§ 618.18 — Timely publication required

Iowa § 618.18

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 618: PUBLICATION AND POSTING OF NOTICES

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1. A newspaper shall publish all public notices and reports of proceedings that are
required by law to be published by a certain date within seventy-two hours of receipt unless
one of the following applies:
a. The newspaper publishes less than daily, in which case the newspaper shall publish
the public notice or report of proceedings within forty-eight hours of the next scheduled
publication of the newspaper.
b. The government body, as defined in section 22.1, did not submit the public notice or
report of proceedings in a typed format.
2. A newspaper that receives payment to publish a statutorily required public notice and
fails to timely or accurately publish the public notice as required by subsection 1 shall refund
all moneys received to publish the notice to the government body that paid to publish the
notice.
3. A government body, as defined in section 22.1, satisfies public notice requirements with
respect to a statutorily required public notice that was untimely or inaccurately published
by a newspaper if the government body timely and accurately posted the public notice on
the official internet site of the government body, on the official internet site of all counties in
which notice is required to be given to any person, and on the statewide public notice internet
site established pursuant to section 618.3A if such an internet site exists.