805.5 Failure to appear.
Any person who willfully fails to appear in court as specified by the citation shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor. Where a defendant fails to make a required court appearance, the court shall issue an arrest warrant for the offense of failure to appear, and shall forward the warrant and the original or electronically produced citation to the clerk. The clerk shall enter a transfer to the issuing agency on the docket, and shall return the warrant with the original or electronically produced citation attached to the law enforcement agency which issued the citation for enforcement of the warrant. Upon arrest of the defendant, the warrant and the original or electronically produced citation shall be returned to the court, and the offenses shall be heard and disposed of simultaneously.
[C73, 75, 77, §753.9; C79, 81, §805.5]
95 Acts, ch 118, §35; 96 Acts, ch 1034, §65
Referred to in §364.17, 602.8102(126)
Structure Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 805 - CITATIONS IN LIEU OF ARREST
Section 805.1 - Issuance of citation — release.
Section 805.5 - Failure to appear.
Section 805.6 - Uniform citation and complaint.
Section 805.7 - Traffic and scheduled violations offices — fine collection boxes.
Section 805.8 - Scheduled violations.
Section 805.8A - Motor vehicle and transportation scheduled violations.
Section 805.8B - Navigation, recreation, hunting, and fishing scheduled violations.
Section 805.8C - Miscellaneous scheduled violations.
Section 805.9 - Admission of scheduled violations.
Section 805.10 - Required court appearance.
Section 805.11 - Other penalties.
Section 805.12 - Disposition of traffic fines and costs.
Section 805.14 - Credit cards.
Section 805.15 - Other citation forms.
Section 805.16 - Citations to persons under eighteen years of age — arrest — nonsecure custody.