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. Section History: Recent Form
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)