HF 572 - Prohibits Drone Usage on Certain Properties - Iowa Key Vote

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Title: Prohibits Drone Usage on Certain Properties

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the usage of certain unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) form flying over certain properties.

Highlights:

  • Defines terms related to agriculture (Sec. 1). 

  • Specifies the terms of measurements (Sec. 2). 

  • Specifies that a person commits intrusion of a person’s property with a drone if they control the path of an unmanned aircraft over a persons homestead and secure farmland area (Sec. 3). 

  • Specifies that intrusion is a simple misdemeanor (Sec. 3). 

  • Specifies that the crime surveillance with an unmanned aerial vehicle is defined as if a person with a UAV flies and remains over a homestead with a UAV equipped with surveillance equipment (Sec. 4). 

  • Specifies that a victim of surveillance may seek a temporary injunction from the court to prevent further surveillance (Sec. 5). 

  • Specifies that a person may use a drone over their own property (Sec. 6).

Title: Prohibits Drone Usage on Certain Properties

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