2016 Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 902 - FELONIES
Section 902.3 - Indeterminate sentence.
902.3
Indeterminate sentence.
When a judgment of conviction of a felony other than a class “A” felony is entered against a person, the court, in imposing a sentence of confinement, shall commit the person into the custody of the director of the Iowa department of corrections for an indeterminate term, the maximum length of which shall not exceed the limits as fixed by section 902.9, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, nor shall the term be less than the minimum term imposed by law, if a minimum sentence is provided. However, if the court suspends a person’s sentence under section 321J.2, subsection 5, paragraph “a”, the court shall order the offender to serve time in the county jail as provided in section 321J.2, subsection 5, paragraph “a”, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in section 903.4.
[S13, §5718-a13; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13960; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §789.13; C79, 81, §902.3; 82 Acts, ch 1239, §3]
83 Acts, ch 96, §128, 159; 86 Acts, ch 1220, §43; 99 Acts, ch 12, §15; 2002 Acts, ch 1042, §2; 2010 Acts, ch 1124, §4, 9
Referred to in §904.108
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