Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 184 - Iowa Egg Council

• Assessment: means an excise tax on the sale of eggs as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Council: means the Iowa egg council. See Iowa Code 184.1
• 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
• Eggs: includes shell eggs or eggs broken for further processing. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Eligible voter: means a producer who is qualified to vote in a referendum conducted under this chapter according to the requirements of section 184. See Iowa Code 184.1
• 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.
• 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
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Owner: shall mean the person holding record title to real estate to include both legal and equitable interests under recorded real estate contracts. See Iowa Code 172D.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
• Processor: means the first purchaser of eggs from a producer, or a person who both produces and processes eggs. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Producer: means any person who owns, or contracts for the care of, thirty thousand or more layer-type chickens raised in this state. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Purchaser: means a person who resells eggs purchased from a producer or offers for sale a product produced from the eggs for any purpose. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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