Georgia § 2-8A-3 - Definitions.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 2-8A-3 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 2-8A-3. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the term: "Emerging crop" means a plant or animal crop for which consumers have a demand. "Farmer" means a resident of Georgia who engages in or wishes to engage in the commercial production of an emerging crop on land in Georgia. This term shall include individuals, family-farm corporations meeting the requirements of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Code Section 48-5-7.1, and partnerships in which all of the partners are either individuals or family-farm corporations meeting such requirements. "Fund" means the Emerging Crops Fund established in Code Section 2-8A-5. "Georgia Development Authority" or "authority" means the Georgia Development Authority provided for in Chapter 10 of Title 50. "Interest loan" means a loan made from the fund to pay the interest on a loan made by a lender to a farmer to finance the costs of production of an emerging crop. "Lender" means a commercial bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, federal land bank, farm credit bank, production credit association, or other farm credit agency which is domiciled or qualified to do business in Georgia or the Farmers Home Administration. (Code 1981, § 2-8A-3 , enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1696, § 1; Ga. L. 2013, p. 671, § 1/SB 91.)
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