2017 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 11 - AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK AND OTHER ANIMALS
CHAPTER 11 - BUYING, SELLING AND STORING OF GRAIN
SECTION 11-11-101 - Definitions.

11-11-101. Definitions.

(a) As used in this chapter:

(i) "Director" means the director of the Wyoming department of agriculture;

(ii) "Warehouseman" means any person except the grower who handles grain for commercial storage or solicits grain for the purpose of intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce;

(iii) "Grain" means any variety of beans, wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, grain sorghum, millet, oil seeds, sunflower, soybean, flax, or seeds of legumes and grasses;

(iv) To "store" or "warehouse" means any method by which grain owned by another is held for the owner by one not the owner except for the transportation thereof;

(v) "Stored grain" means grain held or placed in storage in an elevator, grain cleaning plant, grain warehouse or public warehouse of whatever kind by any person not the actual bona fide owner of the grain;

(vi) "Scale ticket" means a load slip or other evidence of delivery, other than a warehouse receipt, given to the party making delivery by a warehouse licensed under the provisions of this act;

(vii) "Warehouse" means an elevator, mill, storage bin or building, subterminal grain storage facility, public storage facility or other structure or facility in which grain is received for commercial storage or for the purpose of intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce;

(viii) "Audit" means an examination of records or financial accounts to determine their accuracy;

(ix) "Depositor" means any person who is in possession of a commodity and entrusts or delivers the commodity to a warehouse for storage;

(x) "Inspection" means the physical review or examination of the grain warehouse or storage facility and may include an official audit;

(xi) "Loss" means the destruction of the commodity due to fire, theft or weather;

(xii) "Receipt" means a warehouse receipt issued under this act, including an electronic receipt;

(xiii) "Transportation" means the movement of grain from one (1) point to another;

(xiv) "Verified" means signed and sworn to be accurate before a person authorized to administer oaths.