Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 21 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter IV-A - Inspections by Federal and State Agencies

• commerce: means commerce between any State, any Territory, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 21 USC 601
• 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.
• firm: means any partnership, association, or other unincorporated business organization. See 21 USC 601
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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.
• label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any article. See 21 USC 601
• meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the Secretary under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See 21 USC 601
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or his delegate. See 21 USC 601
• State: means any State of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See 21 USC 601
• United States: means the States, the District of Columbia, and the Territories of the United States. See 21 USC 601
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3