The following terms are defined for use in this chapter.
1. “Advertise” means to present a commercial message in any medium, including (but not limited to) print, radio, television, sign, display, label, tag, or articulation.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1)
2. “Animal” means a nonhuman vertebrate.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717B.1)
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.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 162.2)
4. “At large” means off the premises of the owner and not under the control of a competent person, restrained within a motor vehicle, or housed in a veterinary hospital or kennel.
5. “Business” means any enterprise relating to any of the following:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1)
A. The sale or offer for sale of goods or services.
B. A recruitment for employment or membership in an organization.
C. A solicitation to make an investment.
D. An amusement or entertainment activity.
6. “Cat” includes both male and female cats, whether altered or not.
7. “Commercial establishment” means an animal shelter, boarding kennel, commercial breeder, commercial kennel, dealer, pet shop, pound, public auction, or research facility.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717.B1
8. “Dog” includes both male and female dogs, whether altered or not.
9. “Fair” means any of the following:
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1)
A. The annual fair and exposition held by the Iowa State Fair Board pursuant to Chapter 173 of the Code of Iowa or any fair event conducted by a fair under the provisions of Chapter 174 of the Code of Iowa.
B. An exhibition of agricultural or manufactured products.
C. An event for operation of amusement rides or devices or concession booths.
10. “Game” means a “game of chance” or “game of skill” as defined in Section 99B.1 of the Code of Iowa.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1)
11. “Injury” means an animal’s disfigurement; the impairment of an animal’s health; or an impairment to the functioning of an animal’s limb or organ, or the loss of an animal’s limb or organ.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717.B1)
12. “Kennel” means the keeping of any dogs, cats, or other household pets of mammal group regardless of number, for sale, breeding, boarding or treatment purposes, except in an animal hospital, veterinary clinic, or pet shop, as may be permitted by law, or the keeping of more than one dog or cat, on vacant property or on property used for business or commercial purposes. The keeping of not more than three dogs and three cats in a residential district shall not be deemed to be a kennel, unless kept for sale, breeding, boarding or treatment purposes. Any person keeping more than three dogs and three cats in a residential district on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, registered as required by ordinance, may continue to keep such dogs or cats during the pet’s lifetime.
13. “Livestock” means an animal belonging to the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine or porcine species, ostriches, rheas and emus; farm deer as defined in Section 170.1 of the Code of Iowa; or poultry.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717.1)
14. “Owner” means any person owning, keeping, sheltering, or harboring an animal.
15. “Pet” means a living dog, cat, or an animal normally maintained in a small tank or cage in or near a residence, including but not limited to a rabbit, gerbil, hamster, mouse, parrot, canary, mynah, finch, tropical fish, goldfish, snake, turtle, gecko, or iguana.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717E.1)
16. “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.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 162.2)
17. “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 the 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.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 162.2)
18. “Veterinarian” means a veterinarian licensed pursuant to Chapter 169 of the Code of Iowa who practices veterinary medicine in the State.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 717.B1)