2009 Iowa Code
Title 14 - Property
Subtitle 1 - Personal Property
CHAPTER 556E - GOLD AND SILVER ALLOY
556E.1 - FRAUDULENT MARKING.

        556E.1  FRAUDULENT MARKING.
         Any person making for sale, selling, or offering to sell or
      dispose of, or having in possession with intent to sell or dispose
      of, any article of merchandise made, in whole or in part, of gold or
      any alloy of gold, and having stamped, branded, engraved, or
      imprinted thereon, or upon any tag, card, or label attached thereto,
      or upon any container in which said article is enclosed, any mark
      indicating or designed to indicate that the gold or alloy in such
      article is of a greater degree of fineness than the actual fineness
      or quality thereof, unless the actual fineness thereof, in the case
      of flatware or watchcases, be not less by more than three
      one-thousandths parts, and in case of all other articles be not less
      by more than one-half carat than the fineness indicated by the marks
      stamped, branded, engraved, or imprinted upon any part of such
      article, or upon any tag, card, or label attached thereto, or upon
      any container in which such article is enclosed according to the
      standards and subject to the qualifications hereinafter set forth, is
      guilty of a fraudulent practice.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 5077-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1906; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 119.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         C93, § 556E.1
         Referred to in § 556E.2