(A) No person shall, without justification, commit any of the following:
(1) Pain or injury. Any act which is intended to cause pain or injury to, or which is intended to result in physical contact which will be insulting or offensive to another, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act;
(Iowa Code § 708.1(1))
(2) Threat of pain or injury. Any act which is intended to place another in fear of immediate physical contact which will be painful, injurious, insulting or offensive, coupled with the apparent ability to execute the act; and/or
(Iowa Code § 708.1(2))
(3) Dangerous weapon. Intentionally point any firearm toward another, or display in a threatening manner any dangerous weapon toward another.
(Iowa Code § 708.1(3))
(B) However, where the person doing any of the above enumerated acts, and another person, are voluntary participants in a sport, social or other activity, not in itself criminal, and the act is a reasonably foreseeable incident of a sport or activity, and does not create an unreasonable risk or serious injury or breach of the peace, the act is not an assault. Provided, where the person doing any of the above enumerated acts is employed by a school district or accredited nonpublic school, or is an area education agency staff member who provides services to a school or school district, and intervenes in a fight or physical struggle, or other disruptive situation that takes place in the presence of the employee or staff member performing employment duties in a school building, on school grounds or at an official school function regardless of the location, the act is not an assault, whether the fight or physical struggle or other disruptive situation is between students or other individuals if the degree and the force of the intervention is reasonably necessary to restore order and to protect the safety of those assembled.
(Iowa Code § 708.1)
(1999 Code, § 40.01) Penalty, see § 10.99