2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 631 - SMALL CLAIMS
631.2 - JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURES.

        631.2  JURISDICTION AND PROCEDURES.
         1.  The district court sitting in small claims shall exercise the
      jurisdiction conferred by this chapter, and shall determine small
      claims according to the statutes and the rules prescribed by this
      chapter.  Except when transferred from the small claims docket as
      provided in section 631.8, small claims may be tried by a judicial
      magistrate, a district associate judge, or a district judge.
         2.  The clerk of the district court shall maintain a separate
      small claims docket which shall contain all matters relating to small
      claims which are required by section 602.8104, subsection 2,
      paragraph "e", to be contained in a combination docket.
         3.  Statutes and rules relating to venue and jurisdiction shall
      apply to small claims, except that a provision of this chapter which
      is inconsistent therewith shall supersede that statute or rule.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C73, § 631.2, 631.3; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 631.2] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         83 Acts, ch 101, § 124; 83 Acts, ch 186, § 10116, 10201