2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 63 - TIME AND MANNER OF QUALIFYING
63.1 - TIME.

        63.1  TIME.
         Each officer, elective or appointive, before entering upon the
      officer's duties, shall qualify by taking the prescribed oath and by
      giving, when required, a bond, which qualification shall be
      perfected, unless otherwise specified, after being certified as
      elected but not later than noon of the first day which is not a
      Sunday or a legal holiday in January of the first year of the term
      for which the officer was elected.  "Legal holiday" means those
      days provided in section 1C.1.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C51, § 319, 334, 335; R60, § 549, 564, 565; C73, § 670, 685--687;
      C97, § 1177; S13, § 1177; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1045; C46, 50,
      54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 63.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 81, §1
         Prescribed oath, § 63.5, 63.6, 63.10
         Bonds, chapter 64
         Unavoidable casualty, § 63.3