2006 Ohio Revised Code - 924.01. Definitions.
As used in Chapter 924. of the Revised Code:
(A) "Agricultural commodity" means any food, fiber, feed, animal, or plant, or group of foods, fibers, feeds, animals, or plants that the director of agriculture determines to be of the same nature, in either a natural or a processed state.
(B) "Distributor" means any person who sells, offers for sale, markets, or distributes an agricultural commodity which he has purchased or acquired directly from a producer, or which he markets on behalf of a producer.
(C) "Handler" means any person who is in the business of packing, grading, selling, offering for sale, or marketing any agricultural commodity in commercial quantities as defined in a marketing program.
(D) "Marketing program" means a program which is established by order of the director of agriculture pursuant to this chapter, to improve or expand the market for an agricultural commodity.
(E) "Operating committee" means a committee established to administer a marketing program for an agricultural commodity.
(F) "Person" means any natural person, partnership, corporation, society, association, or fiduciary.
(G) "Processor" means any person who is in the business of grading, packaging, packing, canning, freezing, dehydrating, fermenting, distilling, extracting, preserving, grinding, crushing, juicing, or in any other way preserving or changing the form of any agricultural commodity.
(H) "Producer" means any person who is in the business of producing, or causing to be produced, any agricultural commodity for commercial sale, except that when used in reference to nursery stock, "producer" also means a distributor, processor, handler, or retailer of nursery stock.
HISTORY: 133 v H 576 (Eff 11-21-69); 134 v H 205 (Eff 9-8-71); 140 v H 620. Eff 4-10-85.
The provisions, § 3 of HB 620 (140 v - ) read as follows:
SECTION 3. For the purposes of
sections 924.01 to
924.16 and
924.99 of the Revised Code, any agricultural commodity marketing program proposed but not established before the effective date of this act shall be regarded as if it had been proposed on or after the effective date of this act.
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