2009 Iowa Code
Title 12 - Business Entities
Subtitle 2 - Business and Professional Corporations and Companies
CHAPTER 490 - BUSINESS CORPORATIONS
490.141 - NOTICE.

        490.141  NOTICE.
         1.  Notice under this chapter must be in writing unless oral
      notice is reasonable under the circumstances.  Notice by electronic
      transmission is written notice.
         2.  Notice may be communicated in person; by mail or other method
      of delivery; or by telephone, voice mail, or other electronic means.
      If these forms of personal notice are impracticable, notice may be
      communicated by a newspaper of general circulation in the area where
      published; or by radio, television, or other form of public broadcast
      communication.
         3.  Written notice by a domestic or foreign corporation to its
      shareholder, if in a comprehensible form, is effective according to
      one of the following:
         a.  Upon deposit in the United States mail, if mailed postpaid
      and correctly addressed to the shareholder's address shown in the
      corporation's current record of shareholders.
         b.  When electronically transmitted to the shareholder in a
      manner authorized by the shareholder.
         4.  Written notice to a domestic or foreign corporation authorized
      to transact business in this state may be addressed to its registered
      agent at its registered office or to the corporation or its secretary
      at its principal office shown in its most recent biennial report or,
      in the case of a foreign corporation that has not yet delivered a
      biennial report, in its application for a certificate of authority.
         5.  Except as provided in subsection 3, written notice, if in a
      comprehensible form, is effective at the earliest of the following:
         a.  When received.
         b.  Five days after its deposit in the United States mail, if
      mailed postpaid and correctly addressed.
         c.  On the date shown on the return receipt, if sent by
      registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and the
      receipt is signed by or on behalf of the addressee.
         6.  Oral notice is effective when communicated if communicated in
      a comprehensible manner.
         7.  If this chapter prescribes notice requirements for particular
      circumstances, those requirements govern.  If articles of
      incorporation or bylaws prescribe notice requirements not
      inconsistent with this section or other provisions of this chapter,
      those requirements govern.  

         89 Acts, ch 288, §16; 97 Acts, ch 171, § 10; 2002 Acts, ch 1154,
      §9, 125
         Referred to in § 490.140