Section 75-56-3 - DefinitionsThe following words and phrases have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly describes and indicates a different meaning:
(a) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce, his agents or employees.(b) "State Chemist" means the Director of the Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory or his agents and employees.(c) "Antifreeze" or "engine coolant" means any substance or preparation intended to be diluted before use as the cooling medium in the cooling system of an automotive internal combustion engine to provide protection against freezing, overheating and corrosion of the cooling system, or any product intended to be diluted before use which is labeled to indicate or imply that it will prevent freezing or overheating of the cooling system of an automotive internal combustion engine. Unless otherwise stated, these terms include the terms "antifreeze-coolant," "antifreeze and summer coolant" and "summer coolant."(d) "Prediluted antifreeze" or "prediluted engine coolant" means any substance or preparation intended for use full strength as a cooling medium in the cooling system of an automotive internal combustion engine to provide protection against freezing, overheating and corrosion of the cooling system or any substance or preparation intended for use full strength which is labeled to indicate or imply that it will prevent overheating or freezing of the cooling system of an automotive internal combustion engine.(e) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, firm, company or corporation.(f) "Distribute" means to hold with intent to sell, offer for sale, to sell, barter or otherwise supply to the consumer.(g) "Package" means a sealed retail package, drum or other container designed for the sale of antifreeze or engine coolant or prediluted antifreeze or prediluted engine coolant directly to the consumer, or a container from which the antifreeze or engine coolant or prediluted antifreeze or prediluted engine coolant may be installed directly by the seller into the cooling system, but does not include shipping containers containing properly labeled inner containers.(h) "Label" means any display of written, printed or graphic matter on, or attached to, a package, or to the outside individual container or wrapper of the package of any product referred to in this chapter. Any display required on a container by this chapter shall be legible with conspicuous type upon a contrasting background.(i) "Labeling" means the labels and any other written, printed or graphic matter accompanying a package of any product referred to in this chapter.Laws, 1978, ch. 359, § 3; Laws, 1998, ch. 488, § 1, eff. 7/1/1998.