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2021 Iowa Code
Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
Chapter 659 - LIBEL AND SLANDER
Section 659.4 - Candidate — retraction — time — imputing sexual misconduct.
Universal Citation: IA Code § 659.4 (2021)
659.4 Candidate — retraction — time — imputing sexual misconduct.
If the plaintiff was a candidate for office at the time of the libelous publication, no retraction shall be available unless published in a conspicuous place on the editorial page, nor if the libel was published within two weeks next before the election. This section and sections 659.2 and 659.3 do not apply to libel imputing sexual misconduct to any persons.
[SS15, §3592-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12415; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §659.4]
85 Acts, ch 99, §11
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