As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome as defined by the centers for disease control of the United States department of health and human services.
2. "Convicted offender" means a person convicted of a sexual assault or a juvenile who has been adjudicated delinquent for an act of sexual assault.
3. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
4. "Division" means the crime victims assistance division of the office of the attorney general.
5. "HIV" means the human immunodeficiency virus identified as the causative agent of AIDS.
6. "HIV-related test" means a test for the antibody or antigen to HIV.
7. "Petitioner" means a person who is the victim of a sexual assault which resulted in alleged significant exposure or the parent, guardian, or custodian of a victim if the victim is a minor, for whom the county attorney files a petition with the district court to require the convicted offender to undergo an HIV-related test.
8. "Sexual assault" means sexual abuse as defined in section 709.1, or any other sexual offense by which a victim has allegedly had sufficient contact with a convicted offender to be deemed a significant exposure.
9. "Significant exposure" means contact of the victim's ruptured or broken skin or mucous membranes with the blood or bodily fluids, other than tears, saliva, or perspiration of the convicted offender. "Significant exposure" is presumed to have occurred when there is a showing that there was penetration of the convicted offender's penis into the victim's vagina or anus, contact between the mouth and genitalia, or contact between the genitalia of the offender and the genitalia or anus of the victim.
10. "Victim counselor" means a person who is engaged in a crime victim center as defined in section 236A.1, who is certified as a counselor by the crime victim center, and who has completed at least twenty hours of training provided by the Iowa coalition against sexual assault or a similar agency.
93 Acts, ch 140, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1154, §4
Referred to in § 709B.2
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