231E.3 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Client” means an individual for whom a representative payee is appointed.
2. “Commission” means the commission on aging.
3. “Conservator” means conservator as defined in section 633.3.
4. “Court” means court as defined in section 633.3.
5. “Department” means the department on aging established in section 231.21.
6. “Director” means the director of the department on aging.
7. “Guardian” means guardian as defined in section 633.3.
8. “Incompetent” means incompetent as defined in section 633.3.
9. “Local office” means a local office of public guardian.
10. “Local public guardian” means an individual under contract with the department to act as a guardian, conservator, or representative payee.
11. “Public guardian” means the state public guardian or a local public guardian.
12. “Public guardianship services” means guardianship, conservatorship, or representative payee services provided by the state public guardian or a local public guardian.
13. “Representative payee” means an individual appointed by a government entity to receive funds on behalf of a client pursuant to federal regulation.
14. “State agency” means any executive department, commission, board, institution, division, bureau, office, agency, or other executive entity of state government.
15. “State office” means the state office of public guardian.
16. “State public guardian” means the administrator of the state office of public guardian.
17. “Ward” means the individual for whom a guardianship or conservatorship is established.
2005 Acts, ch 38, §54; 2005 Acts, ch 175, §132; 2009 Acts, ch 23, §43; 2014 Acts, ch 1078, §2; 2018 Acts, ch 1048, §4
Referred to in §22.7(61), 235B.6, 633.63
Section amended
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