Terms Used In Iowa Code 29A.41

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • National guard: means the Iowa units, detachments and organizations of the army national guard of the United States, the air national guard of the United States, the army national guard, and the air national guard as those forces are defined in 10 U. See Iowa Code 29A.1
  • Officer: shall mean and include commissioned officers and warrant officers. See Iowa Code 29A.1
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
 A member of the national guard shall not be arrested, or served with a summons, order, warrant or other civil process after having been ordered to any duty, or while going to, attending, or returning from, any place to which the national guard member is required to go for military duty. This section does not prevent the national guard member’s arrest by order of a military officer or for a felony or breach of the peace committed while not in the actual performance of the national guard member’s duty. The articles of equipment personally owned by such members are exempt from seizure or sale for debt.