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Iowa Code § 22.11 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 22 / Section 22.11
Fair information practices.
Status: in_force

This section may be cited as the “Iowa Fair Information Practices Act”. It is the intent of this section to require that the information policies of state agencies are clearly defined and subject to public review and comment.

(1) Each state agency as defined in chapter 17A shall adopt rules which provide the following:

(1) (a) The nature and extent of the personally identifiable information collected by the agency, the legal authority for the collection of that information, and a description of the means of storage.

(1) (b) A description of which of its records are public records, which are confidential records, and which are partially public and partially confidential records and the legal authority for the confidentiality of the records. The description shall indicate whether the records contain personally identifiable information.

(1) (c) The procedure for providing the public with access to public records.

(1) (d) The procedures for allowing a person to review a government record about that person and have additions, dissents, or objections entered in that record unless the review is prohibited by statute.

(1) (e) The procedures by which the subject of a confidential record may have a copy of that record released to a named third party.

(1) (f) The procedures by which the agency shall notify persons supplying information requested by the agency of the use that will be made of the information, which persons outside of the agency might routinely be provided this information, which parts of the information requested are required and which are optional and the consequences of failing to provide the information requested.

(1) (g) Whether a data processing system matches, collates, or permits the comparison of personally identifiable information in one record system with personally identifiable information in another record system.

(2) A state agency shall not use any personally identifiable information after July 1, 1988, unless it is in a record system described by the rules required by this section.

84 Acts, ch 1185, §10
Iowa Code § 583.3 — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 583 / Section 583.3
Enforcement of claim by ordinary action.
Status: in_force

The hotelkeeper may take and retain possession of all baggage and may enforce the claim by an ordinary action. Said baggage shall be subject to attachment and execution for the reasonable charges of the hotelkeeper against the guest, and for the costs of enforcing the lien thereon.

[C97, §3138; S13, §3138; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10350; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §583.3]
Iowa Code § 669.4 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 669 / Section 669.4
District court to hold hearings.
Status: in_force

(1) The district court of the state of Iowa for the district in which the plaintiff is resident or in which the act or omission complained of occurred, or where the act or omission occurred outside of Iowa and the plaintiff is a nonresident, the Polk county district court has exclusive jurisdiction to hear, determine, and render judgment on any suit or claim as defined in this chapter. However, the laws and rules of civil procedure of this state on change of place of trial apply to such suits.

(2) The state shall be liable in respect to such claims to the same claimants, in the same manner, and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances, except that the state shall not be liable for interest prior to judgment or for punitive damages. Costs shall be allowed in all courts to the successful claimant to the same extent as if the state were a private litigant.

(3) The immunity of the state from suit and liability is waived to the extent provided in this chapter.

(4) A suit is commenced under this chapter by serving the attorney general or the attorney general’s duly authorized delegate in charge of the tort claims division by service of an original notice. The state shall have thirty days within which to enter its general or special appearance.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §25A.4; 82 Acts, ch 1055, §1, 2]C93, §669.42006 Acts, ch 1185, §106; 2015 Acts, ch 29, §114
Iowa Code § 573A.10 — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 573A / Section 573A.10
Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter:

(1) “Public corporation” shall embrace the state, and all counties, cities, public school corporations, drainage districts, and all officers, boards or commissions empowered by law to enter into contracts for the construction of public improvements.

(2) “Public improvement” is one, the cost of which is payable from taxes or other funds under the control of the public corporation.

(3) “Construction” shall, in addition to its ordinary meaning, embrace repair and alteration.

[C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §573A.10]
Iowa Code § 523I.601 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 523I / Section 523I.601
Settlement of estates — maintenance fund.
Status: in_force

The court in which the estate of a deceased person is administered, before final distribution, may allow and set apart from the estate a sum sufficient to provide an income adequate to pay for the perpetual care and upkeep of the interment space in which the body of the deceased is buried, except where perpetual care has otherwise been provided for. The sum so allowed and set apart shall be paid to a trustee as provided by this chapter.

2005 Acts, ch 128, §49; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §148
Iowa Code § 426A.6 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 426A / Section 426A.6
Setting aside allowance.
Status: in_force

If the department of revenue determines that a claim for military service tax exemption has been allowed by a board of supervisors which is not justifiable under the law and not substantiated by proper facts, the department may, at any time within thirty-six months from July 1 of the year in which the claim is allowed, set aside the allowance. Notice of the disallowance shall be given to the county auditor of the county in which the claim has been improperly granted and a written notice of the disallowance shall also be addressed to the claimant at the claimant’s last known address. The claimant or the board of supervisors may appeal to the director of revenue within thirty days from the date of the notice of disallowance. The director shall grant a hearing and if, upon the hearing, the director determines that the disallowance was incorrect, the director shall set aside the disallowance. The director shall notify the claimant and the board of supervisors of the result of the hearing. The claimant or the board of supervisors may seek judicial review of the action of the director of revenue in accordance with chapter 17A. If a claim is disallowed by the department of revenue and not appealed to the director of revenue or appealed to the director of revenue and thereafter upheld upon final resolution, including judicial review, the credits allowed and paid from the general fund of the state become a lien upon the property on which the credit was originally granted, if still in the hands of the claimant and not in the hands of a bona fide purchaser, the amount so erroneously paid shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as other taxes, and the collections shall be returned to the department of revenue and credited to the general fund of the state. The director of revenue may institute legal proceedings against a military service tax exemption claimant for the collection of payments made on disallowed exemptions.

[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §426A.6; 82 Acts, ch 1246, §7, 11]88 Acts, ch 1151, §6; 89 Acts, ch 251, §34; 97 Acts, ch 158, §27; 2002 Acts, ch 1151, §17; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §107; 2015 Acts, ch 109, §14, 75
Iowa Code § 537.3307 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 537 / Section 537.3307
Certain negotiable instruments prohibited.
Status: in_force

With respect to a consumer credit sale or consumer lease, the creditor may not take a negotiable instrument other than a check or credit union share draft dated not later than ten days after its issuance as evidence of the obligation of the consumer.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §537.3307]
Iowa Code § 535.7 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 535 / Section 535.7
Assignee of usurious contract.
Status: in_force

Any assignee of a usurious contract, becoming such in good faith in the usual course of business and without notice of such fact, may recover of the usurer the full amount of the consideration paid by the assignee therefor, less any sum that may have been realized on the contract, anything in this chapter contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

[R60, §1792; C73, §2081; C97, §3042; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9409; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, S79, C81, §535.7]
Iowa Code § 321.229 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321 / Section 321.229
Obedience to peace officers.
Status: in_force

No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any peace officer invested by law with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic.

[S13, §1571-m18; C24, 27, 31, 35, §5064; C39, §5017.02; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.229]
Iowa Code § 53.25 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 53 / Section 53.25
Rejecting ballot.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) If the absentee voter’s affidavit lacks the voter’s signature, if the applicant is not a duly registered voter on election day in the precinct where the absentee ballot was cast, if the envelope marked with the affidavit contains more than one ballot of any one kind, or if the voter has voted in person, such vote shall be rejected by the absentee and special voters precinct board. If the affidavit envelope or return envelope marked with the affidavit is open, or has been opened and resealed, or if the ballot is not enclosed in such envelope, and an affidavit envelope or return envelope marked with the affidavit with the same serial number and marked “Replacement ballot” is not attached as provided in section 53.18, the ballot shall be rejected by the absentee and special voters precinct board.

(1) (b) If a voter casts a provisional ballot pursuant to section 49.78, subsection 7, and the voter has failed to establish the voter’s identity at the commissioner’s office, the provisional ballot shall be rejected by the absentee and special voters precinct board.

(2) If the absentee or provisional ballot is rejected prior to the opening of the affidavit envelope or return envelope marked with the affidavit, the voter casting the ballot shall be notified by a precinct election official by the time the canvass is completed of the reason for the rejection on a form prescribed by the state commissioner of elections.

[SS15, §1137-j; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §951; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §53.25]94 Acts, ch 1169, §64; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §234; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §69; 2014 Acts, ch 1101, §24, 32; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §33, 35, 36
Iowa Code § 99.19 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 99 / Section 99.19
Procedure.
Status: in_force

The proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court a complaint under oath, setting out and alleging facts constituting such violation, upon which the court shall cause a warrant to issue, under which the defendant shall be arrested. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may demand the production and oral examination of the witnesses.

[SS15, §4944-h4; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1605; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §99.19]
Iowa Code § 510B.8B — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 510B / Section 510B.8B
Pharmacy benefits managers reimbursements.
Status: in_force

(1) A pharmacy benefits manager shall not reimburse any pharmacy located in the state in an amount less than the amount that the pharmacy benefits manager reimburses a pharmacy benefits manager affiliate for dispensing the same prescription drug as dispensed by the pharmacy.

(2) A pharmacy benefits manager shall not reimburse any retail pharmacy located in the state in an amount less than the most recently published national average drug acquisition cost for a prescription drug on the date that the prescription drug is administered or dispensed. If the most recently published national average drug acquisition cost for the prescription drug is unavailable on the date that the prescription drug is administered or dispensed, a pharmacy benefits manager shall not reimburse any retail pharmacy located in the state in an amount less than the wholesale acquisition cost for the prescription drug on the date that the prescription drug is administered or dispensed.

(3) In addition to the reimbursement required under subsection 2, a pharmacy benefits manager shall reimburse the retail pharmacy or pharmacist a professional dispensing fee in the amount of ten dollars and sixty-eight cents.

(4) (a) A pharmacy benefits manager shall submit a quarterly report to the commissioner of all drugs reimbursed at ten percent or more below the national average drug acquisition cost, and all drugs reimbursed at ten percent or more above the national average drug acquisition cost, for each prescription drug appearing on the national average drug acquisition cost list on the day the prescription drug was dispensed.

(4) (b) For each prescription drug included in the report, a pharmacy benefits manager shall include all of the following information:

(4) (b) The month the prescription drug was dispensed.

(4) (b) The quantity of the prescription drug dispensed.

(4) (b) The amount the pharmacy was reimbursed.

(4) (b) If the dispensing pharmacy was an affiliate of the pharmacy benefits manager.

(4) (b) If the prescription drug was dispensed pursuant to a government health plan.

(4) (b) The average national drug acquisition cost for the month the prescription drug was dispensed.

(4) (c) The report shall exclude drugs dispensed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §256b.

(4) (d) A copy of the report shall be published on the pharmacy benefits manager’s public internet site for twenty-four months after the date the report is submitted to the commission.

(5) This section shall not apply to a pharmacy that operates in a state-owned facility.

2022 Acts, ch 1113, §9, 16, 23; 2025 Acts, ch 151, §5, 9
Iowa Code § 384.74 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 384 / Section 384.74
Correction of errors.
Status: in_force

(1) When, in making a special assessment, any property is assessed too little or too much, the assessment may be corrected and a reassessment and relevy made in conformity with the correction, and a tax collected in excess of the proper amount must be refunded to the person paying it. Corrected assessments are a lien on the lots the same as the original assessments, must be certified by the clerk to the county treasurer in the same manner, and must so far as practicable, be collected in the same installments, draw interest at the same rate, and be enforced in the same manner as the original assessment.

(2) However, if the city does not certify the assessments within six months of final publication as required by subchapter IV of this chapter, all such assessments shall be null, void, and of no effect. Any bonds issued with such void assessments as security shall be paid by the city as they become due out of its debt service as provided in section 384.4.

[C97, §837, 981; SS15, §840-r; C24, §6061, 6921; C31, 35, §6061, 6610-c21, 6921; C39, §6061, 6610.59, 6921; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §391.86, 417.21, 420.274; C75, 77, 79, 81, §384.74; 82 Acts, ch 1104, §19]2018 Acts, ch 1041, §127
Iowa Code § 522C.5D — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 522C / Section 522C.5D
Business applicants nonresident business entity.
Status: in_force

Before approving a nonresident business entity’s application for a nonresident public adjuster license or a nonresident independent adjuster license, the commissioner shall find that the nonresident business entity meets all of the following requirements:

(1) The nonresident business applicant has designated an individual adjuster licensed in this state to be responsible for the nonresident business applicant’s compliance with the insurance laws and administrative rules of this state.

(2) The nonresident business applicant has not committed any act that is a ground for denial, suspension, or revocation of a license under section 522C.13.

(3) The nonresident business applicant has the requisite character and competence to be licensed as an adjuster, as may be determined by the commissioner.

(4) The nonresident business applicant is financially responsible pursuant to section 522C.7.

(5) The nonresident business applicant has paid all fees required under this chapter.

(6) The nonresident business applicant maintains an office in the nonresident business applicant’s home state that is available by reasonable appointment or regular business hours.

(7) The nonresident business applicant applying for a public adjuster license has submitted contracts and any subsequent contract modification to the commissioner for review and approval prior to use. A contract that has been filed is deemed to be approved unless disapproved or additional information is requested by the commissioner within thirty calendar days of receipt of the filing by the commissioner.

(8) The nonresident business applicant has obtained any necessary authority from the Iowa secretary of state to transact business in this state.

2025 Acts, ch 28, §39, 52
Iowa Code § 456A.27 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 456A / Section 456A.27
Federal wildlife Act assent.
Status: in_force

The state of Iowa assents to the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act To Provide That The United States Shall Aid The States In Wildlife Restoration Projects, And For Other Purposes”, approved September 2, 1937, 50 Stat. 917, codified at 16 U.S.C. §669 669k, and the department may perform acts as necessary to the conduct and establishment of cooperative wildlife restoration projects, as defined in the Act of Congress, in compliance with the Act and with regulations promulgated by the secretary of agriculture under the Act. No funds accruing to the state of Iowa from license fees paid by hunters shall be diverted for any other purpose than as set out in sections 456A.17 and 456A.19.

[C39, §1703.53; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §107.27]86 Acts, ch 1245, §1838, 1845C93, §456A.272006 Acts, ch 1010, §119; 2015 Acts, ch 30, §139
Iowa Code § 231E.11 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 231E / Section 231E.11
Duty of attorney general, county attorney, or other counsel.
Status: in_force

(1) The attorney general may advise the state office on legal matters and represent the state office in legal proceedings.

(2) Upon the request of the attorney general, a county attorney may represent the state office or a local office in connection with the filing of a petition for appointment as guardian or conservator and with routine, subsequent appearances.

(3) Notwithstanding section 13.7, the state public guardian or a local public guardian may retain a local attorney to represent the state office or a local office in legal proceedings. A local attorney retained under this subsection shall be experienced in probate matters.

2005 Acts, ch 175, §140; 2018 Acts, ch 1048, §12
Iowa Code § 306.3 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 306 / Section 306.3
Definitions used throughout Code.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter or in any chapter of the Code relating to highways, except as otherwise specified:

(1) “Area service” or “area service system” means those secondary roads that are not part of the farm-to-market road system.

(2) “County conservation parkways” or “county conservation parkway system” means those parkways located wholly within the boundaries of county lands operated as parks, forests, or public access areas.

(3) “Farm-to-market roads” or “farm-to-market road system” means those county jurisdiction intracounty and intercounty roads which serve principal traffic generating areas and connect such areas to other farm-to-market roads and primary roads. The farm-to-market road system includes those county jurisdiction roads providing service for short-distance intracounty and intercounty traffic or providing connections between farm-to-market roads and area service roads, and includes those secondary roads which are federal aid eligible. The farm-to-market road system shall not exceed thirty-five thousand miles.

(4) “Interstate roads” or “interstate road system” means those roads and streets of the primary road system that are designated by the secretary of the United States department of transportation as the national system of interstate and defense highways in Iowa.

(5) “Municipal street system” means those streets within municipalities that are not primary roads or secondary roads.

(6) “Primary roads” or “primary road system” means those roads and streets both inside and outside the boundaries of municipalities which are under department jurisdiction.

(7) “Public road right-of-way” means an area of land, the right to possession of which is secured or reserved by the state or a governmental subdivision for roadway purposes. The right-of-way for all secondary roads is sixty-six feet in width, unless otherwise specified by the county board of supervisors of the respective counties.

(8) “Road” or “street” means the entire width between property lines through private property or the designated width through public property of every way or place of whatever nature if any part of such way or place is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.

(9) “Secondary roads” or “secondary road system” means those roads under county jurisdiction.

(10) “State park, state institution, and other state land road system” consists of those roads and streets wholly within the boundaries of state lands operated as parks, or on which institutions or other state governmental agencies are located.

[C24, 27, §4636; C31, 35, §4644-c2; C39, §4644.02; C46, 50, §309.2; C54, 58, 62, 66, §306.2; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §306.3]92 Acts, ch 1153, §1; 98 Acts, ch 1075, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 144, §1; 2014 Acts, ch 1123, §1
Iowa Code § 277.1 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 277 / Section 277.1
Regular election.
Status: in_force

The regular election shall be held biennially on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year in each school district for the election of officers of the district and merged area and for the purpose of submitting to the voters any matter authorized by law.

[C51, §1111, 1114; R60, §2027, 2030, 2031; C73, §1717 – 1719; C97, §2746, 2751; C24, §4194, 4211; C27, §4194, 4211, 4216-b1; C31, 35, §4216-c1; C39, §4216.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §277.1]83 Acts, ch 101, §63; 2008 Acts, ch 1115, §18, 21; 2017 Acts, ch 155, §8 – 10
Iowa Code § 523H.13 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 523H / Section 523H.13
Private civil action.
Status: in_force

A person who violates a provision of this chapter or order issued under this chapter is liable for damages caused by the violation, including, but not limited to, costs and reasonable attorneys’ and experts’ fees, and subject to other appropriate relief including injunctive and other equitable relief.

92 Acts, ch 1134, §13
Iowa Code § 203C.30 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 203C / Section 203C.30
Inspecting and grading.
Status: in_force

Grain or any other fungible agricultural product stored in a warehouse licensed under this chapter for which no separate compartment is provided, and its identity preserved, shall be inspected and graded.

[C24, 27, 31, §9733; C35, §9751-g14; C39, §9751.14; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §543.30]C93, §203C.302012 Acts, ch 1095, §115