Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 441 - Human Services Department › Title XI - Children's Institutions › Chapter 103 - State Training School › Rule 441-103.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Child"
means a person under the age of 18
				  years.
"Contraband"
means weapons, ammunition,
				  tobacco, alcohol, drugs, money, altered authorized property, mood-altering
				  plant material, obscene material as defined in Iowa Code section
				  728.1(5),
				  explosives, material that can be used in the manufacture of explosives, or
				  material advocating disruption of or injury to residents, employees, programs,
				  or physical facilities. "Contraband" includes anything which is illegal to
				  possess under federal or state law and materials that are used in the
				  production of drugs or alcohol or used in conjunction with the taking of
				  illicit drugs. "Contraband" also includes anything determined to be banned from
				  individual possession by published facility rules.
"Department"
means the Iowa department of
				  human services.
"Division administrator"
means the
				  administrator of the division of mental health and disability services within
				  the department.
"Facility"
means the state training
				  school.
"Family"
means spouse, child, parent,
				  sibling, or grandparent.
"Gift or bequest"
means anything of value
				  that a facility receives that is intended for use directly by the employees of
				  the facility. Items intended for public distribution, such as clothes or
				  furniture, do not constitute a gift to the facility.
"Grievance"
means a written or oral
				  complaint by or on behalf of an individual that involves:
1. A rights violation or unfairness to the individual,
				  or
2. Any aspect of the individual's life with which the
				  individual does not agree.
"Individual,"
as used in this chapter, means
				  any child who is committed to the director of the department of human services
				  and is admitted to and receives services from the state training school. The
				  terms "student," "resident," "juvenile," and "youth" are synonymous with the
				  term "individual." For purposes of the state training school, the term shall
				  also include a person whose stay is extended beyond the age of 18 under the
				  provisions of Iowa Code sections
				  232.53(2)
				   and
				  232.53(4).
"Iowa sex offender registry"
means a central
				  registry of sex offenders established under Iowa Code chapter 692A that is
				  maintained by the department of public safety.
"Juvenile court officer"
means the same as
				  defined in Iowa Code section
				  232.2(30).
"Juvenile offender"
means a juvenile who is
				  required to be registered with the Iowa sex offender registry and with the
				  sheriff of the juvenile's county of residence.
"Legal representative"
means a person,
				  including an attorney, who is authorized by law to act on behalf of an
				  individual.
"Money"
means all forms of currency, checks,
				  money orders, stocks, bonds, and any other item that can be used as a medium of
				  exchange for payment for goods or services.
"Parent"
means a natural or adoptive mother
				  or father of a child but does not include a mother or father whose parental
				  rights have been terminated.
"Registration"
means the submission of
				  registration forms to the Iowa sex offender registry and to the sheriff of the
				  person's county of residence.
"Rights"
means the human, civil, and
				  constitutional liberties an individual possesses through federal and state
				  constitutions and laws.
"State training school"
means the unit for
				  juvenile delinquents at the Eldora facility as defined in Iowa Code section
				  233A.1(2).
"Tobacco"
means all forms of tobacco.
"Weapon"
means any gun, knife, tool, object,
				  or chemical that can be used to inflict harm on one's self or another.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section
				  218.4.