Iowa Code § 504.304

Ultra vires
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1. Except as provided in subsection 2, the validity of corporate action shall not be challenged on the ground that the corporation lacks or lacked power to act. 2. A corporation’s power toact may be challenged in a proceeding against the corporation toenjoin an act when a third party has not acquired rights. The proceeding may be brought by the attorney general, a director, or by a member or members in a derivative proceeding. 3. A corporation’s power to act may be challenged in a proceeding against an incumbent or former director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation. The proceeding may be brought by a director, the corporation, directly, derivatively, or through a receiver, a trustee or other legal representative, or in the case of a public benefit corporation, by the attorney general.

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