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Iowa Code § 9C.7 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 9C / Section 9C.7
Misrepresentation.
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant making sales or engaging in or conducting a business under a transient merchant’s license to make any false or misleading statements or representation regarding any article sold or offered for sale by such transient merchant as to condition, quality, original cost, or cost to such transient merchant of any article sold or offered for sale or to sell or offer for sale tangible personal property of a value in excess of the value thereof as shown by said application, or to sell or offer for sale at retail any tangible personal property, or to engage in or conduct an intermittent or temporary business on any days or at any place other than those shown by such license.

[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §81A.7]C93, §9C.72021 Acts, ch 86, §45
Iowa Code § 691.6B — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 691 / Section 691.6B
Interagency coordinating council.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §368.
Iowa Code § 524.541 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 524 / Section 524.541
Lists filing with superintendent.
Status: in_force

(1) Every state bank shall cause to be kept a full and correct list of the names and addresses of the officers, directors, and shareholders of the state bank, and the number of shares held by each. If an affiliate, as defined in section 524.1101, subsection 4, is a shareholder in a state bank, such list shall include the names, addresses, and percentage of ownership or interest in the affiliate of the shareholders, members, or other individuals possessing a beneficial interest in said affiliate.

(2) A copy of the list as of the date of the adjournment of each annual meeting of shareholders, in the form of an affidavit signed by the president or cashier of the state bank, shall be transmitted to the superintendent within ten days after such annual meeting.

[C97, §1889; S13, §1889; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9255, 9256, 9257; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §528.47, 528.48, 528.49; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §524.515]CS95, §524.5412003 Acts, ch 4, §1; 2015 Acts, ch 29, §81
Iowa Code § 232.113 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 232 / Section 232.113
Right to and appointment of counsel.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon the filing of a petition the parent identified in the petition shall have the right to counsel in connection with all subsequent hearings and proceedings. If the parent desires but is financially unable to employ counsel, the court shall appoint counsel.

(2) Upon the filing of a petition the court shall appoint counsel for the child identified in the petition as a party to the proceedings. The same person may serve both as the child’s counsel and as guardian ad litem.

[C79, 81, §232.113]
Iowa Code § 327G.68 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 327G / Section 327G.68
Failure of company to act.
Status: in_force

In case of failure, neglect, or refusal of any railroad company to comply with any of the provisions of sections 327G.65 through 327G.67, the person, firm, corporation, or association primarily to be served thereby may file a complaint with the department setting forth the facts upon which such grievance is based. The department after reasonable notice to the railroad company shall investigate and determine all matters in controversy and make such order as the facts in relation thereto will warrant. Any such order shall have the same force and effect as other orders made by the department in other proceedings within its jurisdiction and shall be enforced in the same manner.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8175; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, §481.7; C77, 79, 81, §327G.68]2021 Acts, ch 80, §193
Iowa Code § 515A.17 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 515A / Section 515A.17
Penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner may, if the commissioner finds that any person or organization has violated any provision of this chapter, impose a penalty of not more than one thousand dollars for each such violation, but if the commissioner finds such violation to be willful the commissioner may impose a penalty of not more than five thousand dollars for each such violation. Such penalties may be in addition to any other penalty provided by law. A penalty collected under this subsection shall be deposited as provided in section 505.7.

(2) The commissioner may suspend the license of any rating organization or insurer which fails to comply with an order of the commissioner within the time limited by such order, or any extension thereof which the commissioner may grant. The commissioner shall not suspend the license of any rating organization or insurer for failure to comply with an order until the time prescribed for an appeal therefrom has expired or if an appeal has been taken, until such order has been affirmed. The commissioner may determine when a suspension of license shall become effective and it shall remain in effect for the period fixed by the commissioner, unless the commissioner modifies or rescinds such suspension, or until the order upon which such suspension is based is modified, rescinded, or reversed.

(3) A penalty shall not be imposed and a license shall not be suspended or revoked except upon a written order of the commissioner, stating the commissioner’s findings, made after a hearing held upon not less than ten days’ written notice to such person or organization specifying the alleged violation.

[C50, 54, 58, 62, §515A.17, 515B.16; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §515A.17]2008 Acts, ch 1123, §39; 2009 Acts, ch 181, §80
Iowa Code § 633E.10 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633E / Section 633E.10
Disclaimer by appointee, object, or taker in default of exercise of power of appointment.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this section, all of the following rules shall apply:

(1) (a) An appointee is a person to whom a holder of a power has effectively appointed the property subject to the power.

(1) (b) An object of a power is a person to whom a holder of a power may appoint the property subject to the power sometime in the future.

(1) (c) A taker in default of the exercise of a power of appointment is a person designated by the person creating the power in the holder to take the property subject to the power if the power has not been effectively exercised.

(2) A disclaimer of an interest in property by an appointee of a power of appointment takes effect as of the time the instrument by which the holder exercises the power becomes irrevocable.

(3) A disclaimer of an interest in property by an object or taker in default of an exercise of a power of appointment takes effect as of the time the instrument creating the power becomes irrevocable.

2004 Acts, ch 1015, §17C2005, §633.9102005 Acts, ch 38, §53CS2005, §633E.10
Iowa Code § 48A.23 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 48A / Section 48A.23
Registration at educational institutions.
Status: in_force

(1) At least twice during each school year, the board of directors of each school district operating a high school and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall offer the opportunity to register to vote to each student who is at least seventeen years of age.

(2) All postsecondary schools, including but not limited to colleges, universities, and trade and technical schools which receive state funding, shall offer the opportunity to register to vote to each student at least once each year. Students shall be provided with the federal voter registration form or the Iowa voter registration form, as applicable.

94 Acts, ch 1169, §24; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §58, 64
Iowa Code § 225.35 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 225 / Section 225.35
Expense collected.
Status: in_force

When a person is a committed private patient, it is the duty of the county auditor of the proper county to proceed to collect all of such expenses, in accordance with the provisions of sections 225.23 and 225.24.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, §3991; C39, §3482.35; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §225.35]2023 Acts, ch 19, §447
Iowa Code § 633B.211 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633B / Section 633B.211
Estates, trusts, and other beneficial interests.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section, “estate, trust, or other beneficial interest” means a trust, probate estate, guardianship, conservatorship, escrow, or custodianship, or a fund from which the principal is, may become, or claims to be, entitled to a share or payment.

(2) Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to estates, trusts, and other beneficial interests authorizes the agent to do all of the following:

(2) (a) Accept, receive, provide a receipt for, sell, assign, pledge, or exchange a share in or payment from an estate, trust, or other beneficial interest.

(2) (b) Demand or obtain money or another thing of value to which the principal is, may become, or claims to be, entitled by reason of an estate, trust, or other beneficial interest, by litigation or otherwise.

(2) (c) Exercise for the benefit of the principal a presently exercisable general power of appointment held by the principal.

(2) (d) Initiate, participate in, submit to alternative dispute resolution, settle, oppose, or propose or accept a compromise with respect to litigation to ascertain the meaning, validity, or effect of a deed, will, declaration of trust, or other instrument or transaction affecting the interest of the principal.

(2) (e) Initiate, participate in, submit to alternative dispute resolution, settle, oppose, or propose or accept a compromise with respect to litigation to remove, substitute, or surcharge a fiduciary.

(2) (f) Conserve, invest, disburse, or use any assets received for an authorized purpose.

(2) (g) Transfer an interest of the principal in real property, stocks and bonds, accounts with financial institutions or securities intermediaries, insurance, annuities, and other property to the trustee of a revocable trust created by the principal as settlor.

(2) (h) Establish a medical assistance special needs trust pursuant to chapter 633C for the benefit of the principal and transfer an interest of the principal in real property, stocks and bonds, accounts with financial institutions or securities intermediaries, insurance, annuities, and other property to the trustee of any such trust.

(2) (i) Establish a medical assistance income trust pursuant to chapter 633C for the benefit of the principal and transfer an income interest of the principal to the trustee of any such trust.

2014 Acts, ch 1078, §36; 2016 Acts, ch 1088, §6, 8, 9; 2023 Acts, ch 124, §8
Iowa Code § 55.2 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 55 / Section 55.2
Leave of absence for volunteer emergency service.
Status: in_force

All officers and employees of the state, other than employees employed temporarily for six months or less or those employees considered essential personnel, who are volunteer fire fighters or emergency medical service personnel shall be entitled to a leave of absence from such civil employment for the period of an emergency response without loss of status or efficiency rating, and without loss of pay during such leave of absence. Such leave of absence shall in no way affect the employee’s rights to action, sick leave, bonus, or other employment benefits relating to the employee’s particular employment.

2000 Acts, ch 1117, §3
Iowa Code § 508F.1 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 508F / Section 508F.1
Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

(1) “Charitable gift annuity” means a transfer of property by a donor to a charitable organization in return for an annuity payable over one or two lives, if the actuarial value of the annuity is less than the value of the property transferred and the difference in value constitutes a charitable deduction for federal tax purposes.

(2) “Charitable organization” means an entity described by any of the following:

(2) (a) Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(2) (b) Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(3) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of insurance.

(4) “Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as designated by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, as amended to a date designated by rules adopted by the commissioner.

(5) “Property” means anything of value that is subject to ownership, and includes but is not limited to property classified as real, personal, mixed, tangible or intangible, or any present or future interest in such property.

(6) “Qualified charitable gift annuity” means a charitable gift annuity that is described by section 501(m)(5) or 514(c)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code, if all of the following apply:

(6) (a) The annuity agreement is issued by a charitable organization.

(6) (b) On the date that the annuity agreement is issued, the charitable organization has a minimum value of the lesser of three hundred thousand dollars or five times the face amount of total outstanding annuities in unrestricted cash, cash equivalents, or publicly traded securities. However, the total outstanding annuities as provided in this paragraph do not include assets funding the annuity agreement.

(6) (c) The charitable organization has been in continuous operation for at least three years or is a successor or affiliate of a charitable organization that has been in continuous operation for at least three years.

2001 Acts, ch 28, §2
Iowa Code § 541.37 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 541 / Section 541.37
Section 541.37
Status: repealed

Repealed by 65 Acts, ch 413, §10102.
Iowa Code § 279.81 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 279 / Section 279.81
Library materials review committee.
Status: in_force

The board of directors of a school district shall not allow a student to serve on any committee that determines, or provides recommendations related to, whether a material in a library operated by the school district should be removed.

2023 Acts, ch 91, §17
Iowa Code § 321.258 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321 / Section 321.258
Arrangement of lights on official traffic-control signals.
Status: in_force

(1) Colored lights placed on a vertical official traffic-control signal face shall be arranged from the top to the bottom in the following order when used:

(1) (a) Circular red.

(1) (b) Steady or flashing left-turn red arrow.

(1) (c) Steady or flashing right-turn red arrow.

(1) (d) Circular yellow.

(1) (e) Circular green.

(1) (f) Straight-through green arrow.

(1) (g) Steady left-turn yellow arrow.

(1) (h) Flashing left-turn yellow arrow.

(1) (i) Left-turn green arrow.

(1) (j) Steady right-turn yellow arrow.

(1) (k) Flashing right-turn yellow arrow.

(1) (l) Right-turn green arrow.

(2) Colored lights placed on a horizontal official traffic-control signal face shall be arranged from the left to the right in the following order when used:

(2) (a) Circular red.

(2) (b) Steady or flashing left-turn red arrow.

(2) (c) Steady or flashing right-turn red arrow.

(2) (d) Circular yellow.

(2) (e) Steady left-turn yellow arrow.

(2) (f) Flashing left-turn yellow arrow.

(2) (g) Left-turn green arrow.

(2) (h) Circular green.

(2) (i) Straight-through green arrow.

(2) (j) Steady right-turn yellow arrow.

(2) (k) Flashing right-turn yellow arrow.

(2) (l) Right-turn green arrow.

[C79, 81, §321.258]2014 Acts, ch 1026, §77; 2014 Acts, ch 1123, §17; 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §147, 148
Iowa Code § 468.2 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.2
Presumption and construction of laws.
Status: in_force

(1) The drainage of surface waters from agricultural lands and all other lands, including state-owned lakes and wetlands, or the protection of such lands from overflow shall be presumed to be a public benefit and conducive to the public health, convenience, and welfare.

(2) The provisions of this subchapter and all other laws for the drainage and protection from overflow of agricultural or overflow lands shall be liberally construed to promote leveeing, ditching, draining, and reclamation of wet, swampy, and overflow lands.

[S13, §1989-a1, -a46; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7422, 7594; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.2, 455.182]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.22011 Acts, ch 59, §1, 4
Iowa Code § 515I.4A — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 515I / Section 515I.4A
Requirements for domestic surplus lines insurers.
Status: in_force

(1) An insurer that is domiciled in this state may apply to the commissioner for licensure as a domestic surplus lines insurer if all of the following requirements are met:

(1) (a) The insurer possesses policyholder surplus of the greater of either fifteen million dollars or three hundred percent of authorized-control-level risk-based capital pursuant to chapter 521E.

(1) (b) The insurer is an eligible surplus lines insurer in at least one jurisdiction other than this state.

(1) (c) The board of directors of the insurer has passed a resolution seeking approval as a domestic surplus lines insurer in this state and stating that the insurer shall only write surplus lines business. The resolution shall not be amended without approval of the commissioner.

(1) (d) The commissioner has approved the insurer as a domestic surplus lines insurer in this state.

(2) For the purposes of the federal Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, 15 U.S.C. §8201 et seq., a domestic surplus lines insurer shall be considered a nonadmitted insurer as the term is referenced in the Act, with respect to risks insured in this state.

(3) A domestic surplus lines insurer shall be deemed an eligible surplus lines insurer and is subject to all requirements of this chapter that are applicable to an eligible surplus lines insurer. A domestic surplus lines insurer is authorized to write any kind of insurance that a nonadmitted insurer not domiciled in this state is eligible to write.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a policy or contract issued in this state by a domestic surplus lines insurer shall be subject to taxes assessed on a surplus lines policy or contract issued by a nonadmitted insurer, including the premium tax on surplus lines insurance, but shall not be subject to other taxes levied on an admitted insurer, whether domestic or foreign.

(5) A policy or contract issued by a domestic surplus lines insurer is not a policy or contract for which coverage is provided under the Iowa insurance guaranty association pursuant to chapter 515B or the Iowa life and health insurance guaranty association pursuant to chapter 508C.

(6) All financial and solvency requirements imposed in this state upon a domestic admitted insurer are applicable to a domestic surplus lines insurer unless a domestic surplus lines insurer is specifically exempted from such requirements.

(7) A policy or contract issued by a domestic surplus lines insurer in this state is exempt from all requirements imposed in this state relating to insurance rating plans, policy or contract forms, policy or contract cancellation and nonrenewal, or premiums charged to the insured, in the same manner and to the same extent as a policy or contract issued by a nonadmitted insurer domiciled in another state.

2019 Acts, ch 19, §4; 2019 Acts, ch 89, §17; 2020 Acts, ch 1062, §58
Iowa Code § 99D.21 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 99D / Section 99D.21
Annual report of commission.
Status: in_force

The commission shall make an annual report to the governor, for the period ending December 31 of each year. Included in the report shall be an account of the commission’s actions, its financial position and results of operation under this chapter, the practical results attained under this chapter, and any recommendations for legislation which the commission deems advisable.

83 Acts, ch 187, §21; 84 Acts, ch 1266, §19
Iowa Code § 554.9512 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.9512
Amendment of financing statement.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to section 554.9509, a person may add or delete collateral covered by, continue or terminate the effectiveness of, or, subject to subsection 5, otherwise amend the information provided in, a financing statement by filing an amendment that:

(1) (a) identifies, by its file number, the initial financing statement to which the amendment relates; and

(1) (b) if the amendment relates to an initial financing statement filed or recorded in a filing office described in section 554.9501, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, provides the date and time that the initial financing statement was filed or recorded and the information specified in section 554.9502, subsection 2.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in section 554.9515, the filing of an amendment does not extend the period of effectiveness of the financing statement.

(3) A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds collateral is effective as to the added collateral only from the date of the filing of the amendment.

(4) A financing statement that is amended by an amendment that adds a debtor is effective as to the added debtor only from the date of the filing of the amendment.

(5) An amendment is ineffective to the extent it:

(5) (a) purports to delete all debtors and fails to provide the name of a debtor to be covered by the financing statement; or

(5) (b) purports to delete all secured parties of record and fails to provide the name of a new secured party of record.

2000 Acts, ch 1149, §83, 187
Iowa Code § 87.2 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 87 / Section 87.2
Notice of failure to insure.
Status: in_force

(1) An employer who fails to insure the employer’s liability as required by this chapter shall keep posted a sign of sufficient size and so placed as to be easily seen by the employer’s employees in the immediate vicinity where working, which sign shall read as follows:NOTICE TO EMPLOYEESYou are hereby notified that the undersigned employer has failed to insure the employer’s liability to pay compensation as required by law, and that because of such failure the employer is liable to the employer’s employees in damages for personal injuries sustained by the employer’s employees.(Signed)

(2) An employer coming under the provisions of chapter 10A, subchapter III, this chapter, and chapters 85, 85A, and 85B, who fails to comply with this section, or to post and keep the above notice in the manner and form required, shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1468; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §87.2]94 Acts, ch 1066, §2; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §112023 Acts, ch 19, §1754
Iowa Code § 347.23 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 347 / Section 347.23
City hospital changed to county hospital.
Status: in_force

(1) Any hospital organized and existing as a city hospital may become a county hospital organized and managed as provided for in this chapter, upon a proposition for such purpose being submitted to and approved by a majority of the electors of both the city in which such hospital is located and of the county under whose management it is proposed that such hospital be placed. The proposition shall be placed upon the ballot by the board of supervisors when requested by a petition signed by eligible electors of the county equal in number to five percent of the votes cast for president of the United States or governor, as the case may be, at the last general election. The proposition shall be submitted at an election held on a date specified in section 39.2, subsection 4, paragraph “a”. Upon the approval of the proposition the hospital, its assets and liabilities, will become the property of the county and this chapter will govern its future management.

(2) The question shall be submitted in substantially the following form:Shall the municipal hospital of , Iowa, be transferred to and become the property of, and be managed by the county of , Iowa?

(3) For the purpose of computing whether or not said proposition is carried, the votes of the residents of the city in which said hospital is located shall be counted both for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the proposition is carried within the city and also for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the proposition is carried within the county.

[C62, 66, 71, 73, §347.23, 380.12; C75, 77, 79, 81, §347.23]2001 Acts, ch 56, §27; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §59, 71