17A.1 Citation and statement of purpose.
1. This chapter may be cited as the “Iowa Administrative Procedure Act”.
2. This chapter is intended to provide a minimum procedural code for the operation of all state agencies when they take action affecting the rights and duties of the public. Nothing in this chapter is meant to discourage agencies from adopting procedures providing greater protections to the public or conferring additional rights upon the public; and save for express provisions of this chapter to the contrary, nothing in this chapter is meant to abrogate in whole or in part any statute prescribing procedural duties for an agency which are greater than or in addition to those provided here. This chapter is meant to apply to all rulemaking and contested case proceedings and all suits for the judicial review of agency action that are not specifically excluded from this chapter or some portion thereof by its express terms or by the express terms of another chapter.
3. The purposes of this chapter are: To provide legislative oversight of powers and duties delegated to administrative agencies; to increase public accountability of administrative agencies; to simplify government by assuring a uniform minimum procedure to which all agencies will be held in the conduct of their most important functions; to increase public access to governmental information; to increase public participation in the formulation of administrative rules; to increase the fairness of agencies in their conduct of contested case proceedings; and to simplify the process of judicial review of agency action as well as increase its ease and availability.
4. In accomplishing its objectives, the intention of this chapter is to strike a fair balance between these purposes and the need for efficient, economical and effective government administration. The chapter is not meant to alter the substantive rights of any person or agency. Its impact is limited to procedural rights with the expectation that better substantive results will be achieved in the everyday conduct of state government by improving the process by which those results are attained.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §17A.1]
2005 Acts, ch 3, §15; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §135
Structure Iowa Code
Title I - STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND MANAGEMENT
Chapter 17A - IOWA ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Section 17A.1 - Citation and statement of purpose.
Section 17A.3 - Public information — adoption of rules — availability of rules and orders.
Section 17A.4 - Procedure for adoption of rules.
Section 17A.4A - Regulatory analysis.
Section 17A.4B - Jobs impact statement.
Section 17A.5 - Filing and taking effect of rules.
Section 17A.6 - Publications — copy of standards adopted by reference.
Section 17A.6A - Rulemaking internet site.
Section 17A.6B - Agency fees internet site — notice.
Section 17A.8 - Administrative rules review committee.
Section 17A.9 - Declaratory orders.
Section 17A.10 - Informal settlements — waiver.
Section 17A.10A - Contested cases — no factual dispute.
Section 17A.11 - Presiding officer, disqualification, substitution.
Section 17A.12 - Contested cases — notice — hearing — records.
Section 17A.13 - Subpoenas — discovery.
Section 17A.14 - Rules of evidence — official notice.
Section 17A.15 - Final decisions — proposed decisions — conclusiveness — review by the agency.
Section 17A.16 - Decisions and orders — rehearing.
Section 17A.17 - Ex parte communications and separation of functions.
Section 17A.18A - Emergency adjudicative proceedings.
Section 17A.19 - Judicial review.
Section 17A.21 - Inconsistency with federal law.
Section 17A.22 - Agency authority to implement chapter.
Section 17A.23 - Construction — delegation of authority.
Section 17A.33 - Review by administrative rules review committee — priority.
Section 17A.34 - Competition with private enterprise — notice for proposed rules.