House File 2365 - Reprinted



                                HOUSE FILE       
                                BY  COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

                                (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2132)


    Passed House, Date                Passed Senate,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to committing disorderly conduct near a funeral,
  2    memorial service, funeral procession, or burial, and providing
  3    penalties.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 HF 2365
  6 jm/es/25

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  723.5  DISORDERLY CONDUCT ==
  1  2 FUNERAL OR MEMORIAL SERVICE.
  1  3    1.  A person shall not do any of the following within three
  1  4 hundred feet of the building or other location where a funeral
  1  5 or memorial service is being conducted, or within five hundred
  1  6 feet of a funeral procession or burial:
  1  7    a.  Make loud and raucous noise which causes unreasonable
  1  8 distress to the persons attending the funeral or memorial
  1  9 service, or participating in the funeral procession.
  1 10    b.  Direct abusive epithets or make any threatening gesture
  1 11 which the person knows or reasonably should know is likely to
  1 12 provoke a violent reaction by another.
  1 13    c.  Disturb or disrupt the funeral, memorial service,
  1 14 funeral procession, or burial by conduct intended to disturb
  1 15 or disrupt the funeral, memorial service, funeral procession,
  1 16 or burial.
  1 17    2.  This section applies to conduct within sixty minutes
  1 18 preceding, during, and within sixty minutes after a funeral,
  1 19 memorial service, funeral procession, or burial.
  1 20    3.  A person who commits a violation of this section
  1 21 commits:
  1 22    a.  A simple misdemeanor for a first offense.
  1 23    b.  A serious misdemeanor for a second offense.
  1 24    c.  A class "D" felony for a third or subsequent offense.
  1 25 HF 2365
  1 26 jm:nh/es/25