2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 619 - PLEADINGS AND MOTIONS
619.19 - VERIFICATION NOT REQUIRED -- AFFIDAVITS.

        619.19  VERIFICATION NOT REQUIRED -- AFFIDAVITS.
         Pleadings need not be verified unless otherwise required by
      statute.  Where a pleading is verified, it is not necessary that
      subsequent pleadings be verified unless otherwise required by
      statute.
         The signature of a party, the party's legal counsel, or any other
      person representing the party, to a motion, pleading, or other paper
      is a certificate that:
         1.  The person has read the motion, pleading, or other paper.
         2.  To the best of the person's knowledge, information, and
      belief, formed after reasonable inquiry, it is grounded in fact and
      is warranted by existing law or a good faith argument for the
      extension, modification, or reversal of existing law.
         3.  It is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to
      harass or cause an unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost
      of litigation.
         If a motion, pleading, or other paper is not signed, it shall be
      stricken unless it is signed promptly after the omission is called to
      the attention of the pleader or movant.
         If a motion, pleading, or other paper is signed in violation of
      this section, the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative,
      shall impose upon the person signing, the represented party, or both,
      an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay the other
      party or parties the amount of the reasonable expenses incurred
      because of the filing of the motion, pleading, or other paper,
      including a reasonable attorney fee.  

         86 Acts, ch 1211, § 38