Iowa Code § 99.1A

Current through March 29, 2024
Section 99.1A - Houses of prostitution or other nuisances
1. A person who erects, establishes, continues, maintains, uses, owns, or leases any building, erection, or place used for the purpose of prostitution or gambling, except as authorized under the laws of this state is guilty of a nuisance. The building, erection, or place, or the ground itself, in or upon which prostitution or gambling is conducted, permitted, or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting or maintaining the nuisance, are also declared a nuisance and shall be enjoined and abated as provided in this chapter.
2. The provisions of this section do not apply to social and charitable gambling conducted pursuant to chapter 99B or to devices lawful under section 99B.52 or 99B.53.

Iowa Code § 99.1A

2015 Acts, ch 99, §49; 2021 Acts, ch 80, § 55

Amended by 2021 Iowa, ch 80, s 55, eff. 7/1/2021.
Amended by 2015 Iowa, ch 99,s 49, eff. 7/1/2015.
SS15, §4944-h1; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1587; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 99.1
C2001, §99.1A .

Referred to in §99.27

Nuisances, see chapter 657

Leasing premises for prostitution, see §725.4

Keeping gambling houses, see §725.5