For purposes of valuing and assessing property for tax purposes, locker plants shall be valued and assessed as commercial property. For purposes of this section, “locker plants” means any property used primarily for any or all of the following purposes:
 1. To provide, as a part of its business operations, locker facilities which are rented at retail to consumers to be used for the storage of frozen meats, fish, or fowl owned by the person renting the locker.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 428.22

  • Business: means any trade, occupation, activity, or enterprise engaged in for the purpose of selling or distributing tobacco products in this state. See Iowa Code 453A.42
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • Livestock: includes but is not limited to an animal classified as an ostrich, rhea, or emu. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Person: means any individual, firm, association, partnership, joint stock company, joint adventure, corporation, trustee, agency, or receiver, or any legal representative of any of the foregoing. See Iowa Code 453A.42
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Storage: means any keeping or retention of tobacco products for use or consumption in this state. See Iowa Code 453A.42
 2. To custom slaughter livestock under contract for a natural person and to process the carcass for the natural person by cutting, wrapping, and freezing the meat.
 3. To process an animal carcass to offer at retail processed meat products to a natural person after the facility has purchased the livestock or carcass.
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