2009 Iowa Code
Title 15 - Judicial Branch and Judicial Procedures
Subtitle 3 - Civil Procedure
CHAPTER 622 - EVIDENCE
622.62 - ORDINANCES OF CITY.

        622.62  ORDINANCES OF CITY.
         1.  The printed copies of a city code and of supplements to it
      which are purported or proved to have been compiled pursuant to
      section 380.8 shall be admitted in the courts of this state as
      presumptive evidence of the ordinances contained therein. When
      properly pleaded, the courts of this state shall take judicial notice
      of ordinances contained in a city code or city code supplement.
         2.  The printed copies of an ordinance of any city which has not
      been compiled in a city code or a supplement pursuant to section
      380.8 but which has been published by authority of the city, or
      transcripts of any ordinance, act, or proceeding thereof recorded in
      any book, or entries on any minutes or journals kept under direction
      of the city, and certified by the city clerk, shall be received in
      evidence for any purpose for which the original ordinances, books,
      minutes, or journals would be received, and with the same effect.
      The clerk shall furnish such transcripts, and be entitled to charge
      therefor at the rate that the clerk of the district court is entitled
      to charge for transcripts of records from that court.
         3.  The actions of any court of this state in taking judicial
      notice of the existence and content of a city ordinance in any
      proceeding which was commenced between the first day of July, 1973
      and April 17, 1976 shall be conclusively presumed to be lawful, and
      to the extent required by this section this section is retroactive.
      

         [R60, § 1076; C73, § 3720; C97, § 4653; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §
      11315; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 622.62]

         Referred to in § 622.52