§ 3.1-763.15. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Definitions
As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:
(a) "Eggs" mean eggs in the shell that are the product of domesticated chickens.
(b) "Consumer" means any person who acquires eggs for consumption in his own household and not for resale.
(c) "Institutional consumer" means a restaurant, hotel, boardinghouse, or any other business, facility, or place in which eggs are prepared or offered as food for use by its patrons, residents, inmates or patients.
(d) "Retailer" means any person who markets eggs to ultimate consumers.
(e) "Market" means sell, offer for sale, give in the channels of commerce, barter, exchange, or distribute in any manner.
(f) "Person" means any individual, producer, firm, partnership, exchange, association, trustee, receiver, corporation, or any other entity and any member, officer, employee or agent thereof.
(g) "Grade" means specifications defining the limits of variation in quality of eggs in such a manner as to differentiate among classes of eggs, and the letter, number, or other symbol by which references thereto may be made.
(h) "Standard" means specifications of the physical characteristics or any or all of the component parts of individual eggs.
(i) "Egg processor," and words of similar import and meaning, when used in any of the statutes of the Commonwealth of Virginia, shall include, but is not limited to, any person who cleans, candles, grades, sizes, and packs shell eggs for human consumption.
(1968, c. 142; 1972, c. 120.)
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