162.2 - DEFINITIONS. - Iowa Statutes

162.2 DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter, except as otherwise expressly provided: 1. "Adequate feed" means the provision at suitable intervals of not more than twenty-four hours or longer if the dietary requirements of the species so require, of a quantity of wholesome foodstuff suitable for the species and age, sufficient to maintain a reasonable level of nutrition in each animal. The foodstuff shall be served in a clean receptacle, dish or container. 2. "Adequate water" means reasonable access to a supply of clean, fresh, potable water provided in a sanitary manner or provided at suitable intervals for the species and not to exceed twenty-four hours at any interval. 3. "Animal shelter" means a facility which is used to house or contain dogs or cats, or both, and which is owned, operated, or maintained by an incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of such animals. 4. "Animal warden" means any person employed, contracted, or appointed by the state, municipal corporation, or any political subdivision of the state, for the purpose of aiding in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter or any other law or ordinance relating to the licensing of animals, control of animals or seizure and impoundment of animals and includes any peace officer, animal control officer, or other employee whose duties in whole or in part include assignments which involve the seizure or taking into custody of any animal. 5. "Boarding kennel" means a place or establishment other than a pound or animal shelter where dogs or cats not owned by the proprietor are sheltered, fed, and watered in return for a consideration. 6. "Commercial breeder" means a person, engaged in the business of breeding dogs or cats, who sells, exchanges, or leases dogs or cats in return for consideration, or who offers to do so, whether or not the animals are raised, trained, groomed, or boarded by the person. A person who owns or harbors three or fewer breeding males or females is not a commercial breeder. However, a person who breeds or harbors more than three breeding male or female greyhounds for the purposes of using them for pari-mutuel racing shall be considered a commercial breeder irrespective of whether the person sells, leases, or exchanges the greyhounds for consideration or offers to do so. 7. "Commercial kennel" means a kennel which performs grooming, boarding, or training services for dogs or cats in return for a consideration. 8. "Dealer" means any person who is engaged in the business of buying for resale or selling or exchanging dogs or cats, or both, as a principal or agent, or who claims to be so engaged. 9. "Euthanasia" means the humane destruction of an animal accomplished by a method that involves instantaneous unconsciousness and immediate death or by a method that involves anesthesia, produced by an agent which causes painless loss of consciousness, and death during the loss of consciousness. 10. "Housing facilities" means any room, building or area used to contain a primary enclosure or enclosures. 11. "Person" means person as defined in chapter 4. 12. "Pet shop" means an establishment where a dog, cat, rabbit, rodent, nonhuman primate, fish other than live bait, bird, or other vertebrate animal is bought, sold, exchanged, or offered for sale. However, a pet shop does not include an establishment if one of the following applies: a. The establishment receives less than five hundred dollars from the sale or exchange of vertebrate animals during a twelve-month period. b. The establishment sells or exchanges less than six animals during a twelve-month period. 13. "Pound" or "dog pound" means a facility for the prevention of cruelty to animals operated by the state, a municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state for the purpose of impounding or harboring seized stray, homeless, abandoned or unwanted dogs, cats or other animals; or a facility operated for such a purpose under a contract with any municipal corporation or incorporated society. 14. "Primary enclosure" means any structure used to immediately restrict an animal to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, cage or compartment. 15. "Public auction" means any place or location where dogs or cats, or both, are sold at auction to the highest bidder regardless of whether the dogs or cats are offered as individuals, as a group, or by weight. 16. "Research facility" means any school or college of medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, or osteopathic medicine, or hospital, diagnostic or research laboratories, or other educational or scientific establishment situated in this state 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. 17. "Vertebrate animal" means those vertebrate animals other than members of the equine, bovine, ovine, and porcine species, and ostriches, rheas, or emus.          Section History: Early Form [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 162.2]          Section History: Recent Form 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 611; 88 Acts, ch 1186, § 1--4; 92 Acts, ch 1094, § 1; 92 Acts, ch 1212, § 6; 95 Acts, ch 43, § 4; 2005 Acts, ch 3, §40; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §70 Referred to in § 162.20, 165B.5, 169.5, 351.37, 717.1A, 717.2, 717.5, 717A.1, 717B.2, 717B.3, 717B.3A, 717B.4, 717B.8, 717D.3, 717F.2, 717F.7, 717F.10 Further definitions, see § 159.1