As used in this chapter:
 1. “Assessment” means an excise tax on the sale of porcine animals as provided in this chapter.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 183A.1

  • Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.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
  • Porcine animals: means swine raised for slaughter, feeder pigs, or swine seedstock. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Pork: means porcine animals and all parts of porcine animals. See Iowa Code 183A.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
  • 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
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. “First purchaser” means a person who buys porcine animals from a seller in the first instance.
 3. “Iowa pork producers council” or “council” means the body established under section 183A.2.
 4. “Market development” means research, education, and other programs directed at better and more efficient production, marketing, and utilization of pork; public relations and other promotion techniques for the maintenance of existing markets for pork, including but not limited to contributions to organizations working toward the purposes of this subsection; development of new or larger markets for pork both domestic and foreign, including but not limited to public relations and other promotion techniques; and the adoption, prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which bear on the flow of pork in commercial channels.
 5. “Porcine animals” means swine raised for slaughter, feeder pigs, or swine seedstock.
 6. “Pork” means porcine animals and all parts of porcine animals.
 7. “Pork Promotion Act” means the federal Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act of 1985.
 8. “Producer” means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing porcine animals in the previous calendar year.
 9. “Qualified financial institution” means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C.1.