The executive director shall acknowledge a petition upon receipt. The executive director shall ensure that, within 30 days of the receipt of the petition, notice of the pendency of the petition and a concise summary of its contents have been provided to all persons to whom notice is required by any provision of law. In addition, the executive director may give notice to other persons. To accomplish this notice provision, the executive director may require the petitioner to serve the notice on all persons to whom notice is required by any provision of law and provide a written statement to the executive director attesting that notice has been provided.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 265-18.8