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Iowa Code § 11.1 (2026)

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1. For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

a. “Department” means any authority charged by law with official responsibility for the expenditure of public money of the state and any agency receiving money from the general revenues of the state.

b. “Examination” means procedures that are less in scope than an audit but which are directed toward reviewing financial activities and compliance with legal requirements. \n Tue Dec 09 22:33:42 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 11 (64, 1) §11.1, AUDITOR OF STATE 2\n\n c. “Governmental subdivision” means cities and administrative agencies established by cities, hospitals or health care facilities established by a city, counties, county hospitals organized under chapters 347 and 347A, memorial hospitals organized under chapter 37, entities organized under chapter 28E, community colleges, area education agencies, and school districts.

d. “Regents institutions” means the institutions governed by the board of regents under section 262.7.

2. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “book”, “list”, “record”, or “schedule” kept by a county auditor, assessor, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, or other county officer means the county system as defined in section 445.1. [C24, 27, 31, §339; C35, §101-a1; C39, §101.1; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §11.1] 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1; 2011 Acts, ch 75, §1 Referred to in §24.24 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 13 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1985–2024 · leading case: Midland Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Mercy Clinics, Inc., 579 N.W.2d 823 (Iowa 1998).
Midland Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Mercy Clinics, Inc., 579 N.W.2d 823 (Iowa 1998). · cites it 2× “Allan Farnsworth, Farnsworth on Contracts § 11.1, at 58 (1990). “In such transfers, the assignee assumes the rights, remedies and benefits of the assignor.”
Baratta v. Polk Cnty. Health Servs., Inc., 588 N.W.2d 107 (Iowa 1999). · cites it 2× “Madsen, Marshall's Iowa Title Opinions and Standards § 11.1(F), at 38 (2d ed. Supp.1982) (noting that section 624.”
In the Matter of the Est. of Karen J. Myers, Rex A. Picken, 825 N.W.2d 1 (Iowa 2012). “POD accounts, such as the checking and certificate of deposit accounts here, and annuities are nonprobate assets.”
Clemens Graf Droste Zu Vischering v. Kading, 368 N.W.2d 702 (Iowa 1985). “Madsen, Marshall’s Iowa Title Opinions and Standards § 11.1(J), at 231 (2d ed. 1978). Iowa Code chapter 572 (1981) governs the contractors’ mechanic’s lien claims.”
State v. Hindman, 441 N.W.2d 770 (Iowa 1989). “Israel, Criminal Procedure § 11.1, at 8 (1984). We conclude that no violation of the sixth amendment has been demonstrated in the present case.”
State v. Ball, 600 N.W.2d 602 (Iowa 1999). “In these circumstances, Ball is on shaky grounds when he now claims good cause. His own failure to cooperate contributed in large part to counsel’s failure to discover the grounds for the motion to suppress.”
United States v. Story Cnty. ex rel. Bd. of Supervisors, 28 F. Supp. 3d 861 (S.D. Iowa 2014). · cites it 2× “courts were presumptively agency records belonging to the United States that must be kept at a BIA office, see § 11.1(d), and that Red Lake had not demonstrated the necessary elements for exemption under § 11.”
Chipokas, L.L.C. v. Casey's Mktg. Co. (Iowa Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 10× “Chipokas’s Consent to the Assignment Chipokas laments section 11.1 of the CSL compelled its consent to the assignment and assumption of lease agreement.”
Auditor of the State of Iowa, Rob Sand v. An Unnamed Local Gov't Risk Pool (Iowa 2023). · cites it 10× “” The district court concluded that no statute granted the state auditor the authority to oversee local government risk pools.”
Rob Sand, Auditor of the State of Iowa v. John Doe, in His Off. Capacity & Unnamed State Agency, State of Iowa (Iowa 2021). · cites it 2× “” Iowa Code § 11.1 (b). Therefore, we know an audit is greater in scope than an examination.”
Kirkwood Inst., Inc. v. Iowa Auditor of State Rob Sand, John McCormally, & Off. of the Auditor of State (Iowa 2024). · cites it 2× “” Iowa Code § 11.1 (b). In Sand, we held that an initial email request for information from the Auditor to a state agency did not constitute an audit for purposes of § 11.”
Beverly Gardiner Nance v. Iowa Dep't of Revenue (Iowa Ct. App. 2017). “Kurtz, Kurtz on Iowa Estates: Intestacy, Wills, and Estate Administration § 11.1, at 451 (3d ed. 1995). Nonprobate assets are interests in property that pass outside of the decedent’s probate estate to a designated beneficiary upon the decedent’s death.”
— Iowa Code § 11.1(1)(c) — 1 case
Auditor of the State of Iowa, Rob Sand v. An Unnamed Local Gov't Risk Pool (Iowa 2023). “” The district court concluded that no statute granted the state auditor the authority to oversee local government risk pools.”
— Iowa Code § 11.1(F) — 1 case
Baratta v. Polk Cnty. Health Servs., Inc., 588 N.W.2d 107 (Iowa 1999). “Madsen, Marshall's Iowa Title Opinions and Standards § 11.1(F), at 38 (2d ed. Supp.1982) (noting that section 624.”
— Iowa Code § 11.1(J) — 1 case
Clemens Graf Droste Zu Vischering v. Kading, 368 N.W.2d 702 (Iowa 1985). “Madsen, Marshall’s Iowa Title Opinions and Standards § 11.1(J), at 231 (2d ed. 1978). Iowa Code chapter 572 (1981) governs the contractors’ mechanic’s lien claims.”
— Iowa Code § 11.1(a) — 1 case
State v. Ball, 600 N.W.2d 602 (Iowa 1999). “In these circumstances, Ball is on shaky grounds when he now claims good cause. His own failure to cooperate contributed in large part to counsel’s failure to discover the grounds for the motion to suppress.”
— Iowa Code § 11.1(d) — 1 case
United States v. Story Cnty. ex rel. Bd. of Supervisors, 28 F. Supp. 3d 861 (S.D. Iowa 2014). “courts were presumptively agency records belonging to the United States that must be kept at a BIA office, see § 11.1(d), and that Red Lake had not demonstrated the necessary elements for exemption under § 11.”
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