99.1A Houses of prostitution or other nuisances.
1. A person who erects, establishes, continues, maintains, uses, owns, or leases any building, erection, or place used for the purpose of prostitution or gambling, except as authorized under the laws of this state is guilty of a nuisance. The building, erection, or place, or the ground itself, in or upon which prostitution or gambling is conducted, permitted, or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture, fixtures, musical instruments, and movable property used in conducting or maintaining the nuisance, are also declared a nuisance and shall be enjoined and abated as provided in this chapter.
2. The provisions of this section do not apply to social and charitable gambling conducted pursuant to chapter 99B or to devices lawful under section 99B.52 or 99B.53.
[SS15, §4944-h1; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1587; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §99.1]
C2001, §99.1A
2015 Acts, ch 99, §49; 2021 Acts, ch 80, §55
Referred to in §99.27
Nuisances, see chapter 657
Leasing premises for prostitution, see §725.4
Keeping gambling houses, see §725.5
Section amended
Structure Iowa Code
Title III - PUBLIC SERVICES AND REGULATION
Chapter 99 - HOUSES USED FOR PROSTITUTION OR GAMBLING
Section 99.1A - Houses of prostitution or other nuisances.
Section 99.2 - Injunction — procedure.
Section 99.3 - Notice — temporary writ — without bond.
Section 99.4 - Owner defined — notice.
Section 99.6 - Temporary restraining order.
Section 99.7 - Writ — how served.
Section 99.9 - Mutilation or removal of notice.
Section 99.12 - Scope of injunction.
Section 99.16 - Delay in trial.
Section 99.18 - Violation of injunction.
Section 99.21 - Abatement — sale of property.
Section 99.23 - Breaking and entering closed building — punishment.
Section 99.24 - Duty of county attorney.
Section 99.26 - Release of property.
Section 99.28 - Certification and payment of mulct tax.
Section 99.29 - Collection of mulct tax.