Iowa Code
Chapter 573 - LABOR AND MATERIAL ON PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
Section 573.5 - Amount of bond.

573.5 Amount of bond.
Said bond shall run to the public corporation. The amount thereof shall be fixed, and the bond approved, by the official board or officer empowered to let the contract, in an amount not less than seventy-five percent of the contract price, and sufficient to comply with all requirements of said contract and to insure the fulfillment of every condition, expressly or impliedly embraced in said bond; except that in contracts where no part of the contract price is paid until after the completion of the public improvement the amount of said bond may be fixed at not less than twenty-five percent of the contract price.
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §10303; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §573.5]

Structure Iowa Code

Iowa Code

Title XIV - PROPERTY

Chapter 573 - LABOR AND MATERIAL ON PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS

Section 573.1 - Definitions.

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 573.17 - Parties.

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.

Section 573.27 - Payment before work completed.

Section 573.28 - Early release of retained funds.