202A.1 - DEFINITIONS.
202A.1 DEFINITIONS.
1. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land
stewardship.
2. "Livestock" means live cattle, swine, or sheep.
3. "Packer" means a person who is engaged in the business of
slaughtering livestock or receiving, purchasing, or soliciting
livestock for slaughter, if the meat products of the slaughtered
livestock which are directly or indirectly to be offered for resale
or for public consumption have a total annual value of ten million
dollars or more. As used in this chapter, "packer" includes an
agent of the packer engaged in buying or soliciting livestock for
slaughter on behalf of a packer. Section History: Recent Form
99 Acts, ch 88, §2, 13; 99 Acts, ch 208, §49, 74; 2002 Acts, ch
1119, §144