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Iowa Code § 185C.7 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 185C / Section 185C.7
Terms of directors.
Status: in_force

(1) A director’s term of office shall be for three years. A district elected director shall not serve for more than three complete consecutive terms. A board elected director shall not serve for more than one complete term of office. A district elected director who is elected as board elected director shall not serve more than a total of four terms of office, regardless of whether any of the terms of office are complete or consecutive.

(2) If the board is reconstituted pursuant to section 185C.8, the terms of the directors shall be controlled by this section. However, the initial terms of the reconstituted board shall be staggered. To the extent practicable, one-third of the elected directors shall serve an initial term of one year, one-third of the elected directors shall serve an initial term of two years, and one-third of the elected directors shall serve an initial term of three years. The initial terms of board elected directors shall be determined by board directors drawing lots.

[C77, 79, 81, §185C.7]88 Acts, ch 1134, §40; 89 Acts, ch 198, §4; 2013 Acts, ch 140, §107, 112
Iowa Code § 138.1 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 138 / Section 138.1
Definitions.
Status: in_force

When used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Camp operator” means the person who has been granted a permit, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to operate a migrant labor camp, or portion thereof.

(2) “Chemical toilet” means a nonwater carriage toilet facility where human waste is collected in a container charged with a chemical solution for the purpose of disinfecting and deodorizing such waste.

(3) “Communicable disease” means any of those diseases regulated by state or local communicable disease laws, ordinances, or regulations.

(4) “Department” means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.

(5) “Director” means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing or the director’s designee.

(6) “Garbage” means all putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food at a migrant labor camp.

(7) “Migrant” means any individual who customarily and repeatedly travels from state to state for the purpose of obtaining seasonal employment in agriculture, including the spouse and children of such individuals, whether or not authorized by law to engage in such employment.

(8) “Migrant labor camp” means one or more buildings, structures, shelters, tents, trailers, or vehicles or any other structure or a combination thereof together with the land appertaining thereto, established, operated, or maintained as living quarters for seven or more migrants or two or more shelters. A camp shall include such land or quarters separate from one another if the migrants housed therein work at any time for the same person and the total number of migrants in all such camps is seven or more. Such separate camps shall constitute a portion of a migrant labor camp.

(9) “Person” means an individual, group of individuals, firm, association, partnership, or corporation.

(10) “Privy” means a portable or fixed sanitary facility used for excretion in a shelter separate and apart from any building and without water-borne disposal.

(11) “Refuse” means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste except human body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, and ashes.

(12) “Service building” means any building provided for the common use, welfare, and comfort of persons occupying or using the migrant labor camp.

(13) “Shelter” means any conventional or unconventional building of one or more rooms, or any tent, trailer, railroad car, or any other enclosure or structure used for sleeping or living purposes.

(14) “Toilet room” means an enclosure containing one or more toilet facilities or water closet facilities.

(15) “Urinal” means a sanitary fixture or structure installed for the purpose of urination.

(16) “Water closet” means a sanitary fixture, within a toilet room, used for excretion and equipped with a bowl and device for flushing the bowl contents into a disposal system.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §138.1]2023 Acts, ch 19, §1622
Iowa Code § 468.287 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.287
Supervising engineer.
Status: in_force

At the time of finally establishing the district, the boards of the several counties, acting jointly, shall employ a competent engineer to have charge and supervision of the construction of the improvement and they shall fix the engineer’s compensation and the engineer shall, before entering upon said work, give a bond running to the several counties for the use and benefit of the district in the same amounts and of like tenor and effect as is provided in districts wholly within one county. A duplicate of such bond shall be filed with the auditor of each of said counties.

[S13, §1989-a34; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7616; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §457.18]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.287
Iowa Code § 554.2719 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.2719
Contractual modification or limitation of remedy.
Status: in_force

(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections 2 and 3 of this section and of section 554.2718 on liquidation and limitation of damages,

(1) (a) the agreement may provide for remedies in addition to or in substitution for those provided in this Article and may limit or alter the measure of damages recoverable under this Article, as by limiting the buyer’s remedies to return of the goods and repayment of the price or to repair and replacement of nonconforming goods or parts; and

(1) (b) resort to a remedy as provided is optional unless the remedy is expressly agreed to be exclusive, in which case it is the sole remedy.

(2) Where circumstances cause an exclusive or limited remedy to fail of its essential purpose, remedy may be had as provided in this chapter.

(3) Consequential damages may be limited or excluded unless the limitation or exclusion is unconscionable. Limitation of consequential damages for injury to the person in the case of consumer goods is prima facie unconscionable but limitation of damages where the loss is commercial is not.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §554.2719]2008 Acts, ch 1032, §79
Iowa Code § 703.3 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 703 / Section 703.3
Accessory after the fact.
Status: in_force

Any person having knowledge that a public offense has been committed and that a certain person committed it, and who does not stand in the relation of husband or wife to the person who committed the offense, who harbors, aids, or conceals the person who committed the offense, with the intent to prevent the apprehension of the person who committed the offense, commits the following:

(1) A class “D” felony if the public offense was a violation of section 707.2, 707.3, or 707.3A.

(2) An aggravated misdemeanor if the public offense committed was a felony not included in subsection 1.

(3) A simple misdemeanor if the public offense was a misdemeanor.

[C51, §2929; R60, §4669; C73, §4315; C97, §5300; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12896; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §688.2; C79, 81, §703.3; 81 Acts, ch 204, §1]2024 Acts, ch 1076, §1
Iowa Code § 70A.25 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 70A / Section 70A.25
Educational leave — educational assistance.
Status: in_force

(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) (a) “Educational assistance” means reimbursement for tuition, fees, books or other expenses incurred by a state employee in taking coursework at an educational institution or attending a workshop, seminar, or conference without a reduction in ordinary job responsibilities and that the appointing authority determines contributes to the growth and development of the employee in the employee’s present position or in a position to which the employee may reasonably be assigned.

(1) (b) “Educational leave” means full or partial absence from an employee’s ordinary job responsibilities either with full or partial pay or without pay, to attend a course of study at an educational institution or a course of study conducted by a reputable sponsor on behalf of an educational institution. Educational leave may include reimbursement for all or a portion of educational expenses incurred.

(1) (c) “Educational leave” and “educational assistance” do not apply to job training, employee development programs, or departmental seminars that are conducted or sponsored by a state agency.

(2) (a) The purpose of educational leave with full or partial pay and educational assistance is to assist state employees to develop skills that will improve their ability to perform state job responsibilities or in the case of educational leave to also provide training and educational opportunities for employees of a state agency that will enable the agency director to better meet the staffing needs of the state agency.

(2) (b) The director of the department of administrative services shall not allow the payment of expenses for courses unless the department, agency, or commission can demonstrate a relationship between the employee’s job responsibilities and the courses to be taken or that the employee is required to learn new skills for which the department, agency, or commission has a need.

85 Acts, ch 215, §2CS85, §79.2586 Acts, ch 1245, §237 – 239C93, §70A.252000 Acts, ch 1171, §22 – 24; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §286; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §201; 2014 Acts, ch 1036, §14
Iowa Code § 523C.17 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 523C / Section 523C.17
Lending institutions.
Status: in_force

A bank, savings association, insurance company, or other lending institution shall not require the purchase of a motor vehicle service contract or residential service contract as a condition of a loan or the sale of any property or motor vehicle. Violation of this section is punishable as provided in section 523C.13.

83 Acts, ch 87, §18; 93 Acts, ch 60, §10; 2012 Acts, ch 1017, §102; 2019 Acts, ch 142, §13, 19
Iowa Code § 232.10 — IA Code / Title VI / Chapter 232 / Section 232.10
Venue.
Status: in_force

(1) Venue for delinquency proceedings shall be in the judicial district where the child is found, where the child resides, or where the alleged delinquent act occurred.

(2) The court may transfer delinquency proceedings to the court of any county having venue at any stage in the proceeding as follows:

(2) (a) When it appears that the best interests of the child or society or the convenience of the parties will be served by a transfer, the court may transfer the case to the court of the county of the child’s residence.

(2) (b) With the consent of the receiving court, the court may transfer the case to the court of the county where the child is found.

(2) (c) The court may transfer the case to the county where the alleged delinquent act occurred.

(3) The court shall transfer the case by ordering the transfer and a continuance and by forwarding to the clerk of the receiving court a certified copy of all papers filed together with an order of transfer. The judge of the receiving court may accept the filings of the transferring court or may direct the filing of a new petition and hear the case anew.

[C71, 73, 75, 77, §232.68 – 232.70; C79, 81, §232.10]88 Acts, ch 1134, §492025 Acts, ch 30, §48
Iowa Code § 137D.8 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 137D / Section 137D.8
Suspension or revocation of licenses.
Status: in_force

The department may suspend or revoke a license issued to a person under this chapter if any of the following occurs:

(1) The person’s home food processing establishment does not conform to a provision of this chapter or a rule adopted pursuant to this chapter.

(2) The person violates a provision of this chapter or a rule adopted pursuant to this chapter.

(3) The person conducts an activity constituting a criminal offense in the home food processing establishment and is convicted of a serious misdemeanor or a more serious offense as a result.

91 Acts, ch 107, §10; 2016 Acts, ch 1086, §8; 2022 Acts, ch 1129, §7
Iowa Code § 523C.24 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 523C / Section 523C.24
Service company oversight fund.
Status: in_force

(1) A service company oversight fund is created in the state treasury as a separate fund under the control of the commissioner. The fund shall consist of all moneys deposited in the fund pursuant to subsection 2.

(2) The commissioner shall deposit in the service company oversight fund an amount equal to one-third of all licensing, examination, renewal, and inspection fees collected under this chapter, provided that the maximum amount of fees deposited in the fund each fiscal year shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars. Any remaining fees collected under this chapter and not deposited in the service company oversight fund shall be deposited as provided in section 505.7.

(3) Moneys in the service company oversight fund are appropriated to the commissioner for the administration and enforcement of this chapter, and for establishing service contract consumer complaint, education, and outreach programs.

(4) Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the service company oversight fund shall be credited to the fund. Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys credited to the fund shall not revert at the close of a fiscal year.

2019 Acts, ch 142, §15, 19
Iowa Code § 554.13407 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 554 / Section 554.13407
Irrevocable promises — finance leases.
Status: in_force

(1) In the case of a finance lease that is not a consumer lease the lessee’s promises under the lease contract become irrevocable and independent upon the lessee’s acceptance of the goods.

(2) A promise that has become irrevocable and independent under subsection 1:

(2) (a) is effective and enforceable between the parties, and by or against third parties including assignees of the parties, and

(2) (b) is not subject to cancellation, termination, modification, repudiation, excuse, or substitution without the consent of the party to whom the promise runs.

(3) This section does not affect the validity under any other law of a covenant in any lease contract making the lessee’s promises irrevocable and independent upon the lessee’s acceptance of the goods.

94 Acts, ch 1052, §52
Iowa Code § 321.482 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321 / Section 321.482
Violations — simple misdemeanors unless otherwise provided.
Status: in_force

It is a simple misdemeanor for a person to do an act forbidden or to fail to perform an act required by this chapter unless the violation is by this chapter or other law of this state declared to be a serious or aggravated misdemeanor or a felony. Chapter 232 has no application in the prosecution of offenses committed in violation of this chapter which are simple misdemeanors.

[S13, §1569, 1571-2a, -m21, -m22, -m26, -m27, -m29, 4808-b; SS15, §1571-m12a; C24, §4903, 5081, 5089, 13119; C27, §4903, 5055-b4, 5081, 5089, 13119; C31, §4686-c2, 4903, 5055-b4, 5079-d6, 5081, 5089, 13119; C35, §4686-c2, 4903, 4991-f5, 5024-e3, 5055-b4, 5067-e2, 5079-d6, 5081, 5089, 13119; C39, §5036.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.482]84 Acts, ch 1067, §33
Iowa Code § 373.2 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 373 / Section 373.2
Appointment of commission members.
Status: in_force

(1) Within forty-five days after the establishment of a commission, the members of the commission shall be appointed as follows:

(1) (a) One member shall be appointed by the city council of each city participating in the charter process.

(1) (b) An additional member shall be appointed by each city council for every twenty-five thousand residents in the participating city.

(1) (c) One member shall be appointed by each state legislator whose legislative district is located in the commission area if a majority of the constituents of that legislative district resides in the commission area. However, if a commission area does not have a state legislative district which has a majority of its constituents residing in the commission area, the legislative district having the largest plurality of constituents residing in the commission area shall appoint one member.

(2) Only eligible electors of the county not holding a city, county, or state office shall be members of the commission. In counties having multiple state legislative districts, the districts shall be represented as equally as possible. The membership shall be bipartisan and each appointing authority under subsection 1 shall provide for representation of various age groups, racial minorities, economic groups, and representatives of identifiable geographically defined populations, all in reasonable relationship to the proportions in which these groups are present in the population of the commission area.

(3) (a) A vacancy on the commission shall be filled by appointment in the same manner as the original appointment. The county auditor shall notify the appropriate appointing authority of a vacancy.

(3) (b) The legislative appointing authorities shall be considered one appointing authority for the purpose of complying with this subsection. The senior legislative appointing authority in terms of length of legislative service shall convene the legislative appointing authorities to consult for the purpose of complying with this subsection.

91 Acts, ch 256, §41; 2010 Acts, ch 1061, §180; 2024 Acts, ch 1004, §41
Iowa Code § 709.8A — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 709 / Section 709.8A
Grooming.
Status: in_force

(1) A person commits grooming when the person knowingly performs an act in person or by conduct through a third party, uses a computer, internet service, or any other electronic storage or transmission device, or uses written communication to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a person believed to be a child to commit any unlawful sex act or to otherwise engage in unlawful sexual conduct. As used in this section, “child” means a person under eighteen years of age.

(2) Grooming is a class “D” felony.

2024 Acts, ch 1123, §1
Iowa Code § 633B.206 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633B / Section 633B.206
Stocks and bonds.
Status: in_force

Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides and subject to section 633B.201, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to stocks and bonds authorizes the agent to do all of the following:

(1) Buy, sell, and exchange stocks and bonds.

(2) Establish, continue, modify, or terminate an account with respect to stocks and bonds.

(3) Pledge stocks and bonds as security to borrow, pay, renew, or extend the time of payment of a debt of the principal.

(4) Receive certificates and other evidence of ownership with respect to stocks and bonds.

(5) Exercise voting rights with respect to stocks and bonds in person or by proxy, enter into voting trusts, and consent to limitations on the right to vote.

2014 Acts, ch 1078, §31
Iowa Code § 468.67 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 468 / Section 468.67
Procedure governing reclassification.
Status: in_force

The proceedings for such reclassification shall in all particulars be governed by the same rules as for original classification. The commissioners shall fix the percentage of actual benefits and make an equitable apportionment of the costs and expenses of such repairs, improvements or extensions and file a report thereof with the auditor in the same form and manner as for original classification. Thereafter, all the proceedings in relation thereto as to notice, hearing, and fixing of percentage of benefits and amount of assessments shall be as in this subchapter, parts 1 through 5, provided in relation to original classification and assessments, and at such hearing the board may affirm, increase, or diminish the percentage and assessment of benefits and apportionment of costs and expenses so as to make them just and equitable, and cause the record of the original classification, percentage of benefits, and assessments to be modified accordingly.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7494; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §455.74]89 Acts, ch 126, §2CS89, §468.67
Iowa Code § 498.23 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 498 / Section 498.23
Reserve and educational funds — patronage dividends.
Status: in_force

Out of any surplus remaining in any given year, the directors shall each year set aside not less than ten percent of such savings for the accumulation of a reserve fund until such reserve shall equal at least forty percent of the invested capital of the association, not less than one percent nor more than five percent for a permanent educational fund from which expenditures shall be made annually at the discretion of the directors for the purpose of teaching cooperation, and the remainder to be returned to the members as a patronage dividend prorated on a uniform basis to each member upon the value of business done by that member through the association.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8507; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §498.23]
Iowa Code § 30.10 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 30 / Section 30.10
Powers of local emergency planning committees.
Status: in_force

Transferred to §30.5; 2017 Acts, ch 28, §11.
Iowa Code § 478.8 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 478 / Section 478.8
Valuation of franchise.
Status: in_force

No financial consideration shall be charged for such franchise. In fixing the value for rate-making purposes of the property of any person, company, or corporation owning it or operating under it, no account shall be taken of, and no increased value shall be allowed for, any such franchise, except that the reasonable cost to the petitioners of obtaining said franchise may be included in the cost of constructing said line.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §8315; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, §489.7; C66, 71, 73, 75, §489.8; C77, 79, 81, §478.8]
Iowa Code § 533.207 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 533 / Section 533.207
Credit committee.
Status: in_force

(1) The credit committee shall have responsibility for the general supervision of all loans to members.

(2) Applications for loans shall be on a form approved by the credit committee.

(2) (a) All applications shall set forth the purpose for which the loan is desired, the security, if any, offered, and such other data as may be required.

(2) (b) Within the meaning of this section, an assignment of shares or deposits or the endorsement of a note may be deemed security.

(3) At least a majority of the members of the credit committee shall review and act on all loan applications and may grant approval, or the credit committee, with the prior approval of the board of directors, may grant one or more loan officers the power to approve or reject loans subject to written conditions and regulations adopted by the credit committee.

(4) The credit committee shall meet as often as may be necessary after due notice to each committee member.

2007 Acts, ch 174, §24; 2011 Acts, ch 34, §125