COMPILED CODE - Iowa Legislature - State of Iowa

EDITORS' PREFACE
In the present Supplement to the Compiled Code the general form and
arrangement of the Compiled Code of 1919 has been retained. A few
changes have been made in chapter headings, but in each instance an explanatory
note follows the changed heading.
The volume contains the following:
1. All acts of the Thirty-ninth General Assembly of a general and
permanent nature.
2. A number of Compiled Code sections which have been reprinted
to correct errors made in printing the Compiled Code, or to relocate the sections,
or to change a cross reference which, owing to the insertion of new
sections, was no longer correct.
3. A few sections which were inadvertently omitted from the Compiled
Code and have been printed in the Supplement to supply the omission.
All of the Compiled Code sections which have been merely reprinted
for one of the above purposes and have not been changed in any manner by
the Thirty-ninth General Assembly, carry a marginal note calling attention
to this fact, so that the searcher will not be misled as to the appearance of
the section in the Supplement. The sections which have been printed to
supply an omission in the Compiled Code are followed by a note explaining
the reason for their appearance in the Supplement.
As a general rule the section numbers of the Compiled Code have not
been changed. If a section has been merely amended by the Thirty-ninth
General Assembly, it appears in the Supplement in its amended form under
the same number as it appeared in the Compiled Code. This is also true
of a Compiled Code section which has been repealed and one section enacted
in place of the repealed section.
In case, however, a Compiled Code section has been repealed and more
than one section enacted in place of the repealed section, then the Compiled
Code number and the former catchwords of the section appear in the Supplement,
followed by a bracketed note stating that the section has been repealed
and a substitute enacted for the repealed section, which may be found
under the new Supplement numbers designated in the note.
The same system has also been used in case two or more Compiled
Code sections have been repealed and one or more sections enacted in place