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Iowa Code § 8A.106 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 8A / Section 8A.106
Public records.
Status: in_force

(1) The records of the department, except personal information in an employee’s file if the publication of such information would serve no proper public purpose, shall be public records and shall be open to public inspection, subject to reasonable rules as to the time and manner of inspection which may be prescribed by the director. However, the department shall not be required to release financial information, business, or product plans which if released would give advantage to competitors and serve no public purpose, relating to commercial operations conducted or intended to be conducted by the department.

(2) The state agency that is the lawful custodian of a public record shall be responsible for determining whether a record is required by federal or state statute to be confidential. The transmission of a record by a state agency by use of electronic means established, maintained, or managed by the department shall not constitute a transfer of the legal custody of the record from the individual state agency to the department or to any other person or entity.

(3) The department shall not have authority to determine whether an individual state agency should automate records of which the individual state agency is the lawful custodian. However, the department may encourage state agencies to implement electronic access to public records.

(4) A state agency shall not limit access to a record by requiring a citizen to receive the record electronically as the only means of providing the record. A person shall have the right to examine and copy a printed form of a public record as provided in section 22.2, unless the public record is confidential.

2003 Acts, ch 145, §6
Iowa Code § 124E.20 — IA Code / Title IV / Chapter 124E / Section 124E.20
Observational effectiveness study.
Status: in_force

The department may conduct an observational effectiveness study in cooperation with patients and health care practitioners and pursuant to rules of the department in order to study the effectiveness of medical cannabidiol in the treatment of debilitating medical conditions.

2020 Acts, ch 1116, §24
Iowa Code § 99B.56 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 99B / Section 99B.56
Electrical or mechanical amusement device manufacturers, distributors, and for-profit owners registration.
Status: in_force

(1) A person engaged in business in this state as a manufacturer, distributor, or for-profit owner of electrical or mechanical amusement devices required to be registered as provided in section 99B.53 shall register with the department. Each person who registers with the department under this section shall pay an annual registration fee in an amount as provided in subsection 2. Registration shall be submitted on application forms designated by the department that shall contain the information required by the department by rule. The department shall adopt rules establishing the criteria for approval or denial of a registration application and providing for the submission of information to the department by a person registered pursuant to this section if information in the initial registration is changed, including discontinuing the business in this state.

(2) For purposes of this section, the annual registration fee shall be as follows:

(2) (a) For a manufacturer, two thousand five hundred dollars.

(2) (b) For a distributor, five thousand dollars.

(2) (c) For an owner of no more than four electrical or mechanical amusement devices registered as provided in section 99B.53 at a single location or premises that is not a qualified organization, two thousand five hundred dollars.

2003 Acts, ch 147, §2, 7CS2003, §99B.10A2004 Acts, ch 1118, §4, 11; 2007 Acts, ch 173, §3, 4; 2015 Acts, ch 99, §20, 56C2016, §99B.56
Iowa Code § 657.3 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 657 / Section 657.3
Penalty abatement.
Status: in_force

A person who is convicted of erecting, causing, or continuing a public or common nuisance as provided in this chapter, or at common law when the common law has not been modified or repealed by statute, if no other punishment for the offense is specially provided, shall be guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. The court may order the nuisance abated and issue a warrant as provided in this chapter.

[C51, §2762; R60, §4412; C73, §4092; C97, §5081; S13, §5081; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12397; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §657.3]2020 Acts, ch 1063, §366; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §372
Iowa Code § 625A.4 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 625A / Section 625A.4
Coparties not joining.
Status: in_force

Coparties, refusing to join in an appeal, cannot afterward appeal, or derive any benefit therefrom, unless from the necessity of the case, but they shall be held to have joined, and be liable for their proportion of the costs, unless they appear and object thereto.

[C51, §1980, 1981; R60, §3518, 3519; C73, §3175, 3176; C97, §4112; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12835; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §686.4]C93, §625A.4
Iowa Code § 358C.14 — IA Code / Title IX / Chapter 358C / Section 358C.14
Taxes — power to levy — tax sales.
Status: in_force

(1) The board of trustees of a real estate improvement district shall have the power by ordinance to levy annually for the purpose of paying the administrative costs of the district, or for the payment of deficiencies in special assessments, or for both, a tax upon property within the territorial limits of the district not exceeding fifty-four cents per thousand dollars of the adjusted taxable valuation of the property within the district for the preceding fiscal year.

(2) All taxes thus levied by the board shall be certified by the clerk on or before April 30 to the county auditor of each county in which any of the property included within the territorial limits of the district is located, and shall be placed upon the tax list for the current fiscal year by the auditor. The county treasurer of more than one county shall collect all taxes so levied in the same manner as other taxes, and when delinquent the taxes shall draw the same interest. All taxes levied and collected shall be paid over by the officer collecting the taxes to the treasurer of the district.

(3) Sales for delinquent taxes owing to the district shall be made at the same time and in the same manner as the sales are made for other taxes, and all provisions of the law of this state relating to the sale of property for delinquent taxes shall be applicable, so far as may be, to the sales.

95 Acts, ch 200, §142023 Acts, ch 71, §89, 98
Iowa Code § 1C.16 — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 1C / Section 1C.16
Purple Heart Day.
Status: in_force

The governor of this state is hereby requested and authorized to issue annually a proclamation designating the seventh day of August as Purple Heart Day and to encourage all governmental bodies in the state to observe the day in a manner that honors the sacrifice of those men and women who shed their blood and gave their lives in service to the United States of America.

2011 Acts, ch 54, §1
Iowa Code § 633.128 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 633 / Section 633.128
Court accountings.
Status: in_force

(1) Unless ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, the bank or trust company operating such common trust funds is not required to render a court accounting with regard to such funds; but it may, by application to the court, secure approval of such an accounting on such conditions as the court may establish.

(2) When an accounting of a common trust fund is presented to a court for approval, the court shall assign a time and place for hearing, and order notice thereof by all of the following:

(2) (a) Publication once each week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in which the bank or trust company operating the common trust fund is located, the first publication to be not less than twenty days prior to the date of hearing.

(2) (b) Sending by ordinary mail not less than fourteen days prior to the date of hearing, a copy of the notice prescribed to all beneficiaries of the trust participating in the common trust fund whose names are known to the bank or trust company from the records kept by it in the regular course of business in the administration of said trusts, directed to them at the addresses shown by such records.

(2) (c) Such further notice, if any, as the court may order.

[C58, §532.21; C62, §532.21, 533A.1 – 533A.5; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §633.128]2013 Acts, ch 90, §176
Iowa Code § 161D.7 — IA Code / Title V / Chapter 161D / Section 161D.7
Program coordination.
Status: in_force

The department of natural resources shall coordinate the blufflands protection program with the program and projects of the loess hills alliance.

99 Acts, ch 119, §8
Iowa Code § 76.7 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 76 / Section 76.7
Particular bonds affected payment.
Status: in_force

Counties, cities, and school corporations may at any time or times extend or renew any legal indebtedness or any part thereof they may have represented by bonds or certificates where such indebtedness is payable from a limited annual tax or from a voted annual tax, and may by resolution fund or refund the same and issue bonds therefor running not more than twenty years to be known as funding or refunding bonds, and make provision for the payment of the principal and interest thereof from the proceeds of an annual tax for the period covered by such bonds similar to the tax authorized by law or by the electors for the payment of the indebtedness so extended or renewed.

[C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §76.7]2024 Acts, ch 1043, §34
Iowa Code § 97.24 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 97 / Section 97.24
Section 97.24
Status: repealed

Repealed by 53 Acts, ch 71, §1, except as indicated herein.
Iowa Code § 4.1A — IA Code / Title I / Chapter 4 / Section 4.1A
Statutory construction sex and related terms.
Status: in_force

(1) In the construction of statutes, the following rules shall be observed with regard to a person’s biological sex:

(1) (a) “Sex”, when used to classify or describe a natural person, means the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth.

(1) (b) When used in reference to a natural person, a “female” means an individual who has, had, will have through the course of normal development, or would have but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, a reproductive system that at some point produces ova, and a “male” means an individual who has, had, will have through the course of normal development, or would have but for a developmental anomaly, genetic anomaly, or accident, a reproductive system that at some point produces sperm.

(1) (c) The term “woman” or “girl” refers to a female and the term “man” or “boy” refers to a male.

(1) (d) The term “mother” means a parent who is female and the term “father” means a parent who is male.

(1) (e) “Gender”, when used alone in reference to males, females, or the natural differences between males and females shall be considered a synonym for sex and shall not be considered a synonym or shorthand expression for gender identity, experienced gender, gender expression, or gender role.

(1) (f) The term “equal” does not mean “same” or “identical”.

(1) (g) Separate accommodations are not inherently unequal.

(1) (h) A person born with a medically verifiable diagnosis of disorder or difference of sex development shall be provided the legal protections and accommodations afforded under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and applicable state law.

(2) Any state law, policy, or program that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex shall be construed to forbid unfair or discriminatory practices against females or males in relation to similarly situated members of the opposite sex.

(3) Notwithstanding any provision of state law to the contrary, distinctions based on sex, including but not limited to in prisons or other detention facilities, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, locker rooms, restrooms, and in other contexts where health, safety, or privacy are implicated resulting in separate accommodations, are substantially related to the important government objectives of protecting the health, safety, and privacy of the persons in these contexts.

(4) Any state department or subunit of a department, or any political subdivision of the state including a city, county, township, or school district that collects vital statistics for the purpose of complying with state antidiscrimination laws, or for the purpose of gathering accurate state public health, crime, economic, or other data, shall identify the sex of each person included in the collected data as either male or female.

(5) For the purposes of this section, “state law” includes any state statute or rule.

2025 Acts, ch 1, §1
Iowa Code § 544C.16 — IA Code / Title XIII / Chapter 544C / Section 544C.16
Submission of interior technical submissions.
Status: in_force

(1) A registered interior designer may sign and seal an interior technical submission that is required for an interior alteration or construction project and that shall be kept as a public record.

(2) If a political subdivision of the state requires a seal or stamp on an interior technical submission that is submitted for an interior alteration or construction project, the political subdivision shall accept an interior technical submission impressed with the seal or stamp of a registered interior designer consistent with the provisions of section 544C.14.

2023 Acts, ch 20, §8
Iowa Code § 669.7 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 669 / Section 669.7
Appeal.
Status: in_force

Judgments in the district courts in suits under this chapter shall be subject to appeal to the supreme court of the state in the same manner and to the same extent as other judgments of the district courts.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §25A.7]C93, §669.7
Iowa Code § 66.4 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 66 / Section 66.4
Bond for costs.
Status: in_force

If the petition for removal is filed by anyone other than the attorney general or the county attorney, the court shall require the petitioners to file a bond in such amount and with such surety or sureties as the court may require, said bond to be approved by the clerk, to cover the costs of such removal suit, including attorney fees, if final judgment is not entered removing the officer charged.

[C35, §1093-e1; C39, §1093.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §66.4]
Iowa Code § 625.6 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 625 / Section 625.6
Cost of procuring testimony.
Status: in_force

The necessary fees paid by the successful party in procuring copies of deeds, bonds, wills, or other records filed as a part of the testimony shall be taxed in the bill of costs.

[R60, §3453; C73, §2936; C97, §3856; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11627; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §625.6]
Iowa Code § 489.108 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 489 / Section 489.108
Nature, purpose, and duration of limited liability company.
Status: in_force

(1) A limited liability company is an entity distinct from its member or members.

(2) A limited liability company may have any lawful purpose, regardless of whether for profit.

(3) A limited liability company has perpetual duration.

2008 Acts, ch 1162, §4, 155C2009, §489.1042023 Acts, ch 152, §4, 143, 161C2024, §489.108
Iowa Code § 49.28 — IA Code / Title II / Chapter 49 / Section 49.28
Commissioner to furnish registers and supplies.
Status: in_force

(1) The commissioner shall prepare and furnish to each precinct an election register and all other books, forms, materials, equipment, and supplies necessary to conduct the election.

(2) (a) After the registration deadline and before election day the commissioner shall prepare an election register for each precinct in which voting will occur on the day of the election. The precinct election register shall be a list of the names and addresses of all registered voters of the precinct. Inactive records listed in the election register shall be clearly identified with a special mark or symbol.

(2) (b) When a precinct is divided by a district boundary, and some, but not all, registered voters of the precinct may vote on an issue or office from that district, the election register shall clearly indicate which of the registered voters are entitled to vote in the district.

[C51, §255; R60, §490; C73, §615; C97, §1113, 1132, 2756; S13, §1087-a16, 2756; C24, 27, §561, 746, 4209; C31, 35, §561, 746, 4216-c14; C39, §561, 746, 4216.14; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, §43.33, 49.28, 277.14; C75, 77, 79, 81, §49.28]94 Acts, ch 1169, §49; 2007 Acts, ch 190, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §25
Iowa Code § 321I.27 — IA Code / Title VIII / Chapter 321I / Section 321I.27
Stopping and inspecting warnings.
Status: in_force

A peace officer may stop and inspect an all-terrain vehicle operated, parked, or stored on public streets, highways, public lands, public ice, or designated riding trails of the state to determine if the all-terrain vehicle 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 all-terrain vehicle 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 all-terrain vehicle to have the all-terrain vehicle 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.

2004 Acts, ch 1132, §70; 2012 Acts, ch 1100, §52
Iowa Code § 504.1505 — IA Code / Title XII / Chapter 504 / Section 504.1505
Effect of certificate of authority.
Status: in_force

(1) A certificate of authority authorizes the foreign corporation to which it is issued to transact business in this state subject, however, to the right of the state to revoke the certificate as provided in this chapter.

(2) A foreign corporation with a valid certificate of authority has the same rights and has the same privileges as and, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, is subject to the same duties, restrictions, penalties, and liabilities now or later imposed on a domestic corporation of like character.

(3) This chapter does not authorize this state to regulate the organization or internal affairs of a foreign corporation authorized to transact business in this state.

2004 Acts, ch 1049, §157, 192
Iowa Code § 455B.430 — IA Code / Title XI / Chapter 455B / Section 455B.430
Use and transfer of sites — penalty — financial disclosure.
Status: in_force

(1) A person shall not substantially change the manner in which a hazardous waste or hazardous substance disposal site on the registry pursuant to section 455B.426 is used without the written approval of the director.

(2) A person shall not sell, convey, or transfer title to a hazardous waste or hazardous substance disposal site which is on the registry pursuant to section 455B.426 without the written approval of the director. The director shall respond to a request for a change of ownership within thirty days of its receipt.

(3) Decisions of the director concerning the use or transfer of a hazardous waste or hazardous substance disposal site may be appealed in the manner provided in section 455B.429.

(4) If the director has reason to believe this section has been violated, or is in imminent danger of being violated, the director may institute a civil action in district court for injunctive relief to prevent the violation and for the assessment of a civil penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars per day for each day of violation. Moneys collected under this subsection shall be deposited in the remedial fund.

(5) Immediately upon the listing of real property in the registry of hazardous waste or hazardous substance disposal sites, a person liable for cleanup costs shall submit to the director a report consisting of documentation of the responsible person’s liabilities and assets, including if filed, a copy of the biennial report submitted to the secretary of state pursuant to section 490.1621. A subsequent report pursuant to this section shall be submitted annually on April 15 for the period the site remains on the registry.

84 Acts, ch 1108, §16; 86 Acts, ch 1025, §10; 86 Acts, ch 1245, §1899; 86 Acts, ch 1115, §3; 90 Acts, ch 1205, §13; 91 Acts, ch 155, §10; 2021 Acts, ch 165, §221, 230
Iowa Code § 637.605 — IA Code / Title XV / Chapter 637 / Section 637.605
Interested trustee requirements to convert or change computation method.
Status: in_force

An interested trustee may proceed to take action under section 637.604 if all of the following apply:

(1) The trustee adopts a written policy for the trust as follows:

(1) (a) In the case of a trust being administered as an income trust, requiring that future distributions from the trust will be unitrust amounts rather than net income.

(1) (b) In the case of a trust being administered as a total return unitrust, requiring that future distributions from the trust will be net income rather than unitrust amounts.

(1) (c) Requiring that the method used to determine the fair market value of the trust will be changed as stated in the policy.

(2) The trustee appoints a disinterested person who, in the person’s sole discretion, but acting in a fiduciary capacity, determines for the trustee the method to be used in determining the fair market value of the trust, and which assets, if any, are to be excluded in determining the unitrust amount.

(3) The trustee sends written notice of the trustee’s intention to take any action described in section 637.604, along with copies of such written policy, this subchapter, and the determination of the disinterested person to all of the following persons:

(3) (a) The trustor of the trust, if living.

(3) (b) All living persons who are currently receiving or eligible to receive distributions of income of the trust.

(3) (c) All living persons who would receive principal of the trust if the trust were to terminate at the time of the giving of such notice, without regard to the exercise of any power of appointment or, if the trust does not provide for its termination, all living persons who would receive or be eligible to receive distributions of income or principal of the trust if the persons identified in paragraph “b” were deceased.

(3) (d) All persons named in the governing instrument as adviser to or protector of the trust.

(4) At least one person receiving notice under subsection 3, paragraphs “b” and “c”, is legally competent.

(5) No person receiving the notice described in subsection 3 objects, by written instrument delivered to the trustee, to the proposed action of the trustee within sixty days of receipt of such notice.

2002 Acts, ch 1086, §9, 21; 2003 Acts, ch 44, §105; 2003 Acts, ch 108, §111