622.62 Ordinances of city. 1. The printed copies of a city code and of supplements to it which are purported or proved to have been compiled pursuant to section 380.8 shall be admitted in the courts of this stateas presumptive evidence of the ordinances contained therein. When properly pleaded, thecourts of this state shall take judicial notice of ordinances contained in a city code or city codesupplement. 2. The printed copies of an ordinance of any city which has not been compiled in a city code or a supplement pursuant to section 380.8 but which has been published by authority ofthe city, or transcripts of any ordinance, act, or proceeding thereof recorded in any book, orentries on any minutes or journals kept under direction of the city, and certified by the cityclerk, shall be received in evidence for any purpose for which the original ordinances, books,minutes, or journals would be received, and with the same effect. The clerk shall furnish suchtranscripts, and be entitled to charge therefor at the rate that the clerk of the district court isentitled to charge for transcripts of records from that court. 3. ffect. The clerk shall furnish suchtranscripts, and be entitled to charge therefor at the rate that the clerk of the district court isentitled to charge for transcripts of records from that court. 3. The actions of any court of this state in taking judicial notice of the existence and content of a city ordinance in any proceeding which was commenced between the first day ofJuly, 1973, and April 17, 1976, shall be conclusively presumed to be lawful, and to the extentrequired by this section, this section is retroactive. [R60, §1076; C73, §3720; C97, §4653; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11315; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §622.62] 2011 Acts, ch 25, §71Referred to in §622.52 Sat Dec 23 11:19:49 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 622.62 (22, 0)
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