Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 138 - Migrant Labor Camps

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Board: means the board of hearing aid specialists. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Camp operator: means the person who has been granted a permit, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to operate a migrant labor camp, or portion thereof. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Chemical toilet: means a nonwater carriage toilet facility where human waste is collected in a container charged with a chemical solution for the purpose of disinfecting and deodorizing such waste. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Communicable disease: means any of those diseases regulated by state or local communicable disease laws, ordinances, or regulations. See Iowa Code 138.1
• 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.
• Department: means the Iowa department of public health. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Director: means the director of public health or the director's designee. See Iowa Code 138.1
• 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.
• 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
• Garbage: means all putrescible animal or vegetable wastes resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food at a migrant labor camp. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• License: means a license issued by the state under this chapter to a hearing aid specialist. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Migrant: means any individual who customarily and repeatedly travels from state to state for the purpose of obtaining seasonal employment in agriculture, including the spouse and children of such individuals, whether or not authorized by law to engage in such employment. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Migrant labor camp: means one or more buildings, structures, shelters, tents, trailers, or vehicles or any other structure or a combination thereof together with the land appertaining thereto, established, operated, or maintained as living quarters for seven or more migrants or two or more shelters. See Iowa Code 138.1
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, group of individuals, firm, association, partnership, or corporation. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Privy: means a portable or fixed sanitary facility used for excretion in a shelter separate and apart from any building and without water-borne disposal. See Iowa Code 138.1
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Refuse: means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste except human body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, and ashes. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Service building: means any building provided for the common use, welfare, and comfort of persons occupying or using the migrant labor camp. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Shelter: means any conventional or unconventional building of one or more rooms, or any tent, trailer, railroad car, or any other enclosure or structure used for sleeping or living purposes. See Iowa Code 138.1
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Toilet room: means an enclosure containing one or more toilet facilities or water closet facilities. See Iowa Code 138.1
• 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.
• Urinal: means a sanitary fixture or structure installed for the purpose of urination. See Iowa Code 138.1
• Water closet: means a sanitary fixture, within a toilet room, used for excretion and equipped with a bowl and device for flushing the bowl contents into a disposal system. See Iowa Code 138.1
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1