Iowa Code 455B.484A – Confidentiality for assistance programs
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1. As used in this section:
a. “Applicant” means a person, acting in good faith, who seeks the services of an assistance program.
b. “Assistance information” means all information voluntarily supplied to or obtained by an assistance program for the sole purpose of providing assistance to an applicant and which constitutes information not otherwise available to an assistance program.
c. “Assistance program” means the pollution prevention program of the department or of the Iowa waste reduction center for safe and economic management of solid waste and hazardous substances conducted pursuant to section 268.4.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 455B.484A
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, or association. See Iowa Code 462A.2
- Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, rubbish, and other similar discarded solid or semisolid materials, including but not limited to such materials resulting from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and domestic activities. See Iowa Code 455B.301
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
2. Assistance information in the possession of an assistance program or an employee or agent of an assistance program is privileged and confidential, is not subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal compulsion, and is not admissible evidence in an administrative or judicial proceeding. However, assistance information discoverable from sources other than an assistance program or prohibited from being made confidential pursuant to federal or state law does not become privileged or confidential merely because it has been made available to or is in the custody of an assistance program or an employee or agent of an assistance program.
3. Assistance information shall not be used by an employee or agent of the state in determining whether to initiate an enforcement action or investigation by the state.