Bill Text: IA SF142 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 142 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act to exclude equine boarding from the annual lease termination requirements for farm tenancies.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-01-31 - Subcommittee: Rozenboom, Edler, and Hart. S.J. 186. [SF142 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF142-Introduced.html


Senate File 142 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  CHAPMAN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act to exclude equine boarding from the annual lease
  2    termination requirements for farm tenancies.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 562.1A, subsection 2, Code 2017, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    2.  a.  "Farm tenancy" means a leasehold interest in land
  1  4 held by a person who produces crops or provides for the care
  1  5 and feeding of livestock on the land, including by grazing or
  1  6 supplying feed to the livestock.
  1  7    b.  "Farm tenancy" does not include a leasehold interest in
  1  8 land held by a person boarding animals of the equine species.
  1  9                           EXPLANATION
  1 10 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 11 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 12    This bill excludes equine boarding from the definition of
  1 13 farm tenancy under Iowa's real estate tenant=lessee law (Code
  1 14 chapter 562). Exclusion from the definition of farm tenancy
  1 15 results in a tenancy at will under which the tenancy can be
  1 16 terminated after a 30=day notice by either party to the lease
  1 17 agreement (Code section 562.4). Generally, all farm tenancies
  1 18 terminate on March 1, at the end of the farm tenant's crop
  1 19 year. However, in order to effectuate the termination one
  1 20 party to the lease must have given the other party written
  1 21 notice of termination by the previous September 1 (Code
  1 22 sections 562.5 through 562.7). Without such timely written
  1 23 notice of the termination, the lease continues under its same
  1 24 terms and conditions until the next September 1.
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