Iowa § 137C.2 - 137C.2 Definitions.
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§ 137C.2. 137C.2 Definitions.
For purposes of the Iowa hotel sanitation code, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context: 1. “Bed and breakfast inn” means a hotel which has nine or fewer guest rooms. 2. “Department” means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. 3. “Director” means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing or the director’s designee. 4. “Guest room” shall mean any bedroom or other sleeping quarters for transient guests in a hotel. 5. “Hotel” shall mean any building or structure, equipped, used, advertised as, or held out to the public to be an inn, hotel, motel, motor inn, or place where sleeping accommodations are furnished transient guests for hire. 6. “Local board of health” means a county, city, or district board of health. 7. “Municipal corporation” means a political subdivision of this state. 8. “Regulatory authority” means the department or a local board of health that has entered into an agreement with the director pursuant to section 137C.6 for authority to enforce the Iowa hotel sanitation code in its jurisdiction. [S13, §2514-h; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2808; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §170.1; C79, 81, §170B.2] 86 Acts, ch 1245, §541; 87 Acts, ch 202, §2; 90 Acts, ch 1204, §66 C91, §137C.2 2004 Acts, ch 1026, §3; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §1906 Wed Dec 10 22:55:01 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 137C.2 (23, 0)
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