§ 7A.1 Official reports — preparation
§ 7A.2 Made to governor
§ 7A.2A Annual reports — financial information
§ 7A.3 Biennial reports — time covered and date of filing
§ 7A.4 Annual reports — time covered and date of filing
§ 7A.5 Governor
§ 7A.8 Superintendent of banking
§ 7A.9 State department of transportation
§ 7A.10 Utilities board
§ 7A.11 Documents filed with the general assembly
§ 7A.11A Reports to the general assembly
§ 7A.12 Delay
§ 7A.13 Governor may grant extension
§ 7A.14 Number of copies — style
§ 7A.20 Miscellaneous documents
§ 7A.23 Price of departmental reports
§ 7A.27 Other necessary publications — when necessary to sell
§ 7A.28 Governor may fix filing date
§ 7A.29 Title pages — complimentary insertions
§ 7A.30 Inventory of state property

Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 7A - Official Reports and Miscellaneous Publications

  • Account: means the turkey council account created pursuant to section 184A. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Advertise: means to present a commercial message in any medium including but not limited to print, radio, television, sign, display, label, tag, or articulation. See Iowa Code 200A.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.
  • Agricultural product: means any agricultural commodity or product, whether raw or processed, including any commodity or product derived from livestock, that is marketed in this state for human or livestock consumption. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Agricultural seed: means grass, forage, cereal, oil, fiber, and any other kind of crop seed commonly recognized within this state as agricultural seed, lawn seed, vegetable seed, or seed mixtures. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Ammonium nitrate: means a compound that is chiefly composed of ammonium salt of nitric acid which contains not less than thirty-three percent nitrogen, one-half of which is in the ammonium form and one-half in the nitrate form. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • anhydrous ammonia: means the compound formed by the combination of two gaseous elements, nitrogen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen by volume. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Anhydrous ammonia plant: means a facility used for the manufacture or distribution of the compound formed by the combination of two gaseous elements, nitrogen and hydrogen, in the proportion of one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen by volume. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • 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.
  • Assessment: means a state or federal assessment. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Assessment: means an excise tax on the sale of porcine animals as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Assessment: means an excise tax on the sale of eggs as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • assessment: means an excise tax on each bushel of soybeans marketed in this state which is imposed pursuant to a promotional order as provided in this chapter. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Association: means the Iowa soybean association as recognized in section 185. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Association: means the Iowa crop improvement association recognized in section 177. See Iowa Code 177.1A
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • blend: means a combination of seed of more than one kind or variety if present in excess of five percent of the whole. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Board: means the Iowa grain indemnity fund board created in section 203D. See Iowa Code 203D.1
  • Board: means the Iowa corn promotion board established by this chapter. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Board: means the Iowa soybean association board of directors established by this chapter. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • brand: means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with one or several grades of commercial fertilizer. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • bulk product: means a dry animal nutrient product delivered to a purchaser in bulk form to which a label cannot be attached. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • Bushel: means fifty-six pounds of corn by weight. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Bushel: means sixty pounds of soybeans by weight. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • Certifying agency: means an agency authorized under the laws of a state, territory, or possession to officially certify seed and which has standards and procedures approved by the United States secretary of agriculture to assure genetic purity and identity of the seed certified, or an agency of a foreign country determined by the United States secretary of agriculture to adhere to the procedures and standards for seed certification comparable to those adhered to generally by seed certifying agencies in the United States. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • 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
  • clerk: means clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is brought or is pending; and the words "clerk's office" mean the office of that clerk. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • commercial fertilizer: includes fertilizer and fertilizer materials and fertilizer-pesticide mixtures. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • commission: shall mean the Iowa dairy industry commission. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • 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.
  • Conditioning: means cleaning to remove chaff, sterile florets, immature seed, weed seed, inert matter, and other crop seed; scarifying; blending to obtain uniform quality; or any other operation which may change the purity or germination of the seed and require retesting to determine the quality of the seed. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corn: means and includes all kinds of varieties of corn marketed or sold as corn by the producer but shall not include sweet corn or popcorn or seed corn. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • 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 body established under section 183A. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Council: means the Iowa egg council. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • Council: means the organic advisory council established pursuant to section 190C. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Council: means the Iowa turkey marketing council established pursuant to sections 184A. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • County system: means the same as defined in section 445. See Iowa Code 169C.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 200.3
  • 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 200A.3
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Department: means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 177.1A
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means a district elected director or a board elected director as provided in section 185C. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, hold out for sale, exchange, barter, supply, or furnish a bulk dry animal nutrient product on a commercial basis. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • distributor: means any person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces, compounds, mixes, or blends commercial fertilizer, or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or otherwise distributes commercial fertilizer in this state. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Distributor: means a person who distributes a bulk dry animal nutrient product. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • District: means an official crop reporting district formed by the United States department of agriculture for use on January 1, 2013, and set out in the annual farm census published in that year by the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • District: means an official crop reporting district formed by the United States department of agriculture and set out in the annual farm census published by the Iowa department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Division: means the Iowa title guaranty division in the authority, the director of the division, or a designee of the director. See Iowa Code 16.92
  • Dry animal nutrient product: means any unmanipulated animal manure composed primarily of animal excreta, if all of the following apply:
  • Eggs: includes shell eggs or eggs broken for further processing. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • Eligible voter: means a producer who is qualified to vote in a referendum conducted under this chapter according to the requirements of section 184. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • 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
  • Established date of operation: means the date on which an anhydrous ammonia plant commenced operating. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Established date of ownership: means the date of the recording of an appropriate instrument of title establishing the ownership of real estate. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • 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.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Federal assessment: means a federal excise tax or other charge which is imposed for purposes related to market development. See Iowa Code 185C.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
  • fertilizer: means any substance containing one or more recognized plant nutrient which is used for its plant nutrient content and which is designed for use and claimed to have value in promoting plant growth except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures or calcium and magnesium carbonate materials used primarily for correcting soil acidity. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • First purchaser: means a person who buys porcine animals from a seller in the first instance. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • First purchaser: means a person, public or private corporation, governmental subdivision, association, cooperative, partnership, commercial buyer, dealer, or processor who purchases corn from a producer for the first time for any purpose except to feed it to the purchaser's livestock or to manufacture a product from the corn purchased for the purchaser's personal consumption. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • First purchaser: means a person, public or private corporation, governmental subdivision, association, cooperative, partnership, commercial buyer, dealer, or processor who purchases soybeans from a producer for the first time for any purpose except to feed it to the purchaser's livestock or to manufacture a product from the soybeans purchased for the purchaser's personal consumption. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • First purchaser: means a person who buys milk from a producer and resells that milk or products made from the milk to another person. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Fund: means the Iowa turkey fund created pursuant to section 184A. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • grade: means the percentages of total nitrogen, available phosphorus or P2O5 or both, and soluble potassium or K2O or both stated in whole numbers in same terms, order and percentages as in the "guaranteed analysis". See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Grain: means the same as defined in section 203. See Iowa Code 203D.1
  • guaranteed analysis: shall mean the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed and reported as Total Nitrogen (N), Available Phosphorus (P) or P2O5 or both, Soluble Potassium (K) or K2O or both and in the following form:
    Total Nitrogen (N)                       . See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Guaranteed analysis: means the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed and reported to the department pursuant to section 200A. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Handler: means a person engaged in the business of handling agricultural products, including producers who handle crops or livestock of their own production, except such term shall not include final retailers of agricultural products that do not process agricultural products. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Hybrid: means the first generation seed produced by controlled pollination of two inbred lines to produce a single cross; an inbred line and a single cross of two unrelated inbred lines to produce a three-way cross; an inbred line and a single cross of two related lines to produce a modified single cross; two single crosses to produce a double cross; an inbred line or a single cross with an open-pollinated or synthetic cultivar to produce a modified cultivar cross; or a cross of two open-pollinated or synthetic cultivars to produce a cultivar cross. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Inoculant for leguminous plants: means a bacterial culture, or material containing bacteria, that is represented as causing the formation of nodules and aiding the growth of leguminous plants by the fixation of nitrogen. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Integrator: means any person who is both a producer and a processor. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • 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.
  • Kind: means one or more related species or subspecies which singly or collectively are known by one common name. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic material on the immediate container of an agricultural product or any such material affixed to any agricultural product or affixed to a bulk container containing an agricultural product, except for package liners or a display of written, printed, or graphic material which contains only information about the weight of the product. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic representations, in any form, accompanying and pertaining to seed, whether in bulk or in containers, and includes invoices. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensee: means a licensed grain dealer or licensed warehouse operator. See Iowa Code 203D.1
  • Licensee: means a person licensed under section 200. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • 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 any cattle, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, or equine animals used for food or in the production of food, fiber, feed, or other agricultural-based consumer products; wild or domesticated game; or other nonplant life, except such term shall not include aquatic animals or bees for the production of food, fiber, feed, or other agricultural-based consumer products. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Local governmental entity: means any political subdivision, or any state authority which is not the general assembly or under the direction of a principal central department as enumerated in section 7E. See Iowa Code 200.22
  • Local governmental entity: includes but is not limited to a county, special district, township, or city as provided in Title IX of this Code. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Local legislation: means any ordinance, motion, resolution, amendment, regulation, or rule adopted by a local governmental entity. See Iowa Code 200.22
  • Local legislation: means any ordinance, motion, resolution, amendment, regulation, or rule adopted by a local governmental entity. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Loss: means the amount of a claim held by a seller or depositor against a grain dealer or warehouse operator which has not been recovered through other legal and equitable remedies including the liquidation of assets. See Iowa Code 203D.1
  • Maintenance: means the provision of shelter, food, water, or a nutritional formulation as required pursuant to chapter 717. See Iowa Code 169C.1
  • Market development: means research, education, and other programs directed at better and more efficient production, marketing, and utilization of pork; public relations and other promotion techniques for the maintenance of existing markets for pork, including but not limited to contributions to organizations working toward the purposes of this subsection; development of new or larger markets for pork both domestic and foreign, including but not limited to public relations and other promotion techniques; and the adoption, prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which bear on the flow of pork in commercial channels. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Market development: means to engage in research and educational programs directed toward better and more efficient utilization of corn; to provide methods and means, including but not limited to, public relations and other promotion techniques for the maintenance of present markets; to provide for the development of new or larger domestic and foreign markets; and to provide for the prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which obstruct the free flow of corn. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Market development: means to engage in research and educational programs directed toward better and more efficient production and utilization of soybeans; to provide methods and means, including but not limited to, public relations and other promotion techniques for the maintenance of present markets; to provide for the development of new or larger domestic and foreign markets; and to provide for the prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which obstruct the free flow of soybeans. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Market development: means research and education programs to provide better and more efficient production, marketing, and utilization of turkey and turkey products produced for resale. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Marketed in this state: refers to a sale of corn to a first purchaser who is a resident of or doing business in this state where actual delivery of the corn occurs in this state. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Marketed in this state: refers to a sale of soybeans to a first purchaser who is a resident of or doing business in this state where actual delivery of the soybeans occurs in this state. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Marketing year: means the twelve-month period beginning the first day of September and ending on the following thirty-first day of August. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" and the abbreviation "A. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • National assessment: means the assessment on soybeans collected pursuant to 7 U. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • National organic program: means the program administered by the United States department of agriculture pursuant to 7 C. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Net market price: means the sales price received by a producer for soybeans after adjustments for any premium or discount based on grading or quality factors. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Nuisance: means public or private nuisance as defined by statute or by the common law. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Nuisance: means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law. See Iowa Code 172D.1
  • Nuisance action or proceeding: means an action, claim or proceeding brought at law, in equity, or as an administrative proceeding, which is based on nuisance. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Nutrition education: means activities intended to broaden the understanding of sound nutritional principles including the role of milk in a balanced diet. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • official sample: means any sample of commercial fertilizer taken by the secretary or the secretary's agent. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Organic: means a labeling term that refers to an agricultural product produced in accordance with this chapter. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Organic agricultural product: means the same as defined in section 190C. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Owner: means the person holding record title to real estate, and includes both legal and equitable interest under recorded real estate contracts. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • 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
  • 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
  • percentage: means percentage by weight. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • Permit holder: is a person who has obtained a permit from the department as required under sections 199. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • 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: includes individual, partnership, association, firm, and corporation. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • person: shall mean individuals, corporations, partnerships, trusts, associations, cooperatives, and any and all other business units. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Porcine animals: means swine raised for slaughter, feeder pigs, or swine seedstock. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Pork: means porcine animals and all parts of porcine animals. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Pork Promotion Act: means the federal Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act of 1985. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Processing: means cooling, baking, curing, heating, drying, mixing, grinding, churning, separating, extracting, slaughtering, cutting, fermenting, distilling, eviscerating, preserving, dehydrating, freezing, chilling, or otherwise manufacturing, and includes the packaging, canning, jarring, or otherwise enclosing in a food container. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Processor: means the first purchaser of eggs from a producer, or a person who both produces and processes eggs. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • Processor: means a person who purchases more than one thousand turkeys for slaughter each year. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Producer: means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing porcine animals in the previous calendar year. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Producer: means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, or association engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing in their name at least two hundred fifty bushels of corn in the previous marketing year. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Producer: means any person who owns, or contracts for the care of, thirty thousand or more layer-type chickens raised in this state. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • Producer: means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing in the person's name at least two hundred fifty bushels of soybeans in the previous year. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Producer: means a person who engages in the business of growing or producing food, fiber, feed, or other agricultural-based consumer products. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Producer: means a person who produces milk from cows and thereafter sells the same as milk. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • Producer: means a person residing within this state or outside this state who does business in this state and who raises more than five thousand turkeys for slaughter each year. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Promotion: means actions including but not limited to advertising, sales, promotion, and publicity to advance the image and sales of and demand for milk. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • Promotional order: means an order pursuant to this chapter which provides for the administration of this chapter and provides for a state assessment necessary to provide for its administration. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Promotional order: means an order administered pursuant to this chapter which establishes a program for the promotion, research, and market development of soybeans and provides for a state assessment to finance the program. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • property: includes personal and real property. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • public funds: means public funds as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 12B.10C
  • purchase: includes but is not limited to the pledge or other encumbrance of soybeans as security for a loan extended under a federal price support loan program. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Purchaser: means a person to whom a dry animal nutrient product is distributed. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • Purchaser: means a person who resells eggs purchased from a producer or offers for sale a product produced from the eggs for any purpose. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • Purity: means the pure seed percentage by weight, exclusive of inert matter and of other agricultural or weed seed which are distinguishable by their appearance from the crop seed in question. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 183A.1
  • Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 184.1
  • Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • Qualified financial institution: means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Qualified producer: means a producer who resides within this state. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Regional organic association: means a corporation authorized pursuant to section 190C. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Registered seed technologist: is a person who has attained registered membership in the society of commercial seed technologists through qualifying tests and experience as required by this society. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • 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.
  • Research: means studies testing the effectiveness of market development and promotion efforts, studies relating to the nutritional value of milk and to product utilization, and other related efforts to expand demand for milk. See Iowa Code 179.1
  • Retailer: includes a food establishment as defined in section 137F. See Iowa Code 190C.1
  • Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
  • sale: includes exchange. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture who is the director of the department of agriculture and land stewardship. See Iowa Code 190C.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
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Signature: includes an electronic signature as defined in section 554D. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • soil conditioner: is a ny substance which when added to the soil or applied to plants will produce a favorable growth, yield or quality of crop or soil flora or fauna or other soil characteristics, other than a fertilizer, recognized pesticide, unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures or calcium and magnesium carbonate materials used primarily for correcting soil acidity. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Soybeans: means and includes all kinds of varieties of soybeans marketed or sold as soybeans by the producer. See Iowa Code 185.1
  • specialty fertilizer: is a commercial fertilizer distributed primarily for nonfarm use, such as home gardens, lawns, shrubbery, flowers, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries, greenhouses and nurseries and may include commercial fertilizers used for research or experimental purposes. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • 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 assessment: means a state excise tax on each bushel of corn marketed in this state which is imposed as part of a promotional order to administer this chapter. See Iowa Code 185C.1
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Iowa Code 200.3
  • Ton: means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Iowa Code 200A.3
  • Turkey: means a turkey raised for slaughter. See Iowa Code 184A.1
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • variety: means a cultivated subdivision of a kind of plant that may be characterized by growth habits, fruit, seed, or other characteristics, by which it can be differentiated from other plants of the same kind. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Vegetable seed: means the crops which are grown in gardens or truck farms and are generally sold under the name of vegetable or herb seed in this state. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • Weed seed: means the seed of all plants listed as weeds in this chapter or listed as weeds in the rules of the department or commonly recognized as weeds in this state. See Iowa Code 199.1
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1