Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 2 - General Assembly

• Account balance limit: means the maximum allowable aggregate balance of accounts established for the same beneficiary. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Account balance limit: means the maximum allowable aggregate balance of an account established for a designated beneficiary. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Account owner: means an individual who is the designated beneficiary under a participation agreement under this chapter for the payment of qualified disability expenses on behalf of the designated beneficiary. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Active business operations: means all business operations that are not inactive business operations. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Active business operations: means all business operations that are not inactive business operations. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Actively engaged in farming: means that a natural person, including a shareholder or an officer, director, or employee of a corporation, or a member or manager of a limited liability company, does any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Adequate housing: means housing which meets minimum structural, heating, lighting, ventilation, sanitary, occupancy, and maintenance standards compatible with applicable building and housing codes, as determined under rules of the authority. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administrative fund: means the administrative fund established under section 12D. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Administrator: means a person coordinating the administration of a division of the department. See Iowa Code 10A.101
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affected persons: means , with respect to an application for a certificate of need:
   a. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmative action: means action appropriate to overcome the effects of past or present practices, policies, or other barriers to equal employment opportunity. See Iowa Code 19B.1
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agricultural land: means the same as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Agricultural land: means the same as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Agricultural land: means land suitable for use in farming as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10D.1
• Ambulatory surgical center: means ambulatory surgical center as defined in section 135R. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person authorized to regularly lend moneys to be secured by a mortgage on real property in this state, a licensed real estate broker, a licensed attorney, a participating abstractor, or a licensed closing agent. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Applicant: means a person authorized to regularly lend moneys to be secured by a mortgage on real property in this state, a licensed real estate broker, a licensed attorney, a participating abstractor, or a licensed closing agent. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Appointed attorney: means an attorney appointed by the court and compensated by the state to represent an indigent defendant. See Iowa Code 13B.1
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arbitration: means the procedure whereby the parties involved in an impasse submit their differences to a third party for a final and binding decision or as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority: means the Iowa finance authority created in section 16. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Authority: means the tobacco settlement authority created in this chapter. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Authority: means a department, or public or quasi-public instrumentality of the state including but not limited to the authority created under chapter 12E, 16, or 261A, which has the power to issue obligations, except that "authority" does not include the state board of regents or the Iowa finance authority to the extent the Iowa finance authority acts pursuant to chapter 260C. See Iowa Code 12.30
• Authority: means the economic development authority created in section 15. See Iowa Code 15.102
• authority: means the economic development authority created in section 15. See Iowa Code 15E.1
• Authority: means the economic development authority created in section 15. See Iowa Code 15F.101
• Authorized entity: means an authorized farm corporation; authorized limited liability company; limited partnership, other than a family farm limited partnership; or an authorized trust as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Authorizing documents: means a resolution of the issuer, an indenture of trust, or any other instrument setting forth the terms and conditions of bonds issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Iowa Code 12A.1
• Baby chicks: means the same as defined in section 168. See Iowa Code 10D.1
• Bank: means a corporation or limited liability company engaged in the business of banking and organized under the laws of this state, another state, or the United States. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Beneficiary: means the individual designated by a participation agreement to benefit from advance payments of qualified education expenses on behalf of the beneficiary. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Benefits: means the payment of qualified education expenses on behalf of a beneficiary by the trust during the beneficiary's attendance at a qualified educational institution. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Bioscience development platforms: means industries involved in any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Bioscience-based economic development: means economic development related to industries involved in any of the bioscience development platforms. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Birth center: means a facility or institution, which is not an ambulatory surgical center or a hospital or in a hospital, in which births are planned to occur following a normal, uncomplicated, low-risk pregnancy. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Board: means the Iowa finance authority board of directors created pursuant to section 16. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Board: means the governing board of the authority. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Board: means the same as defined in section 15. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Board: means the Iowa capital investment board created in section 15E. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Board: means the public employment relations board established under section 20. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Board: means the members of the authority appointed by the governor and in whom the powers of the authority are vested pursuant to section 15. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Board: means the enhance Iowa board as created in section 15F. See Iowa Code 15F.101
• Bond: means a bond issued by the authority pursuant to this chapter and includes a note or other instrument evidencing a debt authorized or referred to in this chapter. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, and other obligations and financing arrangements issued or entered into by the authority pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Bonds: means bonds, including refunding bonds, notes, and other obligations issued by an issuer. See Iowa Code 12A.1
• Business enterprise: means a work or improvement located within the state, including but not limited to real property, buildings, equipment, furnishings, and any other real and personal property or any interest therein, financed, refinanced, acquired, owned, constructed, reconstructed, extended, rehabilitated, improved, or equipped, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by the authority or through loans made by it and which is designed and intended for the purpose of providing facilities for manufacturing, industrial, processing, warehousing, wholesale or retail commercial, recreational, hotel, office, research, business, or other related purposes, including but not limited to machinery and equipment deemed necessary or desirable for the operation thereof. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Business operations: means engaging in commerce in any form in Sudan, including by acquiring, developing, maintaining, owning, selling, possessing, leasing, or operating equipment, facilities, personnel, products, services, personal property, real property, or any other apparatus of business or commerce. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Business operations: means engaging in commerce in any form in Iran, including by acquiring, developing, maintaining, owning, selling, possessing, leasing, or operating equipment, facilities, personnel, products, services, personal property, real property, or any other apparatus of business or commerce. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Certificate: means a contract between the board and a designated investor pursuant to which a tax credit is available and issued to the designated investor. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• certifying board: shall mean any public body which has the power or duty to certify any tax to be levied or sum of money to be collected by taxation. See Iowa Code 24.2
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• changed institutional health service: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Charitable organization: means a person who solicits or purports to solicit contributions for a charitable purpose and which receives contributions. See Iowa Code 13C.1
• Charitable purpose: means a benevolent, educational, philanthropic, humane, scientific, patriotic, social welfare or advocacy, public health, environmental, conservation, civic, or other charitable objective. See Iowa Code 13C.1
• Chief executive officer: means the chief executive officer of the corporation. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Child foster care facilities: means the same as defined in section 237. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Claimant: means an attorney or other person seeking reimbursement of costs or fees payable from the appropriations under section 815. See Iowa Code 13B.1
• clerk: means clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is brought or is pending; and the words "clerk's office" mean the office of that clerk. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Closing agent: means a closing agent subject to the licensing requirements of chapter 535B. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Closing agent: means a closing agent subject to the licensing requirements of chapter 535B. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Commencement date: means the date established for each district by the board under section 15J. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Commodity share landlord: means a natural person or a general partnership as provided in chapter 486A in which all partners are natural persons, who owns at least one hundred fifty acres of agricultural land, if the owner receives rent on a commodity share basis, which may be either a share of the crops or livestock produced on the land. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community group: means a nonprofit entity that is open for membership to the general public which is exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or a fraternal benefit society, as that term is defined in section 512B. See Iowa Code 10A.519
• Community Reinvestment Act: The Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977. ^{Source: OCC}
• Company: means any sole proprietorship, organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or other entity or business association, including all wholly-owned subsidiaries, majority-owned subsidiaries, parent companies, or affiliates of such entities or business associations, that exists for profit-making purposes. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Company: means any sole proprietorship, organization, association, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or other entity or business association, including all wholly owned subsidiaries, majority-owned subsidiaries, parent companies, or affiliates of such entities or business associations, that exists for profit-making purposes. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Company: means any business or business entity, including a wholly owned subsidiary, majority-owned subsidiary, parent company, or affiliate of such business or business entity, that is publicly traded and that is not based in the United States. See Iowa Code 12J.2
• Company: means any business or business entity that is publicly traded and that is not based in the United States. See Iowa Code 12K.1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Complicit: means taking actions during any preceding twenty-month period which have directly supported or promoted the genocidal campaign in Darfur, including but not limited to preventing Darfur's victimized population from communicating with each other; encouraging Sudanese citizens to speak out against an internationally approved security force for Darfur; actively working to deny, cover up, or alter the record on human rights abuses in Darfur; or other similar actions. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Consumer: means any individual whose occupation is other than health services, who has no fiduciary obligation to an institutional health facility, health maintenance organization or other facility primarily engaged in delivery of services provided by persons in health service occupations, and who has no material financial interest in the providing of any health services. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contracting state: means the same as defined in section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative association: means an entity which is structured and operated on a cooperative basis pursuant to 26 U. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Cooperative association: means any entity organized on a cooperative basis, including an association of persons organized under chapter 497, 498, or 499; an entity composed of entities organized under those chapters; or a cooperative organized under chapter 501 or 501A. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Coordinator: means the prosecuting attorneys training coordinator. See Iowa Code 13A.1
• 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.
• Corporation: means a domestic or foreign corporation, including an entity organized pursuant to chapter 490, or a nonprofit corporation. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Corporation: means a bioscience development corporation created pursuant to section 15. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Cost: means all costs, charges, expenses, or other indebtedness incurred by a loan recipient and determined by the authority as reasonable and necessary for carrying out all works and undertakings necessary or incidental to the accomplishment of any project. See Iowa Code 16.151
• Council: means the prosecuting attorneys training coordination council. See Iowa Code 13A.1
• Council: means the state health facilities council established by this part. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit association incorporated under chapter 533 or the federal Credit Union Act, 12 U. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• Creditor: means a person, including an assignee of or successor to such person, who extends credit or makes a loan to the Iowa fund of funds or to a designated investor, and includes any person who refinances such credit or loan. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• deed: is a pplied to an instrument conveying lands, but does not imply a sealed instrument; and the words "bond" and "indenture" do not necessarily imply a seal, and the word "undertaking" means a promise or security in any form. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means any authority charged by law with official responsibility for the expenditure of public money of the state and any agency receiving money from the general revenues of the state. See Iowa Code 11.1
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 13B.1
• Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 10A.101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Depository: means a bank or a credit union in which public funds are deposited under this chapter. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• Depreciable property: means personal property for which an income tax deduction for depreciation is allowable in computing federal income tax under the Internal Revenue Code as defined in section 422. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Designated beneficiary: means an individual who is a resident of this state or a resident of a contracting state and who meets the definition of "eligible individual" in section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Designated investor: means a person, other than the Iowa capital investment corporation, who purchases an equity interest in the Iowa fund of funds or a transferee of a certificate or tax credit. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Develop: when used in connection with health services, means to undertake those activities which on their completion will result in the offer of a new institutional health service or the incurring of a financial obligation in relation to the offering of such a service. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the economic development authority who also serves as the director of, and administers the operations of, the Iowa finance authority pursuant to section 15. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Director: means the director of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 10A.101
• Director: means the director of the authority, appointed pursuant to section 15. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Disability: means , with respect to an individual, a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual, a record of physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual, or being regarded as an individual with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Disaster-affected home: means a primary residence that was destroyed or damaged due to a natural disaster occurring after May 24, 2008, and before August 14, 2008. See Iowa Code 16.56
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Displaced: means displaced by governmental action, or by having one's dwelling extensively damaged or destroyed as a result of a disaster. See Iowa Code 16.1
• District: means the area that is designated a reinvestment district pursuant to section 15J. See Iowa Code 15J.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
• 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
• Division board: means the board of directors of the title guaranty division of the authority. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Division board: means the board of directors of the title guaranty division of the authority. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Elderly families: means families of low or moderate income where the head of the household or the head's spouse is at least sixty-two years of age or older, or the surviving member of any such tenant family. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Eligible borrower: means any person who is qualified to participate in one of the programs in this section and sections 12. See Iowa Code 12.32
• Eligible entity: means a municipality or a landowner, as determined by the authority, a public utility as defined in section 476. See Iowa Code 16.151
• Eligible lending institution: means a financial institution that is empowered to make commercial loans and is eligible pursuant to chapter 12C to be a depository of state funds. See Iowa Code 12.32
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Employee organization: means an organization of any kind in which public employees participate and which exists for the primary purpose of representing employees in their employment relations. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Enabling legislation: means legislation enabling the issuance by an issuer of bonds in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Iowa Code 12A.1
• Energy conservation measure: means installation or modification of an installation in a building which is primarily intended to reduce energy consumption or allow the use of an alternative energy source, which may contain integral control and measurement devices. See Iowa Code 7D.34
• enterprise: means a limited liability company as defined in section 489. See Iowa Code 10D.1
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• estimated total cost: means the estimated total cost to the governmental entity to construct a public improvement, including cost of labor, materials, equipment, and supplies, but excluding the cost of architectural, landscape architectural, or engineering design services and inspection. See Iowa Code 26.2
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Examination: means procedures that are less in scope than an audit but which are directed toward reviewing financial activities and compliance with legal requirements. See Iowa Code 11.1
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Families: includes but is not limited to families consisting of a single adult person who is primarily responsible for the person's own support, is at least sixty-two years of age, is a person with a disability, is displaced, or is the remaining member of a tenant family. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Family farm entity: means a family farm corporation, family farm limited liability company, family farm limited partnership, or family trust, as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Farm estate: means the real and personal property of a decedent, a ward, or a trust as provided in chapters 633 and 633A, if at least sixty percent of the gross receipts from the estate comes from farming. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Farmers cooperative association: means a cooperative association organized under chapter 490 or 499, if all of the following conditions are satisfied:
   a. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Farmers cooperative limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under chapter 489, if cooperative associations hold one hundred percent of all membership interests in the limited liability company. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Farmers entity: means a networking farmers entity, farmers cooperative limited liability company, or farmers cooperative association. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Farming: means the same as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Farming: means the same as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial assistance: means assistance provided only from the funds, rights, and assets legally available to the authority and includes but is not limited to assistance in the form of grants, loans, forgivable loans, and royalty payments. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Financial institution: means a bank or a credit union. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• Financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Financial reporting: means reporting by which hospitals and health care facilities shall respectively record their revenues, expenses, other income, other outlays, assets and liabilities, and units of services. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Financing agreement: means any lease, lease-purchase agreement, or installment acquisition contract in which the lessee may purchase the leased property at a price which is less than the fair market value of the property at the end of the lease term, or any lease, agreement, or transaction which would be considered under criteria established by the internal revenue service to be a conditional sale agreement for tax purposes. See Iowa Code 12.28
• findings: means the findings established by the general assembly with respect to the authority as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 16.1
• First-class consumer fireworks: means the following consumer fireworks, as described in APA 87-1, chapter 3:
   (1) Aerial shell kits and reloadable tubes. See Iowa Code 10A.519
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• fiscal year: shall mean the period of twelve months beginning on July 1 and ending on the thirtieth day of June. See Iowa Code 24.2
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Floor leaders: The Majority Leader and Minority Leader are elected by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. By custom, the Presiding Officer gives the floor leaders priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign business: means the same as defined in section 9I. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Foreign government: means the same as defined in section 9I. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the state reinvestment district fund created in section 15J. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Fund documents: means all agreements relating to matters under the purview of this subchapter VII entered into prior to June 20, 2013, between or among the state, the Iowa fund of funds, a fund allocation manager or similar manager, the Iowa capital investment corporation, the board, a creditor, a designated investor, and a private seed or venture capital partnership, and includes other documents having the same force and effect between or among such parties, as any of the foregoing may be amended, modified, restated, or replaced from time to time. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goals: means legislative goals and policies as articulated in this chapter. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Governing body: means the county board of supervisors, city council, or other body in which the legislative powers of the municipality are vested. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Government body: means this state, or any county, city, township, school corporation, political subdivision, tax-supported district, nonprofit corporation other than a fair conducting a fair event as provided in chapter 174, whose facilities or indebtedness are supported in whole or in part with property tax revenue and which is licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering pursuant to chapter 99D; the governing body of a drainage or levee district as provided in chapter 468, including a board as defined in section 468. See Iowa Code 22.1
• Governmental body: means :
   a. See Iowa Code 21.2
• Governmental entity: means the state, political subdivisions of the state, public school corporations, and all officers, boards, or commissions empowered by law to enter into contracts for the construction of public improvements, excluding the state board of regents and the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 26.2
• Governmental subdivision: means cities and administrative agencies established by cities, hospitals or health care facilities established by a city, counties, county hospitals organized under chapters 347 and 347A, memorial hospitals organized under chapter 37, entities organized under chapter 28E, community colleges, area education agencies, and school districts. See Iowa Code 11.1
• Grain: means the same as defined in section 203. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guiding principles: means the principles provided in subchapter III which shall be considered for amplification and interpretation of the goals of the authority. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Health care facility: means health care facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Health care provider: means a person licensed or certified under chapter 147, 148, 148A, 148C, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 154B, 154F, or 155A to provide in this state professional health care service to an individual during that individual's medical care, treatment, or confinement. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Health maintenance organization: means health maintenance organization as defined in section 514B. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Health services: means clinically related diagnostic, curative, or rehabilitative services, and includes substance use disorder and mental health services. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Historic properties: means landmarks, landmark sites, or districts which are significant in the history, architecture, archaeology, or culture of this state, its communities, or the nation. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Hospital: means hospital as defined in section 135B. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Housing: means single family and multifamily dwellings, and facilities incidental or appurtenant to the dwellings, and includes group homes of fifteen beds or less licensed as health care facilities or child foster care facilities and modular or mobile homes which are permanently affixed to a foundation and are assessed as realty. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Housing program: means any work or undertaking of new construction or rehabilitation of one or more housing units, or the acquisition of existing residential structures, for the provision of housing, which is financed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the primary purpose of providing housing for low or moderate income families. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Housing sponsor: means any individual, joint venture, partnership, limited partnership, trust, corporation, housing cooperative, local public entity, governmental unit, or other legal entity, or any combination thereof, approved by the authority or pursuant to standards adopted by the authority as qualified to either own, construct, acquire, rehabilitate, operate, manage, or maintain a housing program, whether for profit, nonprofit or limited profit, subject to the regulatory powers of the authority and other terms and conditions set forth in this chapter. See Iowa Code 16.1
• hydroelectric utility: means an entity comprised of any number of public agencies or entities created to carry out an agreement authorizing the joint exercise of any of the governmental powers enumerated in section 28F. See Iowa Code 28F.14
• Impasse: means the failure of a public employer and the employee organization to reach agreement in the course of negotiations. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Inactive business operations: means the mere continued holding or renewal of rights to property previously operated for the purpose of generating revenues but not presently deployed for such purpose. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Inactive business operations: means the mere continued holding or renewal of rights to property previously operated for the purpose of generating revenues but not presently deployed for such purpose. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Income: means income from all sources of each member of the household, with appropriate exceptions and exemptions reasonably related to an equitable determination of the family's available income, as established by rule of the authority. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution of higher education: means an institution described in section 481 of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, 20 U. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Institutional health facility: means any of the following, without regard to whether the facilities referred to are publicly or privately owned or are organized for profit or not or whether the facilities are part of or sponsored by a health maintenance organization:
   a. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Institutional health service: means any health service furnished in or through institutional health facilities or health maintenance organizations, including mobile health services. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Intellectual disability: means a diagnosis of intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder, global developmental delay, or unspecified intellectual disability or intellectual developmental disorder which diagnosis shall be made only when the onset of the person's condition was during the developmental period and based on an assessment of the person's intellectual functioning and level of adaptive skills. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Internal Revenue Code: means the Internal Revenue Code of the United States as it may exist at the time of its applicability to the provisions of this chapter. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Internet: means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the world wide web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Internet site: means a specific location on the internet that is determined by internet protocol numbers, by a domain name, or by both, including but not limited to domain names that use the designations ". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Iowa capital investment corporation: means a private, nonprofit corporation created pursuant to section 15E. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Iowa fund of funds: means a private, for-profit limited partnership or limited liability company established by the Iowa capital investment corporation pursuant to section 15E. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Iowa nutrient reduction strategy: means the same as defined in section 455B. See Iowa Code 16.1
• issued shares: includes but is not limited to common stock or preferred stock, or each class of common stock or preferred stock, regardless of voting rights or a right to receive dividends or earning distributions. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Issuer: means the state, a department or public or quasi-public agency or instrumentality of the state, or an authority of the state, authorized and enabled to issue bonds in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Iowa Code 12A.1
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• 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.
• Lawful custodian: means the government body currently in physical possession of the public record. See Iowa Code 22.1
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lending institution: includes a financial institution as defined in section 496B. See Iowa Code 16.1
• lessee: means a nonresident alien, foreign business, or foreign government, or an agent, trustee, or fiduciary acting on behalf of the nonresident alien, foreign business, or foreign government, or any other trade or business which is under the lessee's common control as provided in 26 U. See Iowa Code 9I.3
• levying board: shall mean board of supervisors of the county and any other public body or corporation that has the power to levy a tax. See Iowa Code 24.2
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited liability company: means a foreign or domestic limited liability company, including a limited liability company as defined in section 489. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Limited partnership: means a foreign or domestic limited partnership, including a limited partnership as defined in section 488. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Linked investment: means a certificate of deposit issued pursuant to this section and sections 12. See Iowa Code 12.32
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species, ostriches, rheas, emus, farm deer as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Loan recipient: means an eligible entity that has received a loan under the program. See Iowa Code 16.151
• Local government participant: means the cities of Ames, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Des Moines, Dubuque, Iowa City, Waterloo, and West Des Moines; a council of governments whose territory includes at least one county that was declared a disaster area by the president of the United States after May 24, 2008, and before August 14, 2008; and any county that is not part of any council of governments and was declared a disaster area by the president of the United States after May 24, 2008, and before August 14, 2008. See Iowa Code 16.56
• Low income housing credit: means the low income housing credit as defined in Internal Revenue Code §42(a). See Iowa Code 16.1
• Low or moderate income families: means families who cannot afford to pay enough to cause private enterprise in their locality to build an adequate supply of decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings for their use, and also includes but is not limited to the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Lower income families: means families whose incomes do not exceed eighty percent of the median income for the area with adjustments for the size of the family or other adjustments necessary due to unusual prevailing conditions in the area, and includes but is not limited to very low income families. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Master settlement agreement: means the master settlement agreement as defined in section 453C. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Mediation: means assistance by an impartial third party to reconcile an impasse between the public employer and the employee organization through interpretation, suggestion, and advice. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Meeting: means a gathering in person or by electronic means, formal or informal, of a majority of the members of a governmental body where there is deliberation or action upon any matter within the scope of the governmental body's policy-making duties. See Iowa Code 21.2
• Military equipment: means weapons, arms, military supplies, and equipment that readily may be used for military purposes including but not limited to radar systems or military-grade transport vehicles, or supplies or services sold or provided directly or indirectly to any force actively participating in armed conflict in Sudan. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Military equipment: means weapons, arms, military supplies, and equipment that readily may be used for military purposes including but not limited to radar systems or military-grade transport vehicles, or supplies or services sold or provided directly or indirectly to any terrorist organization. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Mineral extraction activities: include exploring, extracting, processing, transporting, or wholesale selling or trading of elemental minerals or associated metal alloys or oxides, including gold, copper, chromium, chromite, diamonds, iron, iron ore, silver, tungsten, uranium, and zinc, as well as facilitating such activities, including by providing supplies or services in support of such activities. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Mineral extraction activities: include exploring, extracting, processing, transporting, or wholesale selling or trading of elemental minerals or associated metal alloys or oxides, including gold, copper, chromium, chromite, diamonds, iron, iron ore, silver, tungsten, uranium, and zinc, as well as facilitating such activities, including by providing supplies or services in support of such activities. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mobile health service: means equipment used to provide a health service that can be transported from one delivery site to another. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Modernization: means the alteration, repair, remodeling, replacement or renovation of existing buildings or of the equipment previously installed therein, or both. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage: means a mortgage or mortgage lien on an interest in real property in this state given to secure a loan in an original principal amount equal to or less than the maximum principal amount as determined by the division board and adopted by the authority pursuant to chapter 17A. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Mortgage: means a mortgage, mortgage deed, deed of trust, or other instrument creating a first lien, subject only to title exceptions acceptable to the authority, on a fee interest in real property which includes completed housing located within this state, or on a leasehold on such a fee interest which has a remaining term at the time of computation that exceeds by not less than ten years the maturity date of the mortgage loan. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgage loan: means a financial obligation secured by a mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Mortgage servicer: means the mortgagee or a person other than the mortgagee to whom a mortgagor or the mortgagor's successor in interest is instructed by the mortgagee to send payments on a loan secured by the mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Mortgage servicer: means the mortgagee or a person other than the mortgagee to whom a mortgagor or the mortgagor's successor in interest is instructed by the mortgagee to send payments on a loan secured by the mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagee: means the grantee of a mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Mortgagee: means the grantee of a mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Mortgagor: means the grantor of a mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Mortgagor: means the grantor of a mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Municipality: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Municipality: means a governmental body such as a state agency or a political subdivision of the state. See Iowa Code 16.151
• Municipality: means a public body or corporation that has power to levy or certify a tax or sum of money to be collected by taxation, except a county, city, drainage district, township, or road district. See Iowa Code 24.2
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Net proceeds: means the amount of proceeds remaining following each sale of bonds which are not required by the authority to establish and fund reserve funds and to pay the costs of issuance and other expenses and fees directly related to the authorization and issuance of bonds. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Net worth: means a person's total assets minus total liabilities as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles with appropriate exceptions and exemptions reasonably related to an equitable determination of a person's net worth. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Networking farmers corporation: means a corporation, other than a family farm corporation as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Networking farmers limited liability company: means a limited liability company, other than a family farm limited liability company as defined in section 9H. See Iowa Code 10.1
• New lessor: means a lessor, as defined in section 423A. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• New retail establishment: means a business operated in the district by a retailer, as defined in section 423. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Nonresident alien: means the same as defined in section 9I. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Note: means a bond anticipation note or a housing development fund note issued by the authority pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Notes: means notes, warrants, loan agreements, and all other forms of evidence of indebtedness authorized under this chapter. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and in like cases the word "swear" includes "affirm". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Obligations: means notes, bonds, including refunding bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness of an authority. See Iowa Code 12.30
• Offer: when used in connection with health services, means that an institutional health facility, health maintenance organization, health care provider, or group of health care providers holds itself out as capable of providing, or as having the means to provide, specified health services. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Office: means the office of prosecuting attorneys training coordinator established in this chapter. See Iowa Code 13A.1
• Oil-related activities: include but are not limited to owning rights to oil blocks; exporting, extracting, producing, refining, processing, exploring for, transporting, selling, or trading of oil; constructing, maintaining, or operating a pipeline, refinery, or other oil field infrastructure; and facilitating such activities, including by providing supplies or services in support of such activities, provided that the mere retail sale of gasoline and related consumer products shall not be considered oil-related activities. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Oil-related activities: include but are not limited to owning rights to oil blocks; exporting, extracting, producing, refining, processing, exploring for, transporting, selling, or trading of oil; constructing, maintaining, or operating a pipeline, refinery, or other oil field infrastructure; and facilitating such activities, including by providing supplies or services in support of such activities, provided that the mere retail sale of gasoline and related consumer products shall not be considered oil-related activities. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Open session: means a meeting to which all members of the public have access. See Iowa Code 21.2
• operating funds: means those funds which are reasonably expected to be expended during a current budget year or within fifteen months of receipt. See Iowa Code 12B.10A
• Operation of law: means a transfer by inheritance, devise, or bequest, court order, dissolution decree, order in bankruptcy, insolvency, replevin, foreclosure, execution sale, the execution of a judgment, the foreclosure of a real estate mortgage, the forfeiture of a real estate contract, or a transfer resulting from a decree for specific performance. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Organized outpatient health facility: means a facility, not part of a hospital, organized and operated to provide health care to noninstitutionalized and nonhomebound persons on an outpatient basis; it does not include private offices or clinics of individual physicians, dentists or other practitioners, or groups of practitioners, who are health care providers. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Participant: means an individual, individual's legal representative, trust, estate, or an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, that has entered into a participation agreement under this chapter for the advance payment of qualified education expenses on behalf of a beneficiary. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Participating abstractor: means an abstractor participating in the Iowa title guaranty program. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Participating abstractor: means an abstractor participating in the Iowa title guaranty program. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Participation agreement: means an agreement between a participant and the trust entered into under this chapter. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Participation agreement: means an agreement establishing an account with the trust. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Payoff statement: means a written statement furnished by the mortgage servicer which sets forth all of the following:
   (1) The unpaid balance of the loan secured by a mortgage, including principal, interest, and any other charges properly due under or secured by the mortgage, or the amount required to be paid in order to release or partially release the mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• Payoff statement: means a written statement furnished by the mortgage servicer which sets forth all of the following:
   (1) The unpaid balance of the loan secured by a mortgage, including principal, interest, and any other charges properly due under or secured by the mortgage, or the amount required to be paid in order to release or partially release the mortgage. See Iowa Code 16.92
• person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Person with a disability: means a person who is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, or a person having a physical or mental impairment which is expected to be of long-continued and indefinite duration, substantially impedes the ability to live independently, and is of a nature that the ability to live independently could be improved by more suitable housing conditions. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Personal information: means any list, record, register, registry, roll, roster, or other compilation of data that directly or indirectly identifies a person as a member, supporter, or volunteer of, or donor of financial or nonfinancial support to, any entity which is exempt from taxation under section 501(c) of the federal Internal Revenue Code. See Iowa Code 22A.1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• personal property: include money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Iowa Code 4.1
• persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Political organization: means a political party, a candidate for office, or a political action committee required to file financial information with federal or state election or campaign commissions. See Iowa Code 13C.1
• Political subdivision: means a city, county, or school corporation. See Iowa Code 23A.1
• Power production activities: means any business operation that involves a project commissioned by the National Electricity Corporation of Sudan or other similar government of Sudan entity whose purpose is to facilitate power generation and delivery including but not limited to establishing power generating plants or hydroelectric dams, selling or installing components for the project, providing service contracts related to the installation or maintenance of the project, as well as facilitating such activities, including by providing supplies or services in support of such activities. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Power production activities: means any business operation that involves a project commissioned by any Iranian government entity whose purpose is to facilitate power-generation and delivery including but not limited to establishing power generating plants or hydroelectric dams, selling or installing components for the project, providing service contracts related to the installation or maintenance of the project, as well as facilitating such activities, including by providing supplies or services in support of such activities. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Powers: means all of the general and specific powers of the authority as provided in this chapter which shall be broadly and liberally interpreted to authorize the authority to act in accordance with the goals of the authority and in a manner consistent with the legislative findings and guiding principles. See Iowa Code 16.1
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Private agency: means a private agency as defined in section 28E. See Iowa Code 28G.2
• Private enterprise: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, association, or other legal entity engaging in the manufacturing, processing, sale, offering for sale, rental, leasing, delivery, dispensing, distributing, or advertising of goods or services for profit. See Iowa Code 23A.1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional commercial fund-raiser: means any person who for compensation solicits contributions in Iowa for a charitable organization other than the person. See Iowa Code 13C.1
• Professional employee: means any one of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Program: means any program administered by the authority or any program in which the authority is directed or authorized to participate pursuant to any statute, executive order, or interagency agreement, or any other program participation or administration of which the authority finds useful and convenient to further the goals and purposes of the authority. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Program fund: means the program fund established under section 12D. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Program plan: means the tobacco settlement program plan dated February 14, 2001, including exhibits to the program plan, submitted by the authority to the legislative council and the executive council, to provide the state with a secure and stable source of funding for the purposes designated by section 12E. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Prohibited company: means a company that is owned or controlled by Chinese military or government services and has been designated by the United States government as a company that citizens of the United States are restricted or prohibited from entering into transactions with, limited to companies on any of the following lists:
   a. See Iowa Code 12K.1
• Project: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Project: means a vertical improvement constructed or substantially improved within a district using sales tax revenues and hotel and motel tax revenues received by a municipality pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• projects: means any works or facilities referred to in section 28F. See Iowa Code 28F.2
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Prosecuting attorneys: means county attorney, district attorney, or any attorney charged with responsibility of prosecution of violation of state laws. See Iowa Code 13A.1
• Public agency: means all of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 22A.1
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public employee: means any individual employed by a public employer, except individuals exempted under the provisions of section 20. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Public employer: means the state of Iowa, its boards, commissions, agencies, departments, and its political subdivisions including school districts and other special purpose districts. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Public entity: means the state, political subdivisions of the state, public school corporations, and all public officers, boards, commissions, departments, agencies, and authorities empowered by law to enter into public contracts for the expenditure of public funds, including the state board of regents and institutions under the control of the state board of regents. See Iowa Code 12J.2
• Public fund: means the treasurer of state, the state board of regents, the public safety peace officers' retirement system created in chapter 97A, the Iowa public employees' retirement system created in chapter 97B, the statewide fire and police retirement system created in chapter 411, or the judicial retirement system created in chapter 602. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Public fund: means the treasurer of state, the state board of regents, the public safety peace officers' retirement system created in chapter 97A, the Iowa public employees' retirement system created in chapter 97B, the statewide fire and police retirement system created in chapter 411, or the judicial retirement system created in chapter 602. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Public fund: means the treasurer of state, the state board of regents, the public safety peace officers' retirement system created in chapter 97A, the Iowa public employees' retirement system created in chapter 97B, the statewide fire and police retirement system created in chapter 411, or the judicial retirement system created in chapter 602. See Iowa Code 12J.2
• Public fund: means the treasurer of state, the state board of regents, the public safety peace officers' retirement system created in chapter 97A, the Iowa public employees' retirement system created in chapter 97B, the statewide fire and police retirement system created in chapter 411, or the judicial retirement system created in chapter 602. See Iowa Code 12K.1
• public funds: means public funds as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 12B.10C
• public funds: means all funds that are public funds within the meaning of section 12C. See Iowa Code 12B.10A
• Public improvement: includes a building or improvement constructed or operated jointly with any other public or private agency, but excludes all of the following:
   (1) Urban renewal demolition and low-rent housing projects. See Iowa Code 26.2
• Public officer: means the person authorized by and acting for a public body to deposit public funds of the public body. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• Public records: includes all records, documents, tape, or other information, stored or preserved in any medium, of or belonging to this state or any county, city, township, school corporation, political subdivision, nonprofit corporation other than a fair conducting a fair event as provided in chapter 174, whose facilities or indebtedness are supported in whole or in part with property tax revenue and which is licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering pursuant to chapter 99D, or tax-supported district in this state, or any branch, department, board, bureau, commission, council, or committee of any of the foregoing. See Iowa Code 22.1
• Qualified commodity share landlord: means a commodity share landlord, if the owner of the agricultural land was actively engaged in farming the land or a family member of the owner is or was actively engaged in farming the land, if the family member is related to the owner as a spouse, parent, grandparent, lineal ascendant of a grandparent or spouse, or other lineal descendant of a grandparent or spouse. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Qualified disability expenses: means the same as defined in section 529A of the Internal Revenue Code. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Qualified education expenses: includes expenses for the participation in an apprenticeship program registered and certified with the United States secretary of labor under section 1 of the National Apprenticeship Act, 29 U. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Qualified education loan: means the same as "qualified education loan" as defined in section 221(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Qualified educational institution: means an institution of higher education, or any elementary or secondary public, private, or religious school described in section 529(c)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Qualified farmer: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Qualified person: means a person who is any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Qualified residential housing: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Recyclable materials: means those materials separated by a person from solid waste incidental to the collection of the solid waste for utilization as raw materials to be manufactured into a new product. See Iowa Code 28G.2
• Regional cooperative association: means a cooperative association other than a farmers cooperative association. See Iowa Code 10.1
• Religious organization: means a religious corporation, trust, foundation, association, or organization incorporated or established for religious purposes. See Iowa Code 13C.1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Repair or maintenance work: means the preservation of a building, storm sewer, sanitary sewer, or other public facility or structure so that it remains in sound or proper condition, including minor replacements and additions as necessary to restore the public facility or structure to its original condition with the same design. See Iowa Code 26.2
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Reporting entity: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 10B.1
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retailer: means as defined in section 423. See Iowa Code 10A.519
• road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Sales agreement: means any agreement authorized pursuant to this chapter in which the state provides for the sale of all or a portion of the state's share to the authority. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Scrutinized company: means any company that is not a social development company that meets any of the following criteria:
   a. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Scrutinized company: means any company that is not a social development company that meets any of the following criteria:
   a. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Scrutinized company: means any company that publicly states it is participating in a boycott of Israel. See Iowa Code 12J.2
• seal: shall include an impression upon the paper alone, or upon wax, a wafer affixed to the paper, or an official stamp of a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Second-class consumer fireworks: means the following consumer fireworks, as described in APA 87-1, chapter 3:
   (1) Cone fountains. See Iowa Code 10A.519
• Secured loan: means a financial obligation secured by a chattel mortgage, security agreement, or other instrument creating a lien on an interest in depreciable property. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Sibling: means a brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister of the beneficiary. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Small business: means any enterprise which is located in this state, which is operated for profit and under a single management, and which has either fewer than twenty employees or an annual gross income of less than four million dollars computed as the average of the three preceding fiscal years. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Social development company: means a company that is not complicit in the Darfur genocide whose primary purpose in Sudan is to provide humanitarian goods or services, including medicine or medical equipment, agricultural supplies or infrastructure, educational opportunities, journalism-related activities, information or information materials, spiritual-related activities, services of a purely clerical or reporting nature, food, clothing, or general consumer goods that are unrelated to oil-related activities, mineral extraction activities, or power production activities. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Social development company: means a company whose primary purpose in Iran is to provide humanitarian goods or services, including medicine or medical equipment, agricultural supplies or infrastructure, educational opportunities, journalism-related activities, information or information materials, spiritual-related activities, services of a purely clerical or reporting nature, food, clothing, or general consumer goods that are unrelated to oil-related activities, mineral extraction activities, or power production activities. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• solicitation: means the request, directly or indirectly, for a contribution on the pleas or representation that the contribution will be used for a charitable purpose. See Iowa Code 13C.1
• Solid waste management project: means a project which is part of the comprehensive plan, approved by the director of the department of natural resources pursuant to section 455B. See Iowa Code 28G.2
• Specified industry: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 16.151
• 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
• 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 agency: means any board, commission, department, public officer, or other agency of the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 16.1
• State agency: means a board, commission, bureau, division, office, department, or branch of state government. See Iowa Code 12.28
• State agency: means an office, bureau, division, department, board, or commission in the executive branch of state government. See Iowa Code 19B.1
• State agency: includes a state department, board, commission, or other unit of state government regardless of whether moneys are appropriated to the agency. See Iowa Code 23A.1
• state board: shall mean the state appeal board as created by section 24. See Iowa Code 24.2
• State hotel and motel tax: means the state-imposed tax under section 423A. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• State public defender: means the state public defender appointed pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 13B.1
• State sales tax: means the sales and services tax imposed pursuant to section 423. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Strike: means a public employee's refusal, in concerted action with others, to report to duty, or a willful absence from the employee's position, or a stoppage of work by the employee, or the employee's abstinence in whole or in part from the full, faithful, and proper performance of the duties of employment, for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing a change in the conditions, compensation, rights, privileges, or obligations of public employment. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Substantial action: means adopting, publicizing, and implementing a formal plan to cease scrutinized business operations within one year and to refrain from any such new business operations; undertaking significant humanitarian efforts on behalf of one or more marginalized populations of Sudan; or, through engagement with the government of Sudan, materially improving conditions for the genocidally victimized population in Darfur. See Iowa Code 12F.2
• Substantial action: means adopting, publicizing, and implementing a formal plan to cease scrutinized business operations within one year and to refrain from any such new business operations. See Iowa Code 12H.2
• Substantially improved: means that the cost of the improvements is equal to or exceeds fifty percent of the assessed value of the property, excluding the land, prior to such improvements. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Superintendent: means the superintendent of banking of this state when the depository is a bank, and the superintendent of credit unions of this state when the depository is a credit union. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• Supplemental pay: means a payment of moneys or other thing of value that is in addition to compensation received pursuant to any other permitted subject of negotiation specified in section 20. See Iowa Code 20.3
• Targeted industries: means the industries of advanced manufacturing, biosciences, and information technology. See Iowa Code 15.102
• Targeted small business: means a small business which is fifty-one percent or more owned, operated, and actively managed by one or more women, minority persons, service-disabled veterans, or persons with a disability provided the business meets all of the following requirements:
   (1) Is located in this state. See Iowa Code 15.102
• tax: shall mean any general or special tax levied against persons, property, or business, for public purposes as provided by law, but shall not include any special assessment nor any tax certified or levied by township trustees. See Iowa Code 24.2
• Tax credit: means a contingent tax credit issued pursuant to section 15E. See Iowa Code 15E.62
• Tax-exempt bonds: means bonds issued by the authority that are accompanied by a written opinion of legal counsel to the authority that the bonds are excluded from the gross income of the recipients for federal income tax purposes. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Taxable bonds: means bonds issued by the authority that are not accompanied by a written opinion of legal counsel to the authority that the bonds are excluded from the gross income of the recipients for federal income tax purposes. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Technologically innovative equipment: means equipment potentially useful for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes which introduces new technology in the diagnosis or treatment of disease, the usefulness of which is not well enough established to permit a specific plan of need to be developed for the state. See Iowa Code 10A.711
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• title guaranty: means a guaranty against loss or damage caused by a defective title to real property. See Iowa Code 16.90
• Tobacco settlement trust fund: means the tobacco settlement trust fund created in this chapter. See Iowa Code 12E.2
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• trust: means the trust created under section 12D. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• trust: means the trust created under section 12I. See Iowa Code 12I.1
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Tuition: means the quarter, semester, or annual charges imposed to attend a qualified educational institution and required as a condition of enrollment or attendance. See Iowa Code 12D.1
• Under the control of a governmental entity: includes determining the construction work to be performed or establishing the specifications for a building or construction work to be occupied by the governmental entity. See Iowa Code 26.2
• undertaking: means a promise or security in any form. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uninsured public funds: means any amount of public funds of a public funds depositor on deposit in an account at a financial institution that exceeds the amount of public funds in that account that are insured by the federal deposit insurance corporation or the national credit union administration. See Iowa Code 12C.1
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• utility infrastructure: includes facilities used for the storage, collection, disposal, treatment, generation, transmission, or distribution of water, sewage, waste, electricity, gas, or telecommunications service. See Iowa Code 26.2
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Vertical improvement: means a building that is wholly or partially above grade and all appurtenant structures to the building. See Iowa Code 15J.2
• Very low income families: means families whose incomes do not exceed fifty percent of the median income for the area, with adjustments for the size of the family or other adjustments necessary due to unusual prevailing conditions in the area. See Iowa Code 16.1
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1