2009 Iowa Code
Title 6 - Human Services
Subtitle 5 - Juveniles
CHAPTER 232 - JUVENILE JUSTICE
232.75 - SANCTIONS.

        232.75  SANCTIONS.
         1.  Any person, official, agency, or institution required by this
      chapter to report a suspected case of child abuse who knowingly and
      willfully fails to do so is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
         2.  Any person, official, agency, or institution required by
      section 232.69 to report a suspected case of child abuse who
      knowingly fails to do so or who knowingly interferes with the making
      of such a report in violation of section 232.70 is civilly liable for
      the damages proximately caused by such failure or interference.
         3.  A person who reports or causes to be reported to the
      department of human services false information regarding an alleged
      act of child abuse, knowing that the information is false or that the
      act did not occur, commits a simple misdemeanor.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C75, 77, § 235A.9; C79, 81, § 232.75] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         86 Acts, ch 1238, § 11; 87 Acts, ch 13, § 2; 2001 Acts, ch 122, §6

         Referred to in § 232.68, 232.71B