135.105C - RENOVATION, REMODELING, AND REPAINTING -- LEAD HAZARD NOTIFICATION PROCESS ESTABLISHED. - Iowa Statutes

135.105C RENOVATION, REMODELING, AND REPAINTING -- LEAD HAZARD NOTIFICATION PROCESS ESTABLISHED. 1. a. A person who performs renovation, remodeling, or repainting services for target housing or a child-occupied facility for compensation shall provide an approved lead hazard information pamphlet to the owner and occupant of the housing or facility prior to commencing the services. The department shall adopt rules to implement the renovation, remodeling, and repainting lead hazard notification process under this section. b. The rules shall include but are not limited to an authorization that the lead hazard notification to parents or guardians of the children attending a child-occupied facility may be completed by posting an informational sign and a copy of the approved lead hazard information pamphlet. The rules shall also address requirements for notification of parents or guardians of the children visiting a child-occupied facility when the facility is vacant for an extended period of time. 2. For the purpose of this section and section 135.105A, unless the context otherwise requires: a. (1) "Child-occupied facility" means a building, or portion of a building, constructed prior to 1978, that is described by all of the following: (a) The building is visited on a regular basis by the same child, who is less than six years of age, on at least two different days within any week. For purposes of this paragraph "a", a week is a Sunday through Saturday period. (b) Each day's visit by the child lasts at least three hours, and the combined annual visits total at least sixty hours. (2) A child-occupied facility may include but is not limited to a child care center, preschool, or kindergarten classroom. A child-occupied facility also includes common areas that are routinely used by children who are less than six years of age, such as restrooms and cafeterias, and the exterior walls and adjoining space of the building that are immediately adjacent to the child-occupied facility or the common areas routinely used by children under the age of six years. b. "Target housing" means housing constructed prior to 1978 with the exception of housing for the elderly or for persons with disabilities and housing that does not contain a bedroom, unless at least one child, under six years of age, resides or is expected to reside in the housing. 3. A person who violates this section is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars for each offense.          Section History: Recent Form 97 Acts, ch 159, §6, 24; 2000 Acts, ch 1140, §22; 2001 Acts, ch 58, §4; 2009 Acts, ch 37, §2