166A.1 - DEFINITIONS.
166A.1 DEFINITIONS.
1. "Accredited veterinarian" means a veterinarian who is
licensed by the state in which the veterinarian practices, is
approved by the department of agriculture and land stewardship or the
livestock sanitary authority of that state, and is accredited by the
United States department of agriculture.
2. "Approved stockyard or livestock market" means any place
where sheep are assembled for public auction, private sale, or on a
commission basis which is under state or federal supervision.
3. "Area" means one or more counties or portions thereof.
4. "Certificate of veterinary inspection" or
"certificate" means the same as defined in section 163.2.
5. "Certified scabies-free area" means an area in which all
sheep have been inspected by a representative of the Iowa department
of agriculture and land stewardship or of the animal disease
eradication division of the United States department of agriculture
and are found to be free of any evidence of scabies and such fact is
certified to by both agencies.
6. "Dealer" means any person who is engaged in the business
of buying for resale, selling, or exchanging sheep as a principal or
agent or who claims to be so engaged but does not include employees
of a dealer doing business in the name of such dealer or the owner or
operator of a farm who exchanges only sheep which have been kept by
that person solely for feeding or breeding purposes and does not
claim to be so engaged, or as a livestock auction market acting
strictly on a consignment basis.
7. "Division" means the animal disease eradication division
of the agricultural research service of the United States department
of agriculture.
8. "Infected animal" means an animal of the ovine species
which shows clinical evidence of scabies or in which the presence of
the scabies mite is demonstrated.
9. "Scabies" means a communicable skin disease caused by
infestation with mites of the species psoroptes, sarcoptes,
chorioptes or psorergates. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 166A.1] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 618; 2004 Acts, ch 1163, §22
Further definitions; see § 159.1