Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 621 > Grade Designation Use

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Container: means milk and cream cans, farm milk tanks, milk tank trucks, milk storage tanks, pasteurizing vats, cheese vats, butter churns, butter tubs, cheese hoops and any other receptacle designed for use or used to hold fluid milk, milk or dairy products. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Cream: means that portion of milk consisting of milk fat. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Distributor: means a person who purchases only unpasteurized milk and pasteurizes or otherwise processes that milk, then bottles and distributes the milk for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fluid milk: means milk and any other product made by the addition of a substance to milk or to a liquid form of milk product if the milk or other product is produced, processed, distributed, sold or offered or exposed for sale for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Milk: means the lacteal secretion of cows, sheep and goats. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Milk hauler: means a person who, in the course of employment, accepts bulk fluid milk and transports that commodity to a dairy products plant or a physical facility of a distributor or producer-distributor. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Nonprocessing distributor: means a person who sells fluid milk in consumer-sized units under the person's own brand or trade name after the milk has been processed and packaged by a distributor or producer-distributor. See Oregon Statutes 621.003
• Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Producer: means a person who engages in the production of unpasteurized milk on a dairy farm and does not bottle the milk on the premises where production occurs, in pasteurized or unpasteurized form and for human consumption. See Oregon Statutes 621.003