573.1 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter:
1. “Construction”, in addition to its ordinary meaning, includes repair, alteration and demolition.
2. “Material” shall, in addition to its ordinary meaning, embrace feed, gasoline, kerosene, lubricating oils and greases, provisions and fuel, and the use of forms, accessories, and equipment, but shall not include personal expenses or personal purchases of employees for their individual use.
3. “Public corporation” shall embrace the state, and all counties, cities, public school corporations, and all officers, boards, or commissions empowered by law to enter into contracts for the construction of public improvements.
4. “Public improvement” is an improvement, the cost of which is payable from taxes or other funds under the control of the public corporation, except that in cases of public improvement for drainage or levee purposes the provisions of the drainage law, chapter 468, in cases of conflict shall govern.
5. “Service” shall, in addition to its ordinary meaning, include the furnishing to the contractor of workers’ compensation insurance, and premiums and charges for such insurance shall be considered a claim for service.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10299; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §573.1]
85 Acts, ch 22, §1; 2019 Acts, ch 59, §196; 2020 Acts, ch 1063, §315
Referred to in §686.1
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 573 - LABOR AND MATERIAL ON PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Section 573.2 - Public improvements — bond — waiver and remedies.
Section 573.3 - Bond mandatory.
Section 573.4 - Deposit in lieu of bond.
Section 573.5 - Amount of bond.
Section 573.6 - Subcontractors on public improvements.
Section 573.7 - Claims for material or labor.
Section 573.8 - Highway improvements.
Section 573.9 - Officer to endorse time of filing claim.
Section 573.10 - Time of filing claims.
Section 573.11 - Claims filed after action brought.
Section 573.12 - Payments and retention from payments on contracts.
Section 573.13 - Inviolability and disposition of fund.
Section 573.14 - Retention of unpaid funds.
Section 573.15 - Claim against retainage or bond.
Section 573.15A - Early release of retained funds.
Section 573.16 - Optional and mandatory actions — bond to release.
Section 573.18 - Adjudication — payment of claims.
Section 573.19 - Insufficiency of funds.
Section 573.20 - Converting property into money.
Section 573.21 - Attorney fees.
Section 573.22 - Unpaid claimants — judgment on bond.
Section 573.23 - Abandonment of public work — effect.
Section 573.24 - Notice of claims to state department of transportation.
Section 573.25 - Filing of claim — effect.
Section 573.26 - Public corporation — action on bond.