Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 40-30-1-.01 - Definitions
The following words or terms shall have the meaning set forth herein when used in these rules and regulations.
(1) "Act" means the laws relating to Dealers
in Agricultural Products, Article I of O.C.G.A. 2-9.
(2) The term "Commissioner" as used in these
regulations means the Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture or his designated
agent.
(3) The term "Director"
shall mean the officer who has been lawfully commissioned, appointed and
delegated the authority by the Commissioner to administer the Act.
(4) "Agricultural products" includes fruits,
vegetables, pecans, and cotton but does not include dairy products, tobacco,
grains, eggs, and other basic farm crops.
(5) "Dealer in agricultural products" means
any person, association, itinerant dealer, partnership, or corporation engaged
in the business of buying, receiving, selling, exchanging, negotiating, or
soliciting the sale, resale, exchange, or transfer of any agricultural products
purchased from the producer or his or her agent or representative or received
on consignment from the producer or his or her agent or representative or
received to be handled on a net return basis from the producer. The term
"dealer in agricultural products" also includes any person buying, selling,
processing, or shelling pecan nuts, including any and every kind and variety of
pecan nuts.
(6) "Producer" means
any producer of agricultural products.
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