Terms Used In Iowa Code 9C.7

  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • transient merchant: shall mean and include every merchant, whether an individual person, a firm, corporation, partnership, or association, and whether owner, agent, bailee, consignee, or employee, who shall bring or cause to be brought within the state of Iowa any tangible personal property of any kind, nature, or description, with the intention of temporarily or intermittently selling or offering to sell at retail such tangible personal property within the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 9C.1
 It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant making sales or engaging in or conducting a business under a transient merchant’s license to make any false or misleading statements or representation regarding any article sold or offered for sale by such transient merchant as to condition, quality, original cost, or cost to such transient merchant of any article sold or offered for sale or to sell or offer for sale tangible personal property of a value in excess of the value thereof as shown by said application, or to sell or offer for sale at retail any tangible personal property, or to engage in or conduct an intermittent or temporary business on any days or at any place other than those shown by such license.