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225B.2 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Committee" means the technical assistance committee to
the council.
2. "Council" means the prevention of disabilities policy
council.
3. "Disability" means a mental or physical impairment that
results in significant functional limitation in one or more areas of
major life activity and in the need for specialized care, treatment,
or training services of extended duration.
4. "Prevention activities" means activities that attempt to
eliminate the occurrence of the disability, reduce the prevalence of
the disability in the community, identify a problem early and use
intervention at the outset to eliminate the potential for
abnormality, or minimize the long-term disability or mitigate the
effects of the disability. Section History: Recent Form
91 Acts, ch 169, §2
Referred to in § 249H.3
