Missouri § 265.010 - Definitions.
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§ 265.010. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meaning indicated:
(1) "Agricultural products" shall include horticultural, viticultural, dairy, bee, and any farm product;
(2) "Bushel", as applied to apples, when sold by the volume shall be 2150.4 cubic inches, and when sold by weight, means forty-eight pounds;
(3) "Director" means the director of the department of agriculture of Missouri;
(4) "Grower", as applied to apples, any person owning or operating an orchard and engaged in the production in Missouri of apples for sale;
(5) "Packer", as applied to apples, any person who packs apples for shipment or sale;
(6) "Processing" or "manufacturing", as applied to apples, the commercial drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting or use in producing or manufacturing a by-product or manufactured article;
(7) "Shipment" and "shipped", as applied to apples, shall be deemed to take place when the apples are loaded in the railroad car, motor vehicle, boat, wagon, or other conveyance to be transported. Apples being moved from the orchard where grown to a packing house or warehouse within the immediate area of production shall not be deemed a shipment or to be shipped;
(8) "Shipper", as applied to apples, any person who moves apples in the channels of trade, whether retail, wholesale or by consignment.
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(RSMo 1939 § 14290, A.L. 1941 p. 305, A. 1949 S.B. 1093)
Prior revision: 1929 § 12628
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