2019 Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Chapter 48A - VOTER REGISTRATION
Section 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. “Document” means, for purposes of satisfying proof of residence under this chapter, information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic record and is retrievable in perceivable form.

3. “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.

4. “Person who is incompetent to vote” means a person with an intellectual disability who has been found to lack the mental capacity to vote in a proceeding held pursuant to section 633.556.

5. “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.

6. “Voter identification card” means a card issued pursuant to section 48A.10A.

7. “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.

8. “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; 2012 Acts, ch 1019, §5; 2013 Acts, ch 130, §16, 35; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §12, 35, 36; 2018 Acts, ch 1149, §4, 12

Referred to in §321.1, 331.394, 602.8102(15)

2017 enactment of subsection 6 takes effect July 1, 2017, and applies to elections held on or after that date; 2017 Acts, ch 110, §35, 36; 2017 Acts, ch 170, §26

NEW subsection 2 and former subsections 2 – 7 renumbered as 3 – 8