Iowa Code 461C.7 – Construction of law
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to:
1. Create a duty of care or ground of liability for injury to persons or property.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 461C.7
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- Land: includes land that is not open to the general public. See Iowa Code 461C.2
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, or association. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Recreational purpose: includes the activity of accompanying another person who is engaging in such activities. See Iowa Code 461C.2
- Urban deer control: means deer hunting with a bow and arrow on private land in a municipality, without charge, as authorized by a municipal ordinance, for the purpose of reducing or stabilizing an urban deer population in the municipality. See Iowa Code 461C.2
- Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
2. Relieve any person using the land of another for a recreational purpose or urban deer control from any obligation which the person may have in the absence of this chapter to exercise care in the use of such land and in the person’s activities thereon, or from the legal consequences of failure to employ such care.
3. Amend, repeal or modify the common law doctrine of attractive nuisance.