2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 317 - WEEDS
317.25 - TEASEL, MULTIFLORA ROSE, AND PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE PROHIBITED -- EXCEPTIONS.

        317.25  TEASEL, MULTIFLORA ROSE, AND PURPLE
      LOOSESTRIFE PROHIBITED -- EXCEPTIONS.
         A person shall not import, sell, offer for sale, or distribute
      teasel (Dipsacus) biennial, the multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora),
      purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), purple loosestrife (Lythrum
      virgatum), or seeds of them in any form in this state.  However, this
      section does not prohibit the sale, offer for sale, or distribution
      of the multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) used for understock for
      either cultivated roses or ornamental shrubs in gardens.  Any person
      violating the provisions of this section is subject to a fine of not
      exceeding one hundred dollars.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 317.25] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         89 Acts, ch 193, §1; 90 Acts, ch 1111, § 1; 91 Acts, ch 5, §1; 91
      Acts, ch 258, §46; 2001 Acts, ch 91, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1050, §31