The Iowa legislature has sent the Governor Reynolds a bill that gives local officials a shot at getting a temporary court order to immediately shut down bars that are the site of frequent fights and gunfire

House File 2340 – Enrolled
AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY NUISANCES CONCERNING LICENSED
PREMISES WHERE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, WINE, OR BEER IS SOLD OR CONSUMED.
4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 123.56 Public safety nuisances ——
2 procedure.
3 1. A public safety nuisance exists at a licensed premises
4 for purposes of this section when it is established by clear
5 and convincing evidence that an owner, manager, employee,
6 contemporaneous patron, or guest of the licensed premises
7 commits any of the following acts on the licensed premises or
8 in any parking lots or areas, including but not limited to
9 public rights of way, adjacent to the licensed premises:
10 a. Unlawfully discharges a firearm or uses an offensive
11 weapon, as defined in section 724.1, regardless of whether it
12 inflicts injury or death.
13 b. Assaults another person with a dangerous weapon as
14 defined in section 702.7 resulting in injury or death.
15 c. Engages in a riot as defined in section 723.1 on at
16 least three separate days within any twelve-month period in
17 which a peace officer responded for purposes of dispersing the
18 participants in the riot. A person who willingly joins in or
19 remains a part of a riot need not be the same person for each
20 riot incident.
House File 2340