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Iowa Code § 299.6 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 299 / Section 299.6
Violations community service or fine or imprisonment.
Status: in_force

(1) Any person who violates the terms of an absenteeism prevention plan entered into under section 299.12, who is referred for prosecution under section 299.12 and is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of sections 299.1 through 299.5, who violates any of the provisions of sections 299.1 through 299.5, or who refuses to participate in a school engagement meeting under section 299.12, commits a public offense.

(1) (a) A first offense is a simple misdemeanor and a conviction is punishable by imprisonment not exceeding ten days or a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. The court may order the person to perform not more than forty hours of unpaid community service instead of any fine or imprisonment.

(1) (b) A second offense is a serious misdemeanor and a conviction is punishable by imprisonment not exceeding twenty days or a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both a fine and imprisonment. The court may order the person to perform unpaid community service instead of any fine or imprisonment.

(1) (c) A third or subsequent offense is a serious misdemeanor and a conviction is punishable by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days or a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both a fine and imprisonment. The court may order the person to perform unpaid community service instead of any fine or imprisonment.

(2) If community service is imposed as part of a sentencing order, the court may require that part or all of the service be performed for a public school district or nonpublic school if the court finds that service in the school is appropriate under the circumstances.

(3) If a parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian of a child who is truant, has made reasonable efforts to comply with the provisions of sections 299.1 through 299.5, but is unable to cause the child to attend school, the parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian may file an affidavit listing the reasonable efforts made by the parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian to cause the child’s attendance and the parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian shall not be criminally liable for the child’s nonattendance.

[S13, §2823-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4415; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §299.6]88 Acts, ch 1259, §6; 91 Acts, ch 200, §10; 97 Acts, ch 174, §3; 2004 Acts, ch 1043, §5; 2013 Acts, ch 90, §73; 2024 Acts, ch 1152, §16
Iowa Code § 523A.812 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 523A / Section 523A.812
Insurance division regulatory fund.
Status: in_force

The insurance division may authorize the creation of a special revenue fund in the state treasury, to be known as the insurance division regulatory fund. The commissioner shall allocate annually from the filing fees paid pursuant to section 523A.204, two dollars for each purchase agreement reported on a preneed seller’s annual report filed pursuant to section 523A.204 for deposit to the regulatory fund. The remainder of the fees collected pursuant to section 523A.204 shall be deposited as provided in section 505.7. The commissioner shall also allocate annually the examination fees paid pursuant to section 523A.814 and any examination expense reimbursement for deposit to the regulatory fund. The moneys in the regulatory fund shall be retained in the fund. The moneys are appropriated and, subject to authorization by the commissioner, may be used to pay examiners, examination expenses, investigative expenses, the expenses of mediation ordered by the commissioner, consumer education expenses, the expenses of a toll-free telephone line to receive consumer complaints, and the expenses of receiverships established under section 523A.811. If the commissioner determines that funding is not otherwise available to reimburse the expenses of a person who receives title to a cemetery subject to chapter 523I, pursuant to such a receivership, the commissioner shall use moneys in the regulatory fund as necessary to preserve, protect, restore, and maintain the physical integrity of that cemetery and to satisfy claims or demands for cemetery merchandise, funeral merchandise, and funeral services based on purchase agreements which the commissioner determines are just and outstanding.

2001 Acts, ch 118, §52; 2005 Acts, ch 128, §4; 2007 Acts, ch 175, §32; 2009 Acts, ch 181, §97; 2021 Acts, ch 181, §42
Iowa Code § 384.77 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 384 / Section 384.77
Assessments along railways.
Status: in_force

In the making of assessments for paving streets, avenues or public places along or upon which a track of a railway or street railway company is located, the engineer shall make an estimate of the cost of building the improvement, and an estimate of the cost of the improvement if tracks were not there. The railway or street railway company may be charged with the difference between the two estimates of cost, and shall make payment in the same manner as other special assessments are paid. This section applies only to track within the limits of the improvement proper and shall not be construed as exempting a railway or street railway company from a special assessment on other property, adjacent or abutting, within the assessment district and owned by the company, nor does this section relieve a company from any of its duties and liabilities set forth in any other law concerning repair or construction of the strip of paving between the rails and one foot outside.

[C31, 35, §6051-c1; C39, §6051.1; C46, 50, §391.77; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §391.77, 391A.38; C75, 77, 79, 81, §384.77]
Iowa Code § 423.40 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 423 / Section 423.40
Penalties — offenses — limitation.
Status: in_force

(1) In addition to the sales or use tax or additional sales or use tax, the taxpayer shall pay a penalty as provided in section 421.27. The taxpayer shall also pay interest on the sales or use tax or additional sales or use tax at the rate in effect under section 421.7 for each month counting each fraction of a month as an entire month, computed from the date the return was required to be filed. The penalty and interest shall be paid to the department and disposed of in the same manner as other receipts under this subchapter. Unpaid penalties and interest may be enforced in the same manner as the taxes imposed by this chapter.

(2) (a) Any person who knowingly sells tangible personal property, specified digital products, tickets or admissions to places of amusement and athletic events, or gas, water, electricity, or communication service at retail, or engages in the furnishing of services enumerated in section 423.2, in this state without procuring a permit to collect tax, as provided in section 423.36, or who violates section 423.24 and the officers of any corporation who so act are guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

(2) (b) A person who knowingly sells tangible personal property, specified digital products, tickets or admissions to places of amusement and athletic events, or gas, water, electricity, or communication service at retail, or engages in the furnishing of services enumerated in section 423.2, in this state after the person’s sales or use tax permit has been revoked and before it has been restored as provided in section 423.36, subsection 6, and the officers of any corporation who so act are guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.

(3) A person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade any tax imposed by this chapter or the payment of the tax or a person who makes or causes to be made a false or fraudulent return with intent to evade any tax imposed by subchapter II or III or the payment of the tax is guilty of a class “D” felony.

(4) The certificate of the director to the effect that a tax has not been paid, that a return has not been filed, or that information has not been supplied pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter shall be prima facie evidence thereof.

(5) A person required to pay sales or use tax, or to make, sign, or file a return or supplemental return, who willfully makes a false or fraudulent return, or willfully fails to pay at least ninety percent of the tax or willfully fails to make, sign, or file the return, at the time required by law, is guilty of a fraudulent practice.

(6) A prosecution for an offense specified in this section shall be commenced within six years after its commission.

2003 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 2, §133, 205; 2018 Acts, ch 1161, §220, 229; 2022 Acts, ch 1138, §21
Iowa Code § 29B.59 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29B / Section 29B.59
Execution of confinement.
Status: in_force

(1) A sentence of confinement adjudged by a military court, whether or not the sentence includes discharge or dismissal, and whether or not the discharge or dismissal has been executed, may be carried into execution by confinement in any place of confinement under the control of any of the forces of the state military forces or in any jail, penitentiary, or prison designated for that purpose. Persons so confined in a jail, penitentiary, or prison are subject to the same discipline and treatment as persons confined or committed to the jail, penitentiary or prison by the courts of the state or of any political subdivision thereof.

(2) The omission of the words “hard labor” from any sentence or punishment of a court-martial adjudging confinement does not deprive the authority executing that sentence or punishment of the power to require hard labor as a part of the punishment.

(3) The keepers, officer, and wardens of city or county jails and of other jails, penitentiaries, or prisons shall receive persons ordered into confinement before trial and persons committed to such confinement by a military court and shall confine them according to law. No such keeper, officer or warden may require payment of any fee or charge for so receiving or confining a person.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29B.59]2017 Acts, ch 54, §76
Iowa Code § 275.4 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 275 / Section 275.4
Studies, surveys, and plans.
Status: in_force

(1) (a) In developing studies and surveys, the area education agency board shall consult with the officials of school districts in the area and other citizens, shall from time to time hold public hearings, and may employ such research and other assistance as it may determine reasonably necessary in order to properly carry on its survey and prepare definite plans of reorganization.

(1) (b) In addition, the area education agency board shall consult with the director of the department of education in the development of surveys and plans. The director of the department of education shall provide assistance to the area education agency boards as requested and shall advise the area education agency boards concerning plans of contiguous area education agencies and the reorganization policies adopted by the state board of education.

(2) Completed plans shall be transmitted by the area education agency board to the director of the department of education.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4158; C46, 50, §275.1 – 275.3, 276.5; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §275.4]84 Acts, ch 1078, §3; 85 Acts, ch 212, §21; 92 Acts, ch 1246, §43; 2017 Acts, ch 54, §40; 2018 Acts, ch 1026, §90
Iowa Code § 657.1 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 657 / Section 657.1
Nuisance — what constitutes — action to abate — electric utility defense.
Status: in_force

(1) Whatever is injurious to health, indecent, or unreasonably offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as essentially to interfere unreasonably with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, is a nuisance, and a civil action by ordinary proceedings may be brought to enjoin and abate the nuisance and to recover damages sustained on account of the nuisance. A petition filed under this subsection shall include the legal description of the real property upon which the nuisance is located unless the nuisance is not situated on or confined to a parcel of real property or is portable or capable of being removed from the real property.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection 1, in an action to abate a nuisance against an electric utility, an electric utility may assert a defense of comparative fault as set out in section 668.3 if the electric utility demonstrates that in the course of providing electric services to its customers it has complied with engineering and safety standards as adopted by the utilities commission, and if the electric utility has secured all permits and approvals, as required by state law and local ordinances, necessary to perform activities alleged to constitute a nuisance.

[C51, §2131 – 2133; R60, §3713 – 3715; C73, §3331; C97, §4302; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12395; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §657.1]95 Acts, ch 195, §34; 2004 Acts, ch 1077, §1; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §108; 2010 Acts, ch 1050, §8; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2698; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369
Iowa Code § 533.325 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 533 / Section 533.325
Confidentiality of state credit union information.
Status: in_force

(1) The directors, officers, committee members, and employees of a state credit union shall hold in confidence all information regarding transactions of the state credit union, including information regarding transactions with its members and their personal affairs, except to the extent necessary in connection with any of the following:

(1) (a) Making, extending, or collecting a loan or line of credit.

(1) (b) Guaranteeing of member share drafts by third parties.

(1) (c) Communicating with an insurance company for the purpose of facilitating the availability or continuation of the insurance or bond of the state credit union or the resolution of a claim, pursuant to section 533.308, subsection 3.

(1) (d) Pursuant to a confidentiality agreement that is executed pursuant to section 533.108, subsection 1.

(1) (e) Complying with the examination of credit union records by regulatory authorities.

(1) (f) Compliance with an order from a court having jurisdiction over the state credit union.

(2) The board of directors may authorize participation of a state credit union in a credit or consumer reporting agency if the board has determined that use of such an agency is essential in making and extending a loan or line of credit, or guaranteeing member share drafts, and that information supplied by the state credit union to such agency will be made available only to legitimate members of that agency having a legitimate business need for the information in connection with a business transaction involving the state credit union.

2007 Acts, ch 174, §56; 2012 Acts, ch 1020, §17
Iowa Code § 15E.227 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 15E / Section 15E.227
Loan and credit guarantee fund.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2009 Acts, ch 123, §8.
Iowa Code § 29B.61 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 29B / Section 29B.61
Initial action of record.
Status: in_force

(1) After a trial by court-martial the record shall be forwarded to the convening authority, as reviewing authority, and action may be taken by the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being, a successor in command, or by the adjutant general.

(2) In acting on the findings and sentence of a court-martial, the convening authority may approve only such findings of guilty, and the sentence or part or amount of the sentence as the convening authority finds correct in law and fact and as in the convening authority’s discretion should be approved. Unless the convening authority indicates otherwise, approval of the sentence includes approval of the findings.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §29B.61; 82 Acts, ch 1042, §37]2019 Acts, ch 24, §104
Iowa Code § 570.1 — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 570 / Section 570.1
Lien created — perfection and priority — termination.
Status: in_force

(1) A landlord shall have a lien for the rent upon all crops grown upon the leased premises, and upon any other personal property of the tenant which has been used or kept thereon during the term and which is not exempt from execution.

(2) In order to perfect a lien in farm products as defined in section 554.9102, which is created under this section, a landlord must file a financing statement as required by section 554.9308, subsection 2. Except as provided in chapters 571, 572, 579A, 579B, and 581, a perfected lien in the farm products has priority over a conflicting security interest or lien, including a security interest or lien that was perfected prior to the creation of the lien under this section, if the lien created in this section is perfected on either of the following dates:

(2) (a) Prior to July 1, 2001.

(2) (b) When the debtor takes possession of the leased premises or within twenty days after the debtor takes possession of the leased premises.

(3) A financing statement filed to perfect a lien in the farm products must include a statement that it is filed for the purpose of perfecting a landlord’s lien. Notwithstanding section 554.9515, such financing statement shall continue to be effective until a termination statement is filed.

(4) Within twenty days after a landlord who has filed a financing statement receives a written demand, authenticated as provided in article 9 of chapter 554, from a tenant, the landlord shall file a termination statement, if the lien in the farm products has expired or if the tenant is no longer in possession of the leased premises and has performed all obligations under the lease.

[C51, §1270; R60, §2302; C73, §2017; C97, §2992; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10261; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §570.1]2000 Acts, ch 1149, §176, 187; 2002 Acts, ch 1023, §1
Iowa Code § 504.120 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 504 / Section 504.120
Penalty for signing false document.
Status: in_force

(1) A person commits an offense by signing a document the person knows is false in any material respect with intent that the document be delivered to the secretary of state for filing.

(2) An offense under this section is a serious misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars.

2004 Acts, ch 1049, §12, 192
Iowa Code § 2A.8 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 2A / Section 2A.8
Sales — tax exemption.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2004 Acts, ch 1073, §51.See §423.3(33).
Iowa Code § 468.528 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.528
Disbursement of funds.
Status: in_force

Drainage and levee taxes when so levied and collected shall be kept by the treasurer of the county in a separate fund to the credit of the district for which it is collected. The county treasurer shall disburse the moneys in the fund only upon any of the following:

(1) The orders of the board of trustees, signed by the president of the board, upon which warrants shall be drawn by the auditor upon the treasurer.

(2) For drainage and levee districts with pumping stations, by orders of the board of trustees directing the treasurer to place all or any part of the moneys into a checking account established by the board in a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C.1.

(2) (a) The treasurer shall disburse the moneys only upon resolution duly adopted by the board. The board shall not expend moneys in the account for a purpose if the board could not order the county treasurer to expend moneys from the county’s separate fund for that same purpose.

(2) (b) The board shall file with the county auditor an annual financial statement that is accompanied by an unqualified opinion based upon an audit of the account performed by a certified public accountant licensed in this state. Notwithstanding paragraph “a”, the board shall pay the costs associated with performing the audit out of the district’s moneys.

[SS15, §1989-a52f; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7702; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §462.29]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.5282011 Acts, ch 94, §2
Iowa Code § 625.18 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 625 / Section 625.18
Bill of costs on appeal.
Status: in_force

In cases of appeals from a trial court, the supreme court clerk, if judgment is rendered in the supreme court or court of appeals or both, shall make a complete bill of costs in that court which shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the trial court and taxed with the costs in the action therein.

[R60, §3462; C73, §2945; C97, §3865; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11640; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §625.18]
Iowa Code § 483A.18 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 483A / Section 483A.18
Form of licenses.
Status: in_force

(1) All hunting, fishing, and fur harvester licenses shall contain a general description of the licensee. Such licenses shall be upon such forms as the commission shall adopt. The address and the signature of the applicant and all signatures and other required information shall be in writing. All licenses shall clearly indicate the nature of the privilege granted.

(2) Upon request of an applicant pursuant to section 483A.10, the department shall indicate on the license that the applicant is a donor under the revised uniform anatomical gift Act as provided in chapter 142C.

[S13, §2563-a3, -a8; C24, 27, 31, §1722, 1727; C35, §1794-e10; C39, §1794.092; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §110.11; C79, 81, §110.18]84 Acts, ch 1260, §9C93, §483A.182016 Acts, ch 1037, §1; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §137; 2019 Acts, ch 86, §11
Iowa Code § 633.336 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.336
Damages for wrongful death.
Status: in_force

When a wrongful act produces death, damages recovered as a result of the wrongful act shall be disposed of as personal property belonging to the estate of the deceased; however, if the damages include damages for loss of services and support of a deceased spouse, parent, or child, the damages shall be apportioned by the court among the surviving spouse, children, and parents of the decedent in a manner as the court may deem equitable consistent with the loss of services and support sustained by the surviving spouse, children, and parents respectively. Any recovery by a parent for the death of a child shall be subordinate to the recovery, if any, of the spouse or a child of the decedent. If the decedent leaves a spouse, child, or parent, damages for wrongful death shall not be subject to debts and charges of the decedent’s estate, except for amounts to be paid to the department of health and human services for payments made for medical assistance pursuant to chapter 249A, paid on behalf of the decedent from the time of the injury which gives rise to the decedent’s death up until the date of the decedent’s death.

[R60, §4111; C73, §2526; C97, §3313; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11920; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §635.9; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.336]89 Acts, ch 111, §2; 2007 Acts, ch 132, §2, 32023 Acts, ch 19, §1277