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80.22 - PROHIBITION ON OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

        80.22  PROHIBITION ON OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
         All other departments and bureaus of the state are hereby
      prohibited from employing special peace officers or conferring upon
      regular employees any police powers to enforce provisions of the
      statutes which are specifically reserved by 1939 Iowa Acts, ch. 120,
      to the department of public safety.  But the commissioner of public
      safety shall, upon the requisition of the attorney general, from time
      to time assign for service in the department of justice such of its
      officers, not to exceed six in number, as may be requisitioned by the
      attorney general for special service in the department of justice,
      and when so assigned such officers shall be under the exclusive
      direction and control of the attorney general.
         Section History: Early Form
         [C24, 27, 31, 35, § 1340.7; C39, § 1225.26; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 80.22]
         Section History: Recent Form
         2003 Acts, ch 44, §29; 2006 Acts, ch 1010, §43