2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 2 - Public Officers and Employees
CHAPTER 68A - CAMPAIGN FINANCE
68A.406 - CAMPAIGN SIGNS -- YARD SIGNS.

        68A.406  CAMPAIGN SIGNS -- YARD SIGNS.
         1.  Campaign signs may be placed with the permission of the
      property owner or lessee on any of the following:
         a.  Residential property.
         b.  Agricultural land owned by individuals or by a family farm
      operation as defined in section 9H.1, subsections 8, 9, and 10.
         c.  Property leased for residential purposes including but not
      limited to apartments, condominiums, college housing facilities, and
      houses if placed only on leased property space that is actually
      occupied.
         d.  Vacant lots owned by a person who is not a prohibited
      contributor under section 68A.503.
         e.  Property owned by an organization that is not a prohibited
      contributor under section 68A.503.
         f.  Property leased by a candidate, committee, or an
      organization established to advocate the nomination, election, or
      defeat of a candidate or the passage or defeat of a ballot issue that
      has not yet registered pursuant to section 68A.201, when the property
      is used as campaign headquarters or a campaign office and the
      placement of the sign is limited to the space that is actually
      leased.
         2. a.  Campaign signs shall not be placed on any of the
      following:
         (1)  Any property owned by the state or the governing body of a
      county, city, or other political subdivision of the state, including
      all property considered the public right-of-way.  Upon a
      determination by the board that a sign has been improperly placed,
      the sign shall be removed by highway authorities as provided in
      section 318.5, or by county or city law enforcement authorities in a
      manner consistent with section 318.5.
         (2)  Property owned, leased, or occupied by a prohibited
      contributor under section 68A.503 unless the sign advocates the
      passage or defeat of a ballot issue or is exempted under subsection
      1.
         (3)  On any property without the permission of the property owner
      or lessee.
         (4)  On election day either on the premises of any polling place
      or within three hundred feet of any outside door of any building
      affording access to any room where the polls are held, or of any
      outside door of any building affording access to any hallway,
      corridor, stairway, or other means of reaching the room where the
      polls are held.
         (5)  On the premises of or within three hundred feet of any
      outside door of any building affording access to an absentee voting
      site during the hours when absentee ballots are available in the
      office of the county commissioner of elections as provided in section
      53.10.
         (6)  On the premises of or within three hundred feet of any
      outside door of any building affording access to a satellite absentee
      voting station during the hours when absentee ballots are available
      at the satellite absentee voting station as provided in section
      53.11.
         b.  Paragraph "a", subparagraphs (4), (5), and (6) shall
      not apply to the posting of signs on private property not a polling
      place, except that the placement of a sign on a motor vehicle,
      trailer, or semitrailer, or any attachment to a motor vehicle,
      trailer, or semitrailer parked on public property within three
      hundred feet of any outside door of any building affording access to
      any room serving as a polling place, which sign is more than ninety
      square inches in size, is prohibited.
         3.  Campaign signs with dimensions of thirty-two square feet or
      less are exempt from the attribution statement requirement in section
      68A.405.  Campaign signs in excess of thirty-two square feet, or
      signs that are affixed to buildings or vehicles regardless of size
      except for bumper stickers, are required to include the attribution
      statement required by section 68A.405.  The placement or erection of
      campaign signs shall be exempt from the requirements of chapter 480
      relating to underground facilities information.  

         2004 Acts, ch 1114, §5; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §18; 2005 Acts, ch 72,
      §17--19; 2006 Acts, ch 1097, §13; 2007 Acts, ch 14, §7; 2007 Acts, ch
      215, §244; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, § 160; 2008 Acts, ch 1191, § 118
         Referred to in § 68A.503