RS 3:1 Terms defined - Louisiana Statutes

TITLE 3.  AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

CHAPTER 1.  DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

§1.  Terms defined

As used in this Title, the terms defined in this Section have the meanings herein given to them, except where the context expressly indicates otherwise:

(1)  "Commissioner" means Commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry.

(2)  "Department" means Department of Agriculture and Forestry.

(3)  "Encumbrance" means any lien, privilege, judgment, mortgage, pledge, pawn, claim, charge, or any other encumbrance of like nature.

(4)  "State chemist", notwithstanding anything in this Title to the contrary, shall mean the director of the Louisiana agricultural experiment station of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center and also shall mean his designee, who shall be a member of the university's academic faculty and who, as determined by the state chemist, possesses a practical understanding of a body of knowledge that is sufficient to properly effect relevant analytical and microscopical work, research that may contribute to the knowledge of the properties, values, and proper use of commercial feeding stuffs, commercial fertilizers, and commercial insecticides and fungicides in Louisiana, and other analyses, determinations, responsibilities, duties, and obligations imposed on the state chemist in this Title.

Acts 1986, No. 581, §1, eff. July 2, 1986; Acts 2008, No. 920, §1, eff. July 14, 2008.