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Iowa Code § 276.8 — IA Code / Title VII / Chapter 276 / Section 276.8
Duties of district-wide advisory council.
Status: in_force

The district-wide advisory council shall:

(1) Provide guidance to local advisory councils, training and orientation for community persons, evaluation and assessment of needs and delivery systems for school districts.

(2) Develop a “sense of total community” and promote democratic thinking and action.

(3) Promote meaningful involvement of total community in the identifying, prioritizing, and resolving of school-community concerns.

(4) Serve as an advocate of community education and foster community cooperation.

(5) Provide an annual budget recommendation and annual report to the local board of education.

(6) Mobilize available human and financial resources of the community to meet needs, interests, and concerns of people in the total community.

(7) Make school facilities and resources available to all age groups from the total community, day and night, year round.

(8) Facilitate the assessment of community-wide needs with the understanding that local advisory councils will manage their own assessments of needs.

(9) Provide support and act as a resource group for local advisory councils and the community education director.

(10) Help plan and recommend a community education budget for approval by the local board of education.

(11) Recommend to the board, regulations, guidelines, and fees, if any, for facility usage.

(12) Define short and long-range community education goals and objectives.

(13) Communicate through inquiring, informing, suggesting, recommending and evaluating community education for the community.

(14) Cooperate with other agencies and organizations including the community colleges and institutions under the control of the state board of regents toward common goals.

(15) Perform the functions of the local advisory council in the event that the board determines that the size of the district does not warrant the establishment of a local advisory council.

[C79, 81, §276.8]
Iowa Code § 633A.3111 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633A / Section 633A.3111
Rights of trustee regarding claims in a probate administration.
Status: in_force

(1) If administration of an estate is commenced in which a revocable trust or a trust in which a holder had at the date of the holder’s death a presently exercisable general power of appointment could be held responsible for the payment of debts of the settlor or holder and the charges of the settlor’s or holder’s estate, the trustee of the trust shall be an interested party in the administration of the estate.

(2) The trustee shall receive notice of all potential claims against the trust assets from the personal representative of the estate and must either authorize the payments for which the trust may be found liable or be given the opportunity to dispute or defend any such payment.

(3) If debts of the settlor are paid from trust property, the trustee or trust beneficiaries shall have a right to be reimbursed from the settlor’s estate for such payment until the final report of the settlor’s estate has been approved, unless the debts have been barred from being collected from the estate by notice pursuant to section 633.230 or 633.304.

99 Acts, ch 125, §35, 109; 2000 Acts, ch 1150, §19C2001, §633.31112005 Acts, ch 38, §54CS2005, §633A.31112006 Acts, ch 1104, §9; 2012 Acts, ch 1123, §22
Iowa Code § 654.20 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 654 / Section 654.20
Foreclosure without redemption nonagricultural land.
Status: in_force

(1) If the mortgaged property is not used for an agricultural purpose as defined in section 535.13, the plaintiff in an action to foreclose a real estate mortgage may include in the petition an election for foreclosure without redemption. The election is effective only if the first page of the petition contains the following notice in capital letters of the same type or print size as the rest of the petition:NOTICETHE PLAINTIFF HAS ELECTED FORECLOSURE WITHOUT REDEMPTION. THIS MEANS THAT THE SALE OF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY WILL OCCUR PROMPTLY AFTER ENTRY OF JUDGMENT UNLESS YOU FILE WITH THE COURT A WRITTEN DEMAND TO DELAY THE SALE. IF YOU FILE A WRITTEN DEMAND, THE SALE WILL BE DELAYED UNTIL SIX MONTHS (or THREE MONTHS if the petition includes a waiver of deficiency judgment) FROM ENTRY OF JUDGMENT IF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY IS YOUR RESIDENCE AND IS A ONE-FAMILY OR TWO-FAMILY DWELLING OR UNTIL TWO MONTHS FROM ENTRY OF JUDGMENT IF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY IS NOT YOUR RESIDENCE OR IS YOUR RESIDENCE BUT NOT A ONE-FAMILY OR TWO-FAMILY DWELLING. YOU WILL HAVE NO RIGHT OF REDEMPTION AFTER THE SALE. THE PURCHASER AT THE SALE WILL BE ENTITLED TO IMMEDIATE POSSESSION OF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY. YOU MAY PURCHASE AT THE SALE.

(2) If the plaintiff has not included in the petition a waiver of deficiency judgment, then the notice shall include the following:IF YOU DO NOT FILE A WRITTEN DEMAND TO DELAY THE SALE AND IF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY IS YOUR RESIDENCE AND IS A ONE-FAMILY OR TWO-FAMILY DWELLING, THEN A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT WILL NOT BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU. IF YOU DO FILE A WRITTEN DEMAND TO DELAY THE SALE, THEN A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU IF THE PROCEEDS FROM THE SALE OF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY ARE INSUFFICIENT TO SATISFY THE AMOUNT OF THE MORTGAGE DEBT AND COSTS. IF THE MORTGAGED PROPERTY IS NOT YOUR RESIDENCE OR IS NOT A ONE-FAMILY OR TWO-FAMILY DWELLING, THEN A DEFICIENCY JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AGAINST YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU FILE A WRITTEN DEMAND TO DELAY THE SALE.

(3) If the election for foreclosure without redemption is made, then sections 654.21 through 654.26 apply.

87 Acts, ch 142, §6; 2013 Acts, ch 30, §195; 2018 Acts, ch 1148, §4
Iowa Code § 153.13 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 153 / Section 153.13
“Practice of dentistry” defined.
Status: in_force

For the purpose of this subtitle the following classes of persons shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of dentistry:

(1) Persons publicly professing to be dentists, dental surgeons, or skilled in the science of dentistry, or publicly professing to assume the duties incident to the practice of dentistry.

(2) Persons who perform examination, diagnosis, treatment, and attempted correction by any medicine, appliance, surgery, or other appropriate method of any disease, condition, disorder, lesion, injury, deformity, or defect of the oral cavity and maxillofacial area, including teeth, gums, jaws, and associated structures and tissue, which methods by education, background experience, and expertise are common to the practice of dentistry.

(3) Persons who offer to perform, perform, or assist with any phase of any operation incident to tooth whitening, including the instruction or application of tooth whitening materials or procedures at any geographic location. For purposes of this subsection, “tooth whitening” means any process to whiten or lighten the appearance of human teeth by the application of chemicals, whether or not in conjunction with a light source.

[S13, §2600-o; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2565; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §153.1; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §153.13]96 Acts, ch 1147, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 56, §5, 13
Iowa Code § 147A.12 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 147A / Section 147A.12
Registered nurse exception.
Status: in_force

(1) This subchapter does not restrict a registered nurse, licensed pursuant to chapter 152, from staffing an authorized service program provided the registered nurse can document equivalency through education and additional skills training essential in the delivery of out-of-hospital emergency care. The equivalency shall be accepted when:

(1) (a) Documentation has been reviewed and approved at the local level by the medical director of the service program in accordance with the rules of the board of nursing developed jointly with the department.

(1) (b) Authorization has been granted to that service program by the department.

(2) Section 147A.10 applies to a registered nurse in compliance with this section.

84 Acts, ch 1287, §12; 85 Acts, ch 129, §1; 89 Acts, ch 89, §15; 95 Acts, ch 41, §21; 2010 Acts, ch 1149, §14
Iowa Code § 600A.7 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 600A / Section 600A.7
Termination hearing — forum non conveniens.
Status: in_force

(1) The hearing on termination of parental rights shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of sections 232.91 through 232.96 and otherwise in accordance with the rules of civil procedure. Such hearing shall be held no earlier than one week after the child is born.

(2) Relevant information, including that contained in reports, studies or examinations and testified to by interested persons, may be admitted into evidence at the hearing and relied upon to the extent of its probative value. When such information is so admitted, the person submitting it or testifying shall be subject to both direct and cross-examination by a necessary party.

(3) If a putative father files a declaration of paternity pursuant to section 144.12A, the putative father or the mother of the child may request that paternity be established pursuant to section 600B.41 prior to the granting of a dismissal of the petition to terminate parental rights.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, §232.42, 232.46; C77, 79, 81, §600A.7]94 Acts, ch 1174, §19, 22; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §353
Iowa Code § 147.89 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 147 / Section 147.89
Report of violators.
Status: in_force

Every licensee and member of a board shall report to the board the name of any person without the required license if the licensee or member of the board has reason to believe the person is practicing the profession without a license.

[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2524; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §147.89]2007 Acts, ch 10, §66; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §39; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §54
Iowa Code § 491.4 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 491 / Section 491.4
Index book.
Status: repealed

Repealed by 94 Acts, ch 1055, §16.
Iowa Code § 462B.2 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 462B / Section 462B.2
State plan.
Status: in_force

The commission shall maintain a state plan for the design and establishment of an administrative framework of a protected water area system and those adjacent lands needed to protect the integrity of that system.

84 Acts, ch 1261, §4C85, §108A.2C93, §462B.2
Iowa Code § 903A.5 — IA Code / Title XVI / Chapter 903A / Section 903A.5
Time to be served — credit.
Status: in_force

(1) An inmate shall not be discharged from the custody of the director of the Iowa department of corrections until the inmate has served the full term for which the inmate was sentenced, less earned time and other credits earned and not forfeited, unless the inmate is pardoned or otherwise legally released. Earned time accrued and not forfeited shall apply to reduce a mandatory minimum sentence being served pursuant to section 124.406, 124.413, or 902.8A. An inmate shall be deemed to be serving the sentence from the day on which the inmate is received into the institution. If an inmate was confined to a county jail, municipal holding facility, or other correctional or mental facility at any time prior to sentencing, or after sentencing but prior to the case having been decided on appeal, because of failure to furnish bail or because of being charged with a nonbailable offense, the inmate shall be given credit for the days already served upon the term of the sentence. However, if a person commits any offense while confined in a county jail, municipal holding facility, or other correctional or mental health facility, the person shall not be granted credit for that offense. Unless the inmate was confined in a correctional facility, the sheriff of the county in which the inmate was confined or the officer in charge of the municipal holding facility in which the inmate was confined shall certify to the clerk of the district court from which the inmate was sentenced and to the department of corrections’ records administrator at the Iowa medical and classification center the number of days so served. The department of corrections’ records administrator, or the administrator’s designee, shall apply credit as ordered by the court of proper jurisdiction or as authorized by this section and section 907.3, subsection 3.

(2) An inmate shall not receive credit upon the inmate’s sentence for time spent in custody in another state resisting return to Iowa following an escape. However, an inmate may receive credit upon the inmate’s sentence while incarcerated in an institution or jail of another jurisdiction during any period of time the person is receiving credit upon a sentence of that other jurisdiction.

83 Acts, ch 147, §6, 14, 15; 90 Acts, ch 1168, §61; 95 Acts, ch 91, §8; 99 Acts, ch 12, §18; 99 Acts, ch 182, §4; 2000 Acts, ch 1173, §7, 10; 2000 Acts, ch 1204, §1; 2006 Acts, ch 1183, §23; 2011 Acts, ch 22, §3; 2011 Acts, ch 131, §77, 158; 2024 Acts, ch 1063, §1
Iowa Code § 8D.4 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8D / Section 8D.4
Executive director appointed.
Status: in_force

(1) The governor shall appoint an executive director of the commission, subject to confirmation by the senate. Such individual shall not serve as a member of the commission. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The executive director shall be selected primarily for administrative ability and knowledge in the field, without regard to political affiliation. The governor shall establish the salary of the executive director within the applicable salary range as established by section 8A.461. The salary and support of the executive director shall be paid from moneys deposited in the Iowa communications network fund.

(2) The director shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A for the implementation and administration of the duties of the commission. The director, in consultation with the department of administrative services, shall also adopt and provide for standard communications procedures and policies relating to the use of the network which recognize, at a minimum, the need for reliable communications services. The director shall review and approve for adoption rules as proposed and submitted by an authorized user group necessary for the authorized user group’s access and use of the network. The director may refuse to approve and adopt a proposed rule, and upon such refusal, shall return the proposed rule to the respective authorized user group proposing the rule with a statement indicating the director’s reason for refusing to approve and adopt the rule.

94 Acts, ch 1184, §6; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §126; 2013 Acts, ch 129, §25; 2015 Acts, ch 120, §37; 2015 Acts, ch 138, §11, 161, 162; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §134; 2024 Acts, ch 1182, §158, 168
Iowa Code § 505.21 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 505 / Section 505.21
Health care access — duties of commissioner — penalties.
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner shall adopt rules establishing a requirement that an employer provide access to health care to the employees of the employer. The rules shall provide that an employer doing business within this state shall offer each employee, at a minimum, access to health insurance. The requirement contained in this section may be satisfied by offering any of the following:

(1) (a) Health care coverage through an insurer or health maintenance organization authorized to do business in this state.

(1) (b) Access to health benefits through a health benefits plan qualified under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

(2) An employer may financially contribute toward the employee’s health benefit plan. The employer shall offer payroll deduction of employee contributions and direct deposit of premium payments related to a health insurance purchasing cooperative or other health care coverage.

(3) A violation of this section may be reported to the consumer and legal affairs bureau in the insurance division. The division may issue, upon a finding that an employer has failed to offer an employee access to health insurance, any of the following:

(3) (a) A cease and desist order instructing the employer to cure the failure and desist from future violations of this section.

(3) (b) An order requiring an employer who has previously been the subject of a cease and desist order to pay an employee’s reasonable health insurance premiums necessary to prevent or cure a lapse in health care coverage arising out of the employer’s failure to offer as required.

(3) (c) An order upon the employer assessing the reasonable costs of the division’s investigation and enforcement action.

94 Acts, ch 1176, §6; 98 Acts, ch 1217, §38
Iowa Code § 633A.6103 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633A / Section 633A.6103
Jurisdiction over trustees and beneficiaries.
Status: in_force

(1) By accepting the trusteeship of a trust having its principal place of administration in this state, the trustee submits personally to the jurisdiction of the court.

(2) To the extent of their interests in the trust, all beneficiaries of a trust having its principal place of administration in this state are subject to the jurisdiction of the court.

99 Acts, ch 125, §91, 109C2001, §633.61032005 Acts, ch 38, §54CS2005, §633A.6103
Iowa Code § 135.16C — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 135 / Section 135.16C
Federal nutrition programs cultivated-protein food products.
Status: in_force

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

(1) (a) “Cultivated-protein food product” means the same as defined in section 137E.1.

(1) (b) “Federal nutrition program” or “program” means any of the following:

(1) (b) The special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children as provided in 42 U.S.C. §1786 et seq.

(1) (b) The supplemental nutrition assistance program as provided in 7 U.S.C. ch. 51.

(2) If the United States department of agriculture approves cultivated-protein food products for purchase under a federal nutrition program, the department of health and human services shall submit a request to the United States department of agriculture for a waiver or other exception that excludes cultivated-protein food products from program eligibility in this state.

2024 Acts, ch 1158, §1
Iowa Code § 626.92 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 626 / Section 626.92
Mutual judgments — setoff.
Status: in_force

Mutual judgments, executions on which are in the hands of the same officer, may be set off the one against the other, except the costs, but if the amount collected on the large judgment is sufficient to pay the costs of both, such costs shall be paid therefrom.

[C51, §1923; R60, §3328; C73, §3097; C97, §4040; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11740; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §626.92]
Iowa Code § 452A.18 — IA Code / Title X / Chapter 452A / Section 452A.18
Refund permit.
Status: in_force

A person shall not claim a refund under section 452A.17 or section 452A.21 until the person has obtained a refund permit from the department. A special permit shall be obtained by an applicant claiming a refund under this chapter for motor fuel used to blend ethanol blended gasoline. Application for a refund permit shall be made to the department, shall be certified by the applicant under penalty for false certificate, and shall contain among other things, the name, address, and occupation of the applicant, the nature of the applicant’s business, and a sufficient description for identification of the machines and equipment in which the motor fuel or undyed special fuel is to be used. Each permit shall bear a separate number and each claim for refund shall bear the number of the permit under which it is made. The department shall keep a permanent record of all permits issued and a cumulative record of the amount of refund claimed and paid under each. A refund permit shall continue in effect until it is revoked or becomes invalid.

[C27, 31, §5093-a8; C35, §5093-f29, -f30; C39, §5093.29, 5093.30; C46, 50, 54, §324.52, 324.57; C58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §324.18]86 Acts, ch 1241, §6; 88 Acts, ch 1205, §7; 91 Acts, ch 87, §7C93, §452A.1895 Acts, ch 155, §25, 44
Iowa Code § 321.323 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321 / Section 321.323
Moving vehicle backward on highway.
Status: in_force

A person shall not cause a vehicle to be moved in a backward direction on a highway unless and until the vehicle can be backed with reasonable safety, and shall yield the right-of-way to any approaching vehicle on the highway or an intersecting highway which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §321.323]89 Acts, ch 296, §35
Iowa Code § 474.6 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 474 / Section 474.6
Appearances — record of votes — public hearings.
Status: in_force

Any party may appear before the utilities commission and be heard in person or by attorney. Every vote and official action thereof shall be entered of record, and, upon the request of either party or person interested, its proceedings shall be public.

[C97, §2142; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7870; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §474.6]2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369
Iowa Code § 314.6 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 314 / Section 314.6
Highways along city limits.
Status: in_force

Whenever any public highway located along the corporate line of any city is an extension of a farm-to-market road, or of a primary road, it may be included in the farm-to-market road system or the primary road system, as the case may be, and may be constructed, reconstructed, improved, repaired, and maintained as a part of said road system.

[C24, §4735; C27, 31, 35, §4755-b28; C39, §4686.25, 4755.26; C46, §310.25, 313.35; C50, §308A.15; C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §314.6]
Iowa Code § 194.11 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 194 / Section 194.11
Price differential.
Status: in_force

All purchasers and receivers of milk for the manufacture of dairy products for human consumption shall maintain a reasonable price differential between the grades of milk as defined by the bacterial estimate tests. This price differential shall not be less than five percent of the price for grade one milk.

[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §194.11]
Iowa Code § 625.1 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 625 / Section 625.1
Recoverable by successful party.
Status: in_force

Costs shall be recovered by the successful against the losing party.

[C51, §1811; R60, §3449; C73, §2933; C97, §3853; S13, §3853; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11622; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §625.1]
Iowa Code § 562B.17A — IA Code / Title XIV / Chapter 562B / Section 562B.17A
Sale of mobile home by landlord.
Status: in_force

(1) Any sale of a mobile home located in a manufactured home community or mobile home park by a landlord or landlord’s agent shall be by written agreement and the landlord shall, upon the buyer’s fulfillment of all payment and other terms under the agreement, produce and assign the current certificate of title obtained from the department of transportation. The agreement shall state the basic terms of sale, including the total cost of the mobile home, and, in the case of an installment contract, finance charges, annual percentage rate, and the frequency and amount of each installment payment.

(2) If such sale does not comply with this section, the court may award monetary or equitable relief, including voiding the sale, and the buyer may recover damages incurred, amounts paid as a rental deposit in excess of two months’ rent, and reasonable attorney fees.

(3) A claim under subsection 2 may be combined with an action under chapter 648.

2022 Acts, ch 1070, §13