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Iowa Code § 189A.3

License — fee

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Current — January 1, 2026
As of January 1, 2012
1. No person shall operate an establishment other than a food establishment as defined in section 137F.1 without first obtaining a license from the department. The license fee for each establishment per year or any part of a year shall be:
1. a. A person shall not operate an establishment without first obtaining a license from the department.
b. Paragraph “a” does not apply to any of the following:
(1) A food establishment as defined in section 137F.1.
(2) A home food processing establishment as defined in section 137D.1.
(3) A person who slaughters, processes, or prepares livestock or poultry of the person’s own raising, exclusively for the person’s household, nonpaying guests, or nonpaying employees.
2. a. The license fee for each establishment shall be as follows:
a. For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise prepared not exceeding twenty thousand pounds per year for sale, resale, or custom, twenty-five dollars.
(1) For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise prepared not exceeding twenty thousand pounds per year for sale, resale, or custom, fifty dollars.
b. For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise prepared in excess of twenty thousand pounds per year for sale, resale, or custom, fifty dollars.
(2) For all meat and poultry slaughtered or otherwise prepared in excess of twenty thousand pounds per year for sale, resale, or custom, one hundred dollars.
b. A license fee collected by the department shall be retained by the department as appropriated receipts for administration of this chapter.
3. a. A license shall expire on July 1 of each odd-numbered year.
2. The funds shall be deposited with the department. The license year shall be from July 1 to June 30. Applications for licenses shall be in writing on forms prescribed by the department.
b. An application for a license shall be in writing on a form prescribed by the department.
3. It is the objective of this chapter to provide for meat and poultry products inspection programs that will impose and enforce requirements with respect to intrastate operations and commerce that are at least equal to those imposed and enforced under the federal Meat Inspection Act and the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act with respect to operations and transactions in interstate commerce; and the secretary is directed to administer this chapter so as to accomplish this purpose. A director of the meat and poultry inspection service shall be designated as the secretary’s delegate to be the appropriate state official to cooperate with the secretary of agriculture of the United States in administration of this chapter.
98 Acts, ch 1162, §26, 30; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §263
98 Acts, ch 1162, §26, 30; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §263; 2022 Acts, ch 1016, §1; 2025 Acts, ch 134, §41
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