Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 8E - State Government Accountability (Accountable Government Act)

• Account: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Account: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Advertisement: means the attempt by dissemination, solicitation, or circulation to directly or indirectly induce any person to enter into any obligation or acquire any title or interest in land offered for sale or lease to the public in this state. See Iowa Code 543C.1
• 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.
• Agency: means a principal central department enumerated in section 7E. See Iowa Code 8E.103
• Agency performance plan: means an action plan based on an agency strategic plan which utilizes performance measures, data sources, and performance targets to achieve the agency's goals adopted pursuant to section 8E. See Iowa Code 8E.103
• Agency strategic plan: means the strategic plan for the agency adopted pursuant to section 8E. See Iowa Code 8E.103
• Agreement: means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Automated transaction: means a transaction conducted or performed, in whole or in part, by electronic means or electronic records, in which the acts or records of one or both parties are not reviewed by an individual in the ordinary course of forming a contract, performing under an existing contract, or fulfilling an obligation required by the transaction. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Banking organization: means any bank, trust company, savings bank, savings association, industrial bank, land bank, safe deposit company, or a private banker engaged in business in this state. See Iowa Code 556.1
• 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}
• Board: means the engineering and land surveying examining board provided by this chapter. See Iowa Code 542B.2
• Business association: means a corporation, cooperative association, joint stock company, business trust, investment company, partnership, limited liability company, trust company, mutual fund, or other business entity consisting of one or more persons, whether or not for profit. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Business day: means any calendar day except Saturday, Sunday, or public holiday, including holidays observed on Mondays. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• Buying club: means a corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or other business enterprise which sells or offers for sale to the public generally memberships or certificates of membership. See Iowa Code 552A.1
• Chattel paper: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.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
• Commission: means the real estate commission as established by chapter 543B. See Iowa Code 543C.1
• Commodity: means tangible or intangible property, real, personal, or mixed. See Iowa Code 553.3
• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Computer program: means a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in an information processing system in order to bring about a certain result. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Consumer goods or services: means goods or services purchased, leased, or rented primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, including courses of instruction or training regardless of the purpose for which they are taken. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• Consumer product: means goods that are used or bought for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Iowa Code 554F.1
• Contract: means the agreement by which a person acquires a membership in a buying club. See Iowa Code 552A.1
• Contract: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract: means the total legal obligation resulting from the parties' agreement as affected by this chapter and other applicable law. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Contract: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Controllable account: means an account evidenced by a controllable electronic record that provides that the account debtor undertakes to pay a person that under the uniform commercial code has control of the controllable electronic record. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Controllable electronic record: means an electronic record that can be subjected to control under any applicable article of the uniform commercial code. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Controllable payment intangible: means a payment intangible evidenced by a controllable electronic record that provides that the account debtor undertakes to pay a person that under any applicable article of the uniform commercial code has control of the controllable electronic record. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative association: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 556.1
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of management. See Iowa Code 8E.103
• Deposit account: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Digital asset: means any electronic record that represents or evidences economic value or economic, proprietary, or access rights or is used as a medium of exchange, unit of account, method of payment, or store of value. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Distributed ledger technology: means an electronic ledger or other record of transactions or other data to which all of the following apply:
   a. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• 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
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Door-to-door sale: means a sale, lease, or rental of consumer goods or services with a purchase price of twenty-five dollars or more, whether under single or multiple contracts, in which the seller or the seller's representative personally solicits the sale, including those in response to or following an invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is made at a place other than the place of business of the seller. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• Electronic: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Electronic: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Electronic agent: means a computer program or an electronic or other automated means used independently to initiate an action or respond to electronic records or performances in whole or in part, without review or action by an individual. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Electronic chattel paper: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Electronic document of title: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Electronic record: means a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Electronic record: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Electronic services system: means the county land record information system, or electronic services system, created under the agreement entered into under chapter 28E between the counties and the Iowa county recorders association as required by Iowa Code 554E.1
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• 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}
• Enterprise: means a business, commercial or professional entity, including a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, professional corporation, proprietorship, incorporated or unincorporated association, or other form of organization. See Iowa Code 553.3
• Enterprise strategic plan: means the strategic plan for the executive branch of state government adopted pursuant to section 8E. See Iowa Code 8E.103
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• financial institution: means the same as defined in section 527. See Iowa Code 547A.1
• Financial organization: means any federally chartered savings and loan association, credit union, cooperative bank or investment company, engaged in business in this state. See Iowa Code 556.1
• 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.
• 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Government agency: means the state, its political subdivisions, and any public agency supported in whole or in part by taxation. See Iowa Code 553.3
• Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative, or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution, or instrumentality of the federal government or of a state or of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of a state. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• 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.
• High-volume third-party seller: means a participant on an online marketplace platform who is a third-party seller and who, in any continuous twelve-month period during the previous twenty-four months, has entered into two hundred or more discrete sales or transactions of new or unused consumer products made through the online marketplace and for which payment was processed by the online marketplace, either directly or through its payment processor, and an aggregate total of five thousand dollars or more in gross revenues. See Iowa Code 554F.1
• Holder: means any person in possession of property subject to this chapter belonging to another, or who is trustee in case of a trust, or is indebted to another on an obligation subject to this chapter. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Home: means a mobile home, modular home, or a manufactured home as defined in section 435. See Iowa Code 555C.1
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Information: means data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, databases, or the like. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Information processing system: means an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, or processing information. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• 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
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Investment property: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• 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.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life insurance corporation: means any association or corporation transacting within this state the business of insurance on the lives of persons or insurance appertaining thereto, including, but not by way of limitation, endowments and annuities. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Manufactured home community: means a manufactured home community as defined in section 435. See Iowa Code 555C.1
• Membership: means certificates, memberships, shares, bonds, contracts, stocks, or agreements of any kind or character issued upon any plan offered generally to the public entitling the holder to purchase merchandise, materials, equipment, or service, either from the issuer or another person designated by the issuer, either under a franchise or otherwise, whether it be at a discount, at cost plus a percentage, at cost plus a fixed amount, at a fixed price, or on any other similar basis. See Iowa Code 552A.1
• Mineral: means gas, oil, and coal; other gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons; oil shale; cement material; sand and gravel; road material; building stone; chemical raw material; gemstone; fissionable and nonfissionable ores; colloidal and other clays; steam and other geothermal resources; and any other substance defined as a mineral by a law of this state. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Mineral proceeds: includes amounts payable as follows:
   a. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Mobile home park: means a mobile home park as defined in section 435. See Iowa Code 555C.1
• Money: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Money: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Money order: includes an express money order and a personal money order, on which the remitter is the purchaser. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• 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}
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• 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
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Offer: means an inducement, solicitation, or attempt to encourage a person to acquire a membership camping contract. See Iowa Code 557B.1
• Online marketplace: means a person or entity that operates a consumer-directed electronically based or accessed platform as follows:
   a. See Iowa Code 554F.1
• Owner: means a depositor in case of a deposit, a beneficiary in case of a trust, a creditor, claimant, or payee in case of other choses in action, or any person having a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this chapter, or that person's legal representative. See Iowa Code 556.1
• 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.
• Payment intangible: means the same as defined in section 554. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• 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: means a natural person, estate, trust, enterprise, or government agency. See Iowa Code 553.3
• Person: means any individual, business association, government or political subdivision, public corporation, public authority, estate, trust, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• personal property: include money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Personal property: includes personal property of the owner or other occupant of the home, which is located in the home, on the lot where the home is located, in the immediate vicinity of the home or lot, or in any storage area provided by the real property owner for use of the home owner or occupant. See Iowa Code 555C.1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Physical exercise club: means a person offering services or facilities, or both, for the preservation, maintenance, encouragement, or development of physical fitness or well-being in return for the payment of a fee entitling the buyer to the use of the services or facilities. See Iowa Code 552.1
• Physical exercise club contract: means an agreement by which a buyer is entitled to membership in a physical exercise club or use of the services or facilities of a physical exercise club. See Iowa Code 552.1
• Place of business: means the main or permanent branch office or local address of a seller. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Prepayment: means any partial or full payment for services or the use of facilities made before the services are actually made available by the physical exercise club or the facility is fully opened for business as described in section 552. See Iowa Code 552.1
• Price: includes the terms and conditions of sale, rental, rate, fee, or any other form of payment for a commodity or service. See Iowa Code 553.3
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Property: means a fixed and certain interest in or right in an intangible that is held, issued, or owed in the course of a holder's business, or by a government or governmental entity, and all income or increment therefrom, including that which is referred to as or evidenced by any of the following:
   (1) Money, check, draft, deposit, interest, dividend, and income. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Purchase price: means the total price paid or to be paid for the consumer goods or services, including all interest and service charges. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• Purchaser: means a person who enters into a membership camping contract with a membership camping operator and obtains the right to use the campground owned or operated by the membership camping operator. See Iowa Code 557B.1
• real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Record: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Record: means the same as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Relevant market: means the geographical area of actual or potential competition in a line of commerce, all or any part of which is within this state. See Iowa Code 553.3
• 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.
• 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.
• Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Sale: means any sale, offer for sale, or attempt to sell or lease any land, to the public in this state, for cash or on credit. See Iowa Code 543C.1
• Security procedure: includes a procedure that requires the use of algorithms or other codes, identifying words or numbers, encryption, or callback or other acknowledgment procedures, and includes digital signature technology. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Seller: means any person engaged in the door-to-door sale of consumer goods or services. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• Seller: means a person who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product through an online marketplace platform in the state. See Iowa Code 554F.1
• Service: means any activity which is performed in whole or part for financial gain. See Iowa Code 553.3
• 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.
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Smart contract: means an electronic record that is an event-driven program or computerized transaction protocol that runs on a distributed, decentralized, shared, and replicated ledger that executes the term of a contract, including but not limited to, taking custody over and instructing the transfer of assets. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• social referral service: means a service for a fee providing matching or introduction of individuals for the purpose of dating, matrimony, or general social contact not otherwise prohibited by law, and "ancillary service" means goods or services directly or indirectly related to or to be provided in connection with a social referral service. See Iowa Code 555A.1
• 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: includes an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, which is recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• 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.
• Strategic plan: means an enterprise strategic plan or an agency strategic plan. See Iowa Code 8E.103
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Third-party seller: means a seller, independent of an online marketplace, who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product in the state through an online marketplace platform. See Iowa Code 554F.1
• Trade or commerce: means any economic activity involving or relating to any commodity, service, or business activity. See Iowa Code 553.3
• Transaction: means a sale, trade, exchange, transfer, payment, or conversion of a digital asset or any other property or any other action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Transaction: means an action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See Iowa Code 554D.103
• Transaction: means a sale, trade, exchange, transfer, payment, or conversion of a digital asset or any other property or any other action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business, commercial, or governmental affairs. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• 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.
• Transferable record: means the same as transferable record defined in the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Transferable record: means the same as transferable record defined in the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U. See Iowa Code 554E.1
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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}
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Utility: means any person who owns or operates within this state, for public use, any plant, equipment, property, franchise, or license for the transmission of communications or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery, or furnishing of electricity, water, steam, or gas. See Iowa Code 556.1
• Valueless home: means a home located in a manufactured home community or a mobile home park including all other personal property, where all of the following conditions exist:
   a. See Iowa Code 555C.1
• Verify: means to confirm information provided to an online marketplace pursuant to this chapter, which may include the use of one or more methods that enable the online marketplace to reliably determine that any information and documents provided are valid, corresponding to the seller or an individual acting on the seller's behalf, not misappropriated, and not falsified. See Iowa Code 554F.1
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1