103A.3 - DEFINITIONS.
103A.3 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board of review" or "board" means the state building
code board of review created by this chapter.
2. "Building" means a combination of any materials, whether
portable or fixed, to form a structure affording facilities or
shelter for persons, animals or property. The word "building"
includes any part of a building unless the context clearly requires a
different meaning.
3. "Building regulations" means any law, bylaw, rule,
resolution, regulation, ordinance, or code or compilation enacted or
adopted, by the state or any governmental subdivision, including
departments, boards, bureaus, commissions or other agencies, relating
to the construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, repair
or use of buildings and installation of equipment therein. The term
shall not include zoning ordinances or subdivision regulations.
4. "Commissioner" means the state building code commissioner
created by this chapter.
5. "Construction" means the construction, erection,
reconstruction, alteration, conversion, repair, equipping of
buildings, structures or facilities, and requirements or standards
relating to or affecting materials used in connection therewith,
including provisions for safety and sanitary conditions.
6. "Council" means the state building code advisory council
created by this chapter.
7. "Equipment" means plumbing, heating, electrical,
ventilating, conditioning, refrigerating equipment, elevators,
dumbwaiters, escalators, and other mechanical facilities or
installations.
8. "Factory-built structure" means any structure which is,
wholly or in substantial part, made, fabricated, formed, or assembled
in manufacturing facilities for installation, or assembly and
installation, on a building site. "Factory-built structure"
includes the terms "mobile home", "manufactured home", and
"modular home".
9. "Governmental subdivision" means any city, county, or
combination thereof.
10. "Installation" means the assembly of factory-built
structures on site and the process of affixing factory-built
structures to land, a foundation, footings, or an existing building.
11. "Local building department" means an agency of any
governmental subdivision charged with the administration,
supervision, or enforcement of building regulations, approval of
plans, inspection of buildings, or the issuance of permits, licenses,
certificates and similar documents, prescribed or required by state
or local building regulations.
12. "Local building regulations" means building regulations
adopted by a governmental subdivision.
13. "Manufacture" is the process of making, fabricating,
constructing, forming, or assembling a product from raw, unfinished,
or semi-finished materials.
14. "Manufactured home", "mobile home", and "modular
home" mean the same as defined in section 103A.51.
15. "New construction" means construction of buildings and
factory-built structures which is commenced on or after January 1,
1978. Notwithstanding the definition in subsection 5 of this
section, when the term "new construction" appears in this
chapter, "construction" is limited to the erection, reconstruction or
conversion of a building or factory-built structure and additions to
buildings or factory-built structures and does not include
renovations or repairs.
16. "Out-of-state contractor" means a person whose principal
place of business is in another state, and which contracts to perform
construction, installation, or any other work covered by this
chapter, in this state.
17. "Owner" means the owner of the premises, a mortgagee or
vendee in possession, an assignee of rents, or a receiver, executor,
trustee, lessee or other person in control of a building or
structure.
18. "Performance objective" establishes design and
engineering criteria without reference to specific methods of
construction.
19. "State agency" means a state department, board, bureau,
commission, or agency of the state of Iowa.
20. "State building code" or "code" means the state
building code provided for in section 103A.7.
21. "State historic building code" means the alternative
building regulations and building standards for certain historic
buildings provided for in section 103A.41.
22. "Structure" means that which is built or constructed, an
edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artificially
built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner
except transmission and distribution structures of public utilities.
The word "structure" includes any part of a structure unless the
context clearly requires a different meaning.
23. "Sustainable design" means construction design intended
to minimize negative environmental impacts and to promote the health
and comfort of building occupants including but not limited to
measures to reduce consumption of nonrenewable resources, minimize
waste, and create healthy, productive environments. Section History: Early Form
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 103A.3] Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1113, § 1; 87 Acts, ch 60, § 3; 2001 Acts, ch 100, §1,
2; 2001 Acts, ch 176, §60, 82; 2006 Acts, ch 1090, §14, 15, 26; 2008
Acts, ch 1126, § 3, 33; 2008 Acts, ch 1173, § 5
Referred to in § 135C.9