135.108 - DEFINITIONS.

        135.108  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
         2.  "Director" means the director of public health.
         3.  "Domestic abuse death" means a homicide or suicide that
      involves or is a result of an assault as defined in section 708.1 and
      to which any of the following circumstances apply to the parties
      involved:
         a.  The alleged or convicted perpetrator is related to the
      decedent as spouse, separated spouse, or former spouse.
         b.  The alleged or convicted perpetrator resided with the
      decedent at the time of the assault that resulted in the homicide or
      suicide.
         c.  The alleged or convicted perpetrator and the decedent
      resided together in the past but did not reside together at the time
      of the assault that resulted in the homicide or suicide.
         d.  The alleged or convicted perpetrator and decedent are
      parents of the same minor child, whether they were married or lived
      together at any time.
         e.  The alleged or convicted perpetrator was in an ongoing
      personal relationship with the decedent.
         f.  The alleged or convicted perpetrator was arrested for or
      convicted of stalking or harassing the decedent, or an order or
      court-approved agreement was entered against the perpetrator under
      chapter 232, 236, 598, or 915 to restrict contact by the perpetrator
      with the decedent.
         g.  The decedent was related by blood or affinity to an
      individual who lived in the same household with or was in the
      workplace or proximity of the decedent, and that individual was
      threatened with assault by the perpetrator.
         4.  "Team" means the domestic abuse death review team
      established in section 135.109.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2000 Acts, ch 1136, §1
         Referred to in § 135.112