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Iowa Code § 554.9105A — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.9105A
Control of electronic money.
Status: in_force

(1) A person has control of electronic money if:

(1) (a) the electronic money, a record attached to or logically associated with the electronic money, or a system in which the electronic money is recorded gives the person:

(1) (a) power to avail itself of substantially all the benefit from the electronic money; and

(1) (a) exclusive power, subject to subsection 2, to:

(1) (a) prevent others from availing themselves of substantially all the benefit from the electronic money; and

(1) (a) transfer control of the electronic money to another person or cause another person to obtain control of other electronic money as a result of the transfer of the electronic money; and

(1) (b) the electronic money, a record attached to or logically associated with the electronic money, or a system in which the electronic money is recorded enables the person readily to identify itself in any way, including by name, identifying number, cryptographic key, office, or account number, as having the powers under paragraph “a”.

(2) Subject to subsection 3, a power is exclusive under subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (2), subparagraph divisions (a) and (b) even if:

(2) (a) the electronic money, a record attached to or logically associated with the electronic money, or a system in which the electronic money is recorded limits the use of the electronic money or has a protocol programmed to cause a change, including a transfer or loss of control; or

(2) (b) the power is shared with another person.

(3) A power of a person is not shared with another person under subsection 2, paragraph “b” and the person’s power is not exclusive if:

(3) (a) the person can exercise the power only if the power also is exercised by the other person; and

(3) (b) the other person:

(3) (b) can exercise the power without exercise of the power by the person; or

(3) (b) is the transferor to the person of an interest in the electronic money.

(4) If a person has the powers specified in subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (2), subparagraph divisions (a) and (b) the powers are presumed to be exclusive.

(5) A person has control of electronic money if another person, other than the transferor of an interest in the electronic money:

(5) (a) has control of the electronic money and acknowledges that it has control on behalf of the person, or

(5) (b) obtains control of the electronic money after having acknowledged that it will obtain control of the electronic money on behalf of the person.

2022 Acts, ch 1117, §16; 2024 Acts, ch 1023, §44
Iowa Code § 298.15 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 298 / Section 298.15
Payment of judgment.
Status: in_force

When a judgment shall be obtained against a school corporation, its board shall order the payment thereof out of the proper fund by an order on the treasurer, not in excess, however, of the funds available for that purpose.

[R60, §2095; C73, §1787; C97, §2811; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4400; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §298.15]
Iowa Code § 422D.6 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 422D / Section 422D.6
Emergency medical services trust fund.
Status: in_force

(1) A county authorized to impose a tax under this chapter shall establish an emergency medical services trust fund into which revenues received from the taxes imposed shall be deposited. Moneys in the trust fund shall be used for emergency medical services. In addition, moneys in the fund may be used for the purpose of matching federal or state funds for education and training related to emergency medical services. Moneys remaining in the fund following expiration or discontinuance of the authority to impose the taxes as provided in section 422D.1, subsection 5, shall remain in the fund and may be expended for the purposes specified in this section.

(2) A county may enter into chapter 28E agreements with other counties in order to ensure adequate coverage of the county’s service area.

(3) Costs which are eligible for emergency medical services trust fund expenditures include, but are not limited to:

(3) (a) Defibrillators.

(3) (b) Nondisposable essential ambulance equipment, as defined by rule by the department of health and human services.

(3) (c) Communications pagers, radios, and base repeaters.

(3) (d) Training in the use of emergency medical services equipment.

(3) (e) Vehicles including, but not limited to, ambulances, fire apparatus, boats, rescue/first response vehicles, and snowmobiles.

(3) (f) Automotive parts.

(3) (g) Buildings.

(3) (h) Land.

(3) (i) The salaries or wages of emergency medical care providers providing emergency medical services.

(3) (i) As used in this paragraph, “emergency medical care provider” and “emergency medical services” mean the same as defined in section 147A.1.

92 Acts, ch 1226, §22; 2021 Acts, ch 174, §59; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1122; 2025 Acts, ch 3, §1, 2
Iowa Code § 172A.12 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 172A / Section 172A.12
Revocation of license.
Status: in_force

(1) The secretary shall have the authority to revoke the license of a dealer or broker or agent upon notice and hearing if any of the following conditions exist:

(1) (a) Grounds exist for the temporary suspension of the license without hearing, and it is established that the person is or will be unable to meet obligations to producers of livestock when due.

(1) (b) The person has refused access to the secretary to the books and records of the person as required by this chapter.

(1) (c) Any other conditions exist which in the opinion of the secretary reasonably establish that it would be financially detrimental to livestock producers of this state to permit the person to engage in licensed activities in this state.

(2) An order of revocation shall be effective upon the issuance of the order of revocation, and until the order is rescinded by the secretary, or until the decision of the secretary is reversed by a final order of a court of this state.

[C77, 79, 81, §172A.12]
Iowa Code § 357A.10 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 357A / Section 357A.10
Board meetings.
Status: in_force

The board shall meet annually on the same day as, and immediately following, the annual meeting of participating members, and may meet at such other times as it may determine, or upon the call of the chairperson or any two directors. At the first meeting of the initial board following its election, and at each succeeding annual board meeting, the board shall elect a chairperson, vice chairperson, secretary, and treasurer for the ensuing year.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §357A.10]
Iowa Code § 478.4 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 478 / Section 478.4
Franchise hearing.
Status: in_force

The utilities commission shall consider the petition and any objections filed to the petition in the manner provided. The commission shall examine the proposed route or cause any engineer selected by the commission to do so. If a hearing is held on the petition, the commission may hear testimony as may aid the commission in determining the propriety of granting the franchise. The commission may grant the franchise in whole or in part upon the terms, conditions, and restrictions, and with the modifications as to location and route as may seem to the commission just and proper. Before granting the franchise, the utilities commission shall make a finding that the proposed line or lines are necessary to serve a public use and represents a reasonable relationship to an overall plan of transmitting electricity in the public interest. A franchise shall not become effective until the petitioners shall pay, or file an agreement to pay, all costs and expenses of the franchise proceeding, whether or not objections are filed, including costs of inspections or examinations of the route, hearing, salaries, publishing of notice, and any other expenses reasonably attributable to the franchise proceeding. The funds received for the costs and the expenses of the franchise proceeding shall be remitted to the treasurer of state for deposit in the commerce revolving fund created in section 546.12 as provided in section 476.10.

[S13, §2120-n; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8312, 8313; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §489.4, 489.5; C66, 71, 73, 75, §489.4; C77, 79, 81, §478.4]87 Acts, ch 234, §431; 94 Acts, ch 1107, §82; 2009 Acts, ch 181, §532023 Acts, ch 19, §2689; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369; 2025 Acts, ch 30, §78
Iowa Code § 10A.322 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 10A / Section 10A.322
Judicial review.
Status: in_force

(1) Judicial review of decisions or orders of the workers’ compensation commissioner may be sought in accordance with chapter 17A. Notwithstanding chapter 17A, the Iowa administrative procedure Act, petitions for judicial review may be filed in the district court of the county in which the hearing under section 10A.318 was held, the workers’ compensation commissioner shall transmit to the reviewing court the original or a certified copy of the entire record of the contested case which is the subject of the petition within thirty days after receiving written notice from the party filing the petition that a petition for judicial review has been filed, and an application for stay of agency action during the pendency of judicial review shall not be filed in the division of workers’ compensation but shall be filed with the district court. Such a review proceeding shall be accorded priority over other matters pending before the district court.

(2) Notwithstanding section 17A.19, subsection 5, a timely petition for judicial review filed pursuant to this section shall stay execution or enforcement of a decision or order of the workers’ compensation commissioner if the party seeking judicial review posts a bond securing any compensation awarded pursuant to the decision or order with the district court within thirty days of filing the petition, in a reasonable amount as fixed and approved by the court. Unless either the party posting the bond files an objection with the court, within twenty days from the date that the bond is fixed and approved by the court, that the amount of the bond is not reasonable, or the party whose interests are protected by the bond files an objection with the court, within twenty days from the date that the amount of the bond is fixed and approved by the court, that the amount of the bond is not reasonable or adequate, the amount of the bond shall be deemed reasonable and adequate. If, upon objection, the district court orders the amount of the bond posted to be modified, the party seeking judicial review shall repost the bond in the amount ordered, within twenty days of the date of the order modifying the bond, in order to continue the stay of execution or enforcement of the decision or order of the workers’ compensation commissioner.

[S13, §2477-m33; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1449, 1451; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §86.26, 86.28; C75, 77, 79, 81, §86.26]86 Acts, ch 1238, §47; 88 Acts, ch 1158, §11; 95 Acts, ch 140, §3; 98 Acts, ch 1061, §11; 2001 Acts, ch 87, §7; 2017 Acts, ch 23, §20, 24; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1472, 1477C2024, §10A.322
Iowa Code § 28F.1 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 28F / Section 28F.1
Scope of chapter — limitations.
Status: in_force

(1) This chapter provides a means for the joint financing by public agencies of works or facilities useful and necessary for the collection, treatment, purification, and disposal in a sanitary manner of liquid and solid waste, sewage, and industrial waste, facilities used for the conversion of solid waste to energy, gasworks and facilities useful for the delivery of natural gas service, and also electric power facilities constructed within the state of Iowa, except that hydroelectric power facilities may also be located in the waters and on the dams of or on land adjacent to either side of the Mississippi or Missouri river bordering the state of Iowa, water supply systems, swimming pools or golf courses. This chapter applies to the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, ownership, operation, repair, extension, or improvement of such works or facilities, by a separate administrative or legal entity created pursuant to chapter 28E or chapter 389. When the legal entity created under this chapter is comprised solely of cities, counties, and sanitary districts established under chapter 358, or any combination thereof or any combination of the foregoing with other public agencies, the entity shall be both a corporation and a political subdivision with the name under which it was organized. The legal entity may sue and be sued, contract, acquire and hold real and personal property necessary for corporate purposes, adopt a corporate seal and alter the seal at pleasure, and execute all the powers conferred in this chapter.

(2) A city shall not join an entity created under this chapter for the purpose of financing electric power facilities unless that city had established a municipal electric utility as of July 1, 1984. Power supplied by a municipal power agency shall not be furnished to a municipal utility not existing as of July 1, 1984.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, S81, §28F.1; 81 Acts, ch 31, §1]83 Acts, ch 127, §4; 85 Acts, ch 78, §2; 87 Acts, ch 225, §402; 91 Acts, ch 168, §1; 2010 Acts, ch 1018, §3; 2018 Acts, ch 1135, §1
Iowa Code § 37.2 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 37 / Section 37.2
Petition.
Status: in_force

The petition for the erection and equipment of any such hall or monument shall request the submission of the proposition to a vote of the people and shall:

(1) When it is proposed to erect the same at the expense of the county, be signed by ten percent of the registered voters thereof as shown by the election register used in the last preceding general election, or by a majority of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Spanish-American War Veterans Association, Veterans of World War I, the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Marine Corps League and American Veterans of World War II (AMVETS) of the county.

(2) When it is proposed to erect the same at the expense of a city be subject to the provisions of section 362.4.

(3) Set forth therein the purpose of the memorial proposed, as outlined in section 37.18.

[C97, §435; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §484; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §37.2]95 Acts, ch 67, §53
Iowa Code § 1.17 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 1 / Section 1.17
Cession or retrocession of federal jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

By appropriate executive order, the governor may accept on behalf of the state full or partial cession or retrocession of federal jurisdiction, criminal or civil, over any lands, except Indian lands, in federal enclaves within the state where such cession or retrocession has been offered by appropriate federal authority. An executive order accepting a cession or retrocession of jurisdiction shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state and in the office of the recorder of the county in which the affected real estate is located.

90 Acts, ch 1146, §1
Iowa Code § 154B.3 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 154B / Section 154B.3
Persons not required to qualify.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the following persons:

(1) School psychologists certified by the department of education practicing and functioning within the scope of their employment in either a public or private school or performing as certified school psychologists at any time in either private practice or the public sector, provided they use the title “certified school psychologist”.

(2) An employee of an accredited academic institution while performing the employee’s teaching, training, and research duties.

(3) An employee of a federal, state, county or local governmental institution or agency or nonprofit institution or agency, or a research facility, while performing duties of the office or position with such institution, agency, or facility.

(4) A student of psychology, psychological intern or person preparing for the practice of psychology in a training institution or facility approved by the board, provided the person is designated by the title “psychological trainee” or any similar title, clearly indicating training status.

(5) A practicing psychologist for a period not to exceed ten consecutive business days or fifteen business days in any ninety-day period, if the person’s residence and major practice are outside the state, and the person gives the board a summary of the person’s intention to practice in the state of Iowa, if the person is certified or licensed in the state in which the person resides under requirements the board considers to be equivalent of requirements for licensing under this chapter, or the person resides in a state which does not certify or license psychologists and the board considers the person’s professional qualifications to be the equivalent of requirements for licensing under this chapter.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §154B.3]
Iowa Code § 804.24 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 804 / Section 804.24
Arrests by private persons — disposition of prisoner.
Status: in_force

A private citizen who has arrested another for the commission of an offense must, without unnecessary delay, take the arrested person before a magistrate, or deliver the arrested person to a peace officer, who may take the arrested person before a magistrate, but the person making the arrest must also accompany the officer before the magistrate.

[C51, §2842, 2849; R60, §4562 – 4564; C73, §4214-4216; C97, §5206; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13478; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §755.14; C79, 81, §804.24]
Iowa Code § 231C.4 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 231C / Section 231C.4
Fire and safety standards.
Status: in_force

The department shall adopt rules relating to the certification and monitoring of the fire and safety standards of certified assisted living programs.

96 Acts, ch 1192, §4; 97 Acts, ch 23, §21; 2003 Acts, ch 166, §11; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §1672023 Acts, ch 19, §1641
Iowa Code § 309.36 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 309 / Section 309.36
Nature of survey.
Status: in_force

The county engineer’s survey shall be on the basis of the permanent improvement of said roads, as to bridge, culvert, tile, and road work.

[C24, 27, §4644; C31, 35, §4644-c38; C39, §4644.36; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §309.36]2023 Acts, ch 66, §64
Iowa Code § 166B.2 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 166B / Section 166B.2
General authority.
Status: in_force

The department may destroy or require the destruction of any swine which the state veterinarian knows to be, or suspects is, affected with or exposed to classical swine fever, whenever the department finds such destruction to be necessary to prevent or reduce the danger of the spread of classical swine fever. Disposal of condemned swine shall be under the supervision of a regulatory employee. Salvage of apparently healthy marketable swine is permissible as a minimum provision and may be discontinued in favor of total herd disposition with indemnification as necessary and without such salvage in any case or at any time when it is determined by the department and the United States department of agriculture that the procedure would constitute an undue threat to the eradication program. Before being condemned and ordered to be destroyed, a positive diagnosis of classical swine fever affecting the herd must be confirmed by a state or federal laboratory or personnel approved by the department and the United States department of agriculture.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §166B.2]2012 Acts, ch 1095, §43
Iowa Code § 499.34 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 499 / Section 499.34
Patronage dividend certificates.
Status: in_force

If its articles or bylaws so provide, an association may issue transferable or nontransferable certificates for deferred patronage dividends.

[C35, §8512-g34; C39, §8512.34; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §499.34]
Iowa Code § 654.2C — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 654 / Section 654.2C
Mediation notice — foreclosure on agricultural property.
Status: in_force

A person shall not initiate a proceeding under this chapter to foreclose a deed of trust or mortgage on agricultural property, as defined in section 654A.1, which is subject to chapter 654A and which is subject to a debt of twenty thousand dollars or more under the deed of trust or mortgage unless the person receives a mediation release under section 654A.11, or unless the court determines after notice and hearing that the time delay required for the mediation would cause the person to suffer irreparable harm. Title to land that is agricultural property is not affected by the failure of any creditor to receive a mediation release, regardless of its validity.

86 Acts, ch 1214, §12; 87 Acts, ch 73, §1
Iowa Code § 582.2 — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 582 / Section 582.2
Written notice of lien.
Status: in_force

No such lien shall be effective, however, unless a written notice containing the name and address of the injured person, the date of the accident, the name and location of the hospital, and the name of the person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations alleged to be liable to the injured party for the injuries received, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county in which such hospital is located, prior to the payment of any moneys to such injured person, the person’s attorneys or legal representative, as compensation for such injuries; nor unless the hospital shall also mail, postage prepaid, a copy of such notice with a statement of the date of filing thereof to the person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corporations alleged to be liable to the injured party for the injuries sustained prior to the payment of any moneys to such injured person, the person’s attorneys or legal representative, as compensation for such injuries. Such hospital shall mail a copy of such notice to any insurance carrier which has insured such person, firm or corporation against such liability, if the name and address shall be known. Such hospital shall also mail a copy of such notice to the injured person or to the injured person’s attorney or legal representative, if known.

[C35, §10347-f6; C39, §10347.15; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §582.2]2007 Acts, ch 154, §3
Iowa Code § 318.10 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 318 / Section 318.10
Fences.
Status: in_force

(1) A fence which constitutes an immediate and dangerous hazard shall, without notice or liability in damages, be removed by the highway authority. In all other cases where a fence is an obstruction in a highway right-of-way, notice in writing of not less than thirty days shall be given to the owner, occupant, or agent of the land enclosed by the fence.

(2) The notice shall, with reasonable certainty, specify the line to which the fences shall be removed and shall be served in the same manner that original notices are required to be served, or in writing by certified mail, or in any other manner reasonably calculated to apprise the person responsible for the fence.

(3) The department and the county engineer, or the board of supervisors if a county engineer is not available, may designate the location of a fence within a highway right-of-way. A fence that is not properly located within the highway right-of-way shall be removed within a time prescribed to a designated location. If not so removed, the highway authority may remove the fences and recover costs as provided in section 318.5.

2006 Acts, ch 1097, §10