135.1 - DEFINITIONS.



        135.1  DEFINITIONS.
         For the purposes of chapter 155 and Title IV, subtitle 2,
      excluding chapter 146, unless otherwise defined:
         1.  "Director" shall mean the director of public health.
         2.  "Health officer" shall mean the physician who is the
      health officer of the local board of health.
         3.  "Local board" shall mean the local board of health.
         4.  "Physician" means a person licensed to practice medicine
      and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, chiropractic,
      podiatry, or optometry under the laws of this state; but a person
      licensed as a physician and surgeon shall be designated as a
      "physician" or "surgeon", a person licensed as an osteopathic
      physician and surgeon shall be designated as an "osteopathic
      physician" or "osteopathic surgeon", a person licensed as a
      chiropractor shall be designated as a "chiropractor", a person
      licensed as a podiatrist shall be designated as a "podiatric
      physician", and a person licensed as an optometrist shall be
      designated as an "optometrist".  A definition or designation
      contained in this subsection shall not be interpreted to expand the
      scope of practice of such licensees.
         5.  "Rules" shall include regulations and orders.
         6.  "Sanitation officer" shall mean the police officer who is
      the permanent sanitation and quarantine officer and who is subject to
      the direction of the local board of health in the execution of health
      and quarantine regulations.
         7.  "State department" or "department" shall mean the Iowa
      department of public health.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [S13, § 2583-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2181; C46, 50, 54, 58,
      62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 135.1] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         86 Acts, ch 1245, § 1101; 88 Acts, ch 1199, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1023,
      §10; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 2; 96 Acts, ch 1036, §1; 96 Acts, ch 1212,
      §15; 2008 Acts, ch 1058, § 14; 2008 Acts, ch 1084, § 10; 2008 Acts,
      ch 1088, § 141; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §30
         Referred to in § 36.2, 135C.1, 514.21