Iowa Code

Iowa Code § 456.5 (2026)

Authority to enter lands

✓ current as of July 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section IA-LEGlegis.iowa.gov JustiaTitle on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

For the purpose of carrying on investigations, the state geologist and the state geologist’s assistants and employees shall have authority to enter and cross all lands within the state; provided that in so doing no damage is done to private property. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §4553; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §305.5] C93, §460A.5 2002 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1003, §260, 262 C2003, §456.5 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §245

\n
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2024–2024 · leading case: Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kent Kasischke (Iowa 2024).
Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kent Kasischke (Iowa 2024). “§ 456.5 (“[T]he state geologist and the state geologist’s assistants and employees shall have authority to enter and cross all lands within the state .”
Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC v. Kent Kasischke (Iowa 2024). “§ 456.5 (“[T]he state geologist and the state geologist’s assistants and employees shall have authority to enter and cross all lands within the state .”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.