3.2-2300 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-2300. Definitions.

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

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

"Handler" means any processor, dealer, shipper, exporter, or any otherbusiness entity that purchases soybeans from a producer. The term shall alsomean any person buying, accepting for shipment, or otherwise acquiringproperty in soybeans from a producer, and shall include a mortgagee, pledgee,lienor, or other person, public or private, having a claim against theproducer, when the actual or constructive possession of such soybeans istaken as part payment or in satisfaction of such mortgage, pledge, lien, orclaim. The term shall also mean any producer that transports and sells hissoybeans out of state.

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

"Producer" means any person who grew soybeans in the Commonwealth and soldsoybeans during the preceding three years.

"Seedsman" means any person or firm who offers soybean seeds for sale.

(1970, c. 431, §§ 3.1-684.2, 3.1-684.13, 3.1-684.14; 1974, c. 297; 1978, c.540; 1982, c. 603; 1985, c. 448; 1987, c. 476; 1990, c. 183; 1992, c. 124;2008, c. 860.)