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Iowa Code § 52.1 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 52 / Section 52.1
Voting systems — definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) At all elections conducted under chapter 49, and at any other election unless the commissioner directs otherwise pursuant to section 49.26, votes shall be cast, registered, recorded, and counted by means of optical scan voting systems, in accordance with this chapter.

(2) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(2) (a) “Automatic tabulating equipment” means apparatus, including but not limited to electronic data processing machines, that are utilized to ascertain the manner in which optical scan ballots have been marked by voters or by electronic ballot marking devices, and count the votes marked on the ballots.

(2) (b) “Ballot” includes paper ballots designed to be read by automatic tabulating equipment. In appropriate contexts, “ballot” also includes conventional paper ballots.

(2) (c) “Ballot marking device” means a pen, pencil, or similar writing tool, or an electronic device, all designed for use in marking an optical scan ballot, and so designed or fabricated that the mark it leaves may be detected and the vote so cast counted by automatic tabulating equipment.

(2) (d) “Optical scan ballot” means a printed ballot designed to be marked by a voter with a ballot marking device.

(2) (e) “Optical scan voting system” means a system employing paper ballots under which votes are cast by voters by marking paper ballots with a ballot marking device and thereafter counted by use of automatic tabulating equipment.

(2) (f) “Program” means the written record of the set of instructions defining the operations to be performed by a computer in examining, counting, tabulating, and printing votes.

[S13, §1137-a7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §904; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §52.1]86 Acts, ch 1224, §17, 18; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §50, 51, 115; 2004 Acts, ch 1083, §24, 37; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §4, 5; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §46, 47
Iowa Code § 521D.3 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 521D / Section 521D.3
Report of acquisition and disposition of assets — information required — scope.
Status: in_force

(1) An acquisition or disposition of assets need not be reported pursuant to section 521D.2 if the acquisition or disposition is not material. For purposes of this chapter, a material acquisition, or the aggregate of any series of related acquisitions, or a disposition, or the aggregate of any series of related dispositions, during any thirty-day period, is one that is nonrecurring, is not in the ordinary course of business, and involves more than five percent of the reporting insurer’s total admitted assets as reported in its most recent statutory statement filed with the insurance division of the insurer’s state of domicile.

(2) For purposes of this chapter, an asset acquisition includes every purchase, lease, exchange, merger, consolidation, succession, or other acquisition, other than the construction or development of real property by or for the reporting insurer or the acquisition of materials for such purpose. For purposes of this chapter, an asset disposition includes every sale, lease, exchange, merger, consolidation, mortgage, hypothecation, assignment, whether for the benefit of creditors or otherwise, abandonment, destruction, or other disposition.

(3) A report of a material acquisition or disposition of assets shall include all of the following:

(3) (a) Date of the transaction.

(3) (b) Manner of the acquisition or disposition.

(3) (c) Description of the assets involved.

(3) (d) Nature and amount of the consideration given or received.

(3) (e) Purpose of, or reason for, the transaction.

(3) (f) Manner by which the amount of consideration was determined.

(3) (g) Gain or loss recognized or realized as a result of the transaction.

(3) (h) Name or names of the person or persons from whom the assets were acquired or to whom they were disposed.

(4) An insurer is required to report material acquisitions and dispositions on a nonconsolidated basis unless the insurer is part of a consolidated group of insurers which utilizes a pooling arrangement or one hundred percent reinsurance agreement that affects the solvency and integrity of the insurer’s reserves, and such insurer ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to the pool. An insurer is deemed to have ceded substantially all of its direct and assumed business to a pool if the insurer has less than one million dollars total direct plus assumed written premiums during a calendar year that are not subject to a pooling arrangement, and the net income of the business not subject to the pooling arrangement represents less than five percent of the insurer’s capital and surplus.

94 Acts, ch 1176, §18
Iowa Code § 626.13 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 626 / Section 626.13
Property in hands of others.
Status: in_force

If it is against real or personal property in the hands of personal representatives, heirs, devisees, legatees, tenants of real property, or trustees, it shall require the sheriff to satisfy the judgment and interest out of such property.

[R60, §3252; C73, §3034; C97, §3961; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11660; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §626.13]
Iowa Code § 351.1 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 351 / Section 351.1
Section 351.1
Status: repealed

Repealed by 94 Acts, ch 1173, §42.
Iowa Code § 717B.5 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 717B / Section 717B.5
Rescue of threatened animals.
Status: in_force

A local authority may provide for the rescue of an animal as follows:

(1) The rescue must be made by a law enforcement officer having cause to believe that the animal is a threatened animal after consulting with a veterinarian licensed pursuant to chapter 169. The law enforcement officer may rescue the animal by entering on public or private property, as provided in this subsection. The officer may enter onto property of a person to rescue the animal if the officer obtains a search warrant issued by a court, or enters onto the premises in a manner consistent with the laws of this state and the United States, including Article I, section 8, of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, or the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

(2) (a) If an animal is rescued pursuant to this section, the local authority shall provide for the maintenance of the animal. The local authority may contract with an animal care provider for the maintenance of the animal. The local authority shall provide the responsible party for the animal with notice of the rescue. The notice may be accomplished by doing any of the following:

(2) (a) Delivering written notice to the responsible party’s last known address by the United States postal service or personal service.

(2) (a) Posting a notice in a conspicuous place at the location where the animal was rescued.

(2) (b) The notice shall state that the animal has been rescued by the local authority pursuant to this section.

(3) Within ten days after the date that an animal is rescued, the local authority shall initiate a dispositional proceeding pursuant to section 717B.4.

(4) The local authority shall pay the animal care provider for the animal’s maintenance regardless of proceeds received from the disposition of the animal or any reimbursement ordered by a court, pursuant to section 717B.4.

94 Acts, ch 1103, §16; 2002 Acts, ch 1130, §4; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §261
Iowa Code § 15.351 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15 / Section 15.351
Short title.
Status: in_force

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Workforce Housing Tax Incentives Program”.

2014 Acts, ch 1130, §13, 24 – 26
Iowa Code § 455B.272 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 455B / Section 455B.272
Termination of permit.
Status: in_force

The right of the permittee and the permittee’s successors to the use of water shall terminate when the permittee or the permittee’s successors fail for three consecutive years to use it for the specific beneficial purpose authorized in the permit and, after notification by the department of intent to cancel the permit for nonuse, the permittee or the permittee’s successors fail to demonstrate adequate plans to use water within a reasonable time. However, nonuse of water due to adequate rainfall does not constitute grounds for cancellation of a permit to use water for irrigation.

[C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455A.29; 82 Acts, ch 1199, §26, 96]C83, §455B.27283 Acts, ch 137, §17
Iowa Code § 524.1404 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 524 / Section 524.1404
Procedure after approval by superintendent issuance of certificate of merger.
Status: in_force

If applicable state or federal laws require the approval of the merger by a federal or state agency, the superintendent may withhold delivery of the approved articles of merger until the superintendent receives notice of the decision of such agency. If the final approval of the agency is not given within six months of the superintendent’s approval, the superintendent shall notify the parties to the plan of merger that the approval of the superintendent has been rescinded for that reason. If such agency gives its approval, the superintendent shall deliver the articles of merger, with the superintendent’s approval indicated on the articles, to the secretary of state, and shall notify the parties to the plan of merger. The receipt of the approved articles of merger by the secretary of state constitutes filing of the articles of merger with that office. On the date upon which the merger is effective, the secretary of state shall issue and send a certificate of merger to the resulting state bank and send a copy of the certificate of merger to the superintendent.

[C54, 58, 62, 66, §528B.6; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §524.1404]95 Acts, ch 148, §111; 2022 Acts, ch 1062, §119; 2023 Acts, ch 66, §134
Iowa Code § 462A.17 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 462A / Section 462A.17
Local regulations restricted.
Status: in_force

(1) This chapter and other applicable laws of this state govern the operation, equipment, numbering and all other matters relating thereto of any vessel whenever the vessel is operated or maintained on the waters of this state under the jurisdiction of the commission, but this chapter does not prevent the adoption of any ordinance or local law relating to the operation or equipment of vessels. Such ordinances or local law are operative only so long as they are not inconsistent with this chapter or the rules adopted by the commission.

(2) Any subdivision of this state may, but only after public notice thereof by publication in a newspaper having a general circulation in such subdivision, make formal application to the commission for special rules and regulations concerning the operation of vessels on any waters within its territorial limits and shall set forth therein the reasons which make such special rules or regulations necessary or appropriate.

(3) The commission, upon application of local authorities, may make special rules in conformity with this chapter, concerning the operation of vessels on any waters of this state under the jurisdiction of the commission within the territorial limits of any subdivision of this state. Special rules shall only be adopted upon a finding by the commission that the rules are necessary to carry out the policies and purposes of this chapter due to special conditions with regard to a particular body of water and that the special rules provide greater protection to the public health, safety, and welfare than the rules of general application.

[C39, §1703.17; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §106.17; 82 Acts, ch 1028, §20, 21]C93, §462A.17
Iowa Code § 165.29 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 165 / Section 165.29
Notice.
Status: in_force

Before any action is commenced under section 165.27, upon request of the secretary of agriculture, the board of supervisors of any county shall cause such owner to be served with a written notice of the provisions of this chapter, at least fifteen days before the commencement of the action.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2702; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §165.29]
Iowa Code § 25.6 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 25 / Section 25.6
Claims by state against municipalities.
Status: in_force

The state appeal board may investigate and collect claims which the state has against municipal or political corporations in the state including counties, cities, townships, and school corporations. The board shall refer any such claim to the attorney general, when the claim has not been promptly paid, and if the attorney general is not able to collect the full amount of the claim, the attorney general shall fully investigate and report to the state appeal board findings of fact and conclusions of law, together with any recommendation as to the claim. Thereafter the state appeal board may effect a compromise settlement with the debtor in an amount and under terms as the board deems just and equitable in view of the findings and conclusions reported to it. If the state appeal board is unable to collect a claim in full or effect what it has determined to be a fair compromise, it shall deliver the claim to the attorney general for action as the attorney general shall determine. When a claim is compromised by the state appeal board, the board shall file with the department of management and the department of administrative services a statement as to the settlement, together with a true copy of the agreement of settlement, and if in settlement an amount less than the face amount is accepted in full, the proper entries shall be made in the books of the department of management, the department of administrative services, and the auditor of state showing the amount of the claim, the amount of the settlement, and the amount charged off.

[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §25.6]88 Acts, ch 1134, §15; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §2862023 Acts, ch 19, §2060, 2073
Iowa Code § 7D.2 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 7D / Section 7D.2
Secretary.
Status: in_force

The executive council shall choose a secretary who shall hold office during its pleasure, and perform such duties as may be required by law or by the executive council.

[R60, §999; C73, §119, 120; C97, §156, 157; S13, §156, 157; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §277; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §19.2]C93, §7D.2
Iowa Code § 558.62 — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 558 / Section 558.62
Form of index book.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2006 Acts, ch 1031, §16.See §558.60.
Iowa Code § 521H.3 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 521H / Section 521H.3
Corporate governance annual disclosure requirement.
Status: in_force

(1) An insurer, or the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, shall, no later than June 1 of each calendar year, submit to the commissioner a corporate governance annual disclosure that contains the information described in section 521H.5. Notwithstanding any request from the commissioner made pursuant to subsection 2, if an insurer is a member of an insurance group, the insurer shall submit the disclosure required by this section to the commissioner of insurance of the lead state of the insurance group of which the insurer is a member, in accordance with the laws of the lead state, as determined by procedures contained in the financial analysis handbook adopted by the national association of insurance commissioners.

(2) An insurer or insurance group that is not required to submit a corporate governance annual disclosure under this section shall do so upon the commissioner’s request.

(3) Review of the corporate governance annual disclosure and any additional requests for information shall be made through the lead state as determined by procedures contained in the financial analysis handbook adopted by the national association of insurance commissioners.

(4) Insurers or insurance groups that provide information substantially similar to the information required by this chapter in other documents provided to the commissioner, including proxy statements filed in conjunction with the form B insurance holding company system annual registration statement requirements as provided in section 521A.4, or other state or federal filings provided to the commissioner, are not required to duplicate that information in the corporate governance annual disclosure, but shall cross reference the document in which the information is included.

2015 Acts, ch 27, §3, 9
Iowa Code § 123.52 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 123 / Section 123.52
Prohibited sale.
Status: in_force

No person not expressly authorized by this chapter to deal in alcoholic liquors shall within the state keep for sale or offer for sale anything which is capable of being mistaken for a package containing alcoholic liquor and is either labeled or branded with the name of any kind of alcoholic liquor, whether the same contains any alcoholic liquor or not.

[C35, §1921-f48; C39, §1921.048; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, §123.48; C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §123.52]
Iowa Code § 610.3 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 610 / Section 610.3
Deferral of costs.
Status: in_force

When an application and supporting affidavit are filed and approved by the court and a civil or criminal proceeding is instituted, the court shall order that all fees, costs, and security be deferred until final disposition of the proceeding.

86 Acts, ch 1088, §3; 88 Acts, ch 1134, §106
Iowa Code § 468.81 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.81
Record of bonds.
Status: in_force

A record of the numbers, amounts, and maturities of all such bonds shall be kept by the auditor showing specifically the lands embraced in the district upon which the tax has not been previously paid in full.

[S13, §1989-a27; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7510; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.89]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.81
Iowa Code § 321P.5 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321P / Section 321P.5
Notice signage and reports.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) A local authority shall not operate an automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement at a fixed location unless permanent signs meeting the requirements as specified in the department manual on uniform traffic-control devices and giving notice of the system are erected at least five hundred feet but not more than one thousand feet along the approach of the highway where the system is used.

(1) (b) A local authority shall not operate a mobile automated or remote system for traffic law enforcement unless permanent signs meeting the requirements as specified in the department manual on uniform traffic-control devices and giving notice of the local authority’s use of a mobile system within the boundaries of the local authority are posted at every location where a highway enters the boundaries of the local authority.

(1) (c) Signs required under this subsection shall be erected by the local authority at the local authority’s expense at least thirty days prior to a system enforcing any detected violations.

(2) A local authority using a system shall submit to the department an annual report by March 1 of each year detailing the number of traffic collisions and accidents that occurred at each location where a system is in use, the number of citations issued for each system during the previous calendar year, and any other relevant information about the systems that the local authority deems appropriate. The local authority shall post the report on the local authority’s internet site, if the local authority has an internet site.

2024 Acts, ch 1181, §5
Iowa Code § 200A.4 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 200A / Section 200A.4
Rulemaking.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall adopt all rules necessary to administer this chapter including but not limited to rules regulating licensure, labeling, registration, distribution, and storage of bulk dry animal nutrient products. A violation of this chapter includes a violation of any rule adopted pursuant to this section as provided in chapter 17A.

(2) Rules adopted to administer this chapter are not subject to section 17A.7, subsection 2 or 3.

98 Acts, ch 1145, §42024 Acts, ch 1169, §16
Iowa Code § 524.401 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 524 / Section 524.401
Minimum capital.
Status: in_force

(1) The minimum capital structure of a state bank existing and operating on July 1, 1995, shall not be less than the amount required by law prior to that date.

(2) The minimum capital structure of a state bank incorporated after July 1, 1995, or organized after July 1, 2004, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall not be less than the amount required by the federal deposit insurance corporation, or its successor, or a greater amount which the superintendent may deem necessary in view of the deposit potential of the state bank and current banking standards relating to total capital requirements.

(3) A state bank incorporated on or after July 1, 1995, or organized after July 1, 2004, pursuant to this chapter, prior to receiving authorization to do business from the superintendent, shall establish paid-in surplus and undivided profits as required by the superintendent.

(4) A state bank originally incorporated or organized pursuant to this chapter shall establish, prior to receiving authorization to do business from the superintendent, paid-in surplus and undivided profits as required by the superintendent.

[C97, §1843, 1864; S13, §1843, 1864; C24, 27, §9160, 9206; C31, §9217-c1; C35, §9217-c1, 9283-f14; C39, §9217.1, 9283.42; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §528.1, 528.127; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §524.401]95 Acts, ch 148, §35; 96 Acts, ch 1056, §7; 2004 Acts, ch 1141, §62