Iowa § 556E.3 “Sterling silver.”

Iowa Statutes

§ 556E.3 — “Sterling silver.”

Iowa § 556E.3

Title XIVPROPERTY

Ch. 556EGOLD AND SILVER ALLOY

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Iowa Code § 556E.3 (2026).

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Anypersonmakingforsale, selling, orofferingtosellordisposeof, orhavinginpossession
withintenttosellordisposeof,anyarticleofmerchandisemadeinwholeorinpartofsilveror
of any alloy of silver and having marked, stamped, branded, engraved, or imprinted thereon,
or upon any tag, card, or label attached thereto, or upon any container in which said article
is enclosed, the words “sterling silver” or “sterling” or any colorable imitation thereof, unless
nine hundred twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal purporting to
be silver of which such article is manufactured are pure silver, subject to the qualifications
hereinafter set forth, is guilty of a fraudulent practice, but in the case of all such articles there
§556E.3, GOLD AND SILVER ALLOY 2
shall be allowed a divergence i

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Anypersonmakingforsale, selling, orofferingtosellordisposeof, orhavinginpossession
withintenttosellordisposeof,anyarticleofmerchandisemadeinwholeorinpartofsilveror
of any alloy of silver and having marked, stamped, branded, engraved, or imprinted thereon,
or upon any tag, card, or label attached thereto, or upon any container in which said article
is enclosed, the words “sterling silver” or “sterling” or any colorable imitation thereof, unless
nine hundred twenty-five one-thousandths of the component parts of the metal purporting to
be silver of which such article is manufactured are pure silver, subject to the qualifications
hereinafter set forth, is guilty of a fraudulent practice, but in the case of all such articles there
§556E.3, GOLD AND SILVER ALLOY 2
shall be allowed a divergence in fineness of four one-thousandths parts from the foregoing
standard.