99A.1 - DEFINITIONS.
99A.1 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this chapter, the words, terms, and phrases
defined in this section shall have the meanings given them.
1. "Gambling devices" means gambling devices as defined in
section 725.9.
2. "Issuing authority" and "authority issuing the
license" mean and include the officer, board, bureau, department,
commission, or agency of the state, or of any of its municipalities,
by whom any license is issued and include the councils and governing
bodies of all municipalities.
3. "License" includes permits of every kind, nature and
description issued pursuant to any statute or ordinance for the
carrying on, or used in the carrying on, of any business, trade,
vocation, commercial enterprise or undertaking.
4. "Licensed business" means any business, trade, vocation,
commercial enterprise, or undertaking for which any license is
issued.
5. "Licensed premises" means the place or building, or the
room in a building of the licensed business, and all land adjacent
thereto and used in connection with and in the operation of a
licensed business, and all adjacent or contiguous rooms or buildings
operated or used in connection with the buildings of the licensed
business.
6. "Licensee" means any person to whom a license of any kind
is issued.
7. "Municipality" means any county, city, village, or
township.
8. "Person" means an individual, a partnership, an
association, corporation, or any other entity or organization. Section History: Early Form
[C54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 99A.1] Section History: Recent Form
2008 Acts, ch 1032, §106