Iowa Admin. Code r. 801-15.2
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms are defined as follows:"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 5231.102, including a headstone, plaque, statue, urn, decoration, flag holder, badge, shield, item of memorabilia, or other embellishment, that identifies or commemorates any veteran or group of veterans, including any veterans organization or any military unit, company, battalion, or division.
"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, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Forty and Eight, Vietnam Veterans of America, 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.
Iowa Admin. Code r. 801-15.2