801—15.2 (37A) Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms are defined as follows:
“Cemetery” means any area that is or was open to use by the public in general or any segment thereof and is used or is intended to be used to inter or scatter remains, including a pioneer cemetery as defined in Iowa Code section 523I.102. “Cemetery” does not include the following:
	  1. 	 A private burial site where use is restricted to members of a family, if the interment rights are conveyed without a monetary payment, fee, charge, or other valuable form of compensation or consideration;
	  2. 	 A private burial site where use is restricted to a narrow segment of the public, if the interment rights are conveyed without a monetary payment, fee, charge, or other valuable form of compensation or consideration; or
	  3. 	 A religious cemetery as defined in Iowa Code section 523I.102 that commenced business prior to July 1, 2005.
“Department” means the Iowa department of veterans affairs.
“Veteran” means a deceased person who served in the armed forces of the United States during a war in which the United States was engaged or served full-time in active duty in a force of an organized state militia, excluding service in the National Guard when in an inactive status.
“Veterans commemorative property” means any memorial as defined in Iowa Code section 523I.102, including a headstone, plaque, statue, urn, decoration, flag holder, badge, shield, item of memorabilia, or other embellishment, that meets all of the following criteria:
	  1. 	 Is over 75 years old;
	  2. 	 Identifies or commemorates any veteran or group of veterans, including any veterans organization or any military unit, company, battalion, or division; and
	  3. 	 Has been placed in a cemetery.
“Veterans organization” means the Grand Army of the Republic, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, United Spanish War Veterans, the Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Inc., the Catholic War Veterans, Inc., American Legion, American Veterans of World War II, Italian American War Veterans of the United States, Inc., or other corporation or association of veterans.