68.10 Powers of court.
The court of impeachment shall sit in the senate chamber, and have power:
1. To compel the attendance of its members as the senate may do when engaged in the ordinary business of legislation.
2. To establish rules necessary for the trial of the accused.
3. To appoint from time to time such subordinate officers, clerks, and reporters as are necessary for the convenient transaction of its business, and at any time to remove any of them.
4. To issue subpoenas, process, and orders, which shall run into any part of the state, and may be served by any adult person authorized so to do by the president of the senate, or by the sheriff of any county, or the sheriff’s deputy, in the name of the state, and with the same force and effect as in an ordinary criminal prosecution, and to compel obedience thereto.
5. To exercise the powers and privileges conferred upon the senate for punishment as for contempts in chapter 2.
6. To adjourn from time to time, and to dissolve when its work is completed.
[C97, §5478; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1140; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §68.10]
99 Acts, ch 96, §6
Contempts, §2.18 – 2.22, chapter 665
Structure Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Section 68.1 - Impeachment defined.
Section 68.2 - Specification of charges — majority must concur.
Section 68.3 - Board of managers — articles.
Section 68.4 - Notice to governor.
Section 68.5 - Officer suspended — temporary appointment.
Section 68.6 - President of senate — notice to senate.
Section 68.7 - Warrant of arrest.
Section 68.8 - Appearance — answer — counsel.
Section 68.9 - Organization of court.
Section 68.10 - Powers of court.
Section 68.11 - Record of proceedings — administering oaths.