Terms Used In Minnesota Statutes > Chapter 298 > AGGLOMERATING FACILITIES PRODUCTION TAX

• Agglomerates: means the merchantable iron ore aggregates which are produced by agglomeration. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
• City: includes any home rule charter city, statutory city, or any city however organized. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of revenue of the state of Minnesota, except that when used in sections 298. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
• Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed; and "year" is equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Semitaconite: means altered iron formation, altered taconite, ferruginous chert, or ferruginous slate which has been oxidized and partially leached and in which the iron oxide is so finely disseminated that substantially all of the iron-bearing particles of merchantable grade are smaller than 20 mesh and which is not merchantable as iron ore in its natural state, and which cannot be made merchantable by simple methods of beneficiation involving only crushing, screening, washing, jigging, heavy media separation, spirals, cyclones, drying, or any combination thereof. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
• state: extends to and includes the District of Columbia and the several territories. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44
• Taconite: means ferruginous chert or ferruginous slate in the form of compact, siliceous rock, in which the iron oxide is so finely disseminated that substantially all of the iron-bearing particles of merchantable grade are smaller than 20 mesh and which is not merchantable as iron ore in its natural state, and which cannot be made merchantable by simple methods of beneficiation involving only crushing, screening, washing, jigging, drying, or any combination thereof. See Minnesota Statutes 298.001
• Tax: means any fee, charge, exaction, or assessment imposed by a governmental entity on an individual, person, entity, transaction, good, service, or other thing. See Minnesota Statutes 645.44