914.6 Procedures — filing.
1. Pardons, commutations of sentences, and remissions of fines and forfeitures shall be issued in duplicate. Restorations of rights of citizenship and reprieves shall be issued in triplicate.
2. In the case of a pardon, commutation of sentence, or reprieve, if the person is in custody, the executive instruments shall be forwarded to the officer having custody of the person. The officer, upon receipt of the instruments, shall do the following:
a. Retain one copy of the instrument.
b. Enter the appropriate notations on the records of the office.
c. Carry out the orders of the instrument.
d. On one copy, make a written return as required by the order and forward the copy to the clerk of court where the judgment is of record.
e. In the case of reprieves, deliver the third copy to the person whose sentence is reprieved.
3. In the case of a remission of fines and forfeitures, restoration of rights of citizenship, or a pardon, commutation of sentence, or reprieve, if the person is not in custody, one copy of the executive instrument shall be delivered to the person and one copy to the clerk of court where the judgment is of record. A list of the restorations of rights of citizenship issued by the governor shall be delivered to the state registrar of voters at least once each month.
4. The clerk of court shall, upon receipt of the copy of the executive instrument, immediately file and preserve the copy in the clerk’s office and note the filing on the judgment docket of the case, except that remissions of fines and forfeitures shall be spread at length on the record books of the court, and indexed in the same manner as the original case.
86 Acts, ch 1112, §9
C87, §248A.6
C93, §914.6
94 Acts, ch 1169, §63
Referred to in §602.8102(46)
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