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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
As used in KRS 260.775 to 260.845, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) “Board” means the Kentucky Milk Handlers Advisory Board;
(2) “Buy” means the receiving of milk from producers or their agents and paying for the milk on the basis of volume and test, or weight and test;
(3) “Director” means the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky, or his or her designee;
(4) “Handler” means any person who receives, bargains, brokers, or issues payment for or purchases milk from Kentucky permitted producers or the permitted producers' agents;
(5) “Laboratory” means the location or work area where milk analysis or testing takes place;
(6) “Laboratory license” means the license issued to a milk laboratory;
(7) “License to handle” means the license issued to a handler of milk;
(8) “License to sample and weigh” means the license issued to a milk sampler-weigher;
(9) “License to test” means the license issued to a milk tester;
(10) “Location” means each separate business place where permitted producers' milk or milk samples are received, stored, or processed, or where records pertaining to permitted producers' milk tests or payments are kept;
(11) “Milk” means the lacteal secretion and all of its components, obtained by the milking of animals;
(12) “Milk importer” means any person who delivers milk from producers outside the Commonwealth of Kentucky to processors in this state;
(13) “Milk processor” means any location where milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, bottled, or prepared for distribution by a milk handler;
(14) “Milk receiving station” means any location where producers' raw farm milk is collected, handled, or stored by a milk handler;
(15) “Permitted producer” means any producer issued a permit by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services to offer milk for sale;
(16) “Person” shall mean any individual, bargaining agent, broker, processor, milk plant operator, partnership, cooperation, concern, corporation, organization, company, firm, trustee, association, or agent thereof;
(17) “Producer” means any person keeping animals for the production of milk;
(18) “Record” means any information relating to milk weights, tests, transfers, purchases, receipts, and sales;
(19) “Sampler-weigher” means any person who samples, weighs, or measures milk from producers and submits these samples, weights, or measurements for use in determining the price paid for milk;
(20) “Test” means to analyze a milk sample to determine the amount of a milk component or to determine milk quality;
(21) “Tester” means any person who tests milk from permitted producers to determine its components or quality, or submits these tests for use in determining the price paid for milk;
(22) “Transfer station” means any location where farm bulk milk is transferred directly from one (1) tank to another and producers' milk samples are collected, handled, stored, and transported to a laboratory for analysis; and
(23) “Transfer station license” means the license issued to operate a transfer station.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kentucky Revised Statutes Title XXI. Agriculture and Animals § 260.775.Definitions for KRS 260.775 to 260.845 - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ky/title-xxi-agriculture-and-animals/ky-rev-st-sect-260-775/
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