(A) Generally. No person shall stalk another person.
(B) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACCOMPANYING OFFENSE. Any public offense committed as part of the course of conduct engaged in while committing the offense of stalking.
COURSE OF CONDUCT. Repeatedly maintaining a visual or physical proximity to a person without legitimate purpose or repeatedly conveying oral or written threats, threats implied by conduct, or a combination thereof, directed at or toward a person.
IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER. A spouse, parent, child, sibling or any other person who regularly resides in the household of a specific person, or who within the prior six months regularly resided in the household of a specific person.
REPEATEDLY. On two or more occasions.
(C) Stalking. A person commits stalking when all of the following occur:
(1) The person purposefully engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear bodily injury to, or the death of, that specific person or a member of the specific person’s immediate family;
(2) The person has knowledge or should have knowledge that the specific person will be placed in reasonable fear of bodily injury to, or the death of, that specific person or a member of the specific person’s immediate family by the course of conduct; and
(3) The person’s course of conduct induces fear in the specific person of bodily injury to or the death of the specific person or a member of the specific person’s immediate family.
(Iowa Code § 708.11) (1999 Code, § 40.08) Penalty, see § 10.99