As used in this part 1, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Candling" means examining the interior of an egg by use of transmitted light sufficient to view the interior of the egg.
"Commission" means the state agricultural commission.
"Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture.
(Deleted by amendment, L. 2009, (SB 09-127), ch. 63, p. 224, § 7, effective July 1,2009.)
"Consumer" means any person who buys eggs for household consumption and notfor resale.
"Dealer" means any person who is engaged in selling poultry eggs or other eggs.
"Department" means the department of agriculture.
"Edible eggs" means eggs which are free from mold, blood ring, blood spot, bloodywhites, filth, stuck yolk, black rot, white rot, mixed rot, or any other inedible quality as defined by the United States department of agriculture.
(Deleted by amendment, L. 95, p. 699, § 15, effective May 23, 1995.)
and (11) (Deleted by amendment, L. 2009, (SB 09-127), ch. 63, p. 224, § 7, effective July 1, 2009.)
Repealed.
"Manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or preparing any product intended for sale for human consumption in which eggs in any form or part are used.
(13.5) "Other eggs" means the eggs with a shell of any avian species, as designated by the commissioner by rule, other than the domesticated chicken.
"Person" means a person, partnership, association, or corporation.
"Poultry eggs", "shell eggs", or "eggs" means shell eggs of the domesticated chicken.
"Producer" means any person engaged in producing poultry eggs or other eggs inthis state.
"Restaurant" means any person engaged in the business of catering or furnishingmeals to the public.
and (19) Repealed.
(20) Where applicable, the singular includes the plural; the plural, the singular; and the masculine, the feminine.
Source: L. 65: R&RE, p. 213, § 1. C.R.S. 1963: § 7-9-1. L. 73: p. 214, § 1. L. 95: (6), (8), (9), and (12) amended, p. 699, § 15, effective May 23. L. 2009: (1), (4), (6), (10), and (11) amended and (12), (18), and (19) repealed, (SB 09-127), ch. 63, pp. 224, 223, §§ 7, 4, effective July 1. L. 2020: IP, (6), and (16) amended and (13.5) added, (HB 20-1211), ch. 159, p. 712, § 3, effective June 29; IP amended, (HB 20-1343), ch. 217, p. 1077, § 3, effective September 14.
Editor's note: (1) Subsection IP(1) was amended in HB 20-1211. Those amendments were superseded by the amendment to subsection IP(1) in HB 20-1343.
(2) Section 9 of chapter 159 (HB 20-1211), Session Laws of Colorado 2020, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after June 29, 2020.