Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 164 - Brucellosis -- Bovine and Designated Animals

• Animal: means a nonhuman vertebrate. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Bovine animal: means bison or cattle. See Iowa Code 164.1
• certificate: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Class free state: means there has been no known brucellosis in bovine animals for a period of twelve months. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Designated animal: means a bovine animal or any other species of animal that the department by rule determines is capable of carrying and spreading brucellosis, including elk or goats. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Feedlot: means a lot, yard, corral, or other area in which livestock are confined, primarily for the purposes of feeding and growth prior to slaughter. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• 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
• Fund: means the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, ostriches, rheas, emus, poultry, and other animals or fowl, which are being produced primarily for use as food or food products for human consumption. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Official test: means a test for brucellosis approved for a species of designated animal by the department and to the extent applicable by the United States department of agriculture which is conducted under the supervision of, or the authorization from, the department. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Owner: includes any person owning or leasing a designated animal. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Payment: means the actual payment or tender of payment by a grain dealer to a seller of the agreed purchase price, or in the case of disputes as to sales of grain, the undisputed portion of the purchase price without reduction for any separate claim of the grain dealer against the seller. See Iowa Code 203.8
• person: means individual, corporation, limited liability company, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Quarantine: means the entire herd of designated animals must be confined to a premises designated by the department, if any reactor is disclosed. See Iowa Code 164.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• 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
• State-approved premises: means an area, including a feedlot or grazing area, established at the discretion of the department for the care and feeding of untested designated animals as provided by the department. See Iowa Code 164.1
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Veterinarian: means a licensed accredited veterinarian authorized by the department. See Iowa Code 164.1
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1