As used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise:
1. "Assessment" means an excise tax on the sale of eggs as provided in this chapter.
2. "Council" means the Iowa egg council.
3. "Egg by-product" means a product produced in whole or in part from eggs or spent fowl.
4. "Eggs" means eggs produced from a layer-type chicken. "Eggs" includes shell eggs or eggs broken for further processing, but does not include fertile eggs that are incubated, hatched, or used for vaccines.
5. "Market development" means research and educational programs which are directed toward:
a. Better and more efficient production, marketing, and utilization of eggs or egg by- products produced for resale.
b. Better methods, including, but not limited to, public relations and other promotion techniques, for the maintenance of present markets and for the development of new or larger domestic or foreign markets and for the sale of eggs or egg by-products.
c. Prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which obstruct the free flow of eggs or egg by-products to market.
6. "Processor" means the first purchaser of eggs from a producer, or a person who both produces and processes eggs.
7. "Producer" means any person who owns, or contracts for the care of, thirty thousand or more layer-type chickens raised in this state.
8. "Purchaser" means a person who resells eggs purchased from a producer or offers for sale a product produced from the eggs for any purpose.
9. "Qualified financial institution" means a bank, credit union, or savings and loan as defined in section 12C.1.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 196A.1]
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 641; 94 Acts, ch 1146, §39; 95 Acts, ch 7, § 4
Further definitions, see § 189.1
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