Sec. 1.
As used in this act:
(a) "Commission" means the potato industry commission.
(b) "Department" means the department of agriculture and rural development.
(c) "Director" means the director of the department.
(d) "Grower" means any business unit, including a family operation, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, company, association, trust, or other business organization engaged in the business of growing potatoes for market.
(e) "Shipper" means a person engaged in the shipment of potatoes, whether as owner, agent, or otherwise; or engaged in the processing of potatoes for human or animal consumption in any form or for any other commercial use.
(f) "Shipment of potatoes" means, and a shipment of potatoes shall be considered to take place, when potatoes are loaded within this state in a rail car, truck, or other conveyance in which the potatoes are to be transported for sale or otherwise put into the channel of trade and commerce.
(g) "Hundredweight" means a 100-pound unit or a combination of packages making a 100-pound unit, or the equivalent in metric units, of any shipment of potatoes.
(h) "Retailer" means a person who sells directly to the consumer in small quantities or broken lots.
(i) "Rule" means a rule promulgated pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328.
(j) "Processor" means a person engaged in canning, freezing, dehydrating, chipping, fermenting, distilling, extracting, preserving, or changing the form of potatoes for the purpose of consumption or for any other commercial use.
(k) "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other business unit.
History: 1970, Act 29, Imd. Eff. June 10, 1970 ;-- Am. 1980, Act 304, Imd. Eff. Nov. 26, 1980 ;-- Am. 2013, Act 202, Eff. Mar. 14, 2014