182.1 - DEFINITIONS.
182.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Assessment" means an excise tax on the sale of sheep or
wool as provided in this chapter.
2. "Board" means the Iowa sheep and wool promotion board
established pursuant to section 182.5.
3. "Concentration point" means a location or facility where
sheep are assembled for purposes of sale or resale for feeding,
breeding, or slaughtering, and where contact may occur between groups
of sheep from various sources. "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.
4. "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.
5. "Eligible voter" means a person who has been a producer
for the three hundred sixty-five days preceding the date of a
referendum conducted pursuant to section 182.4.
6. "First purchaser" means a person who purchases sheep or
wool from a producer.
7. "Producer" means a person who is actively engaged within
this state in the business of producing or marketing sheep or wool
and who receives income from the production of sheep or wool.
8. "Sale" or "sold" means a transaction in which the
property in or to sheep or wool is transferred from the producer to a
first purchaser for full or partial consideration.
9. "Sheep" means an animal of the ovine species, regardless
of age, produced or marketed in this state.
10. "Wool" means the natural fiber produced by sheep. &nb
Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 207, §1; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 631; 99 Acts, ch 50,
§1--4
Further definitions; see § 159.1