Iowa § 8D.2 - 8D.2 Definitions.

§ 8D.2. 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 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. [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 C95, §8D.2 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; 2017 Acts, ch 52, §1; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2769 Referred to in §8D.9, 8D.13 Wed Dec 10 21:49:12 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 8D.2 (24, 0)