3.2-1400 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-1400. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:

"Corn" means all corn sold except sugar corn, popcorn, and ornamental corn.

"Country buyer" means any person who buys corn from a producer.

"Exporter" means any person offering corn for export sale.

"Handler" means any processor, dealer, shipper, country buyer, exporter, orany other business entity that purchases corn from a producer. The term shallalso mean any person that buys, accepts for shipment, or otherwise acquiresproperty in corn from a producer, and includes a mortgagee, pledgee, lienor,or other person having a claim against the producer, when the actual orconstructive possession of corn is taken as part payment or in satisfactionof such mortgage, pledge, lien, or claim. The term shall also mean a producerwho transports and sells his corn outside of the Commonwealth.

"Processor" means any person who changes the physical form orcharacteristic of corn for the purpose of preparing it for sale.

"Producer" means any person who grew corn in the Commonwealth and sold cornduring the preceding three years.

"Seedsman" means any person who offers corn seeds for sale.

(1980, c. 395, §§ 3.1-1032, 3.1-1043, 3.1-1044; 1985, c. 448; 1987, c. 476;2008, c. 860.)