2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 3 - Public Contracts and Bonds
CHAPTER 73 - PREFERENCES
73.1 - PREFERENCE -- CONDITIONS.

        73.1  PREFERENCE -- CONDITIONS.
         Every commission, board, committee, officer or other governing
      body of the state, or of any county, township, school district or
      city, and every person acting as contracting or purchasing agent for
      any such commission, board, committee, officer or other governing
      body shall use only those products and provisions grown and coal
      produced within the state of Iowa, when they are found in marketable
      quantities in the state and are of a quality reasonably suited to the
      purpose intended, and can be secured without additional cost over
      foreign products or products of other states.  This section shall
      apply to horticultural products grown in this state even if the
      products are not in the stage of processing that the agency usually
      purchases the product.  However, this section does not apply to a
      school district purchasing food while the school district is
      participating in the federal school lunch program.
         All requests for proposals for materials, products, supplies,
      provisions, and other needed articles and services to be purchased at
      public expense shall not knowingly be written in such a way as to
      exclude an Iowa-based company capable of filling the needs of the
      purchasing entity from submitting a responsive proposal.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C27, 31, 35, § 1171-b1; C39, § 1171.01; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62,
      66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 73.1] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1096, § 10; 2004 Acts, ch 1046, §1