§ 3.1-796.13. (Repealed effective October 1, 2008) Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter:
"Board" means the Virginia Cattle Industry Board.
"Cattle" as used in § 3.1-796.27 means beef cattle sold in Virginia for slaughter or feeding purposes, veal calves sold for slaughter or feeding purposes and dairy cattle being sold for immediate slaughter providing such animals are sold for a consideration in excess of twenty dollars per head.
"Commission" means the Virginia Cattle Industry Board.
"Handler" includes operators of all stockyards, livestock dealerships, slaughter houses, packing plants and livestock auction markets or any other person or business entity making purchase from a producer.
"Processor" or "packer" means any person, firm, corporation, association or cooperative who or which slaughters cattle.
"Producer" means a person, firm, corporation, association, or cooperative and any and all other business units, devices and arrangements which are engaged in the business of raising cattle, or who or which sell dairy cattle for slaughter.
"Virginia Cattle Industry Task Force" means a task force appointed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services to advise the Commissioner on the institution of a self-help program for Virginia's cattle industry.
(1970, c. 310; 1983, c. 375; 1985, c. 448.)
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