As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
 1. “Agency” means any governmental body which exercises jurisdiction over any road as provided by law.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 314.13

  • Committee: means the integrated roadside vegetation management technical advisory committee created in section 314. See Iowa Code 314.13
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Coordinator: means the integrated roadside vegetation management coordinator. See Iowa Code 314.13
  • Department: means the state department of transportation. See Iowa Code 314.13
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Person: includes any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, joint adventure, or association, and the plural as well as the singular number. See Iowa Code 321H.2
  • Program: means an informal dispute settlement procedure established by a manufacturer which mediates and arbitrates motor vehicle warranty disputes arising in this state. See Iowa Code 322G.2
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Resident: means as defined in section 483A. See Iowa Code 321I.1
  • 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
  • Small business: means any enterprise, 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 314.13
  • Socially and economically disadvantaged individual: means an individual who is a citizen of the United States or who is a lawfully admitted permanent resident of the United States and who is a woman, Black American, Hispanic American, Native American, Asian-Pacific American, Asian-Indian American, or any other minority person or individual found to be disadvantaged by the United States small business administration. See Iowa Code 314.13
  • 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
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. “Committee” means the integrated roadside vegetation management technical advisory committee created in section 314.22.
 3. “Coordinator” means the integrated roadside vegetation management coordinator.
 4. “Department” means the state department of transportation.
 5. “Disadvantaged business enterprise” means a small business which meets both of the following:

 a. The business is at least fifty-one percent owned by one or more socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
 b. The management and daily business operations of the business are controlled by one or more of the socially and economically disadvantaged individuals who own the business.
 6. “Highway” or “street” means the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic.
 7. “Prequalified” means that a small business has been approved by the department as a small business, is a recognized contractor engaged in the class of work provided for in the plans and specifications, possesses sufficient resources to complete the work, and is able to furnish a performance bond for one hundred percent of the contract.
 8. “Small business” means any enterprise, 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. This definition does not apply to any program or activity for which a definition for small business is provided for the program or activity by federal law or regulation or other state law.
 9. “Socially and economically disadvantaged individual” means an individual who is a citizen of the United States or who is a lawfully admitted permanent resident of the United States and who is a woman, Black American, Hispanic American, Native American, Asian-Pacific American, Asian-Indian American, or any other minority person or individual found to be disadvantaged by the United States small business administration. However, the department may also determine, on a case-by-case basis, that an individual who is not a member of one of the enumerated groups is a socially and economically disadvantaged individual. A rebuttable presumption exists that individuals in the following groups are socially and economically disadvantaged:

 a. “Asian-Indian Americans”, which includes persons whose origins are from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives Islands, Nepal, or Sri Lanka.
 b. “Asian-Pacific Americans”, which includes persons whose origins are from Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brunei, Samoa, Guam, the United States trust territories of the Pacific Islands, and the Northern Marianas, Macao, Fiji, Tonga, Kirbati, Juvalu, Nauru, Micronesia, or Hong Kong.
 c. “Black Americans”, which includes persons having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.
 d. “Hispanic Americans”, which includes persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish or Portuguese culture or origin, regardless of race.
 e. “Native Americans”, which includes persons who are American Indians, Eskimos, Aleuts, or Native Hawaiians.
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