Section 13-911 - Definitions. - Maryland Statutes

§ 13-911. Definitions.
 

(a)  In general.- In this part the following words have the meanings indicated. 

(b)  Farm products.- "Farm products" include food for consumption by humans or livestock, tobacco, shrubbery, flowers, plants, trees for replanting, seed, fertilizer, mulch, peat, sod, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, farm wood lot products, and fibers. 

(c)  Farm vehicle.- "Farm vehicle" means a vehicle that: 

(1) Is owned by a farmer; 

(2) Is used only in the farmer's farming business and about the farmer's farm home and in hauling farm products and the labor, supplies, equipment, and other materials necessary for the operation of the farm and farm home; and 

(3) Is not used to haul farm products previously acquired by the farmer for resale or to haul farm products for hire for another person who is not a farmer. 

(d)  Farmer.- "Farmer" means any person who: 

(1) Raises, grows, and produces farm products on a farm of at least 3 acres; or 

(2) Keeps at least 25 hives of bees for the pollination of orchards and farm crops and the commercial production of honey. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 661/2, §§ 3-806, 3-808; 1977, ch. 14, § 2; 1993, ch. 225; 1998, ch. 486; 2005, ch. 25, § 13.]