Terms Used In Iowa Code 162.12

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Housing facilities: means any room, building, or area used to contain a primary enclosure or enclosures. See Iowa Code 162.2
• Licensee: means a licensed grain dealer or licensed warehouse operator. See Iowa Code 203D.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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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