Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 4.13 (2026)

General savings provision

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1. The reenactment, revision, amendment, or repeal of a statute does not affect any of the following: a. The prior operation of the statute or any prior action taken under the statute. b. Any validation, cure, right, privilege, obligation, or liability previously acquired, accrued, accorded, or incurred under the statute. c. Any violation of the statute or penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect to the statute, prior to the amendment or repeal. d. Any investigation, proceeding, or remedy in respect of any privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment; and the investigation, proceeding, or remedy may be instituted, continued, or enforced, and the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment imposed, as if the statute had not been repealed or amended. 2. If the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment for any offense is reduced by a reenactment, revision, or amendment of a statute, the penalty, forfeiture, or punishment if not already imposed shall be imposed according to the statute as amended. [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §4.13] 2008 Acts, ch 1031, §6 Referred to in §124.201

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 24 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1983–2025 · leading case: State of Iowa v. Keyon Harrison, 914 N.W.2d 178 (Iowa 2018).
State of Iowa v. Keyon Harrison, 914 N.W.2d 178 (Iowa 2018). · cites it 2× “” Iowa Code § 4.13 (1)(a). Section 4.13 “does not require that the characterization of the crime of which [the defendant] is convicted be changed.”
State of Iowa v. Yvette Marie Louisell, 865 N.W.2d 590 (Iowa 2015). · cites it 2× “” Iowa Code § 4.13 (2) (2015); see State v.”
State v. Lyle, 854 N.W.2d 378 (Iowa 2014). “Code Ann. § 9.94A.540(3)(a) (West 2010) (prohibiting mandatory minimum sentences for juvenile offenders except for aggravated first-degree murder).”
Iowa Dep't of Transp. v. Iowa Dist. Court for Buchanan Cnty., 587 N.W.2d 774 (Iowa 1998). · cites it 4× “Iowa Code § 4.13 (2). In interpreting this statute, we give the words used in section 4.”
State v. Stoen, 596 N.W.2d 504 (Iowa 1999). · cites it 2× “1, and Iowa’s general savings statute, see Iowa Code § 4.13 . Finding no merit in these arguments, we affirm.”
Women Aware v. Reagen, 331 N.W.2d 88 (Iowa 1983). “Iowa Code § 4.13 (1981). We find these statutes are not controlling in this instance.”
Matter of Est. of Weidman, 476 N.W.2d 357 (Iowa 1991). “Iowa Code § 4.13 (1985). At the time this action was commenced in June 1989, plaintiffs right to bring an action had already been cut off by operation of the four-month limitation period in the former, pre-amend-ed section 633.”
Matter of Towns, 74 B.R. 563 (Bankr. S.D. Iowa 1987). “Iowa Code § 4.13 (2) (1985) (emphasis added).”
Wieslander v. Iowa Dep't of Transp., 596 N.W.2d 516 (Iowa 1999). “Iowa Code § 4.13 . Additionally, our statutory rules of construction provide that the repeal of a statute does not “.”
State v. Bousman, 387 N.W.2d 605 (Iowa 1986). “See also Iowa Code § 4.13 (general savings provision).”
State of Iowa v. Merrill Lee Howard (Iowa Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 2× “See Iowa Code § 4.13 (1)(c) (2013).” Lyle, 854 N.”
State of Iowa v. Melissa Kay Kittell (Iowa Ct. App. 2020). · cites it 2× “2d 10, 12 (Iowa 1981) (noting that the amendment of a statute after judgment was rendered and while judgment was stayed on appeal does not affect the judgment rendered); Iowa Code § 4.13 (1)(c) (2018) (“The . . .”
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