Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 7A - Official Reports and Miscellaneous Publications

• Agent: means a person engaged in the buying or soliciting in this state of livestock for slaughter exclusively on behalf of a dealer or broker. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Aggrieved party: means a landowner or a local authority. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Aggrieved party: means a landowner or a local authority. See Iowa Code 169C.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.
• Animal food manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of preparing animal food, including poultry, derived wholly or in part from livestock or poultry carcasses or parts or products of such carcasses. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assessment: means an excise tax on the sale of eggs as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means the Iowa crop improvement association recognized in section 177. See Iowa Code 177.1A
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the Iowa grain indemnity fund board created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Broker: means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling livestock products or poultry products on commission, or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for the person's own account or as an employee of another person. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• broker: means any person, other than an agent, who is engaged in this state in the business of slaughtering live animals or receiving, buying or soliciting live animals for slaughter, the meat products of which are directly or indirectly to be offered for resale or for public consumption. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Chronic wasting disease: means the animal disease afflicting deer, elk, or moose that is a transmissible disease of the nervous system resulting in distinctive lesions in the brain and that belongs to the group of diseases that is known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). See Iowa Code 170.1
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Council: means the Iowa egg council. See Iowa Code 184.1
• Council: means the farm deer council established pursuant to section 170. See Iowa Code 170.1
• County system: means the same as defined in section 445. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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 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 170.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 175B.2
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 177.1A
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Division: means the Iowa title guaranty division in the authority, the director of the division, or a designee of the director. See Iowa Code 16.92
• 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
• 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}
• Established date of operation: means the date on which a feedlot commenced operating with not more livestock than reasonably could be maintained by the physical facilities existing as of that date. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Established date of operation: means the date on which a feedlot commenced operating with not more livestock than reasonably could be maintained by the physical facilities existing as of that date. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Establishment: means all premises where animals or poultry are slaughtered or otherwise prepared, either for custom, resale, or retail, for food purposes, meat or poultry canneries, sausage factories, smoking or curing operations, restaurants, grocery stores, brokerages, cold storage plants, and similar places. See Iowa Code 189A.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.
• 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 deer: means the same as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Farm deer: means an animal belonging to the cervidae family and classified as part of the dama species of the dama genus, commonly referred to as fallow deer; part of the elaphus species of the cervus genus, commonly referred to as red deer or elk; part of the virginianus species of the odocoileus genus, commonly referred to as whitetail; part of the hemionus species of the odocoileus genus, commonly referred to as mule deer; part of the nippon species of the cervus genus, commonly referred to as sika; or part of the alces species of the alces genus, commonly referred to as moose. See Iowa Code 170.1
• federal Acts: means these two federal laws. See Iowa Code 189A.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
• 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
• fence: includes a fence bordering a public road. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Fence: means a boundary fence which encloses farm deer within a landowner's property as required to be constructed and maintained pursuant to section 170. See Iowa Code 170.1
• 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
• Food animal: means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, ovine, or porcine species; a turkey, chicken, or other type of poultry; a farm deer as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• Food commodity: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• Food product: means a perishable or nonperishable product derived from processing a food commodity to be fit for human consumption, including but not limited to cuts of meat, poultry, or fish; shelled aquatic items; pasteurized milk or dairy products; washed shelled eggs; honey; maple syrup; cleaned unshelled or shelled nuts; washed whole produce; and washed and cut produce. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Fund: means the farm-to-school fund created in section 190A. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• 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
• Immediate container: means any consumer package; or any other container in which livestock products or poultry products, not consumer packaged, are packed. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspector: means an employee or official of the department authorized by the secretary or any employee or official of the government of any county or other governmental subdivision of this state, authorized by the secretary to perform any inspection functions under this chapter under an agreement between the secretary and such governmental subdivision. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• 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
• Intrastate commerce: means commerce within this state. See Iowa Code 189A.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.
• Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon any article or the immediate container, not including package liners, of any article. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter either upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or accompanying such article. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Landowner: means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Landowner: means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Landowner: means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. See Iowa Code 170.1
• 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
• 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}
• 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 a live or dead animal which is limited to cattle, sheep, swine, goats, farm deer, or which is classified as an equine including a horse or mule. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Livestock: means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species; ostriches, rheas, or emus; farm deer as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• 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: includes cattle, calves, swine, sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, or horses. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Livestock: means and includes live cattle, swine, sheep, horses, ostriches, rheas, or emus, and the carcasses of such animals whether in whole or in part. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Livestock care provider: means a person designated by a local authority to provide care to livestock which is distrained by a local authority. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Livestock care provider: means a person designated by a local authority to provide care to livestock which is distrained by a local authority. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Livestock owner: means the person who holds title to livestock or who is primarily responsible for the care and feeding of the livestock as provided by the titleholder. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Livestock owner: means the person who holds title to livestock or who is primarily responsible for the care and feeding of the livestock as provided by the titleholder. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Livestock product: means any carcass, part thereof, meat, or meat food product of any livestock. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Local authority: means a city as defined in section 362. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Local authority: means a city as defined in section 362. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Materially affects: means prohibits or regulates with respect to the location, or the emission of noise, effluent, odors, sewage, waste, or similar products resulting from the operation or the location or use of buildings, machinery, vehicles, equipment, or other real or personal property used in the operation, of a livestock feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Materially affects: means prohibits or regulates with respect to the location, or the emission of noise, effluent, odors, sewage, waste, or similar products resulting from the operation or the location or use of buildings, machinery, vehicles, equipment, or other real or personal property used in the operation, of a livestock feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the secretary under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcass contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Nuisance: means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Nuisance: means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by regulations of the secretary for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Official device: means any device prescribed or authorized by the secretary for use in applying any official mark. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Official establishment: means any establishment as determined by the secretary at which inspection of the slaughter of livestock or poultry or the preparation of livestock products or poultry products is maintained under the authority of this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Official inspection legend: means any symbol prescribed by regulations of the secretary showing that an article was inspected and passed in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulations of the secretary to identify the status of any article or livestock or poultry under this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• 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: means a person having legal title to livestock. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• package: means any box, can, tin, cloth, plastic or other receptacle, wrapper, or cover. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• 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
• Person: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association or corporation, or any other business unit. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Poultry: means any domesticated bird, whether live or dead. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Poultry product: means any poultry carcass or part thereof, or any product which is made wholly or in part from any poultry carcass or part thereof, excepting products which contain poultry ingredients only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the poultry food industry, and which are exempted by the secretary from definition as a poultry product under such conditions as the secretary may prescribe to assure that the poultry ingredients in such products are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as poultry products. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Prepared: means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Iowa Code 189A.2
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• 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
• Program: means the farm-to-school program created in section 190A. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• public funds: means public funds as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 12B.10C
• Public road: means a thoroughfare and its right-of-way, whether reserved by public ownership or easement, for use by the traveling public. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Public road: means a thoroughfare and its right-of-way, whether reserved by public ownership or easement, for use by the traveling public. See Iowa Code 169C.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.
• Renderer: means any person engaged in the business of rendering livestock or poultry carcasses, or parts or products of such carcasses, except rendering conducted under inspection or exemption under this chapter. See Iowa Code 189A.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
• Rule of the department: means a rule as defined in section 17A. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• School: means a public school or nonpublic school, as those terms are defined in section 280. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• School district: means a school district as described in chapter 274. See Iowa Code 190A.2
• 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 172A.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
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. 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.
• 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.
• Transportation certificate: means the document specified in section 172B. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Transportation certificate: means the document specified in section 172B. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Transporting livestock: means being in custody of or operating a vehicle in this state, whether or not on a highway, in which are confined one or more head of livestock. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Transporting livestock: means being in custody of or operating a vehicle in this state, whether or not on a highway, in which are confined one or more head of livestock. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Zoning requirement: means a regulation or ordinance, which has been adopted by a city, county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority, and which materially affects the operation of a feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Zoning requirement: means a regulation or ordinance, which has been adopted by a city, county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority, and which materially affects the operation of a feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1