225B.2 - DEFINITIONS. - Iowa Statutes

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