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Iowa Code § 23.7 (2026)

Filing of complaints with the board

✓ Iowa Code 2026 (laws through the 2025 session)
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1. The board shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A providing for the timing, form, content, and means by which any aggrieved person, any taxpayer to or citizen of this state, the attorney general, or any county attorney may file a complaint with the board alleging a violation of chapter 21 or 22. The complaint must be filed within sixty days from the time the alleged violation occurred or the complainant could have become aware of the violation with reasonable diligence. All complaints filed with the board shall be public records.

2. All board proceedings in response to the filing of a complaint shall be conducted as expeditiously as possible. 2012 Acts, ch 1115, §10, 17 \n

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1961–2021 · leading case: Town of Mechanicsville v. State Appeal Bd., 111 N.W.2d 317 (Iowa 1961).
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Town of Mechanicsville v. State Appeal Bd., 111 N.W.2d 317 (Iowa 1961). · cites it 4× “Section 23.7 provides in part: “* * * The appeal board shall examine, with the aid of competent assistants, the entire record, and if it shall find that the form of contract is suitable for the improvement proposed, that the improvement and the method of providing for payment…”
Adam Klein v. Iowa Pub. Info. Bd. & Burlington Police Dep't & Iowa Dep't of Pub. Saf., Div. of Crim. Investigations, No. 20-0657 (Iowa Dec. 30, 2021). “§ 23.7(1). The Board’s administrative rules require that a complaint be in writing and meet certain criteria to be accepted by the Board.”
Iowa Code § 23.7(1): 1 case
Adam Klein v. Iowa Pub. Info. Bd. & Burlington Police Dep't & Iowa Dep't of Pub. Saf., Div. of Crim. Investigations, No. 20-0657 (Iowa Dec. 30, 2021). “§ 23.7(1). The Board’s administrative rules require that a complaint be in writing and meet certain criteria to be accepted by the Board.”
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