Legal Question in Criminal Law in Iowa

Re: Trespassing

716.8 PENALTIES.

1. Any person who knowingly trespasses upon the property of

another commits a simple misdemeanor.

2. Any person committing a trespass as defined in section 716.7

which results in injury to any person or damage in an amount more

than two hundred dollars to anything, animate or inanimate, located

thereon or therein commits a serious misdemeanor.

3. A person who knowingly trespasses on the property of another

with the intent to commit a hate crime, as defined in section 729A.2,

commits a serious misdemeanor.

4. A person committing a trespass as defined in section 716.7

with the intent to commit a hate crime which results in injury to any

person or damage in an amount more than two hundred dollars to

anything, animate or inanimate, located thereon or therein commits an

aggravated misdemeanor.

5. A person who commits a trespass while hunting deer, other than

a farm deer as defined in section 170.1 or preserve whitetail as

defined in section 484C.1, commits a simple misdemeanor. The person

shall also be subject to civil penalties as provided in sections

481A.130 and 481A.131. A deer taken by a person while committing

such a trespass shall be subject to seizure as provided in section

481A.12.