Rule 40-30-1-.01 - DefinitionsThe 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.Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. R. 40-30-1-.01
O.C.G.A. 2-9-1, et. seq.
Original Rule entitled "Definitions" adopted. F. Nov. 6, 2013; eff. Nov. 26, 2013.