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[CITE: 28USC95]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART I--ORGANIZATION OF COURTS
 
                       CHAPTER 5--DISTRICT COURTS
 
Sec. 95. Iowa

    Iowa is divided into two judicial districts to be known as the 
Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa.

                            Northern District

    (a) The Northern District comprises four divisions.

        (1) The Cedar Rapids Division comprises the counties of Benton, 
                   Cedar, Grundy, Hardin, Iowa, Jones, Linn, and Tama.

           Court for the Cedar Rapids Division shall be held at Cedar 
                                         Rapids.

         (2) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Allamakee, 
                   Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Chickasaw, Clayton, 
                  Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Jackson, 
                                Mitchell, and Winneshiek.

          Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at Dubuque and 
                                        Waterloo.

        (3) The Western Division comprises the counties of Buena Vista, 
                Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, Monona, 
                  O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sac, Sioux, and Woodbury.

           Court for the Western Division shall be held at Sioux City.

           (4) The Central Division comprises the counties of Butler, 
                    Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Emmet, Franklin, 
                    Hamilton, Hancock, Humboldt, Kossuth, Palo Alto, 
                    Pocahontas, Webster, Winnebago, Worth and Wright.

         Court for the Central Division shall be held at Fort Dodge and 
                                       Mason City.

                            Southern District

    (b) The Southern District comprises six divisions.

           (1) The Central Division comprises the counties of Boone, 
                   Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Jasper, Madison, Marion, 
                      Marshall, Polk, Poweshiek, Story, and Warren.

           Court for the Central Division shall be held at Des Moines.

         (2) The Eastern Division comprises the counties of Des Moines, 
                           Henry, Lee, Louisa, and Van Buren.

             Court for the Eastern Division shall be held at Keokuk.

          (3) The Western Division comprises the counties of Audubon, 
                   Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, 
                               Pottawattamie, and Shelby.

         Court for the Western Division shall be held at Council Bluffs.

           (4) The Southern Division comprises the counties of Adair, 
                Adams, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Ringgold, Taylor, Union, 
                                       and Wayne.

            Court for the Southern Division shall be held at Creston.

         (5) The Davenport Division comprises the counties of Clinton, 
                       Johnson, Muscatine, Scott, and Washington.

          Court for the Davenport Division shall be held at Davenport.

         (6) The Ottumwa Division comprises the counties of Appanoose, 
                 Davis, Jefferson, Keokuk, Mahaska, Monroe, and Wapello.

            Court for the Ottumwa Division shall be held at Ottumwa.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 877; Pub. L. 96-462, Sec. 3(a), Oct. 
15, 1980, 94 Stat. 2053.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 156 and 156a (Mar. 3, 
1911, ch. 231, Sec. 81, 36 Stat. 1111; Mar. 3, 1913, ch. 122, 37 Stat. 
734; Feb. 23, 1916, ch. 32, 39 Stat. 12; Apr. 27, 1916, ch. 90, 39 Stat. 
55; Mar. 4, 1923, ch. 256, 42 Stat. 1483; Jan. 28, 1925, ch. 104, 43 
Stat. 794; July 5, 1937, ch. 428, 50 Stat. 474).
    A provision relating to the maintenance of clerk's office was 
omitted as covered by section 751 of this title.
    Changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 96-462, Sec. 3(a)(1), added Fremont 
and Page counties to Western Division of Southern District.
    Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 96-462, Sec. 3(a)(2), struck out references 
to Fremont and Page counties in list of counties comprising Southern 
Division of Southern District.


           Effective Date of 1980 Amendment; Savings Provision

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-462 effective Oct. 1, 1981, but not to 
affect the composition or preclude the service of any grand or petit 
juror summoned, empaneled, or actually serving in any judicial district 
on Oct. 1, 1981, see section 7 of Pub. L. 96-462, set out as a note 
under section 84 of this title.
    Section 3(b) of Pub. L. 96-462 provided that: ``The amendments made 
by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall not apply to any action 
commenced before the effective date of such amendments [Oct. 1, 1981] 
and pending in the United States District Court for the Southern 
District of Iowa on such date.''
