Iowa Annotated Statutes
Title XVI Criminal Law and Procedure (Subts. 1 — 3)
Subtitle 1 Crime Control and Criminal Acts (Chs. 687 TO 689 — 733 TO 747)
Chapter 704 Force — Reasonable or Deadly — Defenses (§§ 704.1 — 704.13)

704.4 Defense of property.

A person is justified in the use of reasonable force to prevent or terminate criminal interference with the person’s possession or other right in property. Nothing in this section authorizes the use of any spring gun or trap which is left unattended and unsupervised and which is placed for the purpose of preventing or terminating criminal interference with the possession of or other right in property.

 

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