§ 555B.10 — Limitation on liability

Iowa § 555B.10

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XIV: PROPERTY
• Ch. 555B: DISPOSAL OF ABANDONED MOBILE HOMES AND PERSONAL PROPERTY

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1. A real property owner who disposes of a mobile home or personal property in
accordance with this chapter is not liable for damages by reason of the removal, sale, or
disposal of the mobile home and personal property unless the damage is caused willfully
or by gross negligence. Upon a motion to the district court and a showing that the real
property owner is not proceeding in accordance with this chapter, the court may enjoin the
real property owner from proceeding further and a determination for the proper disposition
of the mobile home and personal property shall be made. If disposition of the mobile home
or personal property has not occurred in accordance with this chapter, the owner thereof
has a right to recover from the real property owner, any loss caused by failure to comply
with this chapter. The burden of proof shall be upon the mobile home or personal property
owner to show that the real property owner has not complied with this chapter in disposing
of a mobile home or personal property.
2. The fact that a better price could have been obtained by a sale at a different time or
in a different method from that selected by the real property owner is not of itself sufficient
to establish that the sale was not made in a commercially reasonable manner. If the real
property owner sells the mobile home and personal property in the usual manner in any
recognized market or if the real property owner sells at the price current in the market at
the time of the real property owner’s sale or if the real property owner has otherwise sold in
conformity with reasonable commercial practices among dealers in the type of mobile home
or personal property sold, the real property owner has sold in a commercially reasonable
manner. A disposition approved in any judicial proceeding shall be deemed conclusively to
be commercially reasonable.