As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Banking organization" means any bank, trust company, savings bank, industrial bank, land bank, safe deposit company, or a private banker engaged in business in this state.
2. "Business association" means any corporation other than a public corporation, joint stock company, business trust, partnership, or any association for business purposes of two or more individuals.
3. "Financial organization" means any savings and loan association, building and loan association, credit union, co-operative bank or investment company, engaged in business in this state.
4. "Holder" means any person in possession of property subject to this chapter belonging to another, or who is trustee in case of a trust, or is indebted to another on an obligation subject to this chapter.
5. "Life insurance corporation" means any association or corporation transacting within this state the business of insurance on the lives of persons or insurance appertaining thereto, including, but not by way of limitation, endowments and annuities.
6. "Money order" includes an express money order and a personal money order, on which the remitter is the purchaser. "Money order" does not include a bank money order or any other instrument sold by a banking or financial organization if the seller has obtained the name and address of the payee.
7. "Owner" means a depositor in case of a deposit, a beneficiary in case of a trust, a creditor, claimant, or payee in case of other choses in action, or any person having a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this chapter, or that person's legal representative.
8. "Person" means any individual, business association, government or political subdivision, public corporation, public authority, estate, trust, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal or commercial entity.
9. "Utility" means any person who owns or operates within this state, for public use, any plant, equipment, property, franchise, or license for the transmission of communications or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery, or furnishing of electricity, water, steam, or gas.
[C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 556.1]
95 Acts, ch 34, §1
Iowa General Assembly
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