2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 49 - METHOD OF CONDUCTING ELECTIONS
49.44 - SUMMARY.

        49.44  SUMMARY.
         1.  When a proposed constitutional amendment or other public
      measure to be decided by the voters of the entire state is to be
      voted upon, the state commissioner shall prepare a written summary of
      the amendment or measure including the number of the amendment or
      statewide public measure assigned by the state commissioner.  The
      summary shall be printed immediately preceding the text of the
      proposed amendment or measure on the paper ballot or optical scan
      ballot referred to in section 49.43.  If the complete text of the
      public measure will not fit on the ballot it shall be posted inside
      the voting booth.  A copy of the full text shall be included with any
      absentee ballots.
         2.  The commissioner may prepare a summary for public measures if
      the commissioner finds that a summary is needed to clarify the
      question to the voters.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C73, § 49.43; C75, 77, 79, 81, § 49.44; 81 Acts, ch 34, § 27] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 136, §38; 97 Acts, ch 170, § 40; 2007 Acts, ch 190,
      §24; 2009 Acts, ch 57, §27
         Referred to in § 49.43, 52.25, 145A.7, 468.184, 468.259
         Iowa Constitution, Art. X, § 1