21.2 - DEFINITIONS.
21.2 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter:
1. "Governmental body" means:
a. A board, council, commission, or other governing body
expressly created by the statutes of this state or by executive
order.
b. A board, council, commission, or other governing body of a
political subdivision or tax-supported district in this state.
c. A multimembered body formally and directly created by one
or more boards, councils, commissions, or other governing bodies
subject to paragraphs "a" and "b" of this subsection.
d. Those multimembered bodies to which the state board of
regents or a president of a university has delegated the
responsibility for the management and control of the intercollegiate
athletic programs at the state universities.
e. An advisory board, advisory commission, or task force
created by the governor or the general assembly to develop and make
recommendations on public policy issues.
f. A nonprofit corporation other than a fair conducting a
fair event as provided in chapter 174, whose facilities or
indebtedness are supported in whole or in part with property tax
revenue and which is licensed to conduct pari-mutuel wagering
pursuant to chapter 99D or a nonprofit corporation which is a
successor to the nonprofit corporation which built the facility.
g. A nonprofit corporation licensed to conduct gambling games
pursuant to chapter 99F.
h. An advisory board, advisory commission, advisory
committee, task force, or other body created by statute or executive
order of this state or created by an executive order of a political
subdivision of this state to develop and make recommendations on
public policy issues.
i. The governing body of a drainage or levee district as
provided in chapter 468, including a board as defined in section
468.3, regardless of how the district is organized.
j. An advisory board, advisory commission, advisory
committee, task force, or other body created by an entity organized
under chapter 28E, or by the administrator or joint board specified
in a chapter 28E agreement, to develop and make recommendations on
public policy issues.
2. "Meeting" means a gathering in person or by electronic
means, formal or informal, of a majority of the members of a
governmental body where there is deliberation or action upon any
matter within the scope of the governmental body's policy-making
duties. Meetings shall not include a gathering of members of a
governmental body for purely ministerial or social purposes when
there is no discussion of policy or no intent to avoid the purposes
of this chapter.
3. "Open session" means a meeting to which all members of the
public have access. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, § 28A.1; C79, 81, § 28A.2] Section History: Recent Form
C85, §21.2
89 Acts, ch 73, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1175, §1; 90 Acts, ch 1271, §701;
91 Acts, ch 258, § 26; 93 Acts, ch 25, § 1; 2004 Acts, ch 1019, §1;
2009 Acts, ch 132, §1; 2009 Acts, ch 179, §31
Referred to in § 21.11, 331.909