{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-673.2","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 673.2","heading":"Liability.","body":"A person, including a domesticated animal professional, domesticated animal activity sponsor, the owner of the domesticated animal, or a person exhibiting the domesticated animal, is not liable for the damages, injury, or death suffered by a participant or spectator resulting from the inherent risks of a domesticated animal activity. This section shall not apply to the extent that the claim for damages, injury, or death is caused by any of the following:\n1. An act committed intentionally, recklessly, or while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or other drug or a combination of such substances which causes damages, injury, or death.\n2. The use of equipment or tack used in the domesticated animal activity which the defendant provided to a participant, if the defendant knew or reasonably should have known that the equipment or tack was faulty or defective.\n3. The failure to notify a participant of a dangerous latent condition on real property in which the defendant holds an interest, which is known or should have been known. The notice may be made by posting a clearly visible warning sign on the property.\n4. A domesticated animal activity which occurs in a place designated or intended by an animal activity sponsor as a place for persons who are not participants to be present.\n5. A domesticated animal activity which causes damages, injury, or death to a spectator who is in a place where a reasonable person who is alert to inherent risks of domesticated animal activities would not expect a domesticated animal activity to occur.","path":["Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES (Ch. 595 - 686D)","Chapter 673 - DOMESTICATED ANIMAL ACTIVITIES"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/673.2.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:17Z","sha256":"1f67756f980c2d9002a00c46da5127729ede589e57a0dc340040a07973049247","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-673.1","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-673.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}