2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 44 - NOMINATIONS BY NONPARTY POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS
44.17 - NOMINATIONS BY PETITION.

        44.17  NOMINATIONS BY PETITION.
         In lieu of holding a caucus or convention, a nonparty political
      organization may nominate by petition pursuant to chapter 45 not more
      than one candidate for any partisan office to be filled at the
      general election.
         The nonparty political organization may also file with the
      appropriate commissioner a list of the names and addresses of the
      organization's central committee members, and the chairperson and
      secretary of the organization.  The organization may also place on
      file a description of the method that the organization will follow to
      fill any vacancies resulting from the death, withdrawal, or
      disqualification of any of its candidates that were nominated by
      petition.  If this information is filed before the close of the
      filing period for the general election, substitutions may be made
      pursuant to section 44.11.  

         97 Acts, ch 170, §9
         Referred to in § 54.5