# Iowa — What a newspaper may legally charge to publish a legal notice — by US state

For Iowa, maximum chargeable rate is thirty-four cents for one insertion and twenty-three cents for each subsequent insertion for each line of eight point type two inches in length; rate for later insertions is twenty-three cents for each subsequent insertion; how the cap is measured is cents per line, recalculated annually by CPI; how it changes over time is Beginning June 1, 2001, and each June 1 thereafter, the director of the department of administrative services shall calculate a new rate for the following fiscal year as prescribed in this subsection, and shall publish this rate as a notice in the Iowa administrative bulletin prior to the first day of the following calendar month; statute is Iowa Code § 618.11, recorded from its source on 2026-08-19.

- **State:** Iowa _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Maximum chargeable rate:** thirty-four cents for one insertion and twenty-three cents for each subsequent insertion for each line of eight point type two inches in length _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Rate for later insertions:** twenty-three cents for each subsequent insertion _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the cap is measured:** cents per line, recalculated annually by CPI _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **How it changes over time:** Beginning June 1, 2001, and each June 1 thereafter, the director of the department of administrative services shall calculate a new rate for the following fiscal year as prescribed in this subsection, and shall publish this rate as a notice in the Iowa administrative bulletin prior to the first day of the following calendar month _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statute:** Iowa Code § 618.11 _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> The compensation, when not otherwise fixed, for the publication in a newspaper of any notice, order, citation, or other publication required or allowed by law shall be at a rate of thirty-four cents for one insertion and twenty-three cents for each subsequent insertion for each line of eight point type two inches in length, or its equivalent. Beginning June 1, 2001, and each June 1 thereafter, the director of the department of administrative services shall calculate a new rate for the following fiscal year as prescribed in this subsection, and shall publish this rate as a notice in the Iowa administrative bulletin prior to the first day of the following calendar month. The new rate shall be effective on the first day of the calendar month following its publication.

## Source

- https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/618.11.pdf

Last verified: 2026-08-19. Review by: 2027-08-19.
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