423C.2  Definitions.
  For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
  1.  “Affiliate” means the same as defined in section 423.1.
  2.  “Automobile” means a motor vehicle subject to registration in any state designed primarily for carrying nine passengers or less, excluding motorcycles and motorized bicycles.
  3.  “Automobile provider” means any of the following:
  a.  A person or any affiliate of a person that owns or controls an automobile and makes the automobile available for rent through the person or any affiliate, or through any other person.
  b.  A person or any affiliate of a person who possesses or acquires a right or interest in any automobile with an intent to rent the automobile to another person, or through any other person.
  4.  “Department” means the department of revenue.
  5.  “Facilitate” or “facilitation” includes brokering, coordinating, or in any way arranging for the rental of automobiles by users.
  6.  “Facilitation fee” means any consideration, by whatever name called, that a person charges to a user for facilitating the user’s rental of an automobile. “Facilitation fee” does not include any commission an automobile provider pays to a person for facilitating the rental of an automobile.
  7.  “Host” means the registered owner of an automobile made available for sharing through a peer-to-peer automobile sharing marketplace.
  8.  “Person” means person as defined in section 423.1.
  9.  “Rental”, “renting”, or “rent” means a transfer of the use, control, or possession or right to use, control, or possession of an automobile to a user for consideration for a period of sixty days or less.
  10.  “Rental price” means the same as “sales price” as defined in section 423.1, which term includes but is not limited to facilitation fees, reservation fees, services fees, nonrefundable deposits, and any other direct or indirect charge made or consideration provided in connection with the renting or facilitation of renting an automobile.
  11.  “User” means a person to whom an automobile is rented.
92 Acts, ch 1006, §3
C93, §422C.2
2003 Acts, ch 145, §286; 
2003 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 2, §189, 203, 205
C2005, §423C.2
2018 Acts, ch 1161, §252, 255; 2019 Acts, ch 152, §36 – 40