317.25 Invasive plants prohibited — exception — penalty.
1. a. A person shall not import, sell, offer for sale, or distribute in this state in any form, including the seeds, any of the following plants:
(1) Teasel (Dipsacus) biennial.
(2) Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora).
(3) Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).
(4) Purple loosestrife (Lythrum virgatum).
(5) Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata).
(6) Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus).
(7) Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica).
(8) Japanese hop (Humulus japonicus).
(9) Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri).
b. However, paragraph “a” does not prohibit the sale, offer for sale, or distribution of the multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) used for understock for either cultivated roses or ornamental shrubs in gardens.
2. Any person violating subsection 1 commits a public offense and is subject to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §317.25]
89 Acts, ch 193, §1; 90 Acts, ch 1111, §1; 91 Acts, ch 5, §1; 91 Acts, ch 258, §46; 2001 Acts, ch 91, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1050, §31; 2013 Acts, ch 74, §1; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §72; 2017 Acts, ch 29, §90; 2017 Acts, ch 101, §4
Structure Iowa Code
Section 317.1A - Noxious weeds.
Section 317.1B - State weed commissioner.
Section 317.1C - Department — powers and duties.
Section 317.1D - Exemption — Iowa hemp Act.
Section 317.2 - State botanist.
Section 317.3 - Weed commissioner — standards for noxious weed control.
Section 317.4 - Direction and control.
Section 317.5 - Weeds in abandoned cemeteries.
Section 317.6 - Entering land to destroy weeds — notice.
Section 317.7 - Report to board.
Section 317.8 - Duty of secretary of agriculture or secretary’s designee.
Section 317.9 - Duty of board to enforce.
Section 317.10 - Duty of owner or tenant.
Section 317.11 - Weeds on roads — harvesting of grass.
Section 317.12 - Weeds on railroad or public lands and gravel pits.
Section 317.13 - Program of control or eradication.
Section 317.14 - Notice of program.
Section 317.15 - Loss or damage to crops.
Section 317.16 - Failure to comply.
Section 317.17 - Additional noxious weeds.
Section 317.18 - Order for weed control or eradication on roads.
Section 317.19 - Road clearing appropriation.
Section 317.20 - Equipment and materials — use on private property.
Section 317.21 - Cost of weed destruction.
Section 317.22 - Duty of highway maintenance personnel.
Section 317.23 - Duty of county attorney.
Section 317.24 - Punishment of officer.
Section 317.25 - Invasive plants prohibited — exception — penalty.