Definitions

As used in this chapter: 1. “Assessment” means an excise tax on the sale of porcine animals as provided in this chapter. 2. “First purchaser” means a person who buys porcine animals from a seller in the first instance. 3. “Iowa pork producers council” or “council” means the body established under section 183A.2. 4. “Market development” means research, education, and other programs directed at better and more efficient production, marketing, and utilization of pork; public relations and other promotion techniques for the maintenance of existing markets for pork, including but not limited to contributions to organizations working toward the purposes of this subsection; development of new or larger markets for pork both domestic and foreign, including but not limited to public relations and other promotion techniques; and the adoption, prevention, modification, or elimination of trade barriers which bear on the flow of pork in commercial channels. 5. “Porcine animals” means swine raised for slaughter, feeder pigs, or swine seedstock. 6. “Pork” means porcine animals and all parts of porcine animals. 7. “Pork Promotion Act” means the federal Pork Promotion, Research, and Consumer Information Act of 1985. 8. “Producer” means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing and marketing porcine animals in the previous calendar year. 9. “Qualified financial institution” means a bank or credit union as defined in section 12C.1.