Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 7 - Governor and Lieutenant Governor

• Accredited veterinarian: means a veterinarian who is licensed by the state in which the veterinarian practices, is approved by the department of agriculture and land stewardship or the livestock sanitary authority of that state, and is accredited by the United States department of agriculture. See Iowa Code 163A.1
• Adequate water: means reasonable access to a supply of clean, fresh, potable water provided in a sanitary manner or provided at suitable intervals for the species and not to exceed twenty-four hours at any interval. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agricultural land: has the meaning assigned that term by section 9H. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• 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.
• Animal: means any livestock or agricultural animal as defined in section 717A. See Iowa Code 163.2A
• Animal: means a nonhuman vertebrate. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Animal: means a creature belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species; ostriches, rheas, or emus; farm deer as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Animal shelter: means a facility which is used to house or contain dogs or cats, or both, and which is owned, operated, or maintained by an incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of such animals. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Animal warden: means any person employed, contracted, or appointed by the state, municipal corporation, or any political subdivision of the state, for the purpose of aiding in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter or any other law or ordinance relating to the licensing of animals, control of animals, or seizure and impoundment of animals and includes any peace officer, animal control officer, or other employee whose duties in whole or in part include assignments which involve the seizure or taking into custody of any animal. See Iowa Code 162.2
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Approved premises: means a dry lot facility located in an area with confirmed cases of pseudorabies infection, which is certified by the department to receive, feed, and move or relocate infected swine as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorization: means a state license, certificate of registration, or permit issued or renewed by the department to a commercial establishment as provided in section 162. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Biological products: shall include and be deemed to embrace only anti-classical swine fever serum and viruses which are either virulent or nonvirulent, alive or dead. See Iowa Code 166.1
• bluffland: means a cliff, headland, or hill with a broad, steep face along the channel or floodplain of the Missouri or Mississippi river and their tributaries. See Iowa Code 161A.80A
• Board: means the Iowa grain indemnity fund board created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Boarding kennel: means a place or establishment other than a pound or animal shelter where dogs or cats not owned by the proprietor are sheltered, fed, and watered in return for a consideration. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Bovine animal: means bison or cattle. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Brand: means an identification mark that is burned into the hide of a live animal by a hot iron or another method approved by the secretary. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Breeding swine: means swine over six months of age. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Brucellosis: means the disease wherein an animal of the porcine species is infected with brucella microorganisms irrespective of the occurrence or absence of clinical symptoms of infectious abortion. See Iowa Code 163A.1
• Brucellosis test: means the test for brucellosis which is approved by the department and administered in accordance with the techniques approved by the department. See Iowa Code 163A.1
• certificate: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 163A.1
• certificate: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 164.1
• certificate: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 165.1A
• Certificate of inspection: means a document approved by the United States department of agriculture or the department of agriculture and land stewardship, and issued by a licensed veterinarian prior to the interstate or intrastate movement of swine or to the relocation of swine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Certificate of veterinary inspection: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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
• Class free state: means there has been no known brucellosis in bovine animals for a period of twelve months. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Classical swine fever: means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease of swine commonly known as hog cholera. See Iowa Code 166B.1
• Cleanup plan: means a herd cleanup plan or feeder pig cooperator herd cleanup plan as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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
• Commercial breeder: means a person, engaged in the business of breeding dogs or cats, who sells, exchanges, or leases dogs or cats in return for consideration, or who offers to do so, whether or not the animals are raised, trained, groomed, or boarded by the person. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Commercial kennel: means a kennel which performs grooming, boarding, or training services for dogs or cats in return for a consideration. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Computer: means the same as defined in section 22. See Iowa Code 169A.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 166D.2
• Conservation agreement: means a commitment by the owner or operator of a farm unit to implement a farm unit soil conservation plan or, with the approval of the commissioners of the soil and water conservation district within which the farm unit is located, a portion of a farm unit soil conservation plan. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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.
• cost-sharing: means a contribution of money made by the state in order to pay a percentage of the costs related to the establishment of voluntary or mandatory practices as provided under this chapter, including but not limited to soil and water conservation practices and erosion control practices. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• County system: means the same as defined in section 445. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Cryo-brand: means a brand produced by application of extreme cold temperature. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Cull swine: means mature swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means any person who is engaged in the business of buying for resale or selling or exchanging dogs or cats, or both, as a principal or agent, or who claims to be so engaged. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Dealer: means any person who is engaged in the business of buying for resale, or selling, or exchanging swine as a principal or agent or who claims to be so engaged, but does not include the owner or operator of a farm who does not claim to be so engaged and who sells or exchanges only those swine which have been kept by the person solely for feeding or breeding purposes. See Iowa Code 163.30
• Dealer: includes every person who, for profit, sells, dispenses, or distributes, or offers to do so, either as principal or agent, biological products, except:
   a. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship unless the United States department of agriculture is otherwise specified. See Iowa Code 163.6
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 165.1A
• Designated animal: means a bovine animal or any other species of animal that the department by rule determines is capable of carrying and spreading brucellosis, including elk or goats. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Destroy: means condemn under state authority and slaughter or otherwise kill as a result of or pursuant to such condemnation. See Iowa Code 166B.1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Differentiable test: means a laboratory procedure approved by the department to diagnose pseudorabies. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Differentiable vaccinate: means a swine which has only been exposed to a differentiable vaccine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Differentiable vaccine: means a vaccine which has a licensed companion differentiable test, and includes a modified-live differentiable vaccine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Direct movement: means movement of swine to a destination without unloading the swine en route, without contact with swine of lesser pseudorabies vaccinate status, and without contact with infected or exposed livestock. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Drainage: shall be deemed to include in its meaning soil erosion and flood control or any combination of drainage, flood control, and soil erosion control. See Iowa Code 161F.6
• Epidemiologist: means a state or federal veterinarian designated to investigate and diagnose suspected pseudorabies in livestock. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Erosion control practices: means :
   a. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• establishment: means an animal shelter, boarding kennel, commercial breeder, commercial kennel, dealer, pet shop, pound, public auction, or research facility. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Euthanasia: means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that involves instantaneous unconsciousness and immediate death or by a method that involves anesthesia, produced by an agent which causes painless loss of consciousness, and death during the loss of consciousness. See Iowa Code 162.2
• 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.
• Exhibition: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• exhibition: means an exhibit, demonstration, show, or competition involving swine which occurs as follows:
   a. See Iowa Code 163.32
• Exposed: means an animal that has not been kept separate and apart or isolated from livestock infected with pseudorabies, including all swine in a known infected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Exposed: means all swine in physical contact with a known infected herd or tended by a person having direct contact with an infected herd. See Iowa Code 166B.1
• Exposed livestock: means livestock that have been in contact with livestock infected with pseudorabies, including all livestock in a known infected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farm of origin: means a location where the swine were born, or on which the swine have been located for at least ninety consecutive days immediately prior to movement. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Farm unit: means a single contiguous tract of agricultural land, or two or more adjacent tracts of agricultural land, located within a single soil and water conservation district, upon which farming operations are being conducted by a person who owns or is purchasing or renting all of the land, or by that person's tenant or tenants. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Farm unit soil conservation plan: means a plan jointly developed by the owner and, if appropriate, the operator of a farm unit and the commissioners of the soil and water conservation district within which that farm unit is located, identifying those permanent soil and water conservation practices and temporary soil and water conservation practices the use of which may be expected to prevent soil loss by erosion from that farm unit in excess of the applicable soil loss limit or limits. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Federal license: means a license issued by the United States department of agriculture to a person classified as a dealer or exhibitor pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Federal licensee: means a person to whom a federal license as a dealer or exhibitor is issued. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Feeder pig: means an immature swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter which weighs one hundred pounds or less. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Feeder pig cooperator herd: means a swine herd not currently determined to be pseudorabies negative, that has not experienced clinical signs of pseudorabies in the last six months, that is capable of segregating offspring at weaning into separate and apart production facilities, and has implemented an approved pseudorabies eradication plan. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Feeder swine: means swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter, including feeder pigs and cull swine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Feedlot: means a lot, yard, corral, or other area in which livestock are confined, primarily for the purposes of feeding and growth prior to slaughter. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• fence: includes a fence bordering a public road. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• 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.
• Fixed concentration point: means a concentration point which is a permanent location where swine are assembled for purposes of sale and movement to a slaughtering establishment as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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
• Forest: means stands of native or introduced trees containing at least two hundred trees per acre and located on privately owned land. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Fund: means the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grain: means the same as defined in section 203. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Herd: means a group of swine as established by departmental rule. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Herd cleanup plan: means a plan to eliminate pseudorabies from a swine herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Herd of unknown status: means all swine except swine which are part of a known infected herd, swine known to have been exposed to pseudorabies, or swine which are part of a noninfected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Housing facilities: means any room, building, or area used to contain a primary enclosure or enclosures. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Identification device: means a device which when installed is designed to store information regarding an animal or the animal's owner in an electronic format which may be accessed by a computer for purposes of reading or manipulating the information. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Infected: means infected with pseudorabies as determined by an epidemiologist whose diagnosis is supported by test results. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Infected herd: means a herd that is known to contain infected swine, a herd containing swine exhibiting clinical signs of pseudorabies, or a herd that is infected according to an epidemiologist. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspection service: means the animal and plant health inspection service, United States department of agriculture. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interested person: means the owner of an animal; a person caring for the animal, if different from the owner of the animal; or a person holding a perfected agricultural lien or security interest in the animal under chapter 554. See Iowa Code 163.2A
• 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
• Isolation: means separation of swine within a physical barrier in a manner to prevent swine from gaining access to swine outside the barrier, including excrement or discharges from swine outside the barrier. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Isowean feeder pig: means a feeder pig that weighs twenty pounds or less. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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.
• Known infected herd: means a herd in which swine have been determined by an epidemiologist to be infected. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Landowner: means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Law enforcement officer: means a state patrol officer, a sheriff, or other peace officer so designated by this state or by a county or municipality. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• 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}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means a licensed grain dealer or licensed warehouse operator. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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
• Livestock: means swine, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, ostriches, rheas, or emus. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Livestock: means horses, cattle, sheep, mules, or asses. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Loss: means the amount of a claim held by a seller or depositor against a grain dealer or warehouse operator which has not been recovered through other legal and equitable remedies including the liquidation of assets. 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
• Manufacturer: includes every person engaged in the preparation, at any stage of the process, of biological products, except those engaged in such preparation in any state or governmental institution. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Monitored herd: means a herd of swine, including a feeder swine herd, which has been determined within the past twelve months not to be infected, according to a statistical sampling. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• movement: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• movement: means to ship, transport, or deliver swine by land, water, or air, except that "move" or "movement" does not mean a relocation. See Iowa Code 163.30
• Noninfected herd: means a herd which is one of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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.
• Official test: means a test for brucellosis approved for a species of designated animal by the department and to the extent applicable by the United States department of agriculture which is conducted under the supervision of, or the authorization from, the department. See Iowa Code 164.1
• 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
• Owner: includes any person owning or leasing a designated animal. See Iowa Code 164.1
• 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.
• 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
• Permanent soil and water conservation practices: means planting of perennial grasses, legumes, shrubs, or trees, the establishment of grassed waterways, and the construction of terraces, or other permanent soil and water practices approved by the committee. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Permittee: means a commercial breeder, dealer, or public auction to whom a permit is issued by the department as a federal licensee pursuant to section 162. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Person: means person as defined in chapter 4. See Iowa Code 162.2
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• personal property: include money, goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Pet shop: means a facility where vertebrate animals, excluding fish, not born and reared on the facility's premises are bought, sold, exchanged, or offered for sale or exchange to the public, at retail. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Pound: means a facility for the prevention of cruelty to animals operated by the state, a municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted dogs, cats, or other animals; or a facility operated for such a purpose under a contract with any municipal corporation or incorporated society. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Primary enclosure: means any structure used to immediately restrict an animal to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, cage, or compartment. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Professional forester: means a forestry graduate of an institution of higher learning, who has a minimum of two years of forest management experience. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Pseudorabies: means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease of livestock and other animals known as Aujeszky's disease, mad itch, or infectious bulbar paralysis. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Pseudorabies eradication plan: means a written herd management program which is based on accepted statistical and epidemiological evaluation and designed to eradicate pseudorabies from the swine herds in a given area. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Public auction: means any place or location where dogs or cats, or both, are sold at auction to the highest bidder regardless of whether the dogs or cats are offered as individuals, as a group, or by weight. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Qualified differentiable negative herd: means a herd in which one hundred percent of the herd's breeding swine have been vaccinated and have reacted negatively to a differentiable test and which have been retested, as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Qualified negative herd: means a herd in which one hundred percent of the herd's breeding swine have reacted negatively to a test, and have not been vaccinated, and which is retested as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Quarantine: means the entire herd of designated animals must be confined to a premises designated by the department, if any reactor is disclosed. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Quarantined herd: means a herd in which pseudorabies infected or exposed swine are bred, reared, or fed under the supervision and control of the department, as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Reaction: means a result determined by an approved laboratory procedure designed to recognize pseudorabies virus infection or a nondifferentiable vaccinated animal. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• reactor: means an animal which has given a positive reaction as determined by departmental standards to the brucellosis test. See Iowa Code 163A.1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Registrant: means a pound, animal shelter, or research facility to whom a certificate of registration is issued by the department pursuant to section 162. See Iowa Code 162.2
• relocation: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• relocation: means to ship, transport, or deliver swine by land, water, or air, to different premises, if the ownership of the swine does not change, the prior and new premises are located within the state, and the shipment, transportation, or delivery between the prior and new premises occurs within the state. See Iowa Code 163.30
• Relocation record: means a record as maintained by the owner of swine in a form and containing information as required by the rules adopted by the department, which indicates a relocation of swine as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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.
• Research facility: means any school or college of medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, or osteopathic medicine, or hospital, diagnostic or research laboratories, or other educational or scientific establishment situated in this state concerned with the investigation of, or instruction concerning the structure or function of living organisms, the cause, prevention, control or cure of diseases or abnormal conditions of human beings or animals. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Restricted movement: means swine which are moved or relocated as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Rule of the department: means a rule as defined in section 17A. See Iowa Code 172D.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
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 166.1
• 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
• Separate and apart: means to hold swine so that neither the swine nor organic material originating from the swine has physical contact with other animals. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Separate and apart: means a manner of holding swine so as not to have physical contact with other swine on the premises. See Iowa Code 163.30
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Slaughtering establishment: means a slaughtering establishment operated under the provision of the federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Slaughtering establishment: means a person engaged in the business of slaughtering animals, if the person is an establishment subject to the provisions of chapter 189A which slaughters animals for meat food products as defined in section 189A. See Iowa Code 163.6
• Soil and water conservation practices: means any of the practices designated in or pursuant to this subsection which serve to prevent erosion of soil by wind or water, in excess of applicable soil loss limits, from land used for agricultural or horticultural purposes only. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Soil loss limit: means the maximum amount of soil loss due to erosion by water or wind, expressed in terms of tons per acre per year, which the commissioners of the respective soil and water conservation districts determine is acceptable in order to meet the objectives expressed in section 161A. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• 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
• State agency: means a board, department, commission or authority of or acting on behalf of the state having the power to enter into contracts with or without the approval of the executive council to acquire property in its own name or in the name of the state. See Iowa Code 7D.34
• State forester: means a person employed by the department of natural resources as required by section 456A. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• State licensee: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 162.2
• State-approved premises: means an area, including a feedlot or grazing area, established at the discretion of the department for the care and feeding of untested designated animals as provided by the department. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Statistical sampling: means a test based on at least a ninety percent probability of detecting at least a ten percent incidence of positive reaction within a herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Temporary soil and water conservation practices: means planting of annual or biennial crops, use of strip-cropping, contour planting, or minimum or mulch tillage, and any other cultural practices approved by the committee. See Iowa Code 161A.42
• Test: means a serum neutralization (SN) test, virus isolation test, ELISA test, or other test approved by the department and performed by a laboratory approved by the department. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transportation certificate: means the document specified in section 172B. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Transportation certificate: means a written document evidencing that the movement or relocation of swine complies with the requirements of this chapter, and which may be a transportation certificate as provided in chapter 172B, or another document approved by the department, including but not limited to one or more types of forms covering different circumstances, as prescribed by the department. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• 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
• Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
• Veterinarian: means a licensed accredited veterinarian authorized by the department. See Iowa Code 164.1
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1