200.3 - DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND TERMS.

        200.3  DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND TERMS.
         When used in this chapter:
         1.  "Ammonium nitrate" means a compound that is chiefly
      composed of ammonium salt of nitric acid which contains not less than
      thirty-three percent nitrogen, one-half of which is in the ammonium
      form and one-half in the nitrate form.
         2.  The term "anhydrous ammonia" means the compound formed by
      the combination of two gaseous elements, nitrogen and hydrogen, in
      the proportion of one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen by
      volume.
         3.  "Anhydrous ammonia plant" means a facility used for the
      manufacture or distribution of the compound formed by the combination
      of two gaseous elements, nitrogen and hydrogen, in the proportion of
      one part nitrogen to three parts hydrogen by volume.
         4.  The term "brand" means a term, design, or trademark used
      in connection with one or several grades of commercial fertilizer.
         5.  The term "bulk fertilizer" shall mean commercial
      fertilizer delivered to the purchaser in the solid, liquid, or
      gaseous state, in a nonpackaged form to which a label cannot be
      attached.
         6.  The term "commercial fertilizer" includes fertilizer and
      fertilizer materials and fertilizer-pesticide mixtures.
         7.  The term "distributor" means any person who imports,
      consigns, manufactures, produces, compounds, mixes, or blends
      commercial fertilizer, or who offers for sale, sells, barters, or
      otherwise distributes commercial fertilizer in this state.
         8.  "Established date of operation" means the date on which an
      anhydrous ammonia plant commenced operating.  If the physical
      facilities of the plant are subsequently expanded, the established
      date of operation for each expansion is deemed to be a separate and
      independent "established date of operation" established as of the
      date of commencement of the expanded operations.  The commencement of
      expanded operations does not divest the plant of a previously
      established date of operation.
         9.  "Established date of ownership" means the date of the
      recording of an appropriate instrument of title establishing the
      ownership of real estate.
         10.  The term "fertilizer" means any substance containing one
      or more recognized plant nutrient which is used for its plant
      nutrient content and which is designed for use and claimed to have
      value in promoting plant growth except unmanipulated animal and
      vegetable manures or calcium and magnesium carbonate materials used
      primarily for correcting soil acidity.
         11.  The term "fertilizer material" means any substance used
      as a fertilizer or for compounding a fertilizer containing one or
      more of the recognized plant nutrients which are used for promoting
      plant growth or altering plant composition.
         12.  The term "grade" means the percentages of total nitrogen,
      available phosphorus or P2O5 or both, and soluble potassium
      or K2O or both stated in whole numbers in same terms, order and
      percentages as in the "guaranteed analysis".
         13.  Guaranteed analysis:
         a. (1)  The term "guaranteed analysis" shall mean the
      minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed and reported as Total
      Nitrogen (N), Available Phosphorus (P) or P2O5 or both,
      Soluble Potassium (K) or K2O or both and in the following form:
                  Total Nitrogen (N)       ... percent
                  Available Phosphorus (P) or
                   P2O5 or both  ... percent
                  Soluble Potassium (K) or
                   K2O or both        ... percent


         (2)  Registration and guarantee of water soluble phosphorus (P) or
      (P2O5) shall be permitted.
         b.  The term "guaranteed analysis", in the form specified
      in paragraph "a", includes:
         (1)  For unacidulated mineral phosphatic materials and basic slag,
      both total and available phosphorus or P2O5 or both and the
      degree of fineness.  For bone tankage and other organic phosphatic
      materials, total phosphorus or P2O5 or both.
         (2)  When any additional plant nutrient elements contained in a
      substance as identified in subsection 10 of this section, are claimed
      in writing, they shall be identified in the guarantee, expressed as
      the element, and shall be subject to inspection and analysis in
      accordance with the methods and regulations that may be prescribed by
      the association of official agricultural chemists.
         14.  "Licensee" means a person licensed under section 200.4.
         15.  "Nuisance" means public or private nuisance as defined by
      statute or by the common law.
         16.  "Nuisance action or proceeding" means an action, claim or
      proceeding brought at law, in equity, or as an administrative
      proceeding, which is based on nuisance.
         17.  The term "official sample" means any sample of commercial
      fertilizer taken by the secretary or the secretary's agent.
         18.  "Organic agricultural product" means the same as defined
      in section 190C.1.
         19.  "Owner" means the person holding record title to real
      estate, and includes both legal and equitable interest under recorded
      real estate contracts.
         20.  The term "percent or percentage" means the percentage by
      weight.
         21.  The term "person" includes individual, partnership,
      association, firm, and corporation.
         22.  The term "pesticide" as used in this chapter means
      insecticides, miticides, nemacides, fungicides, herbicides and any
      other substance used in pest control.
         23.  "Rule" means a rule as defined in section 17A.2 which
      materially affects the operation of an anhydrous ammonia plant.  The
      term includes a rule which was in effect prior to July 1, 1984.
         24.  The term "sell" or "sale" includes exchange.
         25.  A "soil conditioner" is any substance which when added to
      the soil or applied to plants will produce a favorable growth, yield
      or quality of crop or soil flora or fauna or other soil
      characteristics, other than a fertilizer, recognized pesticide,
      unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures or calcium and magnesium
      carbonate materials used primarily for correcting soil acidity.
         26.  A "specialty fertilizer" is a commercial fertilizer
      distributed primarily for nonfarm use, such as home gardens, lawns,
      shrubbery, flowers, golf courses, municipal parks, cemeteries,
      greenhouses and nurseries and may include commercial fertilizers used
      for research or experimental purposes.
         27.  The term "ton" means a net weight of two thousand pounds
      avoirdupois.
         28.  The term "unmanipulated manures" means any substances
      composed primarily of excreta, plant remains, or mixtures of such
      substances which have not been processed in any manner.
         29.  Words importing the singular number may extend and be applied
      to several persons or things, and words importing the plural number
      may include the singular.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 200.3] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         84 Acts, ch 1269, § 1; 2000 Acts, ch 1082, §1; 2005 Acts, ch 73,
      §1; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §263
         Referred to in § 161.2, 200.5, 200.10, 200.12, 202.1, 455B.602,
      570A.1, 579B.1
         Further definitions, see § 189.1