11—102.2(8A) Definitions.

1. 1. The office of the governor or the office of an elective constitutional or statutory officer.
2. 2. The general assembly, or any office or unit under its administrative authority.
3. 3. The judicial branch, as provided in Iowa Code section 602.1102.

4. 4. A political subdivision of the state or its offices or units, including but not limited to a county, city, or community college.

   “Department” means the department of administrative services.

   “Director” means the director of the department of administrative services or the director’s designee.

   “Printing” means the reproduction of an image from a printing surface made generally by a contact impression that causes a transfer of ink, the reproduction of an impression by a photographic process, or the reproduction of an image by electronic means and shall include binding and may include material, processes, or operations necessary to produce a finished printed product, but shall not include binding, rebinding or repairs of books, journals, pamphlets, magazines and literary articles by a library of the state or any of its offices, departments, boards, and commissions held as a part of their library collection.

   “Printing equipment” means offset presses, gravure presses, silk-screen equipment, large format ink jet printers, digital printing/copying equipment, letterpress equipment, office copiers and bindery equipment.

“Agency” or “state agency” means a unit of state government, which is an authority, board, commission, committee, council, department, examining board, or independent agency as defined in Iowa Code section 7E.4, including but not limited to each principal central department enumerated in Iowa Code section 7E.5. However, “agency” or “state agency” does not mean any of the following: