As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Advertise" means to present a commercial message in any medium including but not limited to print, radio, television, sign, display, label, tag, or articulation.
2. "Bulk dry animal nutrient product" or "bulk product" means an animal nutrient product* delivered to a purchaser in bulk form to which a label cannot be attached.
3. "Department" means the department of agriculture and land stewardship.
4. "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, hold out for sale, exchange, barter, or supply or furnish a bulk dry animal nutrient product on a commercial basis.
5. "Distributor" means a person who distributes a bulk dry animal nutrient product.
6. "Dry animal nutrient product" means any unmanipulated animal manure composed primarily of animal excreta, if all of the following apply:
a. The manure contains one or more recognized plant nutrients which are used for their plant nutrient content.
b. The manure promotes plant growth.
c. The manure does not flow perceptibly under pressure.
d. The manure is not capable of being transported through a mechanical pumping device designed to move a liquid.
e. The constituent molecules of the manure do not flow freely among themselves but do show the tendency to separate under stress.
7. "Guaranteed analysis" means the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed and reported to the department pursuant to section 200A.6.
8. "Official sample" means any sample of a bulk dry animal nutrient product taken by the department according to procedures established by the department consistent with this chapter.
9. "Percent" or "percentage" means percentage by weight.
10. "Purchaser" means a person to whom a dry animal nutrient product is distributed.
11. "Ton" means a net weight of two thousand pounds avoirdupois.
98 Acts, ch 1145, §3
*"Dry animal nutrient product" probably intended; corrective legislation is pending
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