The board may:
 1. Employ and discharge assistants and professional counsel as necessary, prescribe their duties and powers, and fix their compensation.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 185C.13

  • Assessment: means a state or federal assessment. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Board: means the Iowa corn promotion board established by this chapter. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Corn: means and includes all kinds of varieties of corn marketed or sold as corn by the producer but shall not include sweet corn or popcorn or seed corn. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Federal assessment: means a federal excise tax or other charge which is imposed for purposes related to market development. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Marketed in this state: refers to a sale of corn to a first purchaser who is a resident of or doing business in this state where actual delivery of the corn occurs in this state. See Iowa Code 185C.1
 2. Acquire and establish offices, issue negotiable instruments, incur expenses, and enter into any contracts or agreements necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
 3. Adopt, rescind, and amend all proper and necessary rules for the exercise of its powers and duties.
 4. Enter into arrangements for collection of the assessment on corn marketed in this state.
 5. To the extent provided by federal law, be responsible for collection of receipts from the federal assessment, and for expenditure of proceeds from the federal assessment.