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Iowa Code § 508.32A — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 508 / Section 508.32A
Funds held in custodial or similar account.
Status: in_force

(1) A life insurance company organized under this chapter and doing business in this state may hold funds, including additions and contributions, as custodian in a custodial or similar account in conjunction with an accident and health insurance policy. Funds held by an insurance company as authorized by this section may be invested by such company in the manner specified in the account instrument or agreement, and may be held in a separate account established pursuant to section 508A.1. Funds held by an insurance company as authorized by this section shall not be chargeable with liabilities arising out of any other business the company may conduct.

(2) An instrument or agreement issued or used by an insurance company as authorized by this section does not constitute a security as defined in section 502.102.

97 Acts, ch 5, §2; 2018 Acts, ch 1041, §127
Iowa Code § 384.20 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 384 / Section 384.20
Separate accounts.
Status: in_force

(1) A city shall keep separate accounts corresponding to the programs and items in its adopted or amended budget, as recommended by the committee.

(2) A city shall keep accounts which show an accurate and detailed statement of all public funds collected, received, or expended for any city purpose, by any city officer, employee, or other person, and which show the receipt, use, and disposition of all city property. Public moneys may not be expended or encumbered except under an annual or continuing appropriation.

(3) “Continuing appropriation” means the unexpended portion of the cost of public improvements, as defined in section 26.2, which cost was adopted through a public hearing pursuant to section 26.12 and was included in an adopted or amended budget of a city. A continuing appropriation does not expire at the conclusion of a fiscal year. A continuing appropriation continues until the public improvement is completed, but expenditures under the continuing appropriation shall not exceed the resources available for paying for the public improvement.

[S13, §741-a, 741-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5675, 5676; C46, 50, §363.49, 363.50; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §368A.5, 368A.6; C75, 77, 79, 81, §384.20]96 Acts, ch 1104, §1; 2006 Acts, ch 1017, §36, 42, 43; 2007 Acts, ch 144, §15
Iowa Code § 554.2611 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.2611
Retraction of anticipatory repudiation.
Status: in_force

(1) Until the repudiating party’s next performance is due the repudiating party can retract the repudiation unless the aggrieved party has since the repudiation canceled or materially changed the aggrieved party’s position or otherwise indicated that the aggrieved party considers the repudiation final.

(2) Retraction may be by any method which clearly indicates to the aggrieved party that the repudiating party intends to perform, but must include any assurance justifiably demanded under the provisions of this Article (section 554.2609).

(3) Retraction reinstates the repudiating party’s rights under the contract with due excuse and allowance to the aggrieved party for any delay occasioned by the repudiation.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §554.2611]
Iowa Code § 468.86 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.86
Petition — docket fee — waiver — dismissal.
Status: in_force

Within twenty days after perfection of the appeal the appellant shall file a petition setting forth the order or final action of the board appealed from and the grounds of the appellant’s objections and the appellant’s complaint, with a copy of the appellant’s claim for damages or objections filed with the auditor. The appellant shall pay to the clerk the filing fee as provided by law in other cases. A failure to pay the filing fee or to file such petition shall be deemed a waiver of the appeal and in such case the court shall dismiss the same.

[S13, §1989-a14; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7517; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.96]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.86
Iowa Code § 177A.1 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 177A / Section 177A.1
Short title.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be known by the short title of “The Iowa Crop Pest Act”.

[C27, 31, 35, §4062-b1; C39, §4062.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §267.1; C75, 77, 79, 81, §177A.1]
Iowa Code § 488.703 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 488 / Section 488.703
Rights of creditor of partner or transferee.
Status: in_force

(1) On application to a court of competent jurisdiction by any judgment creditor of a partner or transferee, the court may charge the transferable interest of the judgment debtor with payment of the unsatisfied amount of the judgment with interest. To the extent so charged, the judgment creditor has only the rights of a transferee. The court may appoint a receiver of the share of the distributions due or to become due the judgment debtor in respect of the partnership and make all other orders, directions, accounts, and inquiries the judgment debtor might have made or which the circumstances of the case may require to give effect to the charging order.

(2) A charging order constitutes a lien on the judgment debtor’s transferable interest. The court may order a foreclosure upon the interest subject to the charging order at any time. The purchaser at the foreclosure sale has the rights of a transferee.

(3) At any time before foreclosure, an interest charged may be redeemed by any of the following:

(3) (a) By the judgment debtor.

(3) (b) With property other than limited partnership property, by one or more of the other partners.

(3) (c) With limited partnership property, by the limited partnership with the consent of all partners whose interests are not so charged.

(4) This chapter does not deprive any partner or transferee of the benefit of any exemption laws applicable to the partner’s or transferee’s transferable interest.

(5) This section provides the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor of a partner or transferee may satisfy a judgment out of the judgment debtor’s transferable interest.

2004 Acts, ch 1021, §61, 118; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §380
Iowa Code § 12.17 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 12 / Section 12.17
Biennial report.
Status: in_force

The treasurer of state shall, biennially, at the time provided by law, report to the governor the state of the treasury and exhibit therein the amount received and paid out by the treasurer since the last report, and the balance remaining in the treasury.

[C51, §68; R60, §89; C73, §81; C97, §107; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §147; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §12.17]
Iowa Code § 554.2206 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.2206
Offer and acceptance in formation of contract.
Status: in_force

(1) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances

(1) (a) an offer to make a contract shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances;

(1) (b) an order or other offer to buy goods for prompt or current shipment shall be construed as inviting acceptance either by a prompt promise to ship or by the prompt or current shipment of conforming or nonconforming goods, but such a shipment of nonconforming goods does not constitute an acceptance if the seller seasonably notifies the buyer that the shipment is offered only as an accommodation to the buyer.

(2) Where the beginning of a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance an offeror who is not notified of acceptance within a reasonable time may treat the offer as having lapsed before acceptance.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §9930, 9932; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §554.1, 554.3; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §554.2206]
Iowa Code § 523C.5 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 523C / Section 523C.5
Financial responsibility demonstration requirements.
Status: in_force

In order to assure the faithful performance of a service company’s obligations to its contract holders in this state, a licensed service company shall demonstrate financial responsibility to the commissioner by satisfying one of the following, as evidenced by the service company:

(1) Insuring all motor vehicle service contracts and residential service contracts offered for sale in this state under a reimbursement insurance policy that complies with section 523C.6.

(2) Doing both of the following:

(2) (a) Maintaining a funded reserve account for the service company’s obligations under any issued and outstanding service contracts in this state, in an amount no less than forty percent of gross consideration received, less claims paid, for the sale of all service contracts issued and in force in this state. The reserve account shall be subject to examination and review by the commissioner.

(2) (b) Placing in trust with the commissioner a financial security deposit in an amount no less than five percent of the gross consideration received by the service company, less claims paid, for the sale of all motor vehicle service contracts and residential service contracts issued and in force in this state, but not less than twenty-five thousand dollars, consisting of one of the following:

(2) (b) Cash.

(2) (b) Securities of the type eligible for deposit by insurers authorized to transact business in this state.

(2) (b) Certificates of deposit.

(2) (b) A surety bond issued by an authorized surety company.

(2) (b) Another form of security as prescribed by the commissioner by rule.

(3) Doing both of the following:

(3) (a) Maintaining, on its own or together with a parent company, a minimum net worth or stockholders’ equity of one hundred million dollars or more.

(3) (b) Upon request from the commissioner, providing either:

(3) (b) A copy of the service company’s financial statements.

(3) (b) If the service company’s financial statements are consolidated with those of its parent company, a copy of the parent company’s most recent form 10-K or form 20-F filed with the federal securities and exchange commission within the last calendar year, or if the parent company does not file with the federal securities and exchange commission, a copy of the parent company’s audited financial statements showing a net worth of at least one hundred million dollars. If the service company’s financial statements are consolidated with those of its parent company, the service company shall also provide a copy of a written agreement by the parent company guaranteeing the obligations of the service company under motor vehicle service contracts and residential service contracts issued and outstanding by the service company in this state.

83 Acts, ch 87, §6; 88 Acts, ch 1112, §705; 92 Acts, ch 1078, §3; 2012 Acts, ch 1023, §157; 2019 Acts, ch 142, §5, 19
Iowa Code § 197.3 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 197 / Section 197.3
Record.
Status: in_force

Each licensee shall keep such records as the department shall require, as to date of purchase, name and residence of seller and number and description of such poultry or domestic fowls purchased from the producer.

[C27, 31, 35, §3112-b4; C39, §3112.4; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §197.3]
Iowa Code § 321.452 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321 / Section 321.452
Scope and effect.
Status: in_force

(1) A person shall not drive or move, and the owner of such vehicle shall not cause or knowingly permit to be driven or moved, on any highway any vehicle or vehicles of a size or weight exceeding the limitations stated in this chapter, and the maximum size and weight of vehicles herein specified shall be lawful throughout this state, and local authorities shall have no power or authority to alter said limitations except as express authority is granted in this chapter.

(2) A person who violates this section commits a simple misdemeanor.

[C39, §5035.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.452]2010 Acts, ch 1140, §15
Iowa Code § 496C.15 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 496C / Section 496C.15
Certificates representing shares.
Status: in_force

Each certificate representing shares of a professional corporation shall state in substance that the certificate represents shares in a professional corporation and is not transferable except as expressly provided in this chapter and in the articles of incorporation and bylaws of the corporation.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §496C.15]
Iowa Code § 598.14A — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 598 / Section 598.14A
Retroactive modification of temporary support order.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2005 Acts, ch 69, §58.
Iowa Code § 4A.5 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 4A / Section 4A.5
Boards and governmental entities dissolution.
Status: in_force

(1) Except as provided in subsection 2, a board established by an Act of the general assembly after July 1, 2024, shall dissolve four years after the establishment of the board, unless the Act establishing the board expressly states an alternative dissolution date.

(2) An Act of the general assembly establishing a board for the exclusive purpose of providing advice or recommendations after July 1, 2024, shall include a dissolution date of the board not more than two years after the establishment of the board.

2024 Acts, ch 1170, §47
Iowa Code § 20.20 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 20 / Section 20.20
Mediation.
Status: in_force

In the absence of an impasse agreement negotiated pursuant to section 20.19 or the failure of either party to utilize its procedures, one hundred twenty days prior to the certified budget submission date, or one hundred twenty days prior to May 31 of the year when the collective bargaining agreement is to become effective if public employees represented by the employee organization are teachers licensed under chapter 256, subchapter VII, part 3, and the public employer is a school district or area education agency, the board shall, upon the request of either party, appoint an impartial and disinterested person to act as mediator. If the public employer is a community college, and in the absence of an impasse agreement negotiated pursuant to section 20.19 or the failure of either party to utilize its procedures, one hundred twenty days prior to May 31 of the year when the collective bargaining agreement is to become effective, the board, upon the request of either party, shall appoint an impartial and disinterested person to act as mediator. If the public employer is not subject to the budget certification requirements of section 24.17 or other applicable sections and in the absence of an impasse agreement negotiated pursuant to section 20.19, or the failure of either party to utilize its procedures, one hundred twenty days prior to the date the next fiscal or budget year of the public employer commences, the board, upon the request of either party, shall appoint an impartial and disinterested person to act as a mediator. It shall be the function of the mediator to bring the parties together to effectuate a settlement of the dispute, but the mediator may not compel the parties to agree.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §20.20]91 Acts, ch 174, §5; 92 Acts, ch 1011, §3; 92 Acts, ch 1227, §13; 2010 Acts, ch 1193, §108; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2539
Iowa Code § 13B.3 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 13B / Section 13B.3
Qualifications of state public defender.
Status: in_force

Only persons admitted to practice law in this state shall be appointed state public defender or assistant state public defender.

[81 Acts, ch 23, §3, 8]88 Acts, ch 1161, §3
Iowa Code § 144.18 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 144 / Section 144.18
Court hearing.
Status: in_force

(1) The court shall fix a time and place for hearing the petition and shall give the registration official who refused to register the petitioner’s delayed certificate of birth at least ten days’ notice of such hearing. If both persons to be named as parents are not a party to the petition, such person or persons, if living, shall also be given at least ten days’ notice of the hearing. The court shall prescribe the manner of such notice. Such official, or the official’s authorized representative, may appear and testify in the proceeding.

(2) If the court from the evidence presented finds that the person for whom a delayed certificate of birth is sought was born in this state, it shall make findings as the case may require and shall issue an order on a form prescribed and furnished by the state registrar to establish a record of birth. The order shall include the birth data to be registered, a description of the evidence presented, and the date of the court’s action.

(3) The clerks of the district court shall forward each order to the state registrar not later than the tenth day of the calendar month following the month in which it was entered. The order shall be registered by the state registrar and shall constitute the record of birth, from which copies may be issued in accordance with sections 144.42 through 144.46.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §144.18]2017 Acts, ch 29, §42
Iowa Code § 235.7 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 235 / Section 235.7
Transition committees.
Status: in_force

(1) The department shall establish and maintain local transition committees to address the transition needs of children receiving child welfare services who are age sixteen or older and have a case permanency plan as defined in section 232.2. The department shall adopt rules establishing criteria for transition committee membership, operating policies, and basic functions. The rules shall provide flexibility for a committee to adopt protocols and other procedures appropriate for the geographic area addressed by the committee.

(2) The department may authorize the governance boards of decategorization of child welfare and juvenile justice funding projects established under section 232.188 to appoint the transition committee membership and may utilize the boundaries of decategorization projects to establish the service areas for transition committees. The committee membership may include but is not limited to department staff involved with foster care, child welfare, and adult services, juvenile court services staff, staff involved with county general assistance or emergency relief under chapter 251 or 252, school district and area education agency staff involved with special education, and a child’s court appointed special advocate, guardian ad litem, service providers, and other persons knowledgeable about the child.

(3) A transition committee shall review and approve the written plan of services required for the child’s case permanency plan in accordance with section 232.2, subsection 6, paragraph “g”, which, based upon an assessment of the child’s needs, would assist the child in preparing for the transition from foster care to adulthood. In addition, a transition committee shall identify and act to address any gaps existing in the services or other support available to meet the child and adult needs of individuals for whom service plans are approved.

2003 Acts, ch 117, §10; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, §33; 2005 Acts, ch 95, §3; 2015 Acts, ch 69, §73; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §694; 2024 Acts, ch 1161, §99, 137
Iowa Code § 210.14 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 210 / Section 210.14
Hop boxes.
Status: in_force

The standard box used in packing hops shall be thirty-six inches long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-three and one-fourth inches deep, inside measurement.

[C73, §2051; C97, §3018; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3240; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §210.14]
Iowa Code § 613.9 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 613 / Section 613.9
Service on state.
Status: in_force

Service upon the state shall be made by serving a copy of the original notice with a copy of the petition upon the county attorney for the county, or counties, in which the real estate is located, and by sending a copy of the original notice and petition by certified mail to the attorney general, at Des Moines. The state shall appear within thirty days after the day such notice is served upon the county attorney or within thirty days after such notice is mailed to the attorney general, whichever is later.

[C35, §10990-g2; C39, §10990.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §613.9]
Iowa Code § 450.9 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 450 / Section 450.9
Individual exemptions.
Status: in_force

In computing the tax on the net estate, the entire amount of property, interest in property, and income passing to the surviving spouse, lineal ascendants, lineal descendants, and stepchildren and their lineal descendants are exempt from tax. “Lineal descendants” includes descendants by adoption.

[C31, 35, §7312-d1; C39, §7312.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §450.9; 81 Acts, ch 147, §3, 19]91 Acts, ch 159, §23, 24; 94 Acts, ch 1046, §10; 97 Acts, ch 1, §2, 82015 Acts, ch 125, §2, 5, 6
Iowa Code § 679C.111 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 679C / Section 679C.111
Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter modify or supersede the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. §7001 et seq., but this chapter does not modify, limit, or supersede section 101c of that Act or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103b of that Act.

2005 Acts, ch 68, §16
Iowa Code § 9G.12 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 9G / Section 9G.12
Dubuque and Pacific Railroad lands.
Status: in_force

The secretary of state is hereby authorized upon the application of any person claiming title under the trust deeds executed by the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company, to secure its construction bonds, to any lands included in the list of lands certified to the state of Iowa, by the commissioner of the general land office and approved by the secretary of the interior, as selected to satisfy the grant made to the state of Iowa, by Act of Congress approved May 15, 1856, 11 Stat. 9, in aid of the construction of a railroad from Dubuque to Sioux City; to certify said land as inuring to the grantees of the said Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company, which certificate shall be signed by the governor, and attested by the secretary of state, with the seal of the state, and deliver the same to such applicant who is hereby authorized to have said certificate recorded in the county in which the land so certified is situated, and when so recorded, shall be notice to all persons the same as deeds now are, and shall be evidence of the title from the state of Iowa to any person deriving title to said land under the Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company, to the land therein described under the grant of Congress by which the land was certified to the state so far as the certified lists made by the commissioner aforesaid, conferred title to the state, but where lands embraced in such lists are not of the character embraced by such Acts of Congress or the Acts of the general assembly of the state, and are not intended to be granted thereby, the lists so far as these lands are concerned, shall be void; nor shall the secretary include, in any of the lists so certified to the state, lands which have been adjudicated by the proper courts to belong to any other grant, or adjudicated to belong to any county or individual under the swampland grant, or any homestead or preemption settlement; nor shall said certificate so issued confer any right or title as against any person or company having any vested right, either legal or equitable, to any of the lands so certified.

[C39, §99.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §10.12]C93, §9G.122006 Acts, ch 1010, §5
Iowa Code § 15E.133 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15E / Section 15E.133
Section 15E.133
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2007 Acts, ch 126, §114.