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Current as of January 02, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
The following definitions apply to this subpart:
(a) Administrator means the Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service, with power to redelegate, or any officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has been delegated or may hereafter be delegated to act in the Administrator's stead.
(b) Order means the Peanut Promotion, Research, and Information Order.
(c) Referendum agent or agent means the individual or individuals designated by the Secretary to conduct the referendum.
(d) Representative period means the period designated by the Secretary.
(e) Person means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other legal entity. For the purpose of this definition, the term “partnership” includes, but is not limited to:
(1) A husband and a wife who have title to, or leasehold interest in, a peanut farm as tenants in common, joint tenants, tenants by the entirety, or, under community property laws, as community property; and
(2) So-called “joint ventures” wherein one or more parties to an agreement, informal or otherwise, contributed land and others contributed capital, labor, management, or other services, or any variation of such contributions by two or more parties.
(f) Eligible producer means any person who is engaged in the production and sale of peanuts in the United States and who:
(1) Owns, or shares the ownership and risk of loss of, the crop. This does not include quota holders who do not share in the risk of loss of the crop;
(2) Rents peanut production facilities and equipment resulting in the ownership of all or a portion of the peanuts produced;
(3) Owns peanut production facilities and equipment but does not manage them and, as compensation, obtains the ownership of a portion of the peanuts produced; or
(4) Is a party in a landlord-tenant relationship or a divided ownership arrangement involving totally independent entities cooperating only to produce peanuts who share the risk of loss and receive a share of the peanuts produced. No other acquisition of legal title to peanuts shall be deemed to result in persons becoming eligible producers.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Code of Federal Regulations Title 7. Agriculture § 7.1216.101 Definitions - last updated January 02, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/cfr/title-7-agriculture/cfr-sect-7-1216-101/
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