Code of Federal Regulations Title 7. Agriculture § 7.900.401 Definitions

(a) Act means Public Act No. 10, 73d Congress (48 Stat. 31), as amended, and as reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 246), as amended (7 U.S.C. 601–674).

(b) Secretary means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, or any officer or employee of the Department to whom authority has heretofore been delegated, or to whom authority may hereafter be delegated, to act in his stead;  and Department means the United States Department of Agriculture.

(c) 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 his stead.

(d) Order means the marketing order (including an amendatory order) with respect to which the Secretary has directed that a referendum be conducted.

(e) Referendum agent means the individual or individuals designated by the Secretary to conduct the referendum.

(f) Representative period means the period designated by the Secretary pursuant to section 8c of the act (7 U.S.C. 608c).

(g) Person means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other business unit. For the purpose of this definition, the term partnership includes (1) a husband and wife who have title to, or leasehold interest in, land 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 the agreement, informal or otherwise, contributed capital and others contribute labor, management, equipment, or other services, or any variation of such contributions by two or more parties, so that it results in the growing of the commodity for market and the authority to transfer title to the commodity so produced.

(h) Producer means any person defined as a producer in the order who:  (1) Owns and farms land, resulting in his ownership of the commodity produced thereon;  (2) Rents and farms land, resulting in his ownership of all or a portion of the commodity produced thereon;  or (3) Owns land which he does not farm and, as rental for such land, obtains the ownership of a portion of the commodity produced thereon. Ownership of, or leasehold interest in, land and the acquisition, in any manner other than as hereinbefore set forth, of legal title to the commodity grown thereon shall not be deemed to result in such owners or lessees becoming producers.