3.2-6031 - Definitions. - Virginia Statutes

§ 3.2-6031. Definitions.

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

"Garbage" means animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,preparation, cooking, and consumption of foods containing animal carcasses orparts thereof. The Commissioner may in his discretion exclude from thisdefinition such wastes that have been heat treated to the extent that theresultant material is of a uniform consistency, contains by analysis not morethan 10 percent moisture, and that he has determined to be nonputrescible.Such treated nonputrescible wastes shall be "commercial feed" as the termis defined in § 3.2-4800, and shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter48 (§ 3.2-4800 et seq.).

(Code 1950, § 3-598.1; 1954, c. 506; 1956, c. 308; 1966, c. 702, § 3.1-758;1970, c. 619; 1994, c. 743; 2008, c. 860.)