Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 751 - Telecommunications and Technology Commission, Iowa › Chapter 7 - Authorized Use and Users › Rule 751-7.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
For the purposes of interpreting these rules, the following
				definitions are applicable.
"Authorized facility"
means a site operated by
				an authorized user that is consistent with the written mission of the
				authorized user.
"Authorized use"
means use of the network by
				an authorized user or by persons acting on behalf of an authorized user as
				provided in this chapter for the following purposes of the authorized user:
(1) state or federal communications as defined in this chapter;
				(2) education or educational purposes as defined in this chapter; (3) training
				programs provided under state law and training programs developed by authorized
				users; (4) telemedicine or related purposes as defined in this chapter; (5)
				official governmental use by a state agency or a federal agency as defined in
				this chapter consistent with authorized purposes under applicable state or
				federal law; (6) establishing and operating a shared data only network for law
				enforcement, emergency management, disaster services, emergency warning and
				other emergency information dissemination services to federal, state and local
				law enforcement agencies and local emergency management offices; or (7) city of
				Des Moines.
"Authorized user"
means a private or public
				agency except for a public or private agency which was required pursuant to
				Iowa Code section
				8D.9(1)
				 to certify to the commission not later than
				July 1, 1994, of the agency's intent to become a part of the network and which
				did not provide such certification. Agencies that obtain legislative approval
				to join the network after July 1,1994, will be treated as a public or private
				agency for purposes of this definition and all provisions of Iowa Code chapter
				8D.
"Commission "
means the Iowa
				telecommunications and technology commission.
"Dial-up access "
means the ability of an
				authorized user using technical or mechanical means to access a computer
				network using a telecommunications facility and modem.
"Direct connection "
means a connection to the
				network by an authorized facility using owned, leased or contracted
				telecommunications facilities.
"Educational use "
means a use that is within
				the written mission of an accredited nonpublic school, a nonprofit institution
				of higher education eligible for tuition grants, an institution under the
				control of the board of regents, a school corporation, a city library, a
				regional library as provided in Iowa Code chapter 256, and a county library as
				provided in Iowa Code chapter 336.
"Federal agency"
means each board, commission,
				department, or agency of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of
				the United States, or the U.S. Post Office which receives a federal grant for
				pilot or demonstration projects or the independent establishments and
				corporations of the federal government as identified from time to time in The
				United States Government Manual, the official handbook of the federal
				government, published on an annual basis by the Office of the Federal Register
				as a special edition of the Federal Register. The Manual includes comprehensive
				information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive
				branches. The Manual also includes information on quasi-official agencies;
				international organizations in which the United States participates and boards,
				commissions and committees of the federal government. For example, independent
				establishments and corporations may include the following:
Central Intelligence Agency
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
Environmental Protection Agency
Export-Import Bank of the United States
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Election Commission
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Line
General Services Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Archives and Records Administration
National Credit Union Administration
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
National Science Foundation
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Peace Corps
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
Railroad Retirement Board
Securities and Exchange Commission
Selective Service System
Small Business Administration
Social Security Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
United States Information Agency
United States International Development Cooperation
				Agency
United States International Trade Commission
United States Postal Service
United States Trade Representative
"Internet access"
means access to the Internet
				and its successors.
"Internet service provider "
means a private
				for-profit or a not-for-profit service provider who acts as a gateway to the
				Internet and its successors.
"library"
means a city library, a regional
				library as provided in Iowa Code chapter 256, or a county library as provided
				in Iowa Code chapter 336, or a library that is part of an authorized user
				facility and which may be a center for lifelong learning within a community,
				provides equity of access to information and publications in all formats
				whether actually stored at the library or off site, to enhance the lives of its
				customers regardless of age, color, creed, national origin, race, religion,
				marital status, gender, physical disability or familial status, economic or
				social status, or location, and is a place for people to gather for meetings,
				classes and discussion groups.
"Network"
means the Iowa communications
				network, the fiberoptic network owned and leased by the state of Iowa and
				operated by the commission.
"Part I"
means the communications connections
				between the central switching hub of the network located at joint forces
				headquarters (JFHQ) armory and the 15 community colleges, the universities
				governed by the board of regents and Iowa public television and the other
				regional switching centers for the remainder of the network. These are
				state-owned facilities.
"Part II"
means the communications connections
				between the Part I regional switching centers and each of the 99 counties
				located in the state. These are state-owned facilities.
"Part III"
means the communication connections
				between the secondary switching centers and the school districts and libraries
				and any other private or public agency authorized by the general assembly to
				connect to the network. Part III consists of primarily leased equipment and
				telecommunications facilities except that some sites are owned by the state as
				designated by the general assembly.
"Person "
means an individual, corporation,
				limited liability company, or any other legal entity.
"Private agency"
means an accredited nonpublic
				school, a nonprofit institution of higher education eligible for tuition
				grants, a hospital licensed pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 135B or a physician
				clinic to the extent provided in Iowa Code section
				8D.13,
				subsection 16, or the Iowa Hospital Association.
"Public agency"
means a state agency, an
				institution under the control of the board of regents, the judicial department
				as provided in Iowa Code section
				8D.13,
				subsection 17, a school corporation, a city library, a regional library as
				provided in Iowa Code chapter 256, a county library as provided in Iowa Code
				chapter 336, or a judicial district department of correctional services
				established in Iowa Code section
				905.2
				to the extent provided in Iowa Code section
				8D.13,
				subsection 15, an agency of the federal government, or a U.S. Post Office which
				receives a federal grant for pilot and demonstration projects. "Public agency"
				also includes any homeland security or defense facility or disaster response
				agency established by the administrator of the homeland security and emergency
				management division of the department of public defense or the governor, or any
				facility connected with a security or defense system or disaster response as
				required by the administrator of the homeland security and emergency management
				division of the department of public defense or the governor.
"Requesting authorized user"
means an
				authorized user initiating a network video scheduling request regardless of the
				specific site from which the event originates.
"School"
means an accredited nonpublic school,
				a nonprofit institution of higher education eligible for tuition grants, an
				institution under the control of the board of regents, or a school
				corporation.
"State agency"
means each board, commission,
				or department of the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the state
				of Iowa and other entities created or authorized by the general
				assembly.
"State communications"
refers to the
				transmission of voice, data, video, the written word or other visual signals by
				electronic means but does not include radio and television facilities and other
				educational telecommunications systems and services including narrowcast and
				broadcast systems under the public broadcasting division of the department of
				education, or the department of transportation distributed data processing and
				mobile radio network.
"Telecommunications facility"
means a
				collection of fibers which originates at an access point and ends at the
				fiberoptic termination connector attached to other electronic and optronic
				equipment necessary to transmit voice, video or data transmissions across the
				fiberoptic network.
"Telemedicine "
means use of a
				telecommunications system for diagnostic, clinical, consultative, data, and
				educational services for the delivery of health care services or related health
				care activities by licensed health care professionals, licensed medical
				professionals, and staff who function under the direction of a physician, a
				licensed health care professional, or hospital for the purpose of developing a
				comprehensive, statewide telemedicine network or education.