Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 199 - Agricultural Seeds

• Agricultural seed: means grass, forage, cereal, oil, fiber, and any other kind of crop seed commonly recognized within this state as agricultural seed, lawn seed, vegetable seed, or seed mixtures. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• blend: means a combination of seed of more than one kind or variety if present in excess of five percent of the whole. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Certifying agency: means an agency authorized under the laws of a state, territory, or possession to officially certify seed and which has standards and procedures approved by the United States secretary of agriculture to assure genetic purity and identity of the seed certified, or an agency of a foreign country determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to adhere to the procedures and standards for seed certification comparable to those adhered to generally by seed certifying agencies in the United States. See Iowa Code 199.1
• City: means a municipal corporation, but not including a county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Conditioning: means cleaning to remove chaff, sterile florets, immature seed, weed seed, inert matter, and other crop seed; scarifying; blending to obtain uniform quality; or any other operation which may change the purity or germination of the seed and require retesting to determine the quality of the seed. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Grain: means the same as defined in section 203. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Hybrid: means the first generation seed produced by controlled pollination of two inbred lines to produce a single cross; an inbred line and a single cross of two unrelated inbred lines to produce a three-way cross; an inbred line and a single cross of two related lines to produce a modified single cross; two single crosses to produce a double cross; an inbred line or a single cross with an open-pollinated or synthetic cultivar to produce a modified cultivar cross; or a cross of two open-pollinated or synthetic cultivars to produce a cultivar cross. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inoculant for leguminous plants: means a bacterial culture, or material containing bacteria, that is represented as causing the formation of nodules and aiding the growth of leguminous plants by the fixation of nitrogen. See Iowa Code 199.1
• 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.
• Kind: means one or more related species or subspecies which singly or collectively are known by one common name. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic representations, in any form, accompanying and pertaining to seed, whether in bulk or in containers, and includes invoices. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Local governmental entity: includes but is not limited to a county, special district, township, or city as provided in Title IX of this Code. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Local legislation: means any ordinance, motion, resolution, amendment, regulation, or rule adopted by a local governmental entity. See Iowa Code 199.1
• 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
• 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 holder: is a person who has obtained a permit from the department as required under sections 199. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Purity: means the pure seed percentage by weight, exclusive of inert matter and of other agricultural or weed seed which are distinguishable by their appearance from the crop seed in question. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Registered seed technologist: is a person who has attained registered membership in the society of commercial seed technologists through qualifying tests and experience as required by this society. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• variety: means a cultivated subdivision of a kind of plant that may be characterized by growth habits, fruit, seed, or other characteristics, by which it can be differentiated from other plants of the same kind. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Vegetable seed: means the crops which are grown in gardens or truck farms and are generally sold under the name of vegetable or herb seed in this state. See Iowa Code 199.1
• Weed seed: means the seed of all plants listed as weeds in this chapter or listed as weeds in the rules of the department or commonly recognized as weeds in this state. See Iowa Code 199.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1