172A.1  DEFINITIONS.
 When used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
 1.  "Agent" means a person engaged in the buying or soliciting
 in this state of livestock for slaughter exclusively on behalf of a
 dealer or broker.
 2.  "Animals" or "livestock" includes cattle, calves,
 swine, or sheep.
 3.  "Dealer" or "broker" means any person, other than an
 agent, who is engaged in this state in the business of slaughtering
 live animals or receiving, buying or soliciting live animals for
 slaughter, the meat products of which are directly or indirectly to
 be offered for resale or for public consumption.
 4.  "Person" means an individual, partnership, association or
 corporation, or any other business unit.
         Section History: Early Form

 [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 172A.1]
         Section History: Recent Form

 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 623
 Further definitions; see § 159.1