2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 616 - PLACE OF BRINGING ACTIONS
616.15 - SURETY COMPANIES.

        616.15  SURETY COMPANIES.
         1.  Suit may be brought against any company or corporation
      furnishing or pretending to furnish surety, fidelity, or other bonds
      in this state, in any county in which the principal place of business
      of such company or corporation is maintained in this state, or in any
      county wherein is maintained its general office for the transaction
      of its Iowa business, or in the county where the principal resides at
      the time of bringing suit, or in the county where the principal did
      reside at the time the bond or other undertaking was executed; and in
      the case of bonds furnished by any such company or corporation for
      any building or improvement, either public or private, action may be
      brought in the county wherein said building or improvement or any
      part thereof is located.
         2.  The secretary of state shall serve as the agent for service of
      process for the purposes of 31 U.S.C. § 9306, of any surety company
      or corporation for a surety bond written by that surety company or
      corporation for the federal government and issued in this state as
      required or permitted under federal law, if the surety company or
      corporation is licensed in this state and cannot be otherwise served
      with process.  Notwithstanding section 507.14, upon request of the
      secretary of state, the commissioner of insurance shall provide the
      secretary of state with the name and address of the person designated
      for consent to service of process by the surety company or
      corporation which is on file with the commissioner.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [S13, § 3500-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 11047; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 616.15] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2006 Acts, ch 1117, §126