Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 101A - Explosive Materials

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Destructive device: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Detonator: includes an electric detonator of instantaneous or delay type, a detonator for use with safety fuses, a detonating cord delay connector, and a nonelectric detonator or instantaneous or delay type which consists of a detonating cord, shock tube, or any other replacement for electric leg wires. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Director: means the director of the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing or the director's designee. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• explosive: includes all materials which are classified as a class 1, division 1. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Explosive materials: means explosives, blasting agents, and detonators. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• importation: means transfer into the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• license: means a license issued by the director pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Licensee: means a person holding a commercial license issued by the director pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Magazine: means any building or structure, other than an explosives manufacturing building, approved by the director or the director's designated agent for the storage of explosive materials. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• permit: means a permit issued by a county sheriff or chief of police of a city of ten thousand or more population, pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Permittee: means a person holding a user's permit issued pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, or association. See Iowa Code 101A.1
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1