Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 182 - Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board

• Assessment: means an excise tax on the sale of sheep or wool as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 182.1
• Board: means the Iowa grain indemnity fund board created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Board: means the Iowa sheep and wool promotion board established pursuant to section 182. See Iowa Code 182.1
• Concentration point: includes a public stockyard, auction market, street market, state or federal market, untested consignment sales location, buying station, or a livestock dealer's yard, truck, or facility. See Iowa Code 182.1
• Delivery: means the transfer of title to and possession of grain by a seller to a grain dealer or to another person in accordance with the agreement of the seller and the grain dealer. See Iowa Code 203.8
• Department: means the department of environmental quality in a reference to a time before July 1, 1983, the department of water, air and waste management in a reference to a time on or after July 1, 1983, and through June 30, 1986, and the department of natural resources on or after July 1, 1986, and includes any officer or agency within that department. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• District: means an official crop reporting district formed by the United States department of agriculture and set out in the annual farm census published by the Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 182.1
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• First purchaser: means a person who purchases sheep or wool from a producer. See Iowa Code 182.1
• 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
• Internet: means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the world wide web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, ostriches, rheas, emus, poultry, and other animals or fowl, which are being produced primarily for use as food or food products for human consumption. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Payment: means the actual payment or tender of payment by a grain dealer to a seller of the agreed purchase price, or in the case of disputes as to sales of grain, the undisputed portion of the purchase price without reduction for any separate claim of the grain dealer against the seller. See Iowa Code 203.8
• person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Producer: means a person who is actively engaged within this state in the business of producing or marketing sheep or wool and who receives income from the production of sheep or wool. See Iowa Code 182.1
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 182.1
• Seller: means a person who sells grain which the person has produced or caused to be produced to a licensed grain dealer, but excludes a person who executes a credit-sale contract as a seller as provided in section 203. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Sheep: means an animal of the ovine species, regardless of age, produced or marketed in this state. See Iowa Code 182.1
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
• sold: means a transaction in which the property in or to sheep or wool is transferred from the producer to a first purchaser for full or partial consideration. See Iowa Code 182.1
• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Wool: means the natural fiber produced by sheep. See Iowa Code 182.1