The department will acknowledge receiving the petition and 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 necessary by any provision of law. In addition, the department may give notice to other persons. To accomplish this notice provision, the department may obligate the petitioner to serve the notice on all persons to whom notice is necessary by any provision of law and provide a written statement to the department attesting that notice has been provided.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 281-4.7