As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. “Governing body” means the council of a city, county board of supervisors, board
of township trustees, local school board, and other boards and commissions exercising
quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, and quasi-judicial power over territory comprising a
municipality.
2. “Municipality” means city, county, township, school district, a chapter 28E entity as
provided in section 670.4, subsection 1, paragraph “p”, and any other unit of local government
except soil and water conservation districts as defined in section 161A.3, subsection 6.
3. “Officer” includes but is not limited to the members of the governing body.
4. “Tort” means every civil wrong which results in wrongful death or injury to person or
injury to property or injury to personal or property rights and includes but is not restricted to
actions based upon negligence; error or omission; nuisance; breach of duty, whether statutory
or other duty or denial or impairment of any right under any constitutional provision, statute
or rule of law.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §613A.1]
86 Acts, ch 1172, §2; 86 Acts, ch 1238, §61; 87 Acts, ch 23, §57; 89 Acts, ch 83, §82
C93, §670.1
2015 Acts, ch 132, §48, 51
Referred to in §29C.9, 87.4, 321.231A, 321.231B, 321.424, 321.433, 321.451, 554G.1
\n
Notes of Decisions
Joshua Venckus v. City of Iowa City (2019)
iowa · cites it 4×
“” Iowa Code section 670.1(4) defines a “tort” as “every civil wrong,” including the “denial or impairment of any right under any constitutional provision.”
Rucker v. Humboldt Community School District (2007)
iowa · cites it 4×
“Humboldt Community School District and Humboldt High School are "municipalities" as defined by Iowa Code section 670.1(2). Rucker's claims against Hoffman are also subject to Iowa Code chapter 670 because Hoffman is being sued in his capacity as a municipal employee.”
Kelley v. Story County Sheriff (2000)
iowa · cites it 4×
“4(7) and (8), when read with the definition of "tort," now codified at section 670.1(4), would violate article I, section 18 of the Iowa Constitution as they would appear to exempt the county from liability for constitutional torts, i.”
Cedar Falls v. CEDAR FALLS SCHOOL DIST. (2000)
iowa · cites it 2×
“Iowa Code chapter 670 governs tort liability of governmental subdivisions, including school districts, see Iowa Code § 670.1 (2) (1999) (defining “municipality” to include a school district), subjecting them to liability for the torts of their officers and employees unless the…”
City of McGregor v. Janett (1996)
iowa · cites it 3×
“§ 670.1(1). Thus Iowa’s law appears consistent with the general rule that “[a] municipality may be charged with responsibility for misrepresen *620 tations of its agent.”
Wilma Jean Kellogg v. City of Albia, Iowa (2018)
iowa · cites it 2×
“Iowa Code § 670.1 (4) (" ' Tort ' means every civil wrong which results in wrongful death or injury to person or injury to property or injury to personal or property rights and includes but is not *827 restricted to actions based upon negligence; error or omission; nuisance .”
— Iowa Code § 670.1(1) — 3 cases
City of McGregor v. Janett (1996)
iowa
“§ 670.1(1). Thus Iowa’s law appears consistent with the general rule that “[a] municipality may be charged with responsibility for misrepresen *620 tations of its agent.”
— Iowa Code § 670.1(2) — 11 cases
Rucker v. Humboldt Community School District (2007)
iowa
“Humboldt Community School District and Humboldt High School are "municipalities" as defined by Iowa Code section 670.1(2). Rucker's claims against Hoffman are also subject to Iowa Code chapter 670 because Hoffman is being sued in his capacity as a municipal employee.”
— Iowa Code § 670.1(3) — 2 cases
City of McGregor v. Janett (1996)
iowa
“§ 670.1(1). Thus Iowa’s law appears consistent with the general rule that “[a] municipality may be charged with responsibility for misrepresen *620 tations of its agent.”
— Iowa Code § 670.1(4) — 9 cases
Joshua Venckus v. City of Iowa City (2019)
iowa
“” Iowa Code section 670.1(4) defines a “tort” as “every civil wrong,” including the “denial or impairment of any right under any constitutional provision.”
Kelley v. Story County Sheriff (2000)
iowa
“4(7) and (8), when read with the definition of "tort," now codified at section 670.1(4), would violate article I, section 18 of the Iowa Constitution as they would appear to exempt the county from liability for constitutional torts, i.”
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.