Section 8D.2. Definitions.

  When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1.  “Commission” means the Iowa telecommunications and technology commission established in section 8D.3.

  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 15.

  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 16, a school corporation, a city library, a county library as provided in chapter 336, or a judicial district department of correctional services established in section 905.2, to the extent provided in section 8D.13, subsection 14, 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, department of transportation distributed data processing and mobile radio network, or law enforcement communications systems.

[C71, 73, §8A.2; C75, 77, 79, 81, §18.133]

83 Acts, ch 126, §4, 5

; 86 Acts, ch 1245, §308, 2049

; 87 Acts, ch 211, §1

; 89 Acts, ch 319, §31

; 93 Acts, ch 48, §8

; 94 Acts, ch 1184, §3, 4, 29

98 Acts, ch 1047, §4

; 2001 Acts, ch 158, §1

; 2002 Acts, ch 1065, §1

; 2003 Acts, ch 44, §2

; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §157

; 2005 Acts, ch 179, §51

; 2011 Acts, ch 132, §36, 106

; 2013 Acts, ch 29, §4