Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 2D - International Relations

• Adjusted gross receipts: means the gross receipts on gambling games less winnings paid to wagerers on gambling games and less promotional play receipts on gambling games. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Administrative expenses: includes , but is not limited to, personnel costs, travel, purchase of equipment, and all other expenses not directly associated with the operation or sale of a game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Administrator: means the administrator of the Iowa lottery appointed pursuant to section 99G. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Applicant: means any person applying for an occupational license or applying for a license to operate an excursion gambling boat, or the officers and members of the board of directors of a qualified sponsoring organization located in Iowa applying for a license to conduct gambling games on an excursion gambling boat. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Authorized sporting event: means a professional sporting event, collegiate sporting event, international sporting event, or professional motor race event. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Board: means the board of directors of the Iowa lottery created in section 99G. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• cash: means United States currency. See Iowa Code 99G.30
• Child: includes child by adoption. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Claimant agency: means a public agency as defined in section 421. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• clerk: means clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is brought or is pending; and the words "clerk's office" mean the office of that clerk. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Collegiate sporting event: means an athletic event or competition of an intercollegiate sport as defined in section 9A. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Commission: means the state racing and gaming commission created under section 99D. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Director: means the director of the department of revenue or the director's designee. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Distributor: means a person who sells, markets, or otherwise distributes gambling games or implements of gambling which are usable in the lawful conduct of gambling games pursuant to this chapter, to a licensee authorized to conduct gambling games pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Division: means the division of criminal investigation of the department of public safety as provided in section 80. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Division: means the Iowa lottery division of the department of revenue. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Dock: means the location where an excursion gambling boat moors for the purpose of embarking passengers for and disembarking passengers from a gambling excursion. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Excursion boat: means a self-propelled, floating vessel that is or has been previously certified for operation as a vessel. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Excursion gambling boat: means an excursion boat or moored barge on which lawful gambling is authorized and licensed as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gambling excursion: means the time during which gambling games may be operated on an excursion gambling boat whether docked or during a cruise. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Gambling game: means any game of chance authorized by the commission. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Gambling structure: means any man-made stationary structure approved by the commission that does not include a racetrack enclosure which is subject to land-based building codes rather than maritime or Iowa department of natural resources inspection laws and regulations on which lawful gambling is authorized and licensed as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Game specific rules: means rules governing the particular features of specific games, including, but not limited to, setting the name, ticket price, prize structure, and prize claim period of the game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Gaming floor: means that portion of an excursion gambling boat, gambling structure, or racetrack enclosure in which gambling games are conducted as designated by the commission. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Gross receipts: means the total sums wagered under this chapter. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• International sporting event: means an international team or individual sporting event governed by an international sports federation or sports governing body, including sporting events governed by the international olympic committee and the international federation of association football. See Iowa Code 99F.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
• Internet site: means a specific location on the internet that is determined by internet protocol numbers, by a domain name, or by both, including but not limited to domain names that use the designations ". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Judicial officer: means a supreme court justice, a judge of the court of appeals, a district judge, a district associate judge, an associate juvenile judge, an associate probate judge, or a magistrate. See Iowa Code 4.1
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Licensee: means any person licensed under section 99F. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• lottery products: means any game of chance approved and operated pursuant to this chapter and games using mechanical or electronic devices, provided that the division shall not authorize a monitor vending machine or a player-activated gaming machine that utilizes an internal randomizer to determine winning and nonwinning plays and that upon random internal selection of a winning play dispenses coins, currency, or a ticket, credit, or token to the player that is redeemable for cash or a prize, and excluding gambling or gaming conducted pursuant to chapter 99B, 99D, or 99F. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Magistrate: means a judicial officer appointed under chapter 602, article 6, part 4. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Major procurement contract: means a consulting agreement or a contract with a business organization for the printing of tickets or the purchase or lease of equipment or services essential to the operation of a lottery game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Manufacturer: means a person who designs, assembles, fabricates, produces, constructs, or who otherwise prepares a product or a component part of a product of any implement of gambling usable in the lawful conduct of gambling games pursuant to this chapter. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Minor league sporting event: means a sporting event conducted by a sports league which is not regarded as the premier league in the sport as determined by the commission. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Monitor vending machine: means a machine or other similar electronic device that includes a video monitor and audio capabilities that dispenses to a purchaser lottery tickets that have been determined to be winning or losing tickets by a predetermined pool drawing machine prior to the dispensing of the tickets. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Moored barge: means a barge or vessel that is not self-propelled. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Net proceeds: means all revenue derived from the sale of lottery tickets or shares and all other moneys derived from the lottery, less operating expenses. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• On-line lotto: means a lottery game connected to a central computer via telecommunications in which the player selects a specified group of numbers, symbols, or characters out of a predetermined range. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Operating expenses: means all costs of doing business, including, but not limited to, prizes and associated prize reserves, computerized gaming system vendor expense, instant and pull-tab ticket expense, and other expenses directly associated with the operation or sale of any game, compensation paid to retailers, advertising and marketing costs, and administrative expenses. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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.
• 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
• Professional sporting event: means an event, excluding a minor league sporting event, at which two or more persons participate in sports or athletic events and receive compensation in excess of actual expenses for their participation in such event, unless the event includes professional athletes participating in a sports or athletic event without compensation in excess of actual expenses for a charitable purpose. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Promotional play receipts: means the total sums wagered with tokens, chips, electronic credits, or other forms of cashless wagering provided by the licensee without an exchange of money as described in section 99F. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• pull-tab: means a game that offers preprinted paper tickets with the play data hidden beneath a protective tab or seal that when opened reveals immediately whether the player has won. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Qualified sponsoring organization: means a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this state, whether or not it is exempt from federal income taxation, or a person or association that can show to the satisfaction of the commission that the person or association is eligible for exemption from federal income taxation under section 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), 501(c)(6), 501(c)(7), 501(c)(8), 501(c)(10), or 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code as defined in section 422. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Racetrack enclosure: means all real property utilized for the conduct of a race meeting, including the racetrack, grandstand, concession stands, offices, barns, kennels and barn areas, employee housing facilities, parking lots, and any additional areas designated by the commission. See Iowa Code 99F.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.
• Retailer: means a person who sells lottery tickets or shares on behalf of the division pursuant to a license issued by the department. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• seal: shall include an impression upon the paper alone, or upon wax, a wafer affixed to the paper, or an official stamp of a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Self-service kiosk: means a machine or other similar electronic device that dispenses only on-line lotto tickets, instant tickets, pull-tab tickets, or other printed lottery products, and that does not provide a visual or audio representation of lottery game play. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Share: means any intangible evidence of participation in a lottery game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• Sports wagering: means the acceptance of wagers on an authorized sporting event or sports-related event by any system of wagering as authorized by the commission. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Sports wagering area: means an area, as designated by the commission, in which sports wagering is conducted. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Sports wagering net receipts: means the gross receipts less winnings paid to wagerers and less promotional play receipts on sports wagering. See Iowa Code 99F.1
• Sports-related event: includes but is not limited to professional sports drafts and individual player awards. See Iowa Code 99F.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.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Ticket: means any tangible evidence issued by the lottery to provide participation in a lottery game. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• undertaking: means a promise or security in any form. See Iowa Code 4.1
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Vendor: means a person who provides or proposes to provide goods or services to the department pursuant to a major procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the department under this chapter, a retailer, or a state agency or instrumentality thereof. See Iowa Code 99G.3
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1