483A.32  Public nuisance.

Any device, contrivance, or material used to violate a rule adopted by the commission, or any other provision of this chapter or chapter 481A, 481B, 482, 484A, or 484B, is a public nuisance and may be condemned by the state. The director, the director's officers, or any peace officer, shall seize the devices, contrivances, or materials used as a public nuisance, without warrant or process, and deliver them to a magistrate having jurisdiction. An automobile shall not be construed to be a public nuisance under this section.

Section History: Early form

  [C73, § 4052; C97, § 2540; SS15, § 2539, 2540; C24, 27, 31, § 1715; C35, § 1794-e16; C39, § 1794.099; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 110.18; C71, 73, 75, 77, § 110.19; C79, 81, § 110.32]

Section History: Recent form

  86 Acts, ch 1240, § 9; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1878

  C93, § 483A.32

  98 Acts, ch 1125, §1

Internal References

  Referred to in § 462A.27, 483A.33


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