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Iowa Code § 7A.27 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 7A / Section 7A.27
Other necessary publications — when necessary to sell.
Status: in_force

(1) Other miscellaneous documents, reports, bulletins, books, and booklets may be published that are needed for the use of the various officials and departments of state, or are of value for the information of the general assembly or the public, in form and number most useful and convenient, to be determined by the director of the department of administrative services.

(2) When such publications, paid for by public funds furnished by the state, contain reprints of statutes or rules, or both, they shall be sold and distributed at cost by the department ordering the publication if the cost per publication is one dollar or more, unless a central library or depository is established. Such publications shall be obtained from the director of the department of administrative services on requisition by the department ordering the publication, and the selling price, if any, shall be determined by the director of the department of administrative services by dividing the total cost of printing, paper, distribution, and binding by the number printed. The price shall be set at the nearest multiple of ten to the quotient thus obtained. Distribution of such publications shall be made by the director gratis to public officers, purchasers of licenses from state departments required by statute, and departments. Funds from the sale of such publications shall be deposited monthly in the general fund of the state, except the cost of distribution shall be deposited in the printing revolving fund established in section 8A.345. This section does not apply to the printed versions of the official legal publications listed in section 2A.5.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §269; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §17.27]C93, §7A.2798 Acts, ch 1119, §25; 98 Acts, ch 1164, §40; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §113; 2005 Acts, ch 19, §8
Iowa Code § 628.24 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 628 / Section 628.24
Interest of tenant in common.
Status: in_force

When the interests of several tenants in common have been sold on execution, the undivided portion of any or either of them may be redeemed separately.

[C51, §1944; R60, §3352; C73, §3122; C97, §4060; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11795; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §628.24]
Iowa Code § 328.15 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 328 / Section 328.15
Contracts — law governing.
Status: in_force

All contracts for the planning, acquisition, construction, improvement, maintenance, and operation of airports, or other air navigation facilities made by the department, either as the agent of this state or of any governmental subdivision, shall be made pursuant to the laws of this state governing the making of like contracts; provided, however, that where such undertaking is financed wholly or partially with federal moneys, the department, as such agent, or the governmental subdivision acting for itself, may let contracts in the manner prescribed by the federal authorities, acting under the laws of the United States, and any rules or regulations made thereunder, notwithstanding any other state law to the contrary.

[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §328.15]
Iowa Code § 336.11 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 336 / Section 336.11
Annual report.
Status: in_force

The board of library trustees shall, within ninety days after the close of each fiscal year, submit a report to the governing bodies of the respective jurisdictions comprising the library district. The report shall contain a statement of the condition of the library, the number of books and other resources added, the number of books and other resources circulated, the number of books and other resources not returned or lost, the amount of fines collected, and the amount of money expended in the maintenance of the public library during the preceding fiscal year, together with any other information the board deems important.

[C50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §358B.11]C93, §336.112001 Acts, ch 158, §30; 2010 Acts, ch 1031, §327
Iowa Code § 602.2102 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 602 / Section 602.2102
Commission on judicial qualifications.
Status: in_force

(1) A seven-member “Commission on Judicial Qualifications” is established. The commission consists of one district judge and two members who are practicing attorneys in Iowa and who do not belong to the same political party, to be appointed by the chief justice; and four electors of the state who are not attorneys, no more than two of whom belong to the same political party, to be appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate. The commission members shall serve for six-year terms, are ineligible for a second term, and except for the judicial member shall not hold any other office of and shall not be employed by the United States or the state of Iowa or its political subdivisions. Members appointed by the chief justice shall serve terms beginning January 1 of the year for which the appointments are made and members appointed by the governor shall serve staggered terms beginning and ending as provided by section 69.19. Vacancies shall be filled by appointment by the chief justice or governor as provided in this subsection, for the unexpired portion of the term.

(2) If the judicial member is the subject of a charge before the commission, the chief justice shall appoint a district judge of another judicial district to act as the judicial member of the commission until the person charged is exonerated, or for the unexpired portion of the term if the person charged is not exonerated. If the judicial member is a resident judge of the same judicial district as the judicial officer who is the subject of a charge before the commission, the chief justice shall appoint a district judge of another judicial district to act as the judicial member during that proceeding.

(3) The commission shall elect its own chairperson, and the state court administrator or a designee of the state court administrator is the executive secretary of the commission.

83 Acts, ch 186, §3102, 10201
Iowa Code § 147.112 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 147 / Section 147.112
Investigation and report by law enforcement agency.
Status: in_force

The law enforcement agency who has received any report required by this chapter and who has any reason to believe that the person injured was involved in the commission of any crime, either as perpetrator or victim, shall at once commence an investigation into the circumstances of the gunshot or stab wound or other serious injury and make a report of the investigation to the county attorney in whose jurisdiction the gunshot or stab wound or other serious injury occurred. Law enforcement personnel shall not divulge any information received under the provisions of this section and section 147.111 to any person other than a law enforcing officer, and then only in connection with the investigation of the alleged commission of a crime.

[C31, 35, §2537-d2; C39, §2537.8; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §147.112]93 Acts, ch 100, §3; 99 Acts, ch 114, §9
Iowa Code § 621.5 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 621 / Section 621.5
Becoming nonresident.
Status: in_force

If the plaintiff or any intervenor in an action, after its institution and at any time before its final determination, becomes a nonresident of this state, the plaintiff or intervenor may be required to give security for costs in the manner provided in sections 621.1 through 621.4.

[R60, §3444; C73, §2929; C97, §3849; S13, §3849; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11249; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §621.5]2021 Acts, ch 76, §143
Iowa Code § 331.601A — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 331 / Section 331.601A
Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Batch basis” means the delivery of an accumulation of electronic documents or records recorded or maintained by the county recorder.

(2) “Document” or “instrument” means a writing or drawing presented to the recorder for recording, consisting of one or more pages of text and attachments.

(3) “Electronic document” means a document or instrument that is received, processed, disseminated, or maintained in an electronic format. The submission of an electronic document through the county land record information system electronic submission service shall be equivalent to delivery of a document through the United States postal service or by personal delivery at designated offices in each county. Persons who submit electronic documents for recording are responsible for ensuring that the electronic documents comply with all requirements for recording.

(4) “File or submit” means the act of delivering a document or instrument to a recording office for recording into the public records.

(5) “Grantor and grantee” means the names of the transferor and transferee in the transaction used to create the recording index.

(6) “Legible” means capable of being read or deciphered without magnification regardless of the recording process.

(7) “Page” means a writing, printing, or drawing, other than a plat or survey or a drawing related to a plat or survey, occurring on one side only and covering all or part of such side, and not larger than eight and one-half inches in width and fourteen inches in length.

(8) “Record” means a process whether by manual, mechanical, electronic, optical, magnetic, microfilm, or other methods of storage, after filing or submission, to incorporate a document or instrument into the public record.

(9) “Transaction” means a specific legal action in the form of or evidenced by one of the following:

(9) (a) A title or caption including but not limited to a deed, deed of trust, mortgage, or power of attorney.

(9) (b) A subsequent reference to an original document or instrument including but not limited to an assignment or release or satisfaction of mortgage.

2004 Acts, ch 1069, §1, 4; 2009 Acts, ch 159, §1
Iowa Code § 554.3405 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.3405
Employer’s responsibility for fraudulent endorsement by employee.
Status: in_force

(1) In this section:

(1) (a) “Employee” includes an independent contractor and employee of an independent contractor retained by the employer.

(1) (b) “Fraudulent endorsement” means one of the following:

(1) (b) in the case of an instrument payable to the employer, a forged endorsement purporting to be that of the employer;

(1) (b) in the case of an instrument with respect to which the employer is the issuer, a forged endorsement purporting to be that of the person identified as payee.

(1) (c) “Responsibility” with respect to instruments means authority to sign or endorse instruments on behalf of the employer; to process instruments received by the employer for bookkeeping purposes, for deposit to an account, or for other disposition; to prepare or process instruments for issue in the name of the employer; to supply information determining the names or addresses of payees of instruments to be issued in the name of the employer; to control the disposition of instruments to be issued in the name of the employer; or to act otherwise with respect to instruments in a responsible capacity. “Responsibility” does not include authority that merely allows an employee to have access to instruments or blank or incomplete instrument forms that are being stored or transported or are part of incoming or outgoing mail, or similar access.

(2) For the purpose of determining the rights and liabilities of a person who, in good faith, pays an instrument or takes it for value or for collection, if an employer entrusted an employee with responsibility with respect to the instrument and the employee or a person acting in concert with the employee makes a fraudulent endorsement of the instrument, the endorsement is effective as the endorsement of the person to whom the instrument is payable if it is made in the name of that person. If the person paying the instrument or taking it for value or for collection fails to exercise ordinary care in paying or taking the instrument and that failure substantially contributes to loss resulting from the fraud, the person bearing the loss may recover from the person failing to exercise ordinary care to the extent the failure to exercise ordinary care contributed to the loss.

(3) Under subsection 2, an endorsement is made in the name of the person to whom an instrument is payable if it is made in a name substantially similar to the name of that person or the instrument, whether or not endorsed, is deposited in a depositary bank to an account in a name substantially similar to the name of that person.

94 Acts, ch 1167, §52, 121, 122; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §147, 261
Iowa Code § 633.709 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.709
Jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

A court of this state has jurisdiction to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order for a respondent if any of the following apply:

(1) This state is the respondent’s home state.

(2) This state is a significant-connection state and, on the date the petition is filed, any of the following apply:

(2) (a) The respondent does not have a home state or a court of the respondent’s home state has declined to exercise jurisdiction because this state is a more appropriate forum.

(2) (b) The respondent has a home state, a petition for an appointment or order is not pending in a court of that state or another significant-connection state, and, before the court makes the appointment or issues the order, all of the following apply:

(2) (b) A petition for an appointment or order is not filed in the respondent’s home state.

(2) (b) An objection to the court’s jurisdiction is not filed by a person required to be notified of the proceeding.

(2) (b) The court in this state concludes that it is an appropriate forum under the factors set forth in section 633.712.

(3) Either of the following apply:

(3) (a) This state does not have jurisdiction under either subsection 1 or 2, the respondent’s home state and all significant-connection states have declined to exercise jurisdiction because this state is the more appropriate forum, and jurisdiction in this state is consistent with the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the Constitution of the United States.

(3) (b) The requirements for special jurisdiction under section 633.710 are met.

2010 Acts, ch 1086, §10, 24, 25
Iowa Code § 173.22 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 173 / Section 173.22
Iowa state fair foundation foundation fund.
Status: in_force

(1) An Iowa state fair foundation is established under the authority of the Iowa state fair board.

(2) A foundation fund is created within the state treasury composed of moneys appropriated or available to and obtained or accepted by the foundation. The foundation fund shall also include moneys transferred to the fund.

(3) The foundation may solicit or accept gifts, including donations and bequests. A gift, to the greatest extent possible, shall be used according to the expressed desires of the person providing the gift.

(4) Moneys in the foundation fund shall be used to support foundation activities, including foundation administration, or capital projects or major maintenance improvements at the Iowa state fairgrounds or to property under the control of the board.

(5) (a) Foundation moneys credited to the foundation fund may be expended on a matching basis with public moneys or Iowa state fair authority receipts. All interest earned on moneys in the foundation fund shall be credited to and remain in the fund. Section 8.33 does not apply to moneys in the fund.

(5) (b) The auditor of state shall conduct regular audits of the foundation fund and shall make a certified report relating to the condition of the foundation fund to the treasurer of the state, and to the treasurer and secretary of the state fair board.

91 Acts, ch 132, §3; 93 Acts, ch 144, §1, 6; 94 Acts, ch 1199, §3 – 6; 2011 Acts, ch 79, §5; 2019 Acts, ch 152, §48; 2021 Acts, ch 177, §76
Iowa Code § 97B.25 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 97B / Section 97B.25
Applications for benefits.
Status: in_force

A representative designated by the chief executive officer and referred to in this chapter as a retirement benefits officer shall promptly examine applications for retirement benefits and on the basis of facts found shall determine whether or not the claim is valid. If the claim is valid, the retirement benefits officer shall send a notification to the member stating the option the member has selected pursuant to section 97B.51, the month with respect to which benefits shall commence, and the monthly benefit amount payable. If the claim is invalid, the retirement benefits officer shall promptly notify the applicant and any other interested party of the decision and the reasons. A retirement application shall not be amended or revoked by the member once the first retirement allowance is paid. A member’s death during the first month of entitlement shall not invalidate an approved application.

[C46, 50, §97.33, 97.39, 97.41; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §97B.25]86 Acts, ch 1245, §255; 88 Acts, ch 1109, §13; 92 Acts, ch 1201, §21; 94 Acts, ch 1023, §8; 94 Acts, ch 1183, §15; 96 Acts, ch 1187, §9; 98 Acts, ch 1183, §16; 2000 Acts, ch 1077, §27; 2001 Acts, ch 68, §15, 24
Iowa Code § 8A.460 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8A / Section 8A.460
Terminal liability health insurance fund.
Status: in_force

(1) A terminal liability health insurance fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the department of administrative services. The proceeds of the terminal liability health insurance fund shall be used by the department of administrative services to pay the state’s share of the terminal liability of the existing health insurance contract administered by the department of administrative services. The moneys appropriated to the terminal liability health insurance fund plus any additional moneys appropriated or collected pursuant to 2001 Iowa Acts, ch. 190, or other Acts of the general assembly shall constitute the total amount due to pay the terminal liability specified in this section.

(2) Notwithstanding section 8.33, any unencumbered or unobligated balance remaining in the terminal liability health insurance fund at the close of a fiscal year shall not revert.

2001 Acts, ch 190, §20CS2001, §421.462002 Acts, ch 1175, §152003 Acts, ch 145, §2862017 Acts, ch 29, §168C2018, §8A.4602021 Acts, ch 76, §2
Iowa Code § 266.3 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 266 / Section 266.3
Investigation of mineral resources.
Status: in_force

The said university of science and technology shall provide, as a part of its engineering experiment station work, for the investigation of clays, cement materials, fuels, and other mineral resources of the state with especial reference to their economic uses, and for the publication and dissemination of information useful to such industries, and for the testing of the products thereof.

[S13, §2674-e; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4033; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §266.3]
Iowa Code § 497.10 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 497 / Section 497.10
Powers.
Status: in_force

An association created under this chapter shall have power to conduct any agricultural, dairy, mercantile, mining, manufacturing, or mechanical business, on the cooperative plan, and may buy, sell, and deal in the products of any other cooperative company heretofore or hereafter organized under the provisions hereof.

[SS15, §1641-r7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8468; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §497.10]
Iowa Code § 507E.3 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 507E / Section 507E.3
Fraudulent submissions — penalty.
Status: in_force

(1) For purposes of this chapter, “statement” includes, but is not limited to, any notice, statement, proof of loss, bill of lading, receipt for payment, invoice, account, estimate of property damage, bill for services, diagnosis, prescription, hospital or physician record, X ray, test result, or other evidence of loss, injury, or expense.

(2) A person commits a class “D” felony if the person, with the intent to defraud an insurer, does any of the following:

(2) (a) Presents or causes to be presented to an insurer, any written document or oral statement, including a computer-generated document, as part of, or in support of, a claim for payment or other benefit pursuant to an insurance policy, knowing that such document or statement contains any false information concerning a material fact.

(2) (b) Assists, abets, solicits, or conspires with another to present or cause to be presented to an insurer, any written document or oral statement, including a computer-generated document, that is intended to be presented to any insurer in connection with, or in support of, any claim for payment or other benefit pursuant to an insurance policy, knowing that such document or statement contains any false information concerning a material fact.

(2) (c) Presents or causes to be presented to an insurer, any written document or oral statement, including a computer-generated document, as part of, or in, an application for insurance coverage, knowing that such document or statement contains false information concerning a material fact.

94 Acts, ch 1072, §3, 9; 95 Acts, ch 185, §46; 96 Acts, ch 1045, §2
Iowa Code § 231.51 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 231 / Section 231.51
Older American community service employment program.
Status: in_force

Transferred to §84A.17; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2231.
Iowa Code § 136C.5 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 136C / Section 136C.5
Enforcement.
Status: in_force

(1) Upon determination by the department that this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter has been or is being violated, the department may order that the radiation machine or radioactive material not be used until the necessary corrective action has been taken. If the use of the radiation machine or radioactive material continues in violation of the order of the department, the department may request the county attorney or the attorney general to make an application in the name of the state to the district court of the county in which the violations may have occurred for an order to enjoin the violations or practices.

(2) The department may impound or order the impounding of radioactive material in the possession of a person who is not equipped to observe or fails to observe a provision of this chapter or of a rule adopted under this chapter.

(3) The department may enter at reasonable times any private or public property to determine whether there is a violation of a provision of this chapter or of a rule issued under this chapter. However, the department must have the consent of the federal government before entering an area under the jurisdiction of the federal government.

(4) The department may inspect records required to be kept under section 136C.3, subsection 9. Upon request of the department a person shall submit the records to the department for inspection.

[C79, 81, §136C.5]84 Acts, ch 1286, §13