99.26 Release of property.
If the owner of the premises in which said nuisance has been maintained appears and pays all costs of the proceeding, and files a bond with sureties to be approved by the court in the full value of the property, to be ascertained by the court, conditioned that the owner will immediately abate said nuisance and prevent the same from being established or kept therein within a period of one year thereafter, the court, if satisfied of the owner’s good faith, may order the premises, closed or sought to be closed under the order of abatement, delivered to said owner, and said order of abatement canceled so far as the same may relate to said real property. The release of the property under the provisions of this section shall not release it from the injunction herein provided against the property nor any of the defendants nor from any judgment, lien, penalty, or liability to which it may be subject by law.
[SS15, §4944-h7; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §1612; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §99.26]
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.