{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-145a.6","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 145A.6","heading":"Petition of protest.","body":"The plans formulated for the area hospital shall be deemed approved unless, within sixty days after the third and final publication of the order, a petition protesting the proposed plan containing the signatures of at least five percent of the registered voters of any political subdivision within the proposed merged area is filed with the respective officials of the protesting petitioners.","path":["Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH (Ch. 123 - 158)","Chapter 145A - AREA HOSPITALS"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/145A.6.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:03Z","sha256":"4dbf3b79331990987334785894495cc383554275bb8d3effe0aaa3ba738c22c8","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-145a.5","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-145a.7"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}