138.1 - DEFINITIONS.
138.1 DEFINITIONS.
When used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Camp operator" means the person who has been granted a
permit, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to operate
a migrant labor camp, or portion thereof.
2. "Chemical toilet" means a nonwater carriage toilet
facility where human waste is collected in a container charged with a
chemical solution for the purpose of disinfecting and deodorizing
such waste.
3. "Communicable disease" means any of those diseases
regulated by state or local communicable disease laws, ordinances, or
regulations.
4. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
5. "Director" means the director of public health or the
director's designee.
6. "Garbage" means all putrescible animal or vegetable wastes
resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of
food at a migrant labor camp.
7. "Migrant" means any individual who customarily and
repeatedly travels from state to state for the purpose of obtaining
seasonal employment in agriculture, including the spouse and children
of such individuals, whether or not authorized by law to engage in
such employment.
8. "Migrant labor camp" means one or more buildings,
structures, shelters, tents, trailers, or vehicles or any other
structure or a combination thereof together with the land
appertaining thereto, established, operated, or maintained as living
quarters for seven or more migrants or two or more shelters. A camp
shall include such land or quarters separate from one another if the
migrants housed therein work at any time for the same person and the
total number of migrants in all such camps is seven or more. Such
separate camps shall constitute a portion of a migrant labor camp.
9. "Person" means an individual, group of individuals, firm,
association, partnership, or corporation.
10. "Privy" means a portable or fixed sanitary facility used
for excretion in a shelter separate and apart from any building and
without water-borne disposal.
11. "Refuse" means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid
waste except human body wastes, including garbage, rubbish, and
ashes.
12. "Service building" means any building provided for the
common use, welfare, and comfort of persons occupying or using the
migrant labor camp.
13. "Shelter" means any conventional or unconventional
building of one or more rooms, or any tent, trailer, railroad car, or
any other enclosure or structure used for sleeping or living
purposes.
14. "Toilet room" means an enclosure containing one or more
toilet facilities or water closet facilities.
15. "Urinal" means a sanitary fixture or structure installed
for the purpose of urination.
16. "Water closet" means a sanitary fixture, within a toilet
room, used for excretion and equipped with a bowl and device for
flushing the bowl contents into a disposal system. Section History: Early Form
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 138.1]