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Iowa Code § 543D.20 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 543D / Section 543D.20
Registration of associate real estate appraisers.
Status: in_force

(1) A person shall not assist a certified real estate appraiser in the development or reporting of an appraisal assignment that is required by this chapter, or by federal or state law, rule, or policy to be performed by a certified real estate appraiser, unless the person meets one or more of the following conditions:

(1) (a) The person is certified under this chapter.

(1) (b) The person is registered as an associate real estate appraiser and is acting under the direct supervision of a certified real estate appraiser.

(1) (c) The person is solely providing administrative services, such as taking photographs, preparing charts, or typing reports, and is not providing real estate appraisal assistance in developing the analysis, valuation, opinions, or conclusions associated with the appraisal assignment. Such a person shall only enter a dwelling if supervised by the appraiser.

(1) (d) The person is providing professional consultation that does not constitute real property appraisal assistance, such as the assistance of a professional engineer or certified public accountant.

(2) The board shall establish by rule the terms and conditions of the registration of associate real estate appraisers, including the educational and other prerequisites to registration, the fees for registration and the renewal of registration, and the continuing education requirements for renewal of registration. The board shall consider and may incorporate any guidelines recommended by the appraiser qualifications board of the appraisal foundation relating to associate real estate appraisers.

(3) The board shall adopt rules governing the manner in which certified real estate appraisers shall directly supervise associate real estate appraisers, the standards of conduct for associate real estate appraisers, and the grounds for imposing discipline against an associate real estate appraiser which shall include all of the grounds provided in section 543D.17.

(4) Associate real estate appraisers shall be bound by the uniform appraisal standards adopted by the board under this chapter.

(5) Persons who appraise real estate where certification is not required by this chapter or by federal or state law, rule, or policy, and who are not assisting a certified real estate appraiser in the development or reporting of an appraisal assignment that is required by this chapter, or by federal or state law, rule, or policy to be performed by a certified real estate appraiser, are not required to register with the board. Notwithstanding this subsection, in connection with the performance, or assistance in the performance, of an appraisal of real estate located in this state, the use of the title “associate real estate appraiser” or any other like title, including a title that suggests an individual is an associate real estate appraiser under the laws of this state or another state, shall only be used to refer to individuals who hold a registration under this chapter.

2007 Acts, ch 72, §6; 2021 Acts, ch 159, §7; 2024 Acts, ch 1169, §42, 43
Iowa Code § 88.13 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 88 / Section 88.13
Variations, tolerances, and exemptions.
Status: in_force

When the secretary grants variations, tolerances, and exemptions to avoid serious impairment of the national defense as provided under authority of section 16 of the federal law, the commissioner shall grant the same variations, tolerances, and exemptions in the Iowa law, rules and standards to be effective immediately.

[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §88.13]
Iowa Code § 8G.3 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8G / Section 8G.3
Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Agency” means a state department, office, board, commission, bureau, division, institution, or public institution of higher education. “Agency” includes individual state agencies and programs, as well as those programs and activities that are administered by or involve more than one agency. “Agency” includes all elective offices in the executive branch of government and the general assembly. “Agency” includes the judicial branch of state government.

(2) “Director” means the director of the department of management.

(3) (a) “Entity” or “recipients” means any of the following:

(3) (a) A corporation.

(3) (a) An association.

(3) (a) An employee union.

(3) (a) A limited liability company.

(3) (a) A limited liability partnership.

(3) (a) Any other legal business entity, including nonprofit entities.

(3) (a) A grant recipient.

(3) (a) Contractors.

(3) (a) A county, city, school district, or other local government entity.

(3) (b) “Entity” or “recipients” does not include an individual recipient of state assistance, an employee, or a student. The department of management shall define by rule adopted pursuant to chapter 17A the meaning of the term “individual recipient of state assistance”.

(4) “Funding action or expenditure” includes details on the type of spending that is provided including but not limited to grants, contracts, and appropriations. “Funding action or expenditure” includes tax exemptions or credits. Where possible, an electronic link to the actual grants or contracts shall be provided. An electronic link shall be in a format that is a searchable document.

(5) “Funding source” means the state account or fund from which the expenditure is appropriated. “Funding source” does not include federal moneys or grants received by an agency.

(6) “Searchable internet site” means an internet site that allows the public at no cost to search and compile the information identified in section 8G.4 and that provides such information in a format capable of being downloaded from the site to personal computers.

(7) “State audit or report” shall include any audit or report issued by the auditor of state, department of management, legislative services agency, legislative committee, or executive body relating to the entity or recipient of state funds, the budget program or activity, or agency.

(8) “Tax exemption or credit” means an exclusion from the operation or collection of a tax imposed in this state. Tax exemption or credit includes tax credits, exemptions, deductions, and rebates. “Tax exemption or credit” also includes sales tax refunds if such refunds are applied for and granted as a form of financial assistance, including but not limited to the refunds allowed in sections 15.507 and 423.4.

(9) “Taxing jurisdiction” means a political subdivision of the state with the authority to levy taxes. Taxing jurisdiction includes but is not limited to a city, a county, a school district, and a township.

2011 Acts, ch 122, §43; 2025 Acts, ch 136, §27, 59
Iowa Code § 218.27 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 218 / Section 218.27
Religious belief of minors.
Status: in_force

If a resident is a minor and has formed no choice, the minor’s preference may, at any time, be expressed by the minor with the approval of parents or guardian, if the minor has a parent or guardian.

[S13, §5718-a3; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3310; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §218.27]83 Acts, ch 96, §159, 1602023 Acts, ch 19, §373
Iowa Code § 15E.112 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15E / Section 15E.112
Section 15E.112
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2009 Acts, ch 123, §8.See §15G.112(8).
Iowa Code § 199.10 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 199 / Section 199.10
Testing methods — cooperation of facilities.
Status: in_force

(1) Seed lots of all kinds of agricultural seed intended for sale in this state shall be tested in accordance with the association of official seed analysts’ rules for testing seed or the regulations under the Federal Seed Act. The tests required shall be:

(1) (a) Purity analysis.

(1) (b) Noxious weed examination.

(1) (c) Germination.

(2) Charges for seed testing by the Iowa state university seed testing laboratory shall be determined by the laboratory. Separate fee schedules shall be published for:

(2) (a) Tests for seed dealers, permit holders, and farmers who plan to sell seed.

(2) (b) Tests for out-of-state persons.

(3) To furnish farmers and seed dealers with information as to seed quality and guide them in the proper labeling of seed for sale, these organizations shall:

(3) (a) Integrate seed testing so as to avoid unnecessary duplication of personnel and equipment. The Iowa state university seed testing laboratory shall promote seed education and research and shall conduct service testing for farmers and seed dealers.

(3) (b) Exchange information which will be mutually beneficial to both agencies in matters pertaining to agricultural seed.

(3) (c) Guide seed testing by all individuals or organizations so as to promote uniformity of seed testing in Iowa.

[S13, §5077-a12; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3135; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §199.10; 82 Acts, ch 1191, §9 – 11]85 Acts, ch 67, §21, 22; 2015 Acts, ch 103, §10, 11
Iowa Code § 674.9 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 674 / Section 674.9
Former name indicated.
Status: in_force

Any new birth certificate issued to a person granted a change of name shall reflect the former name of the person issued the new birth certificate.

[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §674.9; 81 Acts, ch 201, §4]
Iowa Code § 327E.1 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 327E / Section 327E.1
Foreign railway corporations.
Status: in_force

(1) Any railway corporation organized or created by or under the laws of any other state, owning and operating a line or lines of railroad in such state, may build its road or branches into this state, and shall possess all the powers and privileges, and be subject to the same liabilities, as like corporations organized and incorporated under the laws of this state, if the railway corporation files with the secretary of state a copy of its articles of incorporation, if incorporated under a general law of such state, or a certified copy of the statute incorporating it if the charter was granted by statute.

(2) Any such railway corporation may take and hold voluntary grants of real estate and other property as are made to it to aid in the construction, maintenance, and continued operation of its railway. However, all real estate so received shall be held only as long as the real estate is used for the construction, maintenance, and continued operation of a railway.

[C97, §2048; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7941; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, §476.22; C77, 79, 81, §327E.1; 82 Acts, ch 1207, §1]2021 Acts, ch 76, §60
Iowa Code § 633.535 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.535
Person causing death or injury.
Status: in_force

(1) A person who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or procures the death of another shall not receive any property, benefit, or other interest by reason of the death as an heir, distributee, beneficiary, appointee, or in any other capacity whether the property, benefit, or other interest passed under any form of title registration, testamentary or nontestamentary instrument, intestacy, renunciation, or any other circumstance. The property, benefit, or other interest shall pass as if the person causing death died before the decedent.

(2) A joint tenant who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or procures the death of another joint tenant which affects their interests so that the share of the decedent passes as the decedent’s property has no rights by survivorship. This provision applies to joint tenancies and tenancies by the entireties in real and personal property, joint and multiple-party accounts in banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, and other institutions, and any other form of co-ownership with survivorship rights.

(3) A named beneficiary of a bond, life insurance policy, or life insurance contract who intentionally and unjustifiably causes or procures the death of the principal obligee or person upon whose life the policy is issued or whose death generates the benefits under the bond or contract is not entitled to any benefit under the bond, policy, or contract, and the benefits become payable as though the person causing death had predeceased the decedent.

(4) (a) A named beneficiary of a bond, life insurance policy, or life insurance contract convicted of a felony referenced in paragraph “d” that was perpetrated against the principal obligee or person upon whose life the policy is issued or whose death generates the benefits, in the six months immediately prior to the obligee’s or person’s death, is not entitled to any benefit under the bond, policy, or contract.

(4) (b) The procedure set out in section 633.536 applies and the benefits become payable as though the convicted obligee or person had predeceased the decedent.

(4) (c) However, a principal obligee or person upon whose life the policy is issued or whose death generates the benefits, in the six months immediately prior to the obligee’s or person’s death, may affirm by a signed, notarized affidavit that the beneficiary should receive any benefit under the bond, policy, or contract despite a felony conviction referenced in this subsection.

(4) (d) This subsection applies to a conviction for any of the following felonies:

(4) (d) Any felony contained in chapter 707.

(4) (d) Any felony contained in chapter 708.

(4) (d) Any felony contained in chapter 709.

(4) (d) Any felony contained in chapter 710.

(4) (d) Any felony contained in chapter 710A.

[C97, §3386; S13, §3386; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12032; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §636.47; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.535]87 Acts, ch 9, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1134, §111; 2017 Acts, ch 123, §1, 2
Iowa Code § 461A.25 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 461A / Section 461A.25
Leases and easements.
Status: in_force

(1) The commission may recommend that the executive council lease property under the commission’s jurisdiction. All leases shall reserve to the public of the state the right to enter upon the property leased for any lawful purpose. The council may, if it approves the recommendation and the lease to be entered into is for five years or less, execute the lease in behalf of the state and commission. If the recommendation is for a lease in excess of five years, with the exception of agricultural lands specifically dealt with in Article I, section 24 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, the council shall advertise for bids. If a bid is accepted, the lease shall be let or executed by the council in accordance with the most desirable bid. The lease shall not be executed for a term longer than fifty years. Any such leasehold interest, including any improvements placed on it, shall be listed on the tax rolls as provided in chapters 428 and 443 and assessed and valued as provided in chapter 441; taxes shall be levied on it as provided in chapter 444 and collected as provided in chapter 445; and the leasehold interest is subject to tax sale, redemption, and apportionment of taxes as provided in chapters 446, 447, and 448. The lessee shall discharge and pay all taxes.

(2) The commission shall adopt rules providing for granting easements to political subdivisions and utility companies on state land under the jurisdiction of the department. An applicant for an easement shall provide the director with information setting forth the need for the easement, availability of alternatives, and measures proposed to prevent or minimize adverse impacts on the affected property. An easement shall be executed by the director, approved as to form by the attorney general, and if granted for a term longer than five years, approved by the commission.

(3) For the purposes of this section, property under the commission’s jurisdiction does not include an area of the bed of a lake or river occupied by a dock or other appurtenance or means of access to a dock, including but not limited to boat hoists and boat slips, or occupied by a boat ramp, constructed or installed and maintained under littoral or riparian rights.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1819; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §111.25]83 Acts, ch 101, §12C93, §461A.2597 Acts, ch 10, §1; 2006 Acts, ch 1102, §1; 2017 Acts, ch 54, §59
Iowa Code § 633.642 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.642
Powers of conservator.
Status: in_force

(1) An order by the court appointing a conservator shall state the basis for the conservatorship pursuant to section 633.553 or section 633.554.

(2) Upon appointment by the court, and until such time as the conservator files an initial financial management plan and such plan is approved by the court as required by section 633.670, subsection 1, a conservator has the authority to exercise all powers applicable to fiduciaries pursuant to sections 633.63 through 633.162, unless expressly modified by the court or as may be specifically expanded by the court for good cause shown.

(3) In the order approving an initial financial management plan or an annual report, the court shall approve and set forth the specific powers of a conservator, which may be thereafter exercised by the conservator until further court order.

(4) Upon the filing of an appropriate oath by the conservator, the clerk of court shall issue letters of appointment. Upon issuance by the court of an order approving an initial financial management plan, approving an annual report, or further order of the court granting, modifying, limiting, or terminating powers of the conservator, the clerk of court shall issue new letters of appointment and shall attach to the new letters of appointment such order of the court containing the conservator’s powers.

2019 Acts, ch 57, §33, 43, 44; 2024 Acts, ch 1009, §29
Iowa Code § 468.383 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.383
Liability for damage.
Status: in_force

In addition to all other penalties contained herein, any person, firm or corporation who shall construct, alter or maintain any building, other structure, or any ditch, or remove earth, in violation of this part, shall be liable to the drainage or levee district with pumping stations maintaining said levee, for all damage sustained by the drainage or levee district resulting from the violation, and in the event of flood, or other emergency so declared by resolution of the governing body, any building or other structure, or ditch so constructed without permission of the governing board, as required herein, and within three hundred feet of the center line of any levee, may be removed, or the ditch filled in, without prior notice thereof to the owner.

[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §461.29]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.383
Iowa Code § 262.25 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 262 / Section 262.25
Reports of secretarial officers.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2020 Acts, ch 1045, §25.
Iowa Code § 135C.45 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 135C / Section 135C.45
Refund of penalty.
Status: in_force

If at any time a contest or appeal of any citation issued a health care facility under this chapter results in an order or determination that a penalty previously paid to or collected by the department must be refunded to the facility, the refund shall be made from any money in the state general fund not otherwise appropriated.

[C77, 79, 81, §135C.45]
Iowa Code § 692A.116 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 692A / Section 692A.116
Determination of requirement to register.
Status: in_force

(1) An offender may request that the department determine whether the offense for which the offender has been convicted requires the offender to register under this chapter or whether the period of time during which the offender is required to register under this chapter has expired.

(2) Application for determination shall be filed with the department and shall be made on forms provided by the department and accompanied by copies of sentencing or adjudicatory orders with respect to each offense for which the offender asks that a determination be made.

(3) The department, after filing of the request and after all documentation or information requested by the department is received, shall have ninety days from the filing of the request, to determine whether the offender is required to register under this chapter.

2009 Acts, ch 119, §16
Iowa Code § 554.3503 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.3503
Notice of dishonor.
Status: in_force

(1) The obligation of an endorser stated in section 554.3415, subsection 1, and the obligation of a drawer stated in section 554.3414, subsection 4, may not be enforced unless the endorser or drawer is given notice of dishonor of the instrument complying with this section or notice of dishonor is excused under section 554.3504, subsection 2.

(2) Notice of dishonor may be given by any person; may be given by any commercially reasonable means, including an oral, written, or electronic communication; and is sufficient if it reasonably identifies the instrument and indicates that the instrument has been dishonored or has not been paid or accepted. Return of an instrument given to a bank for collection is sufficient notice of dishonor.

(3) Subject to section 554.3504, subsection 3, with respect to an instrument taken for collection by a collecting bank, notice of dishonor must be given by the bank before midnight of the next banking day following the banking day on which the bank receives notice of dishonor of the instrument, or by any other person within thirty days following the day on which the person receives notice of dishonor. With respect to any other instrument, notice of dishonor must be given within thirty days following the day on which dishonor occurs.

94 Acts, ch 1167, §70, 121, 122; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §261
Iowa Code § 462A.34A — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 462A / Section 462A.34A
Vehicles prohibited in streambed.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subsection 2, a person shall not operate a motor vehicle in any of the following:

(1) (a) Any portion of a meandered stream.

(1) (b) Any portion of the bed of a nonmeandered stream which has been identified as a navigable stream or river by rule adopted by the department and which is covered by water.

(1) (c) Any portion of a stream identified as a trout stream by the department.

(2) This section does not prohibit the use of ford crossings of public or private roads or any other ford crossing when used for agricultural purposes, the operation of construction vehicles engaged in lawful construction, repair, or maintenance in a streambed, or the operation of motor vehicles on ice.

(3) The department of natural resources shall adopt rules identifying the navigable streams and rivers in which a motor vehicle may be operated. The department may exempt participants of organized special events from this section where the organized special event is approved by a state or local authority.

(4) As used in this section, “motor vehicle” means a motor vehicle as defined in section 321.1, subsection 42.

89 Acts, ch 244, §41CS89, §106.34AC93, §462A.34A
Iowa Code § 15.476 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15 / Section 15.476
Short title.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2025 Acts, ch 147, §37.
Iowa Code § 713.27 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 713 / Section 713.27
Section 713.27
Status: repealed

Repealed by 76 Acts, ch 1245(4), §525.
Iowa Code § 321.562 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321 / Section 321.562
Rule of construction.
Status: in_force

Nothing in sections 321.555 through 321.561 or this section shall be construed as amending, modifying, or repealing any existing law of this state or any ordinance of any political subdivision relating to the operation of motor vehicles, the licensing of persons to operate motor vehicles, or providing penalties for the violation thereof.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §321.562]2014 Acts, ch 1092, §80