Iowa Code 8D.2 – Definitions
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When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Commission” means the Iowa telecommunications and technology commission established in section 8D.3.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 8D.2
- Commission: means the Iowa telecommunications and technology commission established in section 8D. See Iowa Code 8D.2
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Director: means the executive director appointed pursuant to section 8D. See Iowa Code 8D.2
- Division: means the Iowa title guaranty division in the authority, the director of the division, or a designee of the director. See Iowa Code 16.92
- Network: means the Iowa or state communications network. See Iowa Code 8D.2
- State agency: means a board, department, commission or authority of or acting on behalf of the state having the power to enter into contracts with or without the approval of the executive council to acquire property in its own name or in the name of the state. See Iowa Code 7D.34
- State communications: refers to the transmission of voice, data, video, the written word, or other visual signals by electronic means but does not include radio and television facilities and other educational telecommunications systems and services including narrowcast and broadcast systems under the public broadcasting division of the department of education, or the department of transportation distributed data processing and mobile radio network. See Iowa Code 8D.2
- United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
2. “Director” means the executive director appointed pursuant to section 8D.4.
3. “Network” means the Iowa or state communications network.
4. “Private agency” means an accredited nonpublic school, a nonprofit institution of higher education eligible for tuition grants, or a hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 135B or a physician clinic to the extent provided in section 8D.13, subsection 13.
5. a. “Public agency” means a state agency, an institution under the control of the board of regents, the judicial branch as provided in section 8D.13, subsection 14, a school corporation, a city library, a county library as provided in chapter 336, an agency of the federal government, or a United States post office which receives a federal grant for pilot and demonstration projects.
b. For the purposes of this chapter, “public agency” also includes any homeland security or defense facility or disaster response agency established by the director of the department of homeland security and emergency management or the governor or any facility connected with a security or defense system or disaster response as required by the director of the department of homeland security and emergency management or the governor.
6. “State communications” refers to the transmission of voice, data, video, the written word, or other visual signals by electronic means but does not include radio and television facilities and other educational telecommunications systems and services including narrowcast and broadcast systems under the public broadcasting division of the department of education, or the department of transportation distributed data processing and mobile radio network.