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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
(a) As used in this act:
(i) “Board” means the state board of agriculture;
(ii) “Director” means the director of the department of agriculture for the state of Wyoming or his designated representative;
(iii) “Department” means the Wyoming department of agriculture;
(iv) Repealed by Laws 2009, ch. 90, § 3.
(v) “Grower” means anyone engaged in growing, or causing to be grown, wheat, on ten (10) acres or more in Wyoming including the owner and tenant jointly, a person, a partnership, association, corporation, cooperative, trust, sharecropper and any and all other business units, devices and arrangements;
(vi) “Handler” means any person engaged in the operation of buying, selling, shipping or distributing wheat grown in Wyoming which he has purchased or acquired from a grower or which he is shipping in behalf of a grower, whether the handler is located within or without Wyoming;
(vii) “Sell or sold” means a transaction wherein the title to wheat is transferred from the grower to the purchaser for a consideration, and includes any pledge or mortgage of wheat to any person or any agreement to acquire such property for a consideration;
(viii) “Ship” means to sell, transport, offer for transportation or ship wheat by any means whatsoever;
(ix) “Variety” means a type of wheat having similar characteristics, as, for example: Cheyenne, Marquis, Defiance, etc.;
(x) “Wheat” means and includes all varieties of wheat grown in Wyoming;
(xi) “Wheat marketing commission” means the control committee established pursuant to W.S. 11-38-102;
(xii) “This act” means W.S. 11-38-101 through 11-38-110.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Wyoming Statutes Title 11. Agriculture, Livestock and Other Animals § 11-38-101. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/wy/title-11-agriculture-livestock-and-other-animals/wy-st-sect-11-38-101/
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