231E.3 - DEFINITIONS. - Iowa Statutes

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. "Decedent" means the individual for whom an estate is administered or executed. 6. "Department" means the department on aging established in section 231.21. 7. "Director" means the director of the department on aging. 8. "Estate" means estate as defined in section 633.3. 9. "Guardian" means guardian as defined in section 633.3. 10. "Incompetent" means incompetent as defined in section 633.3. 11. "Local office" means a local office of substitute decision maker. 12. "Local substitute decision maker" means an individual under contract with the department to act as a substitute decision maker. 13. "Personal representative" means personal representative as defined in section 633.3. 14. "Planning and service area" means a geographic area of the state designated by the commission for the purpose of planning, developing, delivering, and administering services for elders. 15. "Power of attorney" means a durable power of attorney for health care as defined in section 144B.1 or a power of attorney that becomes effective upon the disability of the principal as described in section 633B.1. 16. "Principal" means an individual for whom a power of attorney is established. 17. "Representative payee" means an individual appointed by a government entity to receive funds on behalf of a client pursuant to federal regulation. 18. "State agency" means any executive department, commission, board, institution, division, bureau, office, agency, or other executive entity of state government. 19. "State office" means the state office of substitute decision maker. 20. "State substitute decision maker" means the administrator of the state office of substitute decision maker. 21. "Substitute decision maker" means a guardian, conservator, representative payee, attorney in fact under a power of attorney, or personal representative. 22. "Substitute decision making" or "substitute decision-making services" means the provision of services of a guardian, conservator, representative payee, attorney in fact under a power of attorney, or personal representative. 23. "Ward" means the individual for whom a guardianship or conservatorship is established.          Section History: Recent Form 2005 Acts, ch 38, §54; 2005 Acts, ch 175, §132; 2009 Acts, ch 23, §43 Referred to in § 235B.6, 633.63