Section 626C.4. Stay.

  1.  If the real estate owner files an application for stay within twenty days of the date of mailing the notice of filing the bankruptcy transcript by the clerk with the district court in which the bankruptcy transcript is filed that an appeal from any portion of the bankruptcy transcript is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall stay the effect of the bankruptcy transcript until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires, or the stay of execution expires or is vacated.

  2.  The district court for the county in which the bankruptcy transcript is filed has no jurisdiction to stay the effects of the bankruptcy transcript either as initially filed or as amended if the transcript contains a certificate by the clerk of the bankruptcy court of any of the following:

  a.  The order affecting real estate has not been appealed and the time for filing an appeal has expired.

  b.  The order affecting real estate has been appealed and the order has been affirmed on appeal and is not further appealable.

  c.  An appeal from the order affecting real estate has been filed and no stay from that order has been granted by the bankruptcy court to the appealing party.

  3.  An amendment to the bankruptcy transcript demonstrating the finality of the bankruptcy court proceedings shall terminate any jurisdiction of the district court to stay the effects of the bankruptcy transcript.

98 Acts, ch 1150, §4