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Iowa Code § 533C.701 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 533C / Section 533C.701
Timely transmission.
Status: in_force

(1) Every licensee shall forward all money received for transmission in accordance with the terms of the agreement between the licensee and the sender unless the licensee has a reasonable belief or a reasonable basis to believe that the sender may be a victim of fraud or that a crime or violation of law, rule, or regulation has occurred, is occurring, or may occur.

(2) If a licensee fails to forward money received for transmission in accordance with this section, the licensee shall respond to inquiries by the sender with the reason for the failure unless providing a response would violate a state or federal law, rule, or regulation.

2003 Acts, ch 96, §25, 42; 2023 Acts, ch 83, §28
Iowa Code § 573A.1 — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 573A / Section 573A.1
National emergency.
Status: in_force

In the event work or construction upon a public improvement is stopped directly or indirectly by or as the result of an order or action of any federal or state authority or of any court because of the occurrence or existence of a situation which the president or the Congress of the United States has declared to be national emergency, and the circumstances or conditions are such that it is and will be impracticable to proceed with such work or construction, then the public corporation and the contractor or contractors may, by written agreement terminate said contract. Such an agreement shall include the terms and conditions of the termination of the contract and provision for the payment of compensation or money, if any, which any party shall pay to the other, or any other person, firm or corporation under the facts and circumstances in the case.

[C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §573A.1]
Iowa Code § 713.19 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 713 / Section 713.19
Section 713.19
Status: repealed

Repealed by 70 Acts, ch 1255, §16.
Iowa Code § 622.51A — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 622 / Section 622.51A
Computer printouts.
Status: in_force

For purposes of chapters 714 and 716, computer printouts shall be admitted as evidence of any computer software, program, or data contained in or taken from a computer, notwithstanding an applicable rule of evidence to the contrary.

2000 Acts, ch 1201, §5
Iowa Code § 321G.25 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321G / Section 321G.25
Stopping and inspecting warnings.
Status: in_force

A peace officer may stop and inspect a snowmobile operated, parked, or stored on public streets, highways, public lands, public ice, or designated snowmobile trails of the state to determine if the snowmobile is registered, numbered, or equipped as required by this chapter and commission rules. The officer shall not inspect an area that is not essential to determine compliance with the requirements. If the officer determines that the snowmobile is not in compliance, the officer may issue a warning memorandum to the operator and forward a copy to the commission. The warning memorandum shall indicate the items found not in compliance and shall direct the owner or operator of the snowmobile to have the snowmobile in compliance and return a copy of the warning memorandum with the proof of compliance to the commission within fourteen days. If the proof of compliance is not provided within fourteen days, the owner or operator is in violation of this chapter.

[81 Acts, ch 113, §1]89 Acts, ch 244, §37; 2004 Acts, ch 1132, §34; 2012 Acts, ch 1100, §25
Iowa Code § 268.5 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 268 / Section 268.5
Iowa academy of science appropriation limitations.
Status: in_force

The university shall use no more than twenty percent of the funds allocated to the university for the Iowa academy of science for administrative purposes for the Iowa academy of science or for publication of the Iowa academy of science journal. The university shall expend the remainder of the moneys appropriated for research projects and studies awarded by the Iowa academy of science. The Iowa academy of science shall permit all grant recipients to publish the results of the recipients’ research projects and studies in the Iowa academy of science journal at no cost to the grant recipient.

91 Acts, ch 267, §238
Iowa Code § 8A.373 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8A / Section 8A.373
Duties — report to legislature.
Status: in_force

(1) It shall be the duty of the commission to advise upon the location of statues, fountains, and monuments and the placing of any additional buildings on the capitol grounds, the type of architecture and the type of construction of any new buildings to be erected on the state capitol grounds as now encompassed or as subsequently enlarged, and repairs and restoration thereof, and it shall be the duty of the officers, commissions, and councils charged by law with the duty of determining such questions to call upon the commission for such advice.

(2) The commission shall, in cooperation with the director of the department of administrative services, develop and implement within the limits of its appropriation, a five-year modernization program for the capitol complex.

(3) The commission shall annually report to the general assembly its recommendations relating to its duties under this section. The report shall be submitted to the chief clerk of the house and the secretary of the senate during the month of January.

[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §18A.3]2003 Acts, ch 145, §286; 2007 Acts, ch 115, §12CS2007, §8A.3732017 Acts, ch 54, §76
Iowa Code § 249F.6 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 249F / Section 249F.6
Security for payment of debt — forfeiture.
Status: in_force

Upon entry of a court order or upon the failure of a transferee to make payments pursuant to a court order, the court may require the transferee to provide security, a bond, or other guarantee which the court determines is satisfactory to secure the payment of the debt under the court order. If the transferee fails to make payments pursuant to the court order, the court may declare the security, bond, or other guarantee forfeited.

93 Acts, ch 106, §6
Iowa Code § 162.13 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 162 / Section 162.13
Criminal penalties confiscation.
Status: in_force

(1) A person who operates a commercial establishment without an authorization issued or renewed by the department as required in section 162.2A is guilty of a simple misdemeanor and each day of operation is a separate offense.

(2) The failure of a person who owns or operates a commercial establishment to meet the standard of care required in section 162.10A, subsection 1, is a simple misdemeanor. The animals are subject to seizure and impoundment and may be sold or destroyed as provided by rules which shall be adopted by the department pursuant to chapter 17A. The rules shall provide for the destruction of an animal by a humane method, including by euthanasia.

(3) The failure of a person who owns or operates a commercial establishment to meet the requirements of this section is also cause for the suspension or revocation of the person’s authorization as provided in section 162.10D.

(4) Dogs, cats, and other vertebrate animals upon which euthanasia is permitted by law may be destroyed by a person subject to this chapter or chapter 169, by a humane method, including euthanasia, as provided by rules which shall be adopted by the department pursuant to chapter 17A.

(5) It is unlawful for a dealer to knowingly ship a diseased animal. A dealer violating this subsection is subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. Each diseased animal shipped in violation of this subsection is a separate offense.

[C75, 77, 79, 81, §162.13]83 Acts, ch 149, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1186, §15; 94 Acts, ch 1103, §1; 2010 Acts, ch 1030, §23, 29
Iowa Code § 432.6 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 432 / Section 432.6
Personal and real property.
Status: in_force

Every insurance corporation or association organized under the laws of this state, not including corporations with capital stock, county mutuals, and fraternal beneficiary associations, which county mutuals and fraternal beneficiary associations are not organized for pecuniary profit, shall, on or before the twenty-sixth day of January in each year, for the purpose of assessment of its property, furnish to the assessor of the assessment district in which its principal place of business is located, a statement verified by its president, showing specifically with reference to the year next preceding the first day of January then last past:

(1) A duplicate of the statement required by law to be made to the commissioner of insurance for the said year last past.

(2) A detailed statement of all its property and assets of every kind and nature whatsoever, and the value of each item thereof, including surplus, guaranty, and reserve fund, and the amount of each.

[S13, §1333-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7027; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §432.6]
Iowa Code § 189.29 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 189 / Section 189.29
Reports by dealers.
Status: in_force

Every person who deals in or manufactures any of the articles dealt with in this subtitle shall make upon blanks furnished by the department such reports and furnish such statistics as may be required by the department and certify to the correctness of the same.

[C97, §2522; S13, §2522; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §3055; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §189.27; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §189.29]94 Acts, ch 1023, §38; 2003 Acts, ch 69, §44; 2012 Acts, ch 1095, §83
Iowa Code § 327D.1 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 327D / Section 327D.1
Applicability of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter applies to intrastate transportation by for-hire common carriers of persons and property. However, this chapter does not apply to regular route motor carriers of passengers or charter carriers, as defined under section 325A.12, or a transportation network company or a transportation network company driver, as defined in section 321N.1.

[C97, §2122; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8036; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, §479.1; C77, 79, 81, §327D.1]83 Acts, ch 121, §3; 86 Acts, ch 1161, §17; 98 Acts, ch 1100, §52; 2016 Acts, ch 1101, §22, 24
Iowa Code § 161E.10 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 161E / Section 161E.10
Assumption of obligations.
Status: in_force

This chapter contemplates that actual direction of the project, or projects, and the actual work done in connection with them, will be assumed by the soil and water conservation district, a subdistrict of a soil and water conservation district, or the federal government, and that the county or other state subdivisions or instrumentalities jointly will meet the obligation required for federal cooperation and may make proper commitment for the care and maintenance of the project after its completion for the general welfare of the public and residents of the respective counties.

[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §467B.10]86 Acts, ch 1238, §61; 87 Acts, ch 23, §49; 89 Acts, ch 83, §64C95, §161E.10
Iowa Code § 16.4C — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 16 / Section 16.4C
Legislative findings title guaranty.
Status: in_force

The general assembly finds and declares that the abstract attorney’s title opinion system promotes land title stability for determining the marketability of land titles and is a public purpose. A public purpose is served by providing, as an adjunct to the abstract attorney’s title opinion system, a low-cost mechanism to provide for additional guaranties of real property titles in Iowa. The title guaranties facilitate mortgage lenders’ participation in the secondary market and add to the integrity of the land-title transfer system in the state.

2014 Acts, ch 1080, §16, 78
Iowa Code § 48A.24 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 48A / Section 48A.24
Deadline for submitting voter registration forms.
Status: in_force

(1) A person who accepts a completed voter registration form from an applicant shall submit the form to the appropriate commissioner within seven days of receiving the form if the person accepting the form is doing so on behalf of any of the following:

(1) (a) A political party, as defined in section 43.2.

(1) (b) A nonparty political organization required to nominate candidates under chapter 44.

(1) (c) A candidate or committee, as defined in section 68A.102.

(2) Notwithstanding the deadline in subsection 1, a person described in subsection 1 who accepts a completed voter registration form from an applicant within three days of the voter registration deadline prescribed in section 48A.9 for the next election shall submit the form to the appropriate commissioner within twenty-four hours of accepting the form, and not later than the registration deadline.

2017 Acts, ch 110, §3
Iowa Code § 28A.21 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 28A / Section 28A.21
Transfer of existing facilities.
Status: in_force

(1) Any county, city, commission, authority, or person may sell, lease, lend, grant, or convey to the authority, a facility or any part of a facility, or any interest in real or personal property which may be used by an authority in the construction, improvement, maintenance, leasing, or operation of any metropolitan facilities. Any county, city, commission, authority, or person may transfer and assign over to the authority a contract which may have been awarded by the county, city, commission, authority, or person for the construction of facilities not begun or, if begun, not completed.

(2) A proposed action of the board, and a proposed agreement to acquire, shall be approved by the governing body of the owner of the facilities. If the governing body of a county, city, commission, or authority desires to sell, lease, lend, grant, or convey to the authority a facility or any part of a facility, the governing body shall adopt a resolution signifying its intention to do so and shall publish the resolution at least one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and in a newspaper or newspapers, if necessary, of general circulation in the area served by the county, city, commission, or authority giving notice of a hearing to be held on the question of the sale, lease, loan, grant, or conveyance. The resolution shall be published at least fourteen days prior to the date of hearing. After the hearing and if in the public interest, the county, city, commission, or authority shall enact an ordinance authorizing the sale, lease, loan, grant, or conveyance.

(3) An owner transferring an existing facility to the authority under this section shall notify the board of and make provision in the transfer documents for, where necessary, existing rights, liens, securities, and rights of reentry belonging to the state or federal government.

(4) This section, without reference to any other law, shall be deemed complete authority for the acquisition by agreement, of a facility as provided in subsection 1, and no proceedings or other action shall be required except as prescribed in this subchapter.

91 Acts, ch 198, §20CS91, §330B.21C93, §28A.212016 Acts, ch 1011, §121
Iowa Code § 639.30 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 639 / Section 639.30
Lands fraudulently conveyed.
Status: in_force

The grantor of real estate conveyed in fraud of creditors shall, as to such creditors, be deemed the equitable owner thereof, and such interest may be attached as above provided, when the petition alleges such fraudulent conveyance and the holder of the legal title is made a party to the action.

[C97, §3899; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12106; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §639.30]
Iowa Code § 515G.7 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 515G / Section 515G.7
Review of plan by commissioner — hearing authorized — approval.
Status: in_force

The commissioner of insurance shall review the plan. The commissioner shall approve the plan if the commissioner finds the plan complies with all provisions of law, the plan is fair and equitable to the mutual insurer and its policyholders, and that the reorganized company will have the amount of capital and surplus deemed by the commissioner to be reasonably necessary for its future solvency. The commissioner may order a hearing on the fairness and equity of the terms of the plan after giving written notice of the hearing to the mutual insurer, and its policyholders, all of whom have the right to appear at the hearing.

90 Acts, ch 1083, §7; 2000 Acts, ch 1023, §33
Iowa Code § 357F.13 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 357F / Section 357F.13
Incorporation of district land.
Status: in_force

If part of a district is incorporated by a city and there are outstanding indebtedness obligations against the district, the city shall pay the outstanding obligations against the part of the district which is incorporated by the city.

92 Acts, ch 1226, §14
Iowa Code § 633A.6201 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633A / Section 633A.6201
Judicial intervention intermittent.
Status: in_force

The administration of trusts shall proceed expeditiously and free of judicial intervention, except to the extent the jurisdiction of the court is invoked by interested parties or otherwise exercised as provided by law.

99 Acts, ch 125, §94, 109C2001, §633.62012005 Acts, ch 38, §54CS2005, §633A.6201
Iowa Code § 298A.9 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 298A / Section 298A.9
Capital project funds.
Status: in_force

A capital project fund must be established in any school corporation which issues bonds or other authorized indebtedness for capital projects or which initiates a capital project, or which receives grants or other funds for capital projects. Boards are authorized to establish more than one capital project fund as necessary. Any balance remaining in a capital project fund after the capital project is completed may be retained for future capital projects in accordance with the original purpose of the bond issue or voter-approved levy; or may be transferred, by board resolution, to the debt service fund, to the physical plant and equipment levy fund or another capital project fund, or to the fund from which the surplus originated; or transferred to the general fund in accordance with section 278.1, subsection 1, paragraph “e”.

94 Acts, ch 1029, §9; 2013 Acts, ch 88, §31
Iowa Code § 554D.106A — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554D / Section 554D.106A
Use of distributed ledger technology.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 2022 Acts, ch 1116, §8; . See chapter 554E.
Iowa Code § 256.45 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 256 / Section 256.45
Ambassador to education.
Status: in_force

(1) The department of education shall establish and administer the position of ambassador to education. It shall be the function of the ambassador to education to act as an education liaison to primary and secondary schools in this state. The ambassador to education position shall be filled by the educator selected as teacher of the year by the governor, but only if that person agrees to fill the ambassador to education position.

(2) The ambassador to education’s duties shall be established by the director of the department and shall be tailored to the relative skills and educational background of the person designated as ambassador. Duties of the ambassador may include but are not limited to providing seminars and workshops in the subject matter area in which the ambassador possesses expertise, accompanying the director of the department of education in the exercise of the director’s duties in the state, and speaking at public gatherings in the state.

(3) The ambassador to education shall receive, in lieu of compensation from the district in which the ambassador is regularly employed, a salary equal to the amount of salary the person would have received from the district in the person’s regular position during the school year for which the person serves as ambassador, or thirty thousand dollars, whichever amount is greater. The ambassador shall also be compensated for actual expenses incurred as a result of the performance of duties under this section.

(4) The department shall grant funds in an amount equal to the salary and benefits the person selected as ambassador to education would have received from the district, or thirty thousand dollars, whichever amount is greater, to the school district that employs the person selected as the ambassador. The department shall also reimburse the school district for actual expenses incurred as a result of the performance of duties under this section. The school district shall grant the person a one-year sabbatical in order to allow the person to be the ambassador to education, and during the sabbatical, shall pay the salary and benefits of the ambassador with funds granted by the department. The person selected as the ambassador to education shall be entitled to return to the person’s same or a comparable position without loss of accrued benefits or seniority.

90 Acts, ch 1272, §43; 98 Acts, ch 1216, §6; 2017 Acts, ch 54, §76
Iowa Code § 465C.2 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 465C / Section 465C.2
System of preserves.
Status: in_force

There is hereby created a state system of preserves.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §111B.2]C93, §465C.22024 Acts, ch 1170, §336
Iowa Code § 35A.2 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 35A / Section 35A.2
Commission of veterans affairs.
Status: in_force

(1) A commission of veterans affairs is created consisting of twelve persons who shall be appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate. Members shall be appointed to staggered terms of four years beginning and ending as provided in section 69.19. The governor shall fill a vacancy for the unexpired portion of the term. In addition to the members appointed by the governor, the commandant shall serve as a nonvoting, ex officio member of the commission.

(2) Eleven commissioners shall be honorably discharged members of the armed forces of the United States. The American legion, disabled American veterans, veterans of foreign wars, American veterans, the Vietnam veterans of America, the military order of the purple heart, the paralyzed veterans of America, the marine corps league, and the Iowa association of county commissioners and veteran service officers, through their department commanders, shall submit two names respectively from their organizations to the governor. The adjutant general and the Iowa affiliate of the reserve officers association may submit names to the governor of persons to represent the Iowa national guard and the reserve organization of America. The governor shall appoint from the group of names submitted by the adjutant general and reserve officers association two representatives and from each of the other organizations one representative to serve as a member of the commission, unless the appointments would conflict with the bipartisan provisions of section 4A.12. In addition, the governor shall appoint one member of the public, knowledgeable in the general field of veterans affairs, to serve on the commission. If an organization fails to submit a recommendation pursuant to this subsection, the governor may appoint any person to fill the vacancy.

(3) (a) The commissioners are entitled to receive reimbursement for actual expenses incurred while engaged in the performance of official duties. Each member of the commission may also be eligible to receive compensation as provided in section 7E.6.

(3) (b) The commandant and employees of the department are entitled to receive, in addition to salary, reimbursement for actual expenses incurred while engaged in the performance of official duties.

(3) (c) All out-of-state travel by commissioners shall be approved by the chairperson of the commission.

[C31, §446-c1; C35, §467-f42; C39, §467.44; C46, 50, §29.44; C54, 58, 62, §29.12; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §29A.12; C79, 81, §35A.2; 81 Acts, ch 33, §1]86 Acts, ch 1245, §1705, 1706; 92 Acts, ch 1140, §8; 95 Acts, ch 67, §6; 95 Acts, ch 161, §1, 2; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §222, 287; 2007 Acts, ch 202, §2; 2012 Acts, ch 1059, §1; 2018 Acts, ch 1064, §1; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2171; 2024 Acts, ch 1004, §7; 2024 Acts, ch 1134, §1; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §176