1. All of the following are prohibited practices regarding a proceeding under this chapter:
- a. The provision of termination of parental rights, child placement, or adoption services to any biological or adoptive parent by any person other than an adoption service provider or the department.
- b. The charging of a fee by an adoption service provider that is more than the usual and necessary fee commensurate with the services rendered.
- c. The facilitation, encouragement, or advisement of adoptive parents by an adoption service provider to provide any thing of value beyond those expenditures allowed pursuant to section 600.9.
- d. The knowing encouragement or solicitation of payment of allowable expenses or provision of anything of value beyond those expenditures allowed pursuant to section 600.9, by a person falsely representing that a child may be available for adoption with the intent to defraud the other person.
- 2. A person who commits a prohibited practice under this section is guilty of a serious misdemeanor for the first violation and a class “C” felony for any second or subsequent violation.
Similar provisions, see §600A.10, 714.8(21)
2017 Acts, ch 113, §8
Referred to in §600.14A