs of said district as fully and to the same extent as if it had never been under trustee management. They shall carry out any pending contracts lawfully made by the trustees as fully as if made by the board.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7714; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §462.41]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.537
Iowa Code § 257.28 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 257 / Section 257.28
Enrichment levy.
Status: in_force

If a school district has approved the use of the instructional support program for a budget year, the district shall not also collect moneys under the additional enrichment amount approved by the voters under chapter 442, Code 1991, for the budget year.

89 Acts, ch 135, §28; 92 Acts, ch 1163, §60; 2005 Acts, ch 179, §124
Iowa Code § 29B.72 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29B / Section 29B.72
Finality of proceedings — findings and sentences.
Status: in_force

The proceedings, findings, and sentences of court-martial as reviewed and approved, as required by this code, and all dismissals and discharges carried into execution under sentences by courts-martial following review and approval, as required by this code, are final and conclusive. Orders publishing the proceedings are binding upon all departments, courts, agencies, and officers of the state, subject only to action upon a petition for a new trial as provided in section 29B.69.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29B.72]
Iowa Code § 103A.58 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 103A / Section 103A.58
Manufactured home, mobile home, or modular home retail installment contract — finance charge.
Status: in_force

(1) A retail installment contract or agreement for the sale of a manufactured home, mobile home, or modular home may include a finance charge not in excess of an amount equivalent to one and three-fourths percent per month simple interest on the declining balance of the amount financed.

(2) For purposes of this section, “amount financed” means the same as defined in section 537.1301.

(3) The limitations contained in this section do not apply in a transaction referred to in section 535.2, subsection 2. With respect to a consumer credit sale, as defined in section 537.1301, the limitations contained in this section supersede conflicting provisions of chapter 537, article 2, part 2.

2006 Acts, ch 1090, §8, 26
Iowa Code § 554.9302 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.9302
Law governing perfection and priority of agricultural liens.
Status: in_force

While farm products are located in a jurisdiction, the local law of that jurisdiction governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of an agricultural lien on the farm products.

2000 Acts, ch 1149, §22, 185, 187
Iowa Code § 135.174 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 135 / Section 135.174
Lead agency and other state agencies.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §308.
Iowa Code § 356.33 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 356 / Section 356.33
Orders of courts.
Status: in_force

(1) District judges, district associate judges, and judicial magistrates, within their respective jurisdictional authority, may make all determinations and orders under sections 356.26 through 356.35.

(2) If the prisoner was convicted in a court in another county, the district court in the county where the prisoner is jailed, at the request or the concurrence of the committing court, may make all determinations and orders under this section as might otherwise be made by the sentencing court after the prisoner is received at the jail.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §356.33]2021 Acts, ch 80, §225
Iowa Code § 266.7 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 266 / Section 266.7
Receiving agent.
Status: in_force

The treasurer of the Iowa state university of science and technology is hereby authorized and empowered to receive the grants of money appropriated under the Purnell Act.

[C27, 31, 35, §4035-b2; C39, §4035.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §266.7]2023 Acts, ch 66, §53