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

        63.5  GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
         The governor and lieutenant governor shall each qualify within ten
      days after the result of the election shall be declared by the
      general assembly, by taking an oath in its presence, in joint
      convention assembled, administered by a judge of the supreme court,
      to the effect that each will support the Constitution of the United
      States and the Constitution of the State of Iowa, and will faithfully
      and impartially, and to the best of the officer's knowledge and
      ability, discharge the duties incumbent upon the officer as governor,
      or lieutenant governor, of this state.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C51, § 320, 334; R60, § 550, 564; C73, § 671, 685; C97, § 1178;
      C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1049; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75,
      77, 79, 81, § 63.5]

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