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Property Seized in a Drug Case

Iowa Code § 809A.8 — seized property is released if no forfeiture notice is filed within 90 days

Forfeiture can reach drugs and property used or intended to facilitate conduct giving rise to forfeiture. Property is exempt when its owner did not know and could not reasonably have known of the conduct, or acted reasonably to prevent it.

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  • Property is seized on a judge's process, or without process on probable cause with exigent circumstances or when it was already seized for another purpose.
  • On an owner's request, seized property is released if the prosecutor does not file a notice of pending forfeiture within 90 days after the seizure.
  • Iowa Code § 809A.6
  • Iowa Code § 809A.8
Sources for this section (4)
  1. Iowa Code § 809A.4 — Property subject to forfeiture
  2. Iowa Code § 809A.5 — Exemptions
  3. Iowa Code § 809A.6 — Seizure of property for forfeiture
  4. Iowa Code § 809A.8 — Commencement of forfeiture proceedings — property release requirements

Legal information, not legal advice. Verified as of October 2026. Applying it to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Iowa attorney.

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