Iowa Code 138.16 – Cleanliness and repair required
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Terms Used In Iowa Code 138.16
- Camp operator: means the person who has been granted a permit, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to operate a migrant labor camp, or portion thereof. See Iowa Code 138.1
- Garbage: means all putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food at a migrant labor camp. See Iowa Code 138.1
- Migrant: means any individual who customarily and repeatedly travels from state to state for the purpose of obtaining seasonal employment in agriculture, including the spouse and children of such individuals, whether or not authorized by law to engage in such employment. See Iowa Code 138.1
- Migrant labor camp: means one or more buildings, structures, shelters, tents, trailers, or vehicles or any other structure or a combination thereof together with the land appertaining thereto, established, operated, or maintained as living quarters for seven or more migrants or two or more shelters. See Iowa Code 138.1
- Privy: means a portable or fixed sanitary facility used for excretion in a shelter separate and apart from any building and without water-borne disposal. See Iowa Code 138.1
- Refuse: means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste except human body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, and ashes. See Iowa Code 138.1
- Shelter: means any conventional or unconventional building of one or more rooms, or any tent, trailer, railroad car, or any other enclosure or structure used for sleeping or living purposes. See Iowa Code 138.1
Every migrant or inhabitant of a migrant labor camp shall use the sanitary and other facilities provided and shall keep that part of the living quarters or shelter which the migrant’s or inhabitant’s immediate family occupies and controls as well as the premises immediately adjacent thereto in a clean condition comparable to normal domestic standards. Every camp operator or permit holder shall be responsible for the providing of and proper maintenance and repair of the premises, all shelters, structures, facilities, and service buildings of the camp, or portion thereof, for which the camp operator or permit holder was issued a permit as well as proper garbage and refuse collection, privy openings and closings, maintenance of water supply, pest and rodent control, toilet facilities, sewage disposal, laundry, handwashing and bathing facilities, lighting, operation of common kitchens, dining halls, and feeding facilities, and safety and fire prevention.