(225 ILCS 660/10) (from Ch. 5, par. 2751-10)
Sec. 10. Definitions. When used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Specialty farm product" includes all unprocessed agricultural, horticultural, and viticultural products of the soil and other agricultural products prescribed by Department in rules, but shall not include fruits, grains, dairy products, livestock and meats, poultry, and timber products.
"Person" means any individual, partnership, cooperative, association, firm, or corporation.
"Buyer" means a person who is engaged in the business of buying specialty farm products from a producer by contract, who solicits or receives shipments of specialty farm products under a consignment agreement or promise to pay for them on the basis of current market prices upon receipt or at a price bearing some specified premium above or below established market quotations, who accepts any specialty farm products in trust from their owner for the purpose of resale or processing, or who sells or offers for sale, on commission, any specialty farm product. "Buyer" does not include bona fide retail grocery merchants having a fixed or established place of business in Illinois.
"Producer" means any person, firm, individual, partnership, cooperative, association, or corporation that grows specialty farm products within Illinois.
"Agent" means any person who, on behalf of any buyer, buys, receives, contracts for, or solicits any specialty farm products from or sells specialty farm products for their owner or who negotiates the consignment of any specialty farm product on behalf of any buyer.
"Broker" means any person engaged in the business of negotiating sales and purchases of farm products for, or on behalf of, the vendor or the purchaser, respectively.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Agriculture.
"Registrant" means the person who has applied and is registered under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 87-171.)
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