This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Victim and Witness Protection Act."
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Victim" means a person who has suffered physical, emotional, or financial harm as the result of a public offense, other than a simple misdemeanor, committed in this state. The term also includes the immediate family members of a victim who died or was rendered incompetent as a result of the offense or who was under eighteen years of age at the time of the offense.
2. "Violent crime" means a forcible felony, as defined in section 702.11, and includes any other felony or aggravated misdemeanor which involved the actual or threatened infliction of physical or emotional injury on one or more persons.
3. "Registered" means having provided the county attorney with the victim's written request for registration and current mailing address and telephone number.
4. "Notification" means mailing by regular mail or providing for hand delivery of appropriate information or papers. However, this notification procedure does not prohibit an agency from also providing appropriate information to a registered victim by telephone.
85 Acts, ch 174, § 4; 86 Acts, ch 1178, § 4; 89 Acts, ch 279, § 8
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