238.1 - DEFINITIONS.
238.1 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this chapter unless the context otherwise
requires:
1. "Administrator" means the administrator of the division of
child and family services of the department of human services.
2. "Child" means the same as defined in section 234.1.
3. "Child-placing agency" means any agency, whether public,
semipublic, or private, which represents that the agency places
children permanently or temporarily in private family homes or
receives children for placement in private family homes, or which
actually engages for gain or otherwise in the placement of children
in private family homes.
4. "Person" or "agency" shall include individuals,
institutions, partnerships, voluntary associations, and corporations,
other than institutions under the management or control of any
division or any administrator of the department of human services.
5. "State division" means the same as defined in section
234.1. Section History: Early Form
[C27, 31, 35, § 3661-a58; C39, § 3661.072; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 238.1] Section History: Recent Form
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1279, § 41; 94 Acts, ch
1046, §8; 96 Acts, ch 1034, § 14; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §95
Referred to in § 238.17, 600A.2, 600A.6B