Iowa Subject Index

Many of the states in the United States of America produce indexes to their Acts or state codes. There are also a large number of commercially produced indexes. The State of Iowa has an impressive subject index.

To name just two other examples in addition to Iowa Subject Index and United States Code Annotated , most of the various codes of the state of Illinois have indexes and in Wisconsin, the staff of the Reviser of Statutes Bureau produce and maintain an index to the Wisconsin Statutes. (1)

Like many states in the United States of America, legislation in Iowa is arranged and presented in the form of a “code” . The Iowa code is extensively indexed: the tables and index volume of the code includes a “detailed index” and “skeleton index” .

The code and its indexes are available for purchase in print form and available free of charge electronically via the internet. (2) In printed, published form, the detailed index is over 800, double-columned pages.(3) The skeleton
index is much shorter: about 30 double-columned pages.(4)

The skeleton index is a quick guide to the main headings related to a particular
subject area. After each heading is a locator reference to a chapter or chapters of the code or, in three instances, a cross-reference to another
heading in the skeleton index

The detailed index has many double-columned pages of entries for the main
headings. Headings
have two levels of sub-headings, which themselves are followed by either crossreferences to other headings or locator references to chapters or provisions of
the code itself.

1. The Illinois index does not appear to be available online, although the code is/was: <https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs. asp>. The Wisconsin index can be viewed and searched online: <https://www.legis.state.wi.us/rsb/about_the_index.htm> Iowa legislature “Iowa Code” <https://www.legis.state.ia.us/IACodE/> and “Indexes” <https://www.legis.state.ia.us/Current/tablesandindex/>.
2. See Codification
3. The 2003 print copy of the detailed index was 841 pages. The Pdf version available on the internet is 1,500 single-columned pages.
4. The 2003 print copy of the skeleton index is 29 pages. The version available on the internet is presented on a single scroll-down screen view.

• Lawi Legal Index
• List of Indexes to Austalian Legislation
• Henry Smythies’ Analytical Digest
• Badger’s General index
• Curnin’s Index
• Index to the 1908 NZ Consolidated Statutes
• to Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation
• Index volume of the 1931 NZ Reprint
• Subject Index to South Australian Legislation
• United States Code Annotated
• United Kingdom Index to the Statutes
• Index to the Revised Statutes of Canada
• List of Australian Reports

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Mentioned in these Entries

Badger’s General index, Codification, Curnin’s Index, Henry Smythies’ Analytical Digest, Index to Subject Matter of Victorian Legislation, Index to the 1908 NZ Consolidated Statutes, Index to the Revised Statutes of Canada, Index volume of the 1931 NZ Reprint, List of Australian Reports, Subject Index to South Australian Legislation, United Kingdom Index to the Statutes, United States Code Annotated.