1. 1. A person commits surveillance by the use of a remotely piloted aircraft if the person knowingly does any of the following:

   1. a. Controls the flight of a remotely piloted aircraft equipped with a surveillance device over a homestead, if the homestead is not owned or leased by the person, and the remotely piloted aircraft remains over the homestead.
   2. b. Controls the flight of a remotely piloted aircraft equipped with a surveillance device over a farmstead, if the farmstead is not owned or leased by the person, and the remotely piloted aircraft remains within a secured area of four hundred feet surrounding a farm animal, farm equipment, or a farm structure located on the farmstead. However, the secured area shall not include any space that is in the corporate limits of a city.

2. 2.

   1. a. A person who commits surveillance by the use of a remotely piloted aircraft is guilty of a serious misdemeanor.

   2. b. Notwithstanding paragraph “a”, a person who commits surveillance by the use of a remotely piloted aircraft is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor if the person has previously been convicted of any of the following:

      1. (1) Intrusion by the use of a remotely piloted aircraft as provided in section 715E.3.
      2. (2) Surveillance by the use of a remotely piloted aircraft as provided in this section.

Subsection 1, paragraph b amended

2024 Acts, ch 1131, §4; 2024 Acts, ch 1154, §22; 2025 Acts, ch 56, §5

Referred to in §715E.3, 715E.5, 715E.6