As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "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.
2. "Registered" means having provided the county attorney with the victim's written request for registration and current mailing address and telephone number.
3. "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. "Victim" 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.
4. "Victim impact statement" means a written or oral presentation to the court by the victim or the victim's representative that indicates the physical, emotional, financial, or other effects of the offense upon the victim.
5. "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.
98 Acts, ch 1090, §5, 84
Referred to in § 915.24
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