§ 162.2

162.2 Definitions. 9 C.F.R. ch. 1 . 6. 'Authorization' means a state license, certificate of registration, or permit issued or renewed by the department to a commercial establishment as provided in section 162.2A. 7. '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. 8. '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 any number of breeding male or female greyhounds for the purposes of using them for pari-mutuel wagering at a racetrack as provided in chapter 99D shall be considered a commercial breeder irrespective of whether the person sells, leases, or exchanges the greyhounds for consideration or offers to do so. 9.

a racetrack as provided in chapter 99D shall be considered a commercial breeder irrespective of whether the person sells, leases, or exchanges the greyhounds for consideration or offers to do so. 9. 'Commercial establishment' or 'establishment' means an animal shelter, boarding kennel, commercial breeder, commercial kennel, dealer, pet shop, pound, public auction, or research facility. 10. 'Commercial kennel' means a kennel which performs grooming, boarding, or training services for dogs or cats in return for a consideration. 11. '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. 12. 'Department' means the department of agriculture and land stewardship. 13. '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. 14. 'Federal license' means a license issued by the United States department of agriculture to a person

agent which causes painless loss of consciousness, and death during the loss of consciousness. 14. 'Federal license' means a license issued by the United States department of agriculture to a person classified as a dealer or exhibitor pursuant to the federal Animal Welfare Act. 15. 'Federal licensee' means a person to whom a federal license as a dealer or exhibitor is issued. 16. 'Housing facilities' means any room, building, or area used to contain a primary enclosure or enclosures. 17. 'Permittee' means a commercial breeder, dealer, or public auction to whom a permit is issued by the department as a federal licensee pursuant to section 162.2A. 18. 'Person' means person as defined in chapter 4. 19. 'Pet shop' means a facility where vertebrate animals, excluding fish, not born and reared on the facility’s premises are bought, sold, exchanged, or offered for sale or exchange to the public, at retail. 'Pet shop' does not include a facility if one of the following applies: a. The facility receives less than one thousand dollars from the sale or exchange of vertebrate animals, excluding fish, during a twelve-month period. b.

e a facility if one of the following applies: a. The facility receives less than one thousand dollars from the sale or exchange of vertebrate animals, excluding fish, during a twelve-month period. b. The facility sells or exchanges less than twelve vertebrate animals, excluding fish, during a twelve-month period. 20. '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. 21. '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. 22. '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. 23. 'Registrant' means a pound, animal shelter, or research facility to whom a certificate of registration is issued

of whether the dogs or cats are offered as individuals, as a group, or by weight. 23. 'Registrant' means a pound, animal shelter, or research facility to whom a certificate of registration is issued by the department pursuant to section 162.2A. 24. '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. 25. 'State fiscal year' means the fiscal year described in section 3.12. 26. 'State licensee' means any of the following: a. A boarding kennel, commercial kennel, or pet shop to whom a state license is issued by the department pursuant to section 162.2A. b. A commercial breeder, dealer, or public auction to whom a state license is issued in lieu of a permit by the department pursuant to section 162.2A. 27.

y the department pursuant to section 162.2A. b. A commercial breeder, dealer, or public auction to whom a state license is issued in lieu of a permit by the department pursuant to section 162.2A. 27. 'Vertebrate animal' means those vertebrate animals other than members of the equine, bovine, ovine, and porcine species, and ostriches, rheas, or emus. [C75, 77, 79, 81, §162.2] 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; 2010 Acts, ch 1030, §2, 3, 29; 2023 Acts, ch 64, §24; 2023 Acts, ch 154, §1 Referred to in §162.11, 162.20, 165B.5, 169.5, 351.37, 351.45, 351.46, 717.1A, 717.2, 717.5, 717A.1, 717B.1, 717B.2, 717B.3, 717B.3A, 717B.4, 717B.8, 717D.3, 717F.2, 717F.7, 717F.10 Further definitions, see §159.1 Subsection 4 amended Subsection 19 stricken and rewritten