Selected Iowa State Statutes

The first version of the Iowa Code was enacted and approved in 1851 by the Iowa Legislature and Governor Stephen P. Hempstead. It was one single act. In 1860, a committee constructed a new code of civil and criminal practice, which was revised again in 1873. Many more amendments and reconstructions of the Iowa Code have followed, and now the Iowa Code is updated annually online, and the print version is published every two years. The Iowa Code’s titles cover state sovereignty, elections, public services and health, agriculture, human services, education, cultural affairs, transportation, local governments, financial resources, natural resources, business and commerce, property, the Iowa judicial branch and their procedures, and also Iowa criminal law.

The official version of the Iowa Code can be found at https://www.legis.iowa.gov/law/iowaCode.