Terms Used In Florida Statutes > Chapter 502 - Milk, Milk Products, and Frozen Desserts

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Bulk milk pickup tanker: means a vehicle, including the truck and tank and those appurtenances necessary for its use, that is used to transport bulk raw milk for pasteurization, ultra-pasteurization, aseptic processing and packaging, or retort processing after packaging from a dairy farm to a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• butterfat: means the fat contained in milk. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Dairy farm: means any place or premises where one or more lactating animals, including cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, or other hooved mammals, are kept for milking purposes, and from which a part or all of the milk is provided, sold, or offered for sale. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Frozen dessert: means a specific standardized frozen dessert described in Florida Statutes 502.012
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion, practically free from colostrum, obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy cows, goats, sheep, water buffalo, or other hooved mammals. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk distributor: means any person who offers for sale or sells to another person any milk or milk product. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk hauler: means any person who transports raw milk or raw milk products to or from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk plant: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are collected, handled, processed, stored, pasteurized, ultra-pasteurized, aseptically processed and packaged, retort processed after packaging, condensed, dried, packaged, bottled, or prepared for distribution. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk plant operator: means any person responsible for receiving, processing, pasteurizing, or packaging milk and milk products, or performing any other related operation. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk products: means products made with milk that is processed in some manner, including being whipped, acidified, cultured, concentrated, lactose-reduced, or sodium-reduced or aseptically processed, or having the addition or subtraction of milkfat, the addition of safe and suitable microbial organisms, or the addition of safe and suitable optional ingredients for protein, vitamin, or mineral fortification. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk tank truck: means either a bulk milk pickup tanker or a milk transport tank. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Milk transport tank: means a vehicle, including the truck and tank, used by a bulk milk hauler/sampler or a milk hauler to transport bulk shipments of milk from a milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station to another milk plant, receiving station, or transfer station. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Raw milk: means unpasteurized milk. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Receiving station: means any place, premises, or establishment where raw milk is received, collected, handled, stored, or cooled and prepared for further transporting. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Retail: means the sale of goods to the public for use or consumption rather than for resale. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Transfer station: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are transferred directly from one milk tank truck to another. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Washing station: means any place, premises, or establishment where milk tank trucks are cleaned and sanitized. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• Wholesale: means the selling of goods in quantity to be retailed by others. See Florida Statutes 502.012
• writing: includes handwriting, printing, typewriting, and all other methods and means of forming letters and characters upon paper, stone, wood, or other materials. See Florida Statutes 1.01