2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §3-526  Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Council" means the Arizona iceberg lettuce research council.

2. "Grower-shipper" means a person who is engaged in this state in the business of packing, shipping, transporting or selling iceberg lettuce of which he is a grower, producer or owner.

3. "Handler" means a person who engages in marketing iceberg lettuce on behalf of a grower, whether as a grower-shipper, owner, agent, employee, broker, dealer, consignor or commission merchant or otherwise.

4. "Iceberg lettuce" means varieties of lettuce produced in this state of the types which are distinguished as "crisphead" in the publication entitled "lettuce production in the United States, agricultural handbook no. 221", August 1974 revision, issued by the agricultural research service of the United States department of agriculture. Iceberg lettuce does not include the types of lettuce distinguished in such publication by the terms "butterhead", "cos or romaine" and "looseleaf".

5. "Producer" means a person engaged in this state in the business of producing or causing to be produced iceberg lettuce.