US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  45
                         LIENS, MORTGAGES AND PLEDGES
                                  CHAPTER 18
                     AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY DEALER LIENS
    45-1801.  DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
    (1)  "Agricultural product" means wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, lentils,
soybeans, grain sorghum, dry beans and peas, beans, safflower, sunflower
seeds, tame mustards, rapeseed, flaxseed, leguminous seed or other small seed,
or any other agricultural commodity, including any of the foregoing, whether
cleaned, processed, treated, reconditioned or whether mixed, rolled or
combined in any fashion or by any means to create a product used as animal,
poultry or fish feed.
    (2)  "Agricultural commodity dealer" means any person who contracts for or
solicits any agricultural product from an agricultural producer or negotiates
the consignment or purchase of any agricultural product, or receives for sale,
resale or shipment for storage, processing, cleaning or reconditioning, any
agricultural product, or who buys during any calendar year, at least ten
thousand dollars ($10,000) worth of agricultural products from the producer or
producers of the commodity. Agricultural commodity dealer shall not mean a
person who purchases agricultural products for his own use as seed or feed.
    (3)  "Agricultural commodity producer" means the owner, tenant or operator
of land who receives all or part of the proceeds from the sale, under
contract, bailment or otherwise, or delivery under contract or bailment, of
agricultural products produced on that land.
    (4)  "Person" means an individual, trust, partnership, limited liability
company,  corporation, or unincorporated association or any other legal or
commercial entity.