2009 Iowa Code
Title 2 - Elections and Official Duties
Subtitle 1 - Elections
CHAPTER 48A - VOTER REGISTRATION
48A.2 - DEFINITIONS.

        48A.2  DEFINITIONS.
         The definitions established by this section and section 39.3 shall
      apply wherever the terms so defined appear in this chapter, unless
      the context in which any such term is used clearly requires
      otherwise.
         1.  "Commissioner of registration" means the county
      commissioner of elections as defined in section 47.2.
         2.  "Homeless person" means a person who lacks a fixed,
      regular, and adequate nighttime residence and who has a primary
      nighttime residence that is one of the following:
         a.  A supervised publicly or privately operated shelter
      designed to provide temporary living accommodations.
         b.  An institution that provides a temporary residence for
      persons intended to be institutionalized.
         c.  A public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily
      used as, a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings.
         3.  "Person who is incompetent to vote" means a person
      described in section 222.2, subsection 5, who has been found to lack
      the mental capacity to vote in a proceeding held pursuant to section
      222.31 or 633.556.
         4.  "Voter registration agency" means an agency designated to
      conduct voter registration under section 48A.19.  Offices of the
      office of driver services of the state department of transportation
      are not voter registration agencies.
         5.  "Voter registration form" means an application to register
      to vote which must be completed by or on behalf of any person
      registering to vote.  The voter registration form may also be used to
      make changes to an existing voter registration record.
         6.  "Voter registration list" means a compilation of voter
      registration records produced, upon request, from the electronic
      voter registration file or by viewing, upon request, the original,
      completed voter registration applications and forms.  

         94 Acts, ch 1169, §2; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 14; 98 Acts, ch 1185, §
      1; 2002 Acts, ch 1134, §17, 115; 2007 Acts, ch 59, §39, 43; 2009
      Acts, ch 57, §14
         Referred to in § 321.1, 331.440, 602.8102(15)