§ Iowa Code § 68A.503unless the sign advocates the passage or defeat of a ballot issue or is exempted

68A.503 unless the sign advocates the passage or defeat of a ballot issue or is exempted
under subsection 1.
(3) On any property without the permission of the property owner or lessee.
(4) On election day either on the premises of any polling place or within three hundred
feet of any outside door of any building affording access to any room where the polls are held,
or of any outside door of any building affording access to any hallway, corridor, stairway, or
other means of reaching the room where the polls are held.
(5) On the premises of or within three hundred feet of any outside door of any building
affording access to an absentee voting site during the hours when absentee ballots are
available in the office of the county commissioner of elections as provided in section 53.10.
(6) On the premises of or within three hundred feet of any outside door of any building
affording access to a satellite absentee voting station during the hours when absentee ballots
are available at the satellite absentee voting station as provided in section 53.11.
b. Paragraph “a”, subparagraphs (4), (5), and (6) shall not apply to the posting of signs on
private property not a polling place, except that the placement of a sign on a motor vehicle,
trailer, or semitrailer, or any attachment to a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer parked on
public property within three hundred feet of any outside door of any building affording access
to any room serving as a polling place, which sign is more than ninety square inches in size,
is prohibited.
3. Campaign signs with dimensions of thirty-two square feet or less are exempt from
the attribution statement requirement in section 68A.405. Campaign signs in excess of
thirty-two square feet, or signs that are affixed to buildings or vehicles regardless of size
except for bumper stickers, are required to include the attribution statement required by
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Iowa Code 2026, Chapter 68A (44, 0)
§68A.406, CAMPAIGN FINANCE
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section 68A.405. The placement or erection of campaign signs shall be exempt from the
requirements of chapter 480 relating to underground facilities information.
§13; 2007 Acts, ch 14, §7; 2007 Acts, ch 215, §244; 2008 Acts, ch 1032, §160; 2008 Acts, ch
SUBCHAPTER V
PROHIBITED ACTS — CONTRIBUTIONS,
PUBLIC MONEYS, CAMPAIGN PRACTICES