145B.1  Definitions.

For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

1.  "Institution" shall mean any school or college of medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and osteopathy, or hospital, diagnostic or research laboratories, or other educational or scientific establishment situated in this state properly concerned with the investigation of, or instruction concerning the structure or function of living organisms, the cause, prevention, control or cure of diseases or abnormal conditions of human beings or animals.

2.  "Pound" shall mean any public or private agency, person, society, or corporation having custody of dogs seized or held under the authority of the state or any municipality or any political subdivision of the state.

Section History: Early form

  [C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 351A.1]

Section History: Recent form

  C93, § 145B.1

Internal References

  Referred to in § 162.20, 717.1A, 717.2, 717A.1, 717B.2, 717B.3, 717B.3A


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