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135.108 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
2. "Director" means the director of public health.
3. "Domestic abuse death" means a homicide or suicide that
involves or is a result of an assault as defined in section 708.1 and
to which any of the following circumstances apply to the parties
involved:
a. The alleged or convicted perpetrator is related to the
decedent as spouse, separated spouse, or former spouse.
b. The alleged or convicted perpetrator resided with the
decedent at the time of the assault that resulted in the homicide or
suicide.
c. The alleged or convicted perpetrator and the decedent
resided together in the past but did not reside together at the time
of the assault that resulted in the homicide or suicide.
d. The alleged or convicted perpetrator and decedent are
parents of the same minor child, whether they were married or lived
together at any time.
e. The alleged or convicted perpetrator was in an ongoing
personal relationship with the decedent.
f. The alleged or convicted perpetrator was arrested for or
convicted of stalking or harassing the decedent, or an order or
court-approved agreement was entered against the perpetrator under
chapter 232, 236, 598, or 915 to restrict contact by the perpetrator
with the decedent.
g. The decedent was related by blood or affinity to an
individual who lived in the same household with or was in the
workplace or proximity of the decedent, and that individual was
threatened with assault by the perpetrator.
4. "Team" means the domestic abuse death review team
established in section 135.109. Section History: Recent Form
2000 Acts, ch 1136, §1
Referred to in § 135.112
