Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 261 - Economic Development Authority › Part X - Rural Housing Needs Assessment Grant Program › Chapter 216 - Sports Tourism Program: Infrastructure Fund › Rule 261-216.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
				  requires:
"Accredited colleges and universities"
means
				  any college, university, or institution of higher learning that is accredited
				  by the Higher Learning Commission or any other college, university, or
				  institution of higher learning that is accredited by an accrediting agency that
				  is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
"Authority"
means the economic development
				  authority created in Iowa Code section
				  15.105.
"Bid fees"
means fees paid as part of
				  proposing a location for an event.
"Board"
means the economic development
				  authority board as created in Iowa Code section
				  15.105.
"Convention and visitors bureau"
or
"CVB"
means an organization engaged primarily in the marketing
				  and promotion of a local community or communities to businesses and to leisure
				  travelers interested in the area's facilities. Such organizations are typically
				  engaged in a wide range of activities including but not limited to assisting
				  businesses and leisure travelers in identifying meeting locations and
				  convention sites; providing maps and other travel information; providing
				  information on local attractions, lodging, and restaurants; and organizing
				  tours of local historical, recreational, and cultural attractions.
"District"
means a regional sports authority
				  district certified under Iowa Code section
				  15E.321.
"Financial assistance"
means assistance
				  provided only from the funds available to the authority or the board and
				  includes assistance in the form of grants, loans, and forgivable loans.
"Infrastructure"
means land acquisition and
				  construction; major renovations of buildings; and all appurtenant structures,
				  utilities, and site development that are related to the operation of a sporting
				  event.
"Infrastructure fund"
means the fund
				  established pursuant to Iowa Code section
				  15F.404 for purposes of
				  financing sports tourism infrastructure projects.
"Marketing"
means planning for or
				  implementing efforts to publicize a sporting event using a range of strategies,
				  tools, and tactics.
"Organization"
means a corporation,
				  conference, association, or other organization which has as one of its primary
				  purposes the sponsoring or administration of extracurricular intercollegiate
				  athletic contests or competitions, or professional sporting events.
"Professional sporting events"
means any
				  sporting events for which the competing athletes receive payment for their
				  participation in such sporting events.
"Program"
means the portion of the sports
				  tourism marketing and infrastructure program administered pursuant to this
				  chapter and funded by the infrastructure fund.
"Promote"
or
"promotion"
means to undertake specific identifiable actions that encourage greater
				  awareness of and attendance at a sporting event. This includes the planning,
				  organizing, advertising, marketing, managing, hosting, and sponsoring of a
				  sporting event.
"Public organization"
means a not-for-profit
				  economic development organization or other not-for-profit organization
				  including one that sponsors or supports sporting events.
"Sporting event"
means an athletic activity
				  requiring skill or physical prowess, usually competitive in nature and governed
				  by a set of rules provided by a nationally recognized sanctioning body. A
				  sporting event typically includes the placing of competitors into a fixed order
				  of finish, depending upon their respective athletic performance within the
				  rules provided for that activity.
"Sports tourism program review committee"
or
"review committee"
means the committee established by Iowa
				  Code section 15F.402(2)  and
				  shall consist of members of the board, with one member from each congressional
				  district under Iowa Code section
				  15F.102(2)
"a"
and one member from the state at large under Iowa Code
				  section 15F.102(2)
"b."