Iowa Code 665.2 – Acts constituting contempt
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 665.2
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Judicial officer: means a supreme court justice, a judge of the court of appeals, a district judge, a district associate judge, an associate juvenile judge, an associate probate judge, or a magistrate. See Iowa Code 4.1
- person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
665.2 Acts constituting contempt.
The following acts or omissions are contempts, and are punishable as such by any of the
courts of this state, or by any judicial officer, including judicial magistrates, acting in the discharge of an official duty, as hereinafter provided:
1. Contemptuous or insolent behavior toward such court while engaged in the discharge of a judicial duty which may tend to impair the respect due to its authority.
2. Any willful disturbance calculated to interrupt the due course of its official proceedings.
3. Illegal resistance to any order or process made or issued by it.
4. Disobedience to any subpoena issued by it and duly served, or refusing to be sworn or to answer as a witness.
5. Unlawfully detaining a witness or party to an action or proceeding pending before such court, while going to or remaining at the place where the action or proceeding is thus pending, after being summoned, or knowingly assisting, aiding or abetting any person in evading service of the process of such court.
6. Any other act or omission specially declared a contempt by law.
[C51, §1598; R60, §2688; C73, §3491; C97, §4460; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12541; C46, 50, 54,
58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §665.2]
Referred to in §665.3
The following acts or omissions are contempts, and are punishable as such by any of the
courts of this state, or by any judicial officer, including judicial magistrates, acting in the discharge of an official duty, as hereinafter provided:
1. Contemptuous or insolent behavior toward such court while engaged in the discharge of a judicial duty which may tend to impair the respect due to its authority.
2. Any willful disturbance calculated to interrupt the due course of its official proceedings.
3. Illegal resistance to any order or process made or issued by it.
4. Disobedience to any subpoena issued by it and duly served, or refusing to be sworn or to answer as a witness.
5. Unlawfully detaining a witness or party to an action or proceeding pending before such court, while going to or remaining at the place where the action or proceeding is thus pending, after being summoned, or knowingly assisting, aiding or abetting any person in evading service of the process of such court.
6. Any other act or omission specially declared a contempt by law.
[C51, §1598; R60, §2688; C73, §3491; C97, §4460; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12541; C46, 50, 54,
58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §665.2]
Referred to in §665.3