Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 7 - Governor and Lieutenant Governor

• Accredited or approved college of veterinary medicine: means any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers the degree of doctor of veterinary medicine or its equivalent and that conforms to the standards required for accreditation or approval by the board. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agent: means a person engaged in the buying or soliciting in this state of livestock for slaughter exclusively on behalf of a dealer or broker. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Aggrieved party: means a landowner or a local authority. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Animal: means any nonhuman primate, dog, cat, rabbit, rodent, fish, reptile, and other vertebrate or nonvertebrate life forms, living or dead, except domestic poultry. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Animal: means a creature belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species; ostriches, rheas, or emus; farm deer as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• Approved premises: means a dry lot facility located in an area with confirmed cases of pseudorabies infection, which is certified by the department to receive, feed, and move or relocate infected swine as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Biological products: shall include and be deemed to embrace only anti-classical swine fever serum and viruses which are either virulent or nonvirulent, alive or dead. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Board: means the Iowa grain indemnity fund board created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Board: means the Iowa board of veterinary medicine. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Board: means the Iowa state fair board as provided in section 173. See Iowa Code 173.1A
• Brand: means an identification mark that is burned into the hide of a live animal by a hot iron or another method approved by the secretary. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Breeding swine: means swine over six months of age. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• broker: means any person, other than an agent, who is engaged in this state in the business of slaughtering live animals or receiving, buying or soliciting live animals for slaughter, the meat products of which are directly or indirectly to be offered for resale or for public consumption. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Certificate of inspection: means a document approved by the United States department of agriculture or the department of agriculture and land stewardship, and issued by a licensed veterinarian prior to the interstate or intrastate movement of swine or to the relocation of swine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Certificate of veterinary inspection: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Chronic wasting disease: means the animal disease afflicting deer, elk, or moose that is a transmissible disease of the nervous system resulting in distinctive lesions in the brain and that belongs to the group of diseases that is known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). See Iowa Code 170.1
• chronic wasting disease: means the same as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 167.22
• City: means a municipal corporation, but not including a county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• City: means a municipal corporation, but not including a county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Classical swine fever: means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease of swine commonly known as hog cholera. See Iowa Code 166B.1
• Cleanup plan: means a herd cleanup plan or feeder pig cooperator herd cleanup plan as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Computer: means the same as defined in section 22. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Concentration point: includes a public stockyard, auction market, street market, state or federal market, untested consignment sales location, buying station, or a livestock dealer's yard, truck, or facility. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Convention: means the convention held each year, to elect members of the state fair board and conduct other business of the board, as provided in section 173. See Iowa Code 173.1A
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the farm deer council established pursuant to section 170. See Iowa Code 170.1
• County system: means the same as defined in section 445. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Cryo-brand: means a brand produced by application of extreme cold temperature. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• Cull swine: means mature swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Dairy cattle: means cattle belonging to a breed that is used to produce milk for human consumption, including but not limited to Holstein and Jersey breeds. See Iowa Code 172E.1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: includes every person who, for profit, sells, dispenses, or distributes, or offers to do so, either as principal or agent, biological products, except:
   a. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Delivery: means the transfer of title to and possession of grain by a seller to a grain dealer or to another person in accordance with the agreement of the seller and the grain dealer. See Iowa Code 203.8
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 170.1
• Department: means the department of environmental quality in a reference to a time before July 1, 1983, the department of water, air and waste management in a reference to a time on or after July 1, 1983, and through June 30, 1986, and the department of natural resources on or after July 1, 1986, and includes any officer or agency within that department. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Department: means the department of environmental quality in a reference to a time before July 1, 1983, the department of water, air and waste management in a reference to a time on or after July 1, 1983, and through June 30, 1986, and the department of natural resources on or after July 1, 1986, and includes any officer or agency within that department. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 175B.2
• Destroy: means condemn under state authority and slaughter or otherwise kill as a result of or pursuant to such condemnation. See Iowa Code 166B.1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Differentiable test: means a laboratory procedure approved by the department to diagnose pseudorabies. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Differentiable vaccinate: means a swine which has only been exposed to a differentiable vaccine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Differentiable vaccine: means a vaccine which has a licensed companion differentiable test, and includes a modified-live differentiable vaccine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Direct movement: means movement of swine to a destination without unloading the swine en route, without contact with swine of lesser pseudorabies vaccinate status, and without contact with infected or exposed livestock. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• district: means any of the six geographic regions established in section 173. See Iowa Code 173.1A
• District director: means a director of the Iowa state fair board who represents a state fair board district. See Iowa Code 173.1A
• ECFVG certificate: means a current certificate issued by the American veterinary medical association educational commission for foreign veterinary graduates, indicating that the holder has demonstrated knowledge and skill equivalent to that possessed by a graduate of an accredited or approved college of veterinary medicine. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Epidemiologist: means a state or federal veterinarian designated to investigate and diagnose suspected pseudorabies in livestock. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Established date of operation: means the date on which a feedlot commenced operating with not more livestock than reasonably could be maintained by the physical facilities existing as of that date. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Exhibition: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Exposed: means an animal that has not been kept separate and apart or isolated from livestock infected with pseudorabies, including all swine in a known infected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Exposed: means all swine in physical contact with a known infected herd or tended by a person having direct contact with an infected herd. See Iowa Code 166B.1
• Exposed livestock: means livestock that have been in contact with livestock infected with pseudorabies, including all livestock in a known infected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farm deer: means an animal belonging to the cervidae family and classified as part of the dama species of the dama genus, commonly referred to as fallow deer; part of the elaphus species of the cervus genus, commonly referred to as red deer or elk; part of the virginianus species of the odocoileus genus, commonly referred to as whitetail; part of the hemionus species of the odocoileus genus, commonly referred to as mule deer; part of the nippon species of the cervus genus, commonly referred to as sika; or part of the alces species of the alces genus, commonly referred to as moose. See Iowa Code 170.1
• Farm of origin: means a location where the swine were born, or on which the swine have been located for at least ninety consecutive days immediately prior to movement. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Fee: means monetary compensation given for a service consisting primarily of an act or acts described in subsection 10, paragraph "a". See Iowa Code 169.3
• Feeder pig: means an immature swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter which weighs one hundred pounds or less. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Feeder pig cooperator herd: means a swine herd not currently determined to be pseudorabies negative, that has not experienced clinical signs of pseudorabies in the last six months, that is capable of segregating offspring at weaning into separate and apart production facilities, and has implemented an approved pseudorabies eradication plan. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Feeder swine: means swine fed for purposes of direct slaughter, including feeder pigs and cull swine. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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
• feedlot design standards: means a rule, the implementation of which, or the compliance with which, requires the expenditure of funds in excess of two percent of the establishment cost of the feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• feedlot management standards: means a rule, the implementation of which, or the compliance with which, requires the expenditure of funds not in excess of two percent of the establishment cost of the feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Fence: means a boundary fence which encloses farm deer within a landowner's property as required to be constructed and maintained pursuant to section 170. See Iowa Code 170.1
• fence: includes a fence bordering a public road. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fixed concentration point: means a concentration point which is a permanent location where swine are assembled for purposes of sale and movement to a slaughtering establishment as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the grain depositors and sellers indemnity fund created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Herd: means a group of swine as established by departmental rule. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Herd cleanup plan: means a plan to eliminate pseudorabies from a swine herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Herd of unknown status: means all swine except swine which are part of a known infected herd, swine known to have been exposed to pseudorabies, or swine which are part of a noninfected herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Identification device: means a device which when installed is designed to store information regarding an animal or the animal's owner in an electronic format which may be accessed by a computer for purposes of reading or manipulating the information. See Iowa Code 169A.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}
• Infected: means infected with pseudorabies as determined by an epidemiologist whose diagnosis is supported by test results. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Infected herd: means a herd that is known to contain infected swine, a herd containing swine exhibiting clinical signs of pseudorabies, or a herd that is infected according to an epidemiologist. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspection service: means the animal and plant health inspection service, United States department of agriculture. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Internet: means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the world wide web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Isolation: means separation of swine within a physical barrier in a manner to prevent swine from gaining access to swine outside the barrier, including excrement or discharges from swine outside the barrier. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Isowean feeder pig: means a feeder pig that weighs twenty pounds or less. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Known infected herd: means a herd in which swine have been determined by an epidemiologist to be infected. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Landowner: means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. See Iowa Code 170.1
• Landowner: means a person who holds an interest in land, including a titleholder or tenant. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Law enforcement officer: means a state patrol officer, a sheriff, or other peace officer so designated by this state or by a county or municipality. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Law enforcement officer: means a state patrol officer, a sheriff, or other peace officer so designated by this state or by a county or municipality. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Licensed veterinarian: means a person who is validly and currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the state of Iowa. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Licensee: means a licensed grain dealer or licensed warehouse operator. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Livestock: means swine, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, ostriches, rheas, or emus. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Livestock: means the same as defined in section 717. See Iowa Code 172E.1
• Livestock: means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine, or porcine species; ostriches, rheas, or emus; farm deer as defined in section 170. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• 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
• 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
• Livestock: means horses, cattle, sheep, mules, or asses. See Iowa Code 169A.1
• livestock: includes cattle, calves, swine, sheep, goats, turkeys, chickens, or horses. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Livestock: means and includes live cattle, swine, sheep, horses, ostriches, rheas, or emus, and the carcasses of such animals whether in whole or in part. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Livestock care provider: means a person designated by a local authority to provide care to livestock which is distrained by a local authority. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Livestock market: means any place where livestock are assembled from two or more sources for public auction, private sale, or sale on a commission basis, which is under state or federal supervision, including a livestock auction market, if such livestock are kept in the place for ten days or less. See Iowa Code 172E.1
• Livestock owner: means the person who holds title to livestock or who is primarily responsible for the care and feeding of the livestock as provided by the titleholder. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Local authority: means a city as defined in section 362. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Manufacturer: includes every person engaged in the preparation, at any stage of the process, of biological products, except those engaged in such preparation in any state or governmental institution. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Materially affects: means prohibits or regulates with respect to the location, or the emission of noise, effluent, odors, sewage, waste, or similar products resulting from the operation or the location or use of buildings, machinery, vehicles, equipment, or other real or personal property used in the operation, of a livestock feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Monitored herd: means a herd of swine, including a feeder swine herd, which has been determined within the past twelve months not to be infected, according to a statistical sampling. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
• movement: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Noninfected herd: means a herd which is one of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Nuisance: means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Nuisance: means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law. See Iowa Code 172D.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.
• Owner: shall mean the person holding record title to real estate to include both legal and equitable interests under recorded real estate contracts. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Owner: means any person, association, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity in whom is vested the ownership, dominion over, or title to an animal, including one who is obligated by law to care for such animal. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Owner: means a person having legal title to livestock. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• packer: includes an agent of the packer engaged in buying or soliciting livestock for slaughter on behalf of a packer. See Iowa Code 172E.1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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
• Person: means natural person or individual. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association or corporation, or any other business unit. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Practice of veterinary medicine: means any of the following:
   a. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Pseudorabies: means the contagious, infectious, and communicable disease of livestock and other animals known as Aujeszky's disease, mad itch, or infectious bulbar paralysis. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Pseudorabies eradication plan: means a written herd management program which is based on accepted statistical and epidemiological evaluation and designed to eradicate pseudorabies from the swine herds in a given area. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Public road: means a thoroughfare and its right-of-way, whether reserved by public ownership or easement, for use by the traveling public. See Iowa Code 169C.1
• Qualified differentiable negative herd: means a herd in which one hundred percent of the herd's breeding swine have been vaccinated and have reacted negatively to a differentiable test and which have been retested, as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Qualified negative herd: means a herd in which one hundred percent of the herd's breeding swine have reacted negatively to a test, and have not been vaccinated, and which is retested as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Quarantined herd: means a herd in which pseudorabies infected or exposed swine are bred, reared, or fed under the supervision and control of the department, as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Reaction: means a result determined by an approved laboratory procedure designed to recognize pseudorabies virus infection or a nondifferentiable vaccinated animal. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• real property: include lands, tenements, hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• relocation: means the same as defined in section 163. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Relocation record: means a record as maintained by the owner of swine in a form and containing information as required by the rules adopted by the department, which indicates a relocation of swine as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Restricted movement: means swine which are moved or relocated as provided in section 166D. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• road: include public bridges, and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" "common road" and "state road". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• Rule of the department: means a rule as defined in section 17A. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• Rule of the department: means a rule as defined in section 17A. See Iowa Code 172D.1
• seal: shall include an impression upon the paper alone, or upon wax, a wafer affixed to the paper, or an official stamp of a notarial officer as provided in chapter 9B. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 166.1
• Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 172A.1
• Seller: means a person who sells grain which the person has produced or caused to be produced to a licensed grain dealer, but excludes a person who executes a credit-sale contract as a seller as provided in section 203. See Iowa Code 203D.1
• Separate and apart: means to hold swine so that neither the swine nor organic material originating from the swine has physical contact with other animals. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Slaughtering establishment: means a slaughtering establishment operated under the provision of the federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• 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 agency: means a board, department, commission or authority of or acting on behalf of the state having the power to enter into contracts with or without the approval of the executive council to acquire property in its own name or in the name of the state. See Iowa Code 7D.34
• Statistical sampling: means a test based on at least a ninety percent probability of detecting at least a ten percent incidence of positive reaction within a herd. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Test: means a serum neutralization (SN) test, virus isolation test, ELISA test, or other test approved by the department and performed by a laboratory approved by the department. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transportation certificate: means a written document evidencing that the movement or relocation of swine complies with the requirements of this chapter, and which may be a transportation certificate as provided in chapter 172B, or another document approved by the department, including but not limited to one or more types of forms covering different circumstances, as prescribed by the department. See Iowa Code 166D.2
• Transportation certificate: means the document specified in section 172B. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Transporting livestock: means being in custody of or operating a vehicle in this state, whether or not on a highway, in which are confined one or more head of livestock. See Iowa Code 172B.1
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Veterinarian: means a person who has received a doctor of veterinary medicine degree or its equivalent from an accredited or approved college of veterinary medicine. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Veterinary assistant: means an assistant employed by a licensed veterinarian as an animal technician and any other assistant the board designates by rule. See Iowa Code 169.3
• Veterinary medicine: includes veterinary surgery, veterinary obstetrics, veterinary dentistry, and all other branches or specialties of veterinary medicine. See Iowa Code 169.3
• week: means seven consecutive days. See Iowa Code 4.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Zoning requirement: means a regulation or ordinance, which has been adopted by a city, county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority, and which materially affects the operation of a feedlot. See Iowa Code 172D.1