§ 622.62 — Ordinances of city

Iowa § 622.62

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XV: JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
• Ch. 622: EVIDENCE

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1. Theprintedcopiesofacitycodeandofsupplementstoitwhicharepurportedorproved
to have been compiled pursuant to section 380.8 shall be admitted in the courts of this state
as presumptive evidence of the ordinances contained therein. When properly pleaded, the
courts of this state shall take judicial notice of ordinances contained in a city code or city code
supplement.
2. The printed copies of an ordinance of any city which has not been compiled in a city
code or a supplement pursuant to section 380.8 but which has been published by authority of
the city, or transcripts of any ordinance, act, or proceeding thereof recorded in any book, or
entries on any minutes or journals kept under direction of the city, and certified by the city
clerk, shall be received in evidence for any purpose for which the original ordinances, books,
minutes, orjournalswouldbereceived, andwiththesameeffect. Theclerkshallfurnishsuch
transcripts, and be entitled to charge therefor at the rate that the clerk of the district court is
entitled to charge for transcripts of records from that court.
3. The actions of any court of this state in taking judicial notice of the existence and
content of a city ordinance in any proceeding which was commenced between the first day of
July, 1973, and April 17, 1976, shall be conclusively presumed to be lawful, and to the extent
required by this section, this section is retroactive.

Legislative History

[R60, §1076; C73, §3720; C97, §4653; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11315; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §622.62]