137C.2 Definitions.
For purposes of the Iowa hotel sanitation code, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context:
1. “Bed and breakfast inn” means a hotel which has nine or fewer guest rooms.
2. “Director” means the director of the department of inspections and appeals or the director’s designee.
3. “Department” means the department of inspections and appeals.
4. “Guest room” shall mean any bedroom or other sleeping quarters for transient guests in a hotel.
5. “Hotel” shall mean any building or structure, equipped, used, advertised as, or held out to the public to be an inn, hotel, motel, motor inn, or place where sleeping accommodations are furnished transient guests for hire.
6. “Local board of health” means a county, city, or district board of health.
7. “Municipal corporation” means a political subdivision of this state.
8. “Regulatory authority” means the department or a local board of health that has entered into an agreement with the director pursuant to section 137C.6 for authority to enforce the Iowa hotel sanitation code in its jurisdiction.
[S13, §2514-h; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2808; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §170.1; C79, 81, §170B.2]
86 Acts, ch 1245, §541; 87 Acts, ch 202, §2; 90 Acts, ch 1204, §66
C91, §137C.2
2004 Acts, ch 1026, §3
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 137C - HOTEL SANITATION CODE
Section 137C.6 - Authority to enforce.
Section 137C.7 - License required.
Section 137C.8 - Application for license.
Section 137C.9 - License fees.
Section 137C.10 - Suspension or revocation of licenses.
Section 137C.11 - Biennial inspections.
Section 137C.12 - Inspection upon complaint.
Section 137C.17 - Toilet and lavatory facilities.
Section 137C.18 - Fire safety.
Section 137C.19 - Employment of persons with communicable diseases prohibited.
Section 137C.23 - Posting room rates.
Section 137C.24 - Rate increases.
Section 137C.25 - Right of hotel operator to deny services.
Section 137C.25A - Right to require financial guarantee.
Section 137C.25B - Restitution.
Section 137C.25C - Right to eject.
Section 137C.25D - Posting rules by owner or operator.
Section 137C.25E - Documentation and registration requirements.
Section 137C.30 - Duty of county attorney.