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Iowa: the debt research

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Read the evidence with its boundaries. These are saved research components, including revisions. A scoped coordinator review checks selected evidence; it does not certify every claim, a complete jurisdiction, current law or individual applicability. Dates and access limits remain attached to the records.

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Selected recorded findings

These narrow findings retain the saved source and check status. Conditions and capture dates matter; this is not a whole-subject or jurisdiction acceptance.

S_IA-P5-C011 · captured 2026-10-27

Corporate-surety authority evidence is not a complete amount-specific acceptance determination. The original authorization statement must be read with C029’s acceptance conditions and the statutory criminal-bond exclusion.

Conditions and limits: High for the identified compilation’s text. No actual authority, capital, reinsurance, approval, or later-law determination.

Recorded check: selected source qualification checked with all application holds no component acceptance

S_IA-P5-S003: §§636.11(1)–(2), 636.14, 636.16–636.18; HTML lines 324–328, 353–356, 374–399. Iowa Legislature

Source links: www.legis.iowa.gov

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S_IA-P5-C012 · captured 2026-10-27

Chapter 636’s conditional service provisions do not create a Chapter 533A cause of action or establish a claimant’s procedural compliance. Preserve C030’s omitted timing and forwarding qualifications.

Conditions and limits: High for the compiled text; current procedural application and every actual service fact remain unproved.

Recorded check: selected source qualification checked with all application holds no component acceptance

S_IA-P5-S003: §§636.20–636.21; HTML lines 415–429. Iowa Legislature

Source links: www.legis.iowa.gov

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S_IA-P5-C029 · captured 2026-10-27

Section 636.17’s acceptance restriction includes the issuer-capital threshold, conditional excess reinsurance, reinsurer-capital limit, and certificate-delivery requirement stated in the §1.3 replacement above; §636.18 limits its scope.

Conditions and limits: No capital calculation performed. Construction and application to an actual bond remain held; no existing bond is pronounced invalid.

Recorded check: selected source qualification checked with all application holds no component acceptance

S_IA-P5-S003: complete §636.17 and §636.18, HTML lines 385–399; read with §§636.11, .14, and .16. Iowa Legislature

Source links: www.legis.iowa.gov

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S_IA-P5-C030 · captured 2026-10-27

The no-Iowa-agent commissioner-service alternative includes the court-term timing condition, followed by §636.21’s immediate-forwarding and sufficient-service language, as stated in the §2.2 replacement above.

Conditions and limits: No general claim deadline, actual calendar, available cause of action, or successful service is inferred.

Recorded check: selected source qualification checked with all application holds no component acceptance

S_IA-P5-S003: complete §§636.20–636.21, HTML lines 415–429. Iowa Legislature

Source links: www.legis.iowa.gov

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S_IApass-01

SIA — Iowa Debt Management, Debt Settlement & Consumer Fees

Inside: 1. Executive findings · Preliminary business-model classification · 2. Substantive findings: classification and market access

7 tables25 claim records10 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-25
S_IApass-02

Bounded source-evidence and qualification correction to

Inside: Bounded source-evidence and qualification correction to PASS-01 · Correction in one sentence · 1. New source alias

4 tables5 claim records9 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-26
S_IApass-03

Bounded provenance and renewal-wording correction to saved

Inside: Bounded provenance and renewal-wording correction to saved PASS-02 · 1. Provenance patch · 2. Minimal replacement for S_IA-P1-C016 / C016

5 tables2 claim records1 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-26
S_IApass-04

Iowa consumer-money custody, trust accounts, administrators, records, and returns

Inside: Iowa consumer-money custody, trust accounts, administrators, records, and returns · 1.1 Activity, not the account label, controls · 1.2 Account/model matrix

7 tables25 claim records7 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-26
S_IApass-05

Iowa debt-management bond, security, and necessary consumer-recovery component

Inside: Iowa debt-management bond, security, and necessary consumer-recovery component · Bounded conclusion · 1.1 Who must obtain and maintain the bond

5 tables28 claim records10 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-26
S_IApass-06

Iowa mandatory agreement, disclosure, signature, electronic-consent, notice, amendment, and waiver component

Inside: Iowa mandatory agreement, disclosure, signature, electronic-consent, notice, amendment, and waiver component · Bounded disposition · 1.2 Mandatory pre-enrollment sequence

10 tables38 claim records7 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-26
S_IApass-07

Bounded source-qualification correction

Inside: Bounded PASS-05 source-qualification correction · 1. Exact drop-in narrative replacements · 2. Replacement and distinct atomic-claim table

4 tables4 claim records1 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
S_IApass-08

Ordinary consumer-debt limitation, accrual, acknowledgment, payment, and judgment-duration gateway

Inside: Ordinary consumer-debt limitation, accrual, acknowledgment, payment, and judgment-duration gateway · A1. The 2026 compilation requires a later-enactment qualification · A2. Classification and accrual matrix

11 tables48 claim records32 source recordsCorrections to readCaptured 2026-10-27
S_IApass-09

Bounded P04 claim-link and source-pinpoint repair

Inside: Bounded P04 claim-link and source-pinpoint repair · 1. One added atomic records claim · P04 §3.3 — Chapter 533C paragraph

4 tables1 claim records3 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
S_IApass-10

Bounded P06 example-premise, claim-link, and case-use patch

Inside: Bounded P06 example-premise, claim-link, and case-use patch · A. Corrected S_IA-P6-E03 and affected matrix entry · S_IA-P6-E03 — Custodial contract and creditor-consent boundary

7 tables1 claim records5 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
S_IApass-11

Iowa collection actors, notification/licensing boundaries, security, and public consumer-procedure gateway

Inside: Iowa collection actors, notification/licensing boundaries, security, and public consumer-procedure gateway · Principal findings · A1. The underlying obligation must qualify

14 tables50 claim records21 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
S_IApass-12

Ordinary consumer-debt collection communications and prohibited conduct

Inside: Ordinary consumer-debt collection communications and prohibited conduct · 1.1 Iowa’s conduct definition includes collection for oneself · 1.3 Actor and cumulative-law matrix

16 tables64 claim records16 source recordsScoped review · limits applyCaptured 2026-10-27
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