101B.2 - DEFINITIONS.
101B.2 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Agent" means a distributor as defined in section 453A.1
authorized by the department of revenue to purchase and affix stamps
pursuant to section 453A.10.
2. "Cigarette" means cigarette as defined in section 453A.1.
3. "Department" means the department of public safety.
4. "Manufacturer" means any of the following:
a. An entity that manufactures or otherwise produces
cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced,
anywhere, which cigarettes the manufacturer intends to be sold in
this state, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United
States through an importer.
b. The first purchaser of cigarettes anywhere, that intends
to resell in the United States, cigarettes manufactured or produced
anywhere, that the original manufacturer did not intend to be sold in
the United States.
c. An entity that becomes a successor of an entity described
in paragraph "a" or "b".
5. "Quality control and quality assurance program" means the
laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias,
systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and
equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the
repeatability testing, and which program ensures that the testing
repeatability remains within the required repeatability values
specified in section 101B.4.
6. "Repeatability" means the range of values within which the
repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will
fall ninety-five percent of the time.
7. "Retailer" means retailer as defined in section 453A.1.
8. "Sale" means any transfer of title or possession, exchange
or barter, in any manner or by any means or any agreement. In
addition to cash and credit sales, the giving of cigarettes as a
sample, prize, or gift or the exchanging of cigarettes for any
consideration other than money is considered a sale.
9. "Sell" means to sell, or to offer or agree to sell.
10. "Wholesaler" means wholesaler as defined in section
453A.1. Section History: Recent Form
2007 Acts, ch 166, §2