202A.1 - DEFINITIONS.



        202A.1  DEFINITIONS.
         1.  "Department" means the department of agriculture and land
      stewardship.
         2.  "Livestock" means live cattle, swine, or sheep.
         3.  "Packer" means a person who is engaged in the business of
      slaughtering livestock or receiving, purchasing, or soliciting
      livestock for slaughter, if the meat products of the slaughtered
      livestock which are directly or indirectly to be offered for resale
      or for public consumption have a total annual value of ten million
      dollars or more.  As used in this chapter, "packer" includes an
      agent of the packer engaged in buying or soliciting livestock for
      slaughter on behalf of a packer.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         99 Acts, ch 88, §2, 13; 99 Acts, ch 208, §49, 74; 2002 Acts, ch
      1119, §144