Iowa Code 137C.2 – Definitions
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For purposes of the Iowa hotel sanitation code, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context:
1. “Bed and breakfast inn” means a hotel which has nine or fewer guest rooms.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 137C.2
- Board: means the board of hearing aid specialists. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 154A.1
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
2. “Department” means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing.
3. “Director” means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing or the director’s designee.
4. “Guest room” shall mean any bedroom or other sleeping quarters for transient guests in a hotel.
5. “Hotel” shall mean any building or structure, equipped, used, advertised as, or held out to the public to be an inn, hotel, motel, motor inn, or place where sleeping accommodations are furnished transient guests for hire.
6. “Local board of health” means a county, city, or district board of health.
7. “Municipal corporation” means a political subdivision of this state.
8. “Regulatory authority” means the department or a local board of health that has entered into an agreement with the director pursuant to section 137C.6 for authority to enforce the Iowa hotel sanitation code in its jurisdiction.