252B.10 - CRIMINAL PENALTIES.

        252B.10  CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
         1.  Any person who willfully requests, obtains, or seeks to obtain
      paternity determination and support collection data available under
      section 252B.9 under false pretenses, or who willfully communicates
      or seeks to communicate such data to any agency or person except in
      accordance with this chapter, shall be guilty of an aggravated
      misdemeanor. Any person who knowingly, but without criminal purposes,
      communicates or seeks to communicate paternity determination and
      support collection data except in accordance with this chapter shall
      be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
         2.  Any reasonable grounds for belief that a public employee has
      violated any provision of this chapter shall be grounds for immediate
      removal from all access to paternity determination and support
      collection data available through or recorded under section 252B.9.
      
         Section History: Early Form
         [C77, 79, 81, § 252B.10] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         97 Acts, ch 175, §40