Bill Text: IA SF260 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the liability of possessors and occupants of land for injury to trespassers and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 1011.) Effective 7-1-17.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-11 - Signed by Governor. S.J. 1135. [SF260 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF260-Enrolled.html

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Senate File 260 - Enrolled




                              SENATE FILE       
                              BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                              (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                  1011)

                              (COMPANION TO hf 251
                                  by committee on
                                  judiciary)
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                                        Senate File 260

                             AN ACT
 RELATING TO THE LIABILITY OF POSSESSORS AND OCCUPANTS OF
    LAND FOR INJURY TO TRESPASSERS AND INCLUDING APPLICABILITY
    PROVISIONS.

 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  462.1  Liability of possessors and
 occupants of land to trespassers.
    1.  A possessor of any fee, reversionary, or easement
 interest in real property, including but not limited to an
 owner, lessee, or other lawful occupant, owes no duty of care
 to a trespasser except to refrain from willfully or wantonly
 injuring the trespasser and to use reasonable care to avoid
 injuring the trespasser after that trespasser's presence
 becomes known.
    2.  This section shall not be construed to affect the common
 law doctrine of attractive nuisance.
    3.  This section does not create or increase the civil
 liability of any possessor or occupant of real property and
 does not affect any immunities from or defenses to civil
 liability established by another section of the Code or
 available at common law to which a possessor or occupant of
 real property may be entitled.
    Sec. 2.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to all causes of
 action accrued on or after the effective date of this Act.


                                                                                            JACK WHITVER


                                                                                            LINDA UPMEYER


                                                                                            W. CHARLES SMITH


                                                                                            TERRY E. BRANSTA

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