FrankGoortani/open-us-law huggingface dataset:
Iowa Code § 277.29 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 277 / Section 277.29
Vacancies.
Status: in_force

Failure to elect at the proper election or to appoint within the time fixed by law or the failure of the officer elected or appointed to qualify within the time prescribed by law; the incumbent ceasing for any reason to be a resident of the district or removing residence from the subdistrict; the resignation or death of incumbent or of the officer-elect; the removal of the incumbent from, or forfeiture of, the office, or the decision of a competent tribunal declaring the office vacant; the conviction of incumbent of a felony, as defined in section 701.7, or of any public offense involving the violation of the incumbent’s oath of office, shall constitute a vacancy.

[C31, 35, §4216-c29; C39, §4216.29; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §277.29]86 Acts, ch 1112, §10; 86 Acts, ch 1238, §12
Iowa Code § 206.32 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 206 / Section 206.32
Chlordane — prohibition.
Status: in_force

(1) A person shall not offer for sale, sell, purchase, apply, or use chlordane in this state.

(2) The department, working in conjunction with the department of natural resources, shall identify existing stocks of chlordane, shall formulate recommendations for the safe disposal of existing stocks of chlordane, and shall make those recommendations available to the owners of existing stocks of chlordane.

88 Acts, ch 1118, §1; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §68; 2015 Acts, ch 103, §16
Iowa Code § 501A.1008 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 501A / Section 501A.1008
Reversion of disbursements.
Status: in_force

(1) Once a person’s membership interest or other member’s equity in a cooperative is deemed abandoned under section 556.5, the cooperative may retain any disbursement held by the cooperative for or owing to the person. The cooperative may also deliver the disbursement to the treasurer of state for disposition as abandoned property pursuant to sections 556.5 and 556.11.

(2) If the cooperative elects to retain the disbursement under this section, the disbursement shall be deposited into a reversion fund established by the cooperative.

(3) A disbursement having an aggregate value of fifty dollars or more that is retained by the cooperative shall be forfeited to the cooperative only if the cooperative publishes at least one notice of the abandoned property in a publication regularly distributed to its membership or in a newspaper having a general circulation in the county where the cooperative is located. The notice shall include all of the following:

(3) (a) The name and address of the cooperative.

(3) (b) The name of the person who has an interest in the disbursement according to the records of the cooperative.

(3) (c) A brief description of the type of disbursement retained by the cooperative.

(3) (d) A statement that the disbursement will be forfeited to the cooperative unless the person files a claim for the disbursement within the period provided for in this section.

(4) (a) Subject to this subsection, a person asserting an interest in the disbursement may file a claim for it with the cooperative in a manner and according to procedures required by the cooperative. If a person is entitled to an abandoned membership interest, or other interest as provided in section 556.20 or 556.21, the cooperative shall also pay the person the disbursement deposited in the reversion fund that is realized or accrued from the membership interest or other interest.

(4) (b) If a person has not filed a claim for the disbursement within six months after the first date that the notice of abandoned property is first published as provided in this section, the disbursement shall be forfeited to the cooperative.

(5) The disbursements deposited into the reversion fund that are forfeited to the cooperative shall be used as provided in this subsection. The cooperative may authorize the payment of forfeited disbursements to persons claiming interests in forfeited disbursements as provided in the cooperative’s articles of organization or bylaws. Otherwise, forfeited disbursements shall be used as the directors deem suitable for any of the following purposes:

(5) (a) Teaching and promoting cooperation. The directors may deposit the amounts of disbursements into the education fund as established by the cooperative.

(5) (b) Economic development including private or joint public and private investments involving the creation of economic opportunities for the cooperative’s members or the retention of existing sources of income that would otherwise be lost.

2005 Acts, ch 135, §80; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §131
Iowa Code § 283A.4 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 283A / Section 283A.4
Administration of program.
Status: in_force

The director of the department of education may enter into agreements with any agency of the federal government, with any school board, or with any other agency or person, adopt rules, employ personnel, and take other action as the director may deem necessary to provide for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of any school breakfast or lunch program, and to direct the disbursement of federal and state funds, in accordance with any applicable provisions of federal or state law. The director may give technical advice and assistance to any school board in connection with the establishment and operation of any school breakfast or lunch program and may assist in training personnel engaged in the operation of the program. The director of the department of education and any school board may accept any gift for use in connection with any school breakfast or lunch program.

[C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §283A.4]85 Acts, ch 212, §21, 22; 94 Acts, ch 1193, §26
Iowa Code § 357.4 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 357 / Section 357.4
Public hearing.
Status: in_force

When the board of supervisors receives a petition for the establishment of a benefited water district, the board shall hold a public hearing within thirty days of the receipt of the petition. Notice of the hearing shall be published as provided in section 331.305.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, §5523; C39, §5526.04; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §357.4]92 Acts, ch 1204, §12; 2022 Acts, ch 1021, §88
Iowa Code § 459A.403 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 459A / Section 459A.403
Solids stockpiling.
Status: in_force

A person may stockpile solids, subject to all of the following:

(1) (a) The person shall not stockpile the solids within the following distances:

(1) (a) Four hundred feet from a designated area other than a high-quality water resource.

(1) (a) Eight hundred feet from a high-quality water resource.

(1) (b) The person shall not stockpile solids within two hundred feet from a terrace tile inlet or surface tile inlet unless the solids are maintained in a manner that will not allow precipitation-induced runoff to drain from the solids to the terrace tile inlet or surface tile inlet.

(1) (c) The person shall not stockpile solids in a grassed waterway or where water pools on the soil surface.

(1) (d) The person shall not stockpile solids on land having a slope of more than three percent unless methods, structures, or practices are implemented to contain the stockpiled solids, including but not limited to using hay bales, silt fences, temporary earthen berms, or other effective measures, and to prevent or diminish precipitation-induced runoff from the stockpiled solids.

(2) The person must remove the stockpiled solids and apply them in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, including but not limited to section 459A.410, within six months after the solids are stockpiled.

2006 Acts, ch 1088, §5, 6
Iowa Code § 210.9 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 210 / Section 210.9
Drugs and section comb honey exempted.
Status: in_force

The requirements of section 210.8 shall not apply to drugs or section comb honey.

[SS15, §3009-j; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3235; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §210.9]
Iowa Code § 489.1006 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 489 / Section 489.1006
Appraisal rights.
Status: in_force

An interest holder of a domestic merging, acquired, converting, or domesticating limited liability company is entitled to contractual appraisal rights in connection with a transaction under this subchapter to the extent provided in any of the following:

(1) The operating agreement.

(2) The plan.

2023 Acts, ch 152, §85, 161
Iowa Code § 633.287 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.287
Manner of deposit.
Status: in_force

Every such will shall be enclosed in a sealed wrapper. The clerk shall indorse thereon the name of the testator, the name of the depositor, the date of deposit, and, if provided, the name of the person to be notified of the deposit of such will upon the death of the testator. The clerk shall hold such will until disposed of as provided in section 633.288 or 633.289.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.287]
Iowa Code § 499C.2 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 499C / Section 499C.2
Records and documents access.
Status: in_force

(1) A unit owners association, a unit owners association’s designee, or a unit owners association’s management company shall make all of the following records and documents available to a unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent within ten business days of a request by the unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent:

(1) (a) The organizational documents for the common interest community, including all amendments.

(1) (b) The unit owners association’s bylaws, including all amendments.

(1) (c) The rules of the common interest community, including all amendments.

(1) (d) The minutes of the most recently held unit owners meeting, including any financial reports. The minutes must indicate the date, time, and place of the meeting, the names of all persons present at the meeting, each action taken at the meeting, and the results of each vote taken at the meeting.

(1) (e) The minutes of the most recently held executive board meeting, including any financial reports. The minutes must indicate the date, time, and place of the meeting, the names of all persons present at the meeting, each action taken at the meeting, and the results of each vote taken at the meeting.

(2) A unit owners association, a unit owners association’s designee, or a unit owners association’s management company may make the records and documents under subsection 1 available to a unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent via any of the following methods:

(2) (a) Paper copy.

(2) (b) Electronically to an electronic mail address provided by the unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent.

(2) (c) By posting the records and documents to an internet site maintained by the unit owners association, the unit owners association’s designee, or the unit owners association’s management company to which the unit owner or the unit owner’s authorized agent has reasonable access.

(3) A unit owners association, a unit owners association’s designee, or a unit owners association’s management company may charge a reasonable fee for all records and documents provided under this section. The fee shall not exceed the estimated cost of production or reproduction of the records or documents.

2023 Acts, ch 137, §2
Iowa Code § 29A.70 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29A / Section 29A.70
Immunity and exemption.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter relating to immunity from suit and exemption from personal liability of members of the national guard shall apply to members of the Iowa state guard.

[C46, 50, §29.39; C54, 58, 62, §29.88; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29A.70]
Iowa Code § 305B.1 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 305B / Section 305B.1
Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the “Museum Property Act”.

88 Acts, ch 1117, §1
Iowa Code § 43.96 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 43 / Section 43.96
Proxies prohibited.
Status: in_force

If any precinct shall not be fully represented the delegates present from such precinct shall cast the full vote thereof, if the rules of the convention, party bylaws or constitution so permit, and there shall be no proxies.

[S13, §1087-a25; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §623; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §43.96]
Iowa Code § 468.250 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.250
Jurisdiction to dissolve districts and abandon or transfer improvements.
Status: in_force

Drainage or levee districts may be dissolved and abandoned or assimilated by the procedures prescribed by this part.

(1) When any drainage or levee district is free from indebtedness and it shall appear that the necessity therefor no longer exists or that the expense of the continued maintenance of the ditch or levee is in excess of the benefits to be derived therefrom, the board of supervisors or board of trustees, as the case may be, shall have power and jurisdiction, upon petition of a majority of the landowners, who, in the aggregate, own sixty percent of all land in such district, to abandon the same and dissolve and discontinue such districts in the manner prescribed by sections 468.251 through 468.255. Nothing in this subsection shall prevent the board from eliminating land from a drainage district as permitted under section 468.188.

(2) When one drainage or levee district, either intracounty or intercounty, includes within its territory all of the territory of one or more other drainage or levee districts, and it appears that one assessment and one governing body would be to the benefit of the owners and occupants of the land within the mutual jurisdiction of the overlying and the contained districts, the board of supervisors or board of trustees may effect the dissolution of a contained district and the transfer of jurisdiction and control over that contained district’s improvements to the overlying district, in the manner prescribed by sections 468.256 through 468.261.

[C35, §7598-g1; C39, §7598.11; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §456.1]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.250
Iowa Code § 444.27 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 444 / Section 444.27
Section 444.27
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2002 Acts, ch 1119, §199.
Iowa Code § 136D.8 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 136D / Section 136D.8
Inspections — violations — prohibited acts — injunctions.
Status: in_force

(1) The director or an authorized agent shall have access at all reasonable times to any tanning facility to inspect the facility to determine if this chapter is being violated.

(2) A tanning facility shall not claim, or distribute promotional materials that claim, that using a tanning device is safe or free from risk.

(3) (a) If the director finds that a person has violated, or is violating or threatening to violate this chapter and that the violation creates an immediate threat to the health and safety of the public, the director may petition the district court for a temporary restraining order to restrain the violation or threat of violation.

(3) (b) If a person has violated, or is violating or threatening to violate this chapter, the director may petition the district court for an injunction to prohibit the person from continuing the violation or threat of violation.

(3) (c) On application for injunctive relief and a finding that a person is violating or threatening to violate this chapter, the district court shall grant any injunctive relief warranted by the facts.

90 Acts, ch 1220, §7; 2012 Acts, ch 1113, §29
Iowa Code § 89A.9 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 89A / Section 89A.9
Operating permits.
Status: in_force

(1) Operating permits shall be issued by the director to the owner of every conveyance when the inspection report indicates compliance with the applicable provisions of this chapter. However, a permit shall not be issued if the fees required by this chapter have not been paid. Permits shall be issued within thirty days after filing of the inspection report required by section 89A.6, unless the time is extended for cause by the department. A conveyance shall not be operated after the thirty days or after an extension granted by the director has expired, unless an operating permit has been issued.

(2) The operating permit shall indicate the type of equipment for which it is issued, and in the case of elevators shall state whether passenger or freight, and also shall state the contract load and speed for each conveyance. The permit shall be posted conspicuously in the car of an elevator, or on or near a dumbwaiter, escalator, moving walk, or inclined or vertical wheelchair lift.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §104.9]84 Acts, ch 1067, §20C87, §89A.92004 Acts, ch 1107, §19, 30; 2007 Acts, ch 16, §8; 2008 Acts, ch 1029, §3; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1813
Iowa Code § 29B.57 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29B / Section 29B.57
Maximum fines.
Status: in_force

The punishment which a court-martial may direct for an offense may not exceed limits prescribed by this code.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29B.57]
Iowa Code § 161A.70 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 161A / Section 161A.70
Establishment and purpose.
Status: in_force

Financial incentive programs are established within the division in order to protect the long-term productivity of the soil and water resources of the state from erosion and sediment damage, and to encourage the adoption of farm management and agricultural practices which are consistent with the capability of the land to sustain agriculture and preserve this state’s natural resources.

92 Acts, ch 1184, §6
Iowa Code § 466B.9 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 466B / Section 466B.9
Rulemaking authority.
Status: in_force

The department of natural resources and the department of agriculture and land stewardship shall have the power and authority reasonably necessary to carry out the duties imposed by this chapter. As to the department of natural resources, this includes rulemaking authority to carry out the regional watershed assessment program described in section 466B.5. As to the department of agriculture and land stewardship, this includes rulemaking authority to assist in the implementation of community-based subwatershed improvement plans.

2008 Acts, ch 1034, §9; 2011 Acts, ch 119, §10
Iowa Code § 8A.417 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8A / Section 8A.417
Prohibited actions.
Status: in_force

(1) A person shall not make any false statement, certificate, mark, rating, or report with regard to any examination or appointment made under this subchapter or in any manner commit or attempt to commit any fraud preventing the impartial execution of this subchapter and the rules adopted pursuant to this subchapter.

(2) A person shall not, directly or indirectly, give, render, pay, offer, solicit, or accept any money, service, or other valuable consideration for or on account of any appointment, proposed appointment, promotion, or proposed promotion to, or any advantage in, a position in the merit system.

(3) An employee of the department or any other person shall not defeat, deceive, or obstruct any person in the person’s right to examination or appointment under this subchapter, or furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person with respect to employment in the merit system.

(4) A person shall not discharge an employee from or take or fail to take action regarding an employee’s appointment or proposed appointment to, promotion or proposed promotion to, or any advantage in, a position in a merit system administered by, or subject to approval of, the director as a reprisal for a failure by that employee to inform the person that the employee made a disclosure of information permitted by this section, or for a disclosure of any information by that employee to a member or employee of the general assembly, or for a disclosure of information to any other public official or law enforcement agency if the employee reasonably believes the information evidences a violation of law or rule, mismanagement, a gross abuse of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety. However, an employee may be required to inform the person that the employee made a disclosure of information permitted by this section if the employee represented that the disclosure was the official position of the employee’s immediate supervisor or employer. This subsection does not apply if the disclosure of the information is prohibited by statute.

2003 Acts, ch 145, §65
Iowa Code § 331.432 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 331 / Section 331.432
Interfund transfers.
Status: in_force

(1) It is unlawful to make permanent transfers of money between the general fund and the rural services fund.

(2) Moneys credited to the secondary road fund for the construction and maintenance of secondary roads shall not be transferred.

(3) Other transfers, including transfers from the debt service fund made in accordance with section 331.430, and transfers from the general or rural services fund to the secondary road fund in accordance with section 331.429, subsection 1, paragraphs “a” and “b”, are not effective until authorized by resolution of the board.

(4) The transfer of inactive funds is subject to section 24.21.

83 Acts, ch 123, §16, 209; 98 Acts, ch 1213, §1, 2; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §115; 2012 Acts, ch 1120, §133, 139; 2017 Acts, ch 109, §10, 20, 21; 2021 Acts, ch 177, §100, 108; 2024 Acts, ch 1161, §116, 137
Iowa Code § 386.8 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 386 / Section 386.8
Operation tax.
Status: in_force

A city may establish a self-supported improvement district operation fund, and may certify taxes not to exceed the rate limitation as established in the ordinance creating the district, or any amendment thereto, each year to be levied for the fund against all of the property in the district, for the purpose of paying the administrative expenses of the district, which may include but are not limited to administrative personnel salaries, a separate administrative office, planning costs including consultation fees, engineering fees, architectural fees, and legal fees and all other expenses reasonably associated with the administration of the district and the fulfilling of the purposes of the district. The taxes levied for this fund may also be used for the purpose of paying maintenance expenses of improvements or self-liquidating improvements for a specified length of time with one or more options to renew if such is clearly stated in the petition which requests the council to authorize construction of the improvement or self-liquidating improvement, whether or not such petition is combined with the petition requesting creation of a district. Parcels of property which are assessed as residential property for property tax purposes are exempt from the tax levied under this section except residential properties within a duly designated historic district or property classified as residential property under section 441.21, subsection 14, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (6). A tax levied under this section is not subject to the levy limitation in section 384.1.

[C77, 79, 81, §386.8]85 Acts, ch 113, §2; 2021 Acts, ch 20, §1, 14, 15