1. A warehouse operator shall maintain at all times sufficient quantity and quality of grain or other agricultural products to cover the warehouse operator’s obligation. A warehouse operator shall not at any time have less grain or other agricultural products in the warehouse than the obligations to depositors, as determined by an investigation of the warehouse operator’s records.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 203C.23

  • Grain: means the same as defined in section 203. See Iowa Code 203C.1
  • Incidental warehouse operator: means a person regulated under chapter 198 whose grain storage capacity does not exceed twenty-five thousand bushels which is used exclusively for grain owned or grain which will be returned to the depositor for use in a feeding operation or as an ingredient in a feed. See Iowa Code 203C.1
  • 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.
  • Warehouse: shall mean any building, structure, or other protected enclosure in this state used or usable for the storage of agricultural products. See Iowa Code 203C.1
  • Warehouse operator: means a person engaged in the business of operating or controlling a warehouse for the storing, shipping, handling or processing of agricultural products, but does not include an incidental warehouse operator. See Iowa Code 203C.1
 2. An incidental warehouse operator shall maintain at all times sufficient quantity and quality of grain to cover the incidental warehouse operator’s obligation. An incidental warehouse operator shall not at any time have less grain in a warehouse than the obligations to depositors, as determined by an investigation of the incidental warehouse operator’s records.
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