Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 183A - Iowa Pork Producers Council

• Assessment: means an excise tax on the sale of porcine animals as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• council: means the body established under section 183A. See Iowa Code 183A.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
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• First purchaser: means a person who buys porcine animals from a seller in the first instance. See Iowa Code 183A.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
• Fund: means the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Market development: means research, education, and other programs directed at better and more efficient production, marketing, and utilization of pork; public relations and other promotion techniques for the maintenance of existing markets for pork, including but not limited to contributions to organizations working toward the purposes of this subsection; development of new or larger markets for pork both domestic and foreign, including but not limited to public relations and other promotion techniques; and the adoption, prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which bear on the flow of pork in commercial channels. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• 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
• Porcine animals: means swine raised for slaughter, feeder pigs, or swine seedstock. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• Pork: means porcine animals and all parts of porcine animals. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• Pork Promotion Act: means the federal Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act of 1985. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• Producer: means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing porcine animals in the previous calendar year. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 183A.1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• 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
• 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.
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1