2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.55 - EFFECT OF ADJUDICATION AND DISPOSITION.

        232.55  EFFECT OF ADJUDICATION AND DISPOSITION.
         1.  An adjudication or disposition in a proceeding under this
      division shall not be deemed a conviction of a crime and shall not
      impose any civil disabilities or operate to disqualify the child in
      any civil service application or appointment.
         2. a.  Adjudication and disposition proceedings under this
      division are not admissible as evidence against a person in a
      subsequent proceeding in any other court before or after the person
      reaches majority except in a sentencing proceeding after conviction
      of the person for an offense other than a simple or serious
      misdemeanor.
         b.  Adjudication and disposition proceedings may properly be
      included in a presentence investigation report prepared pursuant to
      chapter 901 and section 906.5.
         c.  However, the use of adjudication and disposition
      proceedings pursuant to this subsection shall be subject to the
      restrictions contained in section 232.150.
         3.  This section does not apply to dispositional orders entered
      regarding a child who has received a youthful offender deferred
      sentence under section 907.3A who is not discharged from probation
      before or upon the child's eighteenth birthday.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, 81, § 232.55] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         85 Acts, ch 179, §1; 97 Acts, ch 126, §29; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §238
         Referred to in § 321.213