92.22 Labor commissioner to enforce — civil penalty — judicial review.
1. The labor commissioner shall enforce this chapter. An employer who violates this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars for each violation.
2. The commissioner shall notify the employer of a proposed civil penalty by service in the same manner as an original notice or by certified mail. If, within fifteen working days from the receipt of the notice, the employer fails to file a notice of contest in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner pursuant to chapter 17A, the penalty, as proposed, shall be deemed final agency action for purposes of judicial review.
3. The commissioner shall notify the department of revenue upon final agency action regarding the assessment of a penalty against an employer. Interest shall be calculated from the date of final agency action.
4. Judicial review of final agency action pursuant to this section may be sought in accordance with the terms of section 17A.19. If no petition for judicial review is filed within sixty days after service of the final agency action of the commissioner, the commissioner’s findings of fact and final agency action shall be conclusive in connection with any petition for enforcement which is filed by the commissioner after the expiration of the sixty-day period. In any such case, the clerk of court, unless otherwise ordered by the court, shall forthwith enter a decree enforcing the final agency action and shall transmit a copy of the decree to the commissioner and the employer named in the petition.
5. Any penalties recovered pursuant to this section shall be remitted by the commissioner to the treasurer of state for deposit in the general fund of the state.
6. Mayors and police officers, sheriffs, school superintendents, and school truant and attendance officers, within their several jurisdictions, shall cooperate in the enforcement of this chapter and furnish the commissioner and the commissioner’s designees with all information coming to their knowledge regarding violations of this chapter. All such officers and any person authorized in writing by a court of record shall have the authority to enter, for the purpose of investigation, any of the establishments and places mentioned in this chapter and to freely question any person therein as to any violations of this chapter.
7. County attorneys shall investigate all complaints made to them of violations of this chapter, and prosecute all such cases of violation within their respective counties.
[S13, §2477-f; SS15, §2477-a1, -d; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1535, 1541; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, §92.10, 92.16; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §92.22]
87 Acts, ch 111, §8; 2009 Acts, ch 49, §6
Referred to in §331.653, 331.756(17)
Structure Iowa Code
Title III - PUBLIC SERVICES AND REGULATION
Section 92.1 - Street occupations — migratory labor.
Section 92.2 - Over ten and under sixteen years of age.
Section 92.3 - Under fourteen — permitted occupations.
Section 92.4 - Under sixteen — permitted occupations.
Section 92.5 - Fourteen and fifteen — permitted occupations.
Section 92.6 - Fourteen and fifteen — occupations not permitted.
Section 92.7 - Under sixteen — hours permitted.
Section 92.8 - Under eighteen — prohibited occupations.
Section 92.9 - Instruction and training permitted.
Section 92.10 - Permit on file.
Section 92.11 - Issuance of work permits.
Section 92.12 - Migrant labor permits.
Section 92.13 - Optional refusal of permit.
Section 92.14 - Contents of work permit.
Section 92.15 - Application to labor commissioner.
Section 92.16 - Forms for permits formulated.
Section 92.18 - Migratory labor — defined.
Section 92.19 - Violations by parent or guardian.
Section 92.21 - Rules and orders of labor commissioner.
Section 92.22 - Labor commissioner to enforce — civil penalty — judicial review.