§ 137C.2 — Definitions

Iowa § 137C.2

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title IV: PUBLIC HEALTH
• Ch. 137C: HOTEL SANITATION CODE

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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.
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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. “Regulatoryauthority”meansthedepartmentoralocalboardofhealththathasentered
into an agreement with the director pursuant to section 137C.6 for authority to enforce the
Iowa hotel sanitation code in its jurisdiction.

Legislative History

[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]