715A.1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
1. “Credit card” means a writing purporting to evidence an undertaking to pay for property or services delivered or rendered to or upon the order of a designated person or bearer and includes a debit card or access device used to engage in an electronic transfer of funds through a satellite terminal as defined in section 527.2, subsection 20.
2. “Drug or alcohol test” includes a drug or alcohol test given in a private-sector workplace pursuant to section 730.5 and a drug or alcohol test given by a public employer.
3. “Public employer” means the state, its boards, commissions, agencies, and departments, and its political subdivisions including school districts and other special purpose districts.
4. “Synthetic urine” means any substance that is designed to simulate the composition, chemical properties, physical appearance, or physical properties of human urine for the purpose of defrauding a drug or alcohol test.
5. “Urine additive” means any substance that is designed to be added to human urine for the purpose of defrauding a drug or alcohol test.
6. “Writing” includes printing or any other method of recording information, and includes money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, and other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification.
87 Acts, ch 150, §1; 2014 Acts, ch 1092, §145; 2021 Acts, ch 17, §1
[ ()]NEW subsections 2 – 5, and former subsection 2 renumbered as 6
Structure Iowa Code
Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 715A - FORGERY AND RELATED FRAUDULENT CRIMINAL ACTS
Section 715A.2A - Accommodation of forgery — penalty.
Section 715A.3 - Simulating objects of antiquity or rarity.
Section 715A.4 - Fraudulent destruction, removal, or concealment of recordable instruments.
Section 715A.5 - Tampering with records.
Section 715A.6 - Credit cards.
Section 715A.6A - Prohibitions relating to false academic degrees, grades, or honors.
Section 715A.6B - Credit card fraud — minor involved.
Section 715A.7 - Filing multiple counts in one information, indictment, or complaint.
Section 715A.8 - Identity theft.
Section 715A.9 - Value for purposes of identity theft.
Section 715A.9A - Identity theft passport.
Section 715A.10 - Illegal use of scanning device or encoding machine.
Section 715A.11 - Synthetic urine and urine additives — defrauding drug or alcohol test.