Virginia Code 3.2-2200: Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
Terms Used In Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- Country buyer: means any person who buys small grains from a producer. See Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- Exporter: means any person offering small grains for export sale. See Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- Handler: means any person who purchases small grains from a producer and any producer who transports and sells his own small grains out of state. See Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
- Processor: means any person who changes the physical form or characteristic of small grains in preparation for sale. See Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- Producer: means any person who has grown and sold small grains in the Commonwealth in the preceding three years. See Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- Small grains: means barley, oats, rye, or wheat. See Virginia Code 3.2-2200
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
“Country buyer” means any person who buys small grains from a producer.
“Exporter” means any person offering small grains for export sale.
“Handler” means any person who purchases small grains from a producer and any producer who transports and sells his own small grains out of state. Handler also means any processor, dealer, shipper, country buyer, exporter, or any other business entity that purchases small grains from a producer. Handler shall also mean any person buying, accepting for shipment, or otherwise acquiring property in small grains from a producer, and shall include a mortgagee, pledgee, lienor, or other person having a claim against the producer when the actual or constructive possession of such small grains is taken as part payment or in satisfaction of such mortgage, pledge, lien, or claim.
“Processor” means any person who changes the physical form or characteristic of small grains in preparation for sale.
“Producer” means any person who has grown and sold small grains in the Commonwealth in the preceding three years.
“Seedsman” means any person who offers small grains seeds for sale.
“Small grains” means barley, oats, rye, or wheat.
1991, c. 587, §§ 3.1-684.41, 3.1-684.53; 1992, c. 776; 2008, c. 860.