The livestock health advisory council shall:
 1. Elect a chairperson and such other officers as it deems advisable. Officers of the council shall serve for terms of one year. No member may serve in any one office for more than two terms.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 267.5

  • 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
  • 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
  • Iowa state university: means the Iowa state university of science and technology. See Iowa Code 267.1
  • Livestock: means swine, sheep, poultry, cattle, ostriches, rheas, or emus. See Iowa Code 267.1
  • 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. Hold a meeting twice each year with the Iowa state university college of veterinary medicine. Hold other meetings as the council may determine necessary, or as required by section 267.6. No action taken by the council shall be valid unless agreed to by a majority of the council members.
 3. Make recommendations to the Iowa state university college of veterinary medicine concerning the application of funds appropriated to the college of veterinary medicine. The Iowa state university college of veterinary medicine shall not expend any of the funds appropriated by this chapter until the recommendation of the council concerning that appropriation is adopted or sixty days following the effective date of the appropriation, whichever is earlier.
 4. File an annual report with the secretary of agriculture.