2012 Arkansas Code
Title 2 - Agriculture
Subtitle 1 - General Provisions
Chapter 6 - Catfish Processor Fair Practices Act
§ 2-6-103 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Board" means the State Plant Board;

(2) "Capable of use as human food" means and applies to any catfish or part or product of any catfish unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as required by regulations prescribed by the board to deter its use as human food, or unless it is naturally inedible by humans;

(3) "Cash sale" means a sale in which the seller does not expressly extend credit to the buyer;

(4) "Catfish" means any species of the scientific order Ostariophysida, family Ictaluridae;

(5) "Class A registrant" means any catfish processor who purchases at least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) worth of catfish annually from catfish producers;

(6) "Direct retail sale" means the sale of catfish products directly to the consumer;

(7) "Director" means the Director of the State Plant Board or his or her designee;

(8) "Owner" means a person or a producer that owns an equity interest, directly or indirectly, in a catfish processor;

(9) "Person" includes any individual, partnership, corporation, and association, or other legal entity;

(10) "Processor" means any person engaged in handling, storing, preparing, manufacturing, packing, or holding catfish products;

(11) "Producer" means any person engaged in the business of producing catfish by any method;

(12) "Product" means any catfish product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any catfish or portion thereof; and

(13) "Secured party" means a lender who has a perfected security interest pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code, § 4-1-101 et seq., in the catfish being sold.