For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
apply:
"Agency of state government" or"state
agency" means any authority, board, bureau, commission, community
college, department, division, office of a statewide elected official, or
regents university.
"Board" means the Iowa ethics and campaign
disclosure board.
"Candidate for statewide office" means a
candidate for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of
state, treasurer of state, secretary of agriculture, or attorney
general.
"Employee" means an individual who is a paid
employee of any agency of state government. "Employee" includes an individual
employed in an interim or acting capacity. "Employee" does not include an
official or an independent contractor
"Executive branch of state government" means
an agency of state government.
"Official" means a statewide elected official,
an executive or administrative head or heads of a state agency, a deputy
executive or administrative head or heads of a state agency, a member of a
board or commission as defined imder Iowa Code section
7E.4,
or a head of a major subunit of a state agency whose position involves a
substantial exercise of administrative discretion or the expenditure of public
funds. "Official" includes an individual serving in an interim or acting
capacity.
"State duties " means the official duties,
responsibilities, or activities of an official or employee that are mandated by
law, rule, or court order, or that otherwise lawfully aid an agency of state
government in carrying out the statutory functions of the agency.
This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section
68B.2.
