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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Agricultural pilot program” means the industrial hemp program that is designed to research the growth, cultivation and marketing of industrial hemp, hemp seeds and hemp products as authorized by this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article.
2. “Crop” means any industrial hemp that is grown under a single industrial hemp license issued by the department.
3. “Grower” means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that propagates industrial hemp under this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article.
4. “Harvester” means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that is licensed by the department to harvest industrial hemp for a licensed grower.
5. “Hemp products” means all products made from industrial hemp, including cloth, cordage, fiber, fuel, grain, paint, paper, construction materials, plastics and by-products derived from sterile hemp seed or hemp seed oil. Hemp products excludes any product made to be ingested except food made from sterile hemp seed or hemp seed oil.
6. “Hemp seed” means any viable cannabis sativa L. seed that produces an industrial hemp plant that is subject to this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article.
7. “Industrial hemp” means the plant cannabis sativa L. and any part of such a plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than three-tenths percent on a dry-weight basis.
8. “Industrial hemp site” means the location in which a grower, harvester, transporter or processor possesses a crop, a harvested crop or hemp seed.
9. “License” means the authorization that is granted by the department to propagate, harvest, transport or process industrial hemp in this state under this article and rules and orders adopted by the director pursuant to this article.
10. “Licensee” means a grower, harvester, transporter or processor with a valid license.
11. “Processor” means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that is licensed by the department to receive industrial hemp for processing into hemp products or hemp seed.
12. “Transporter” means an individual, partnership, company or corporation that is licensed by the department to transport industrial hemp for a licensed grower to a processor.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Arizona Revised Statutes Title 3. Agriculture § 3-311. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/az/title-3-agriculture/az-rev-st-sect-3-311/
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