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• Access device: means any card, plate, code, account number, or other means of access, including point of sale devices, that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, to obtain payments, allotments, benefits, money, goods, or other things of value, or that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds under this chapter. See 7 USC 2012
• Administrator: means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. See 16 USC 3771
• Advisory Board: means the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board. See 7 USC 3103
• agricultural commodity: as used in this chapter includes any agricultural commodity or product thereof. See 7 USC 1736o-1
• agricultural research: means research in the food and agricultural sciences. See 7 USC 3103
• Allotment: means the total value of benefits a household is authorized to receive during each month. See 7 USC 2012
• Allowable medical expenses: means expenditures for (1) medical and dental care, (2) hospitalization or nursing care (including hospitalization or nursing care of an individual who was a household member immediately prior to entering a hospital or nursing home), (3) prescription drugs when prescribed by a licensed practitioner authorized under State law and over-the-counter medication (including insulin) when approved by a licensed practitioner or other qualified health professional, (4) health and hospitalization insurance policies (excluding the costs of health and accident or income maintenance policies), (5) medicare premiums related to coverage under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U. See 7 USC 2012
• animal health research capacity: means the capacity of an eligible institution to conduct animal health and disease research, as determined by the Secretary. See 7 USC 3192
• apples: means fresh whole apples, whether or not the apples have been in storage. See 7 USC 589
• aquaculture: means the propagation and rearing of aquacultural species, including, but not limited to, any species of finfish, mollusk, or crustacean (or other aquatic invertebrate), amphibian, reptile, ornamental fish, or aquatic plant, in controlled or selected environments. See 7 USC 3103
• archaeological resource: means any material remains of past human life or activities which are of archaeological interest, as determined under uniform regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter. See
• asexually reproduced: means produced by a method of plant propagation using vegetative material (other than seed) from a single parent, including cuttings, grafting, tissue culture, and propagation by root division. See 7 USC 2401
• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Attorney General: means the Attorney General of the United States. See
• basic agricultural commodity: means wheat, rye, flax, barley, cotton, field corn, grain sorghums, hogs, cattle, rice, potatoes, tobacco, sugar beets and sugarcane, peanuts, and milk and its products, and any regional or market classification, type, or grade thereof. See 7 USC 611
• basic seed: means the seed planted to produce certified or commercial seed. See 7 USC 2401
• benefit: means the value of supplemental nutrition assistance provided to a household by means of&mdash. See 7 USC 2012
• blackstrap molasses: means the commercially so-designated "byproduct" of the cane-sugar industry, not used for human consumption or for the extraction of sugar. See 7 USC 609
• Board: means the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board established under section 4504 of this title. See 7 USC 4502
• breeder: means the person who directs the final breeding creating a variety or who discovers and develops a variety. See 7 USC 2401
• certificate: means a certificate of accreditation issued under this chapter. See 7 USC 138
• Certification period: means the period for which households shall be eligible to receive benefits. See 7 USC 2012
• commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 7 USC 87j
• commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 7 USC 136k
• commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 7 USC 92
• Commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 7 USC 511
• commerce: means commerce between any State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof. See 7 USC 182
• commercialization: means the stage in the development or advancement of a technology at which point private enterprise is willing to invest in a full-scale production facility. See 7 USC 178a
• Committee: means the National Honey Nominations Committee provided for under section 4606(b) of this title. See
• controlled substance: has the meaning given that term in section 802(6) of title 21. See 19 USC 1401
• cooperating forestry school: means an institution&mdash. See 7 USC 3103
• cooperating producer: means any person (including any share-tenant or share-cropper) whom the Secretary of Agriculture finds to be willing to participate in the 1935 production-adjustment program for rice. See 7 USC 609
• cooperative extension services: means the organizations established at the land-grant colleges and universities under the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. See 7 USC 3103
• corporation: includes associations, joint-stock companies, and insurance companies. See
• cotton: means (1) all upland cotton harvested in the United States, and, except as used in section 2106(e) of this title, includes cottonseed of such cotton and the products derived from such cotton and its seed and (2) imports of upland cotton including the upland cotton content of the products derived from upland cotton (other than industrial products as defined by the Secretary). See 7 USC 2116
• cotton-producing State: includes &mdash. See 7 USC 2116
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• Coupon: means any coupon, stamp, type of certificate, authorization card, cash or check issued in lieu of a coupon. See 7 USC 2012
• Customs: means the United States Customs Service. See 7 USC 4502
• customs waters: means , in the case of a foreign vessel subject to a treaty or other arrangement between a foreign government and the United States enabling or permitting the authorities of the United States to board, examine, search, seize, or otherwise to enforce upon such vessel upon the high seas the laws of the United States, the waters within such distance of the coast of the United States as the said authorities are or may be so enabled or permitted by such treaty or arrangement and, in the case of every other vessel, the waters within four leagues of the coast of the United States. See 19 USC 1401
• dairy products: means products manufactured for human consumption which are derived from the processing of milk, and includes fluid milk products. See 7 USC 4502
• day: means the time from eight o'clock antemeridian to five o'clock postmeridian. See 19 USC 1401
• dean: means the dean of an accredited school or college of veterinary medicine. See 7 USC 3192
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See 7 USC 4502
• Department of Agriculture: means the United States Department of Agriculture. See 7 USC 3103
• Department of Agriculture: means the United States Department of Agriculture. See 7 USC 75
• Department of Agriculture: means the United States Department of Agriculture. See 7 USC 2279j
• Destructively distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine obtained in the destructive distillation of the wood. See 7 USC 92
• direct-consumption sugar: means any sugar, as defined above, manufactured or marketed in, or brought into, the United States in any form whatsoever, for any purpose other than to be further refined (or improved in quality, or further prepared for distribution or use). See 7 USC 609
• director: means the director of a State agricultural experiment station which qualifies as an eligible institution. See 7 USC 2669
• director: means the director of a State agricultural experiment station which qualifies as an eligible institution. See 7 USC 3192
• domestic: when applied to a corporation or partnership means created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any State unless, in the case of a partnership, the Secretary provides otherwise by regulations. See
• Drug addiction or alcoholic treatment and rehabilitation program: means any such program conducted by a private nonprofit organization or institution, or a publicly operated community mental health center, under part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U. See 7 USC 2012
• EBT card: means an electronic benefit transfer card issued under section 2016(h) of this title. See 7 USC 2012
• Elderly or disabled member: means a member of a household who&mdash. See 7 USC 2012
• electronic data interchange system: means any established mechanism approved by the Commissioner of U. See 19 USC 1401
• electronic entry: means the electronic transmission to the Customs Service of&mdash. See 19 USC 1401
• electronic transmission: means the transfer of data or information through an authorized electronic data interchange system consisting of, but not limited to, computer modems and computer networks. See 19 USC 1401
• eligible institution: means an accredited school or college of veterinary medicine or a State agricultural experiment station that conducts animal health and disease research. See 7 USC 3192
• employee: shall include a full-time life insurance salesman who is considered an employee for the purpose of chapter 21. See
• essentially derived variety: means a variety that&mdash. See 7 USC 2401
• extension: means the informal education programs conducted in the States in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture. See 7 USC 3103
• fiduciary: means a guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, conservator, or any person acting in any fiduciary capacity for any person. See
• first domestic processing: means each domestic processing, including each processing of successive domestic processings, of sugar beets, sugarcane, or raw sugar, which directly results in direct-consumption sugar. See 7 USC 609
• fluid milk products: means those milk products normally consumed in liquid form as a beverage. See 7 USC 4502
• Food: means (1) any food or food product for home consumption except alcoholic beverages, tobacco, hot foods or hot food products ready for immediate consumption other than those authorized pursuant to clauses (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), and (9) of this subsection, and any deposit fee in excess of the amount of the State fee reimbursement (if any) required to purchase any food or food product contained in a returnable bottle or can, regardless of whether the fee is included in the shelf price posted for the food or food product, (2) seeds and plants for use in gardens to produce food for the personal consumption of the eligible household, (3) in the case of those persons who are sixty years of age or over or who receive supplemental security income benefits or disability or blindness payments under title I, II, X, XIV, or XVI of the Social Security Act [42 U. See 7 USC 2012
• food and agricultural sciences: means basic, applied, and developmental research, extension, and teaching activities in food and fiber, agricultural, renewable energy and natural resources, forestry, and physical and social sciences, including activities relating to the following:

  (A) Animal health, production, and well-being. See 7 USC 3103

• food products: means flour (excluding flour second clears not used for human consumption as determined by the Secretary), semolina, farina, bulgur, beverage, and any other product composed wholly or partly of wheat which the Secretary may determine to be a food product. See 7 USC 1379d
• food security: means access by all people at all times to sufficient food and nutrition for a healthy and productive life. See 7 USC 1732
• foreign: when applied to a corporation or partnership means a corporation or partnership which is not domestic. See
• foreign commerce: means commerce between any State, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside of the United States or its possessions. See 7 USC 596
• foreign commerce: means commerce between any State, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside of the United States or its possessions. See 7 USC 599
• grain: means corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, flaxseed, sorghum, soybeans, mixed grain, and any other food grains, feed grains, and oilseeds for which standards are established under section 76 of this title. See 7 USC 75
• grapes: means vinifera species table grapes, European type, whether or not they have been in storage. See 7 USC 599
• Gum rosin: means rosin remaining after the distillation of gum spirits of turpentine. See 7 USC 92
• Gum spirits of turpentine: means spirits of turpentine made from gum (oleoresin) from a living tree. See 7 USC 92
• handler: means any person who handles cotton or cottonseed or, for the purposes of sections 2102, 2105(c), and 2112 of this title, any person who imports cotton, including de minimis amounts of cotton described in subsection (c), in the manner specified in the order or in the rules and regulations issued thereunder. See 7 USC 2116
• Hispanic-serving agricultural colleges and universities: means colleges or universities&mdash. See 7 USC 3103
• honeybee: means all life stages and the germ plasm of honeybees of the genus Apis, except honeybee semen. See 7 USC 281
• Household: means &mdash. See 7 USC 2012
• import: means any such entry. See 7 USC 2116
• import activity summary statement: refers to data or information transmitted electronically to the Customs Service, in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary prescribes, at the end of a specified period of time which enables the Customs Service to assess properly the duties, taxes and fees on merchandise imported during that period, collect accurate statistics and determine whether any other applicable requirement of law (other than a requirement relating to release from customs custody) is met. See 19 USC 1401
• imported dairy product: means any dairy product that is imported into the United States, including dairy products imported into the United States in the form of&mdash. See 7 USC 4502
• importer: means a person that imports an imported dairy product into the United States. See 7 USC 4502
• importer: means any person who enters, or withdraws from warehouse, cotton for consumption in the customs territory of the United States. See 7 USC 2116
• including: when used in a definition contained in this title shall not be deemed to exclude other things otherwise within the meaning of the term defined. See
• Indian tribal government: means the governing body of any tribe, band, community, village, or group of Indians, or (if applicable) Alaska Natives, which is determined by the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, to exercise governmental functions. See
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• Inspector: means any person employed, licensed, or authorized by the Secretary to determine and certify the type, grade, condition, or other characteristics of tobacco. See 7 USC 511
• insular area: means &mdash. See 7 USC 3103
• international organization: means a public international organization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities as an international organization under the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U. See
• joint return: means a single return made jointly under section 6013 by a husband and wife. See
• kind: means one or more related species or subspecies singly or collectively known by one common name, such as soybean, flax, or radish. See 7 USC 2401
• laboratory: means any facility or vehicle that is owned by an individual or a public or private entity and is equipped and operated for the purpose of carrying out pesticide residue analysis on agricultural products for commercial purposes. See 7 USC 99
• laboratory: means any facility or vehicle that is owned by an individual or a public or private entity and is equipped and operated for the purpose of carrying out pesticide residue analysis on agricultural products for commercial purposes. See 7 USC 138
• land-grant colleges and universities: means those institutions eligible to receive funds under the Act of July 2, 1862 (12 Stat. See 7 USC 3103
• live poultry dealer: means any person engaged in the business of obtaining live poultry by purchase or under a poultry growing arrangement for the purpose of either slaughtering it or selling it for slaughter by another, if poultry is obtained by such person in commerce, or if poultry obtained by such person is sold or shipped in commerce, or if poultry products from poultry obtained by such person are sold or shipped in commerce. See 7 USC 182
• livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats&mdash. See 7 USC 182
• livestock products: means all products and byproducts (other than meats and meat food products) of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry derived in whole or in part from livestock. See 7 USC 182
• lot: means a specific quantity of grain identified as such. See 7 USC 75
• marketing: includes the sale of cotton or the pledging of cotton to the Commodity Credit Corporation as collateral for a price support loan. See 7 USC 2116
• marketing: means the sale or other disposition in commerce of honey or honey products. See
• meat food products: means all products and byproducts of the slaughtering and meat-packing industry&mdash. See 7 USC 182
• merchandise: means goods, wares, and chattels of every description, and includes merchandise the importation of which is prohibited, and monetary instruments as defined in section 5312 of title 31. See 19 USC 1401
• milk: means any class of cow's milk. See 7 USC 4502
• National Customs Automation Program: means the program established under section 1411 of this title. See 19 USC 1401
• native: means hydrocarbon-containing plants and other agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance which may be cultured in North America, especially plants which are members of the genus Parthenium known as Guayule. See 7 USC 178a
• Naval stores: means spirits of turpentine and rosin. See 7 USC 92
• nutrition education: means those activities intended to broaden the understanding of sound nutritional principles including the role of milk and dairy products in a balanced diet. See 7 USC 4502
• oath: includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed. See 1 USC 1
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• official agency: means any State or local governmental agency, or any person, designated by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (f) of section 79 of this title for the conduct of official inspection (other than appeal inspection), or subsection (c) of section 79a of this title for the conduct of official weighing or supervision of weighing (other than appeal weighing). See 7 USC 75
• official grade designation: means a numerical or sample grade designation, specified in the standards relating to kind, class, quality, and condition of grain, provided for in this chapter. See 7 USC 75
• official inspection: means the determination (by original inspection, and when requested, reinspection and appeal inspection) and the certification, by official inspection personnel of the kind, class, quality, or condition of grain, under standards provided for in this chapter, or the condition of vessels and other carriers or receptacles for the transportation of grain insofar as it may affect the quality or condition of such grain. See 7 USC 75
• official inspection personnel: means persons licensed or otherwise authorized by the Secretary pursuant to section 84 of this title to perform all or specified functions involved in official inspection, official weighing, or supervision of weighing, or in the supervision of official inspection, official weighing or supervision of weighing. See 7 USC 75
• official mark: means any symbol prescribed by regulations of the Secretary to show the official determination of official inspection or official weighing. See 7 USC 75
• official sample: means a sample obtained from a lot of grain by, and submitted for official inspection by, official inspection personnel (the term "official sampling" shall be construed accordingly). See 7 USC 75
• official sampling: shall be construed accordingly). See 7 USC 75
• official weighing: means the determination and certification by official inspection personnel of the quantity of a lot of grain under standards provided for in this chapter, based on the actual performance of weighing or the physical supervision thereof, including the physical inspection and testing for accuracy of the weights and scales and the physical inspection of the premises at which the weighing is performed and the monitoring of the discharge of grain into the elevator or conveyance (the terms "officially weigh" and "officially weighed" shall be construed accordingly). See 7 USC 75
• officially inspected: shall be construed accordingly). See 7 USC 75
• officially weighed: shall be construed accordingly). See 7 USC 75
• order: means the Hass avocado promotion, research, and information order issued under this chapter. See 7 USC 7802
• Package: means any container of naval stores, and includes barrel, tank, tank car, or other receptacle. See 7 USC 92
• packer: means any person engaged in the business (a) of buying livestock in commerce for purposes of slaughter, or (b) of manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products for sale or shipment in commerce, or (c) of marketing meats, meat food products, or livestock products in an unmanufactured form acting as a wholesale broker, dealer, or distributor in commerce. See 7 USC 191
• paid or accrued: shall be construed according to the method of accounting upon the basis of which the taxable income is computed under subtitle A. See
• partner: includes a member in such a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or organization. See
• partnership: includes a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or other unincorporated organization, through or by means of which any business, financial operation, or venture is carried on, and which is not, within the meaning of this title, a trust or estate or a corporation. See
• person: import s the plural or singular, and includes individuals, associations, partnerships, corporations, and trusts. See
• Person: includes partnerships, associations, and corporations, as well as individuals. See 7 USC 87j
• person: means any individual, group of individuals, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or any other entity. See 7 USC 4502
• person: includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See 7 USC 136k
• person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, trust, institution, association, or any other private entity or any officer, employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of the United States, of any Indian tribe, or of any State or political subdivision thereof. See
• person: includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See 7 USC 596
• person: as used in this chapter includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, and any other business unit. See 7 USC 343
• Person: includes partnerships, associations, and corporations, as well as individuals. See 7 USC 92
• Person: includes partnerships, associations, and corporations, as well as individuals. See 7 USC 511
• person: includes partnerships, associations, and corporations. See 19 USC 1401
• person: includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See 7 USC 182
• person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other entity. See
• person: includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See 7 USC 957
• person: as used in this chapter includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, and any other business unit. See 7 USC 608a
• person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or any other entity. See 7 USC 2116
• person: shall be construed to mean and include an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See
• pesticide: means any substance that alone, in chemical combination, or in any formulation with one or more substances, is defined as a pesticide in section 136(u) of this title. See 7 USC 99
• pesticide: means any substance that alone, in chemical combination, or in any formulation with one or more substances, is defined as a pesticide in section 136(u) of this title. See 7 USC 138
• plums: means both European and Japanese type, whether or not they have been in storage, but does not mean Italian-type prunes, nor damson-type plums. See 7 USC 599
• potatoes: means all varieties of potatoes included in the species Solanum tuberosum. See 7 USC 611
• poultry: means chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and other domestic fowl. See 7 USC 182
• poultry grower: means any person engaged in the business of raising and caring for live poultry for slaughter by another, whether the poultry is owned by such person or by another, but not an employee of the owner of such poultry. See 7 USC 182
• poultry growing arrangement: means any growout contract, marketing agreement, or other arrangement under which a poultry grower raises and cares for live poultry for delivery, in accord with another's instructions, for slaughter. See 7 USC 182
• processing: means the milling or other processing (except cleaning and drying) of wheat, rye, barley or corn for market, including custom milling for toll as well as commercial milling, but shall not include the grinding or cracking thereof not in the form of flour for feed purposes only. See 7 USC 609
• producer: means any person engaged in the production of milk for commercial use. See 7 USC 4502
• promotion: means actions such as paid advertising, sales promotion, and publicity to advance the image and sales of and demand for dairy products. See 7 USC 4502
• public lands: means &mdash. See
• raw sugar: means any sugar, as defined above, manufactured or marketed in, or brought into, the United States, in any form whatsoever, for the purpose of being, or which shall be, further refined (or improved in quality, or further prepared for distribution or use). See 7 USC 609
• raw value: means a standard unit of sugar testing ninety-six sugar degrees by the polariscope. See 7 USC 609
• reconciliation: means an electronic process, initiated at the request of an importer, under which the elements of an entry (other than those elements related to the admissibility of the merchandise) that are undetermined at the time the importer files or transmits the documentation or information required by section 1484(a)(1)(B) of this title, or the import activity summary statement, are provided to the Customs Service at a later time. See 19 USC 1401
• research: means studies testing the effectiveness of market development and promotion efforts, studies relating to the nutritional value of milk and dairy products, and other related efforts to expand demand for milk and dairy products. See 7 USC 4502
• Reservation: means the geographically defined area or areas over which a tribal organization exercises governmental jurisdiction. See 7 USC 2012
• Retail food store: means &mdash. See 7 USC 2012
• Rosin: includes gum rosin and wood rosin. See 7 USC 92
• rough rice: means rice in that condition which is usual and customary when delivered by the producer to a processor. See 7 USC 609
• Sampler: means any person employed, licensed, or authorized by the Secretary to select, tag, and seal official samples of tobacco. See 7 USC 511
• Secretaries: means the Secretary of Agriculture and/or the Secretary of Commerce acting each separately or jointly. See 7 USC 178a
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Army. See 16 USC 3771
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. See 7 USC 3103
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 99
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States or delegates of the Secretary. See 7 USC 75
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 4502
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 136k
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 596
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 954
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 138
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. See 7 USC 511
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States. See 7 USC 2279j
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 182
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 599
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate. See 19 USC 1401
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 957
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 2012
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture. See 7 USC 2116
• security: means a security as defined in section 2(a)(1) of the Securities Act of 1933 (15 U. See
• sexually reproduced: includes any production of a variety by seed, but does not include the production of a variety by tuber propagation. See 7 USC 2401
• shareholder: includes a member in an association, joint-stock company, or insurance company. See
• Spirits of turpentine: includes gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine. See 7 USC 92
• staple foods: means foods in the following categories:

  (A) Meat, poultry, or fish. See 7 USC 2012

• State: means any of the several States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• State: means the State of Louisiana. See 16 USC 3771
• State: means &mdash. See 7 USC 3103
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• State: means each of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See 7 USC 178a
• State: means any one of the States (including Puerto Rico) or territories or possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia). See 7 USC 75
• State: means any of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. See
• State: includes Territory, the District of Columbia, possession of the United States, and foreign nations. See 7 USC 511
• State: means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the reservations of an Indian tribe whose tribal organization meets the requirements of this chapter for participation as a State agency. See 7 USC 2012
• State: when used in this chapter ¹ shall include the Virgin Islands and Guam. See 7 USC 1626
• State: shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title. See
• State agency: means (1) the agency of State government, including the local offices thereof, which has the responsibility for the administration of the federally aided public assistance programs within such State, and in those States where such assistance programs are operated on a decentralized basis, the term shall include the counterpart local agencies administering such programs, and (2) the tribal organization of an Indian tribe determined by the Secretary to be capable of effectively administering a food distribution program under section 2013(b) of this title or a supplemental nutrition assistance program under section 2020(d) of this title. See 7 USC 2012
• State agricultural experiment stations: means those institutions eligible to receive funds under the Act of March 2, 1887 (24 Stat. See 7 USC 3103
• Steam distilled wood turpentine: means wood turpentine distilled with steam from the oleoresin within or extracted from the wood. See 7 USC 92
• stock: includes shares in an association, joint-stock company, or insurance company. See
• stockyard: means any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as stockyards, conducted, operated, or managed for profit or nonprofit as a public market for livestock producers, feeders, market agencies, and buyers, consisting of pens, or other inclosures, and their appurtenances, in which live cattle, sheep, swine, horses, mules, or goats are received, held, or kept for sale or shipment in commerce. See 7 USC 202
• storage facility: means a facility which uses energy storage technology within the meaning of section 48(c)(6). See 26 USC 7701
• student: means any individual&mdash. See
• subscription: includes a mark when the person making the same intended it as such. See 1 USC 1
• sugar: means sugar in any form whatsoever, derived from sugar beets or sugarcane, whether raw sugar or direct-consumption sugar, including also edible molasses, sirups, and any mixture containing sugar (except blackstrap molasses and beet molasses). See 7 USC 609
• supervision of weighing: means such supervision by official inspection personnel of the grain-weighing process as is determined by the Secretary to be adequate to reasonably assure the integrity and accuracy of the weighing and of certificates which set forth the weight of the grain and such physical inspection by such personnel of the premises at which the grain weighing is performed as will reasonably assure that all the grain intended to be weighed has been weighed and discharged into the elevator or conveyance. See 7 USC 75
• Supplemental nutrition assistance program: means the program operated pursuant to this chapter. See 7 USC 2012
• sustainable agriculture: means an integrated system of plant and animal production practices having a site-specific application that will, over the long-term&mdash. See 7 USC 3103
• swine contractor: means any person engaged in the business of obtaining swine under a swine production contract for the purpose of slaughtering the swine or selling the swine for slaughter, if&mdash. See 7 USC 182
• swine production contract: means any growout contract or other arrangement under which a swine production contract grower raises and cares for the swine in accordance with the instructions of another person. See 7 USC 182
• swine production contract grower: means any person engaged in the business of raising and caring for swine in accordance with the instructions of another person. See 7 USC 182
• taxable year: means the calendar year, or the fiscal year ending during such calendar year, upon the basis of which the taxable income is computed under subtitle A. See
• taxpayer: means any person subject to any internal revenue tax. See
• telephone service: shall be deemed to mean any communication service for the transmission or reception of voice, data, sounds, signals, pictures, writing, or signs of all kinds by wire, fiber, radio, light, or other visual or electromagnetic means, and shall include all telephone lines, facilities, or systems used in the rendition of such service. See 7 USC 924
• Thrifty food plan: means the diet required to feed a family of four persons consisting of a man and a woman twenty through fifty, a child six through eight, and a child nine through eleven years of age, determined in accordance with the Secretary's calculations. See 7 USC 2012
• TIN: means the identifying number assigned to a person under section 6109. See
• Tobacco: means tobacco in its unmanufactured form. See 7 USC 511
• trade or business: includes the performance of the functions of a public office. See
• transaction: includes a series of transactions. See
• Tribal organization: means the recognized governing body of an Indian tribe (including the tribally recognized intertribal organization of such tribes), as the term "Indian tribe" is defined in section 5304 of title 25, as well as any Indian tribe, band, or community holding a treaty with a State government. See 7 USC 2012
• tuber propagated: means propagated by a tuber or a part of a tuber. See 7 USC 2401
• United States: means the States (including Puerto Rico) and the territories and possessions of the United States (including the District of Columbia). See 7 USC 75
• United States: when used in a geographical sense, means all of the States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See 7 USC 4502
• United States: includes all Territories and possessions of the United States except the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Island, and the island of Guam. See 19 USC 1401
• United States: means the 50 States of the United States of America. See 7 USC 2116
• United States: when used in a geographical sense includes only the States and the District of Columbia. See
• United States person: means &mdash. See
• university: include a research foundation maintained by a college or university described in subparagraph (A). See 7 USC 3103
• variety: means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, that, without regard to whether the conditions for plant variety protection are fully met, can be defined by the expression of the characteristics resulting from a given genotype or combination of genotypes, distinguished from any other plant grouping by the expression of at least one characteristic and considered as a unit with regard to the suitability of the plant grouping for being propagated unchanged. See 7 USC 2401
• vehicle: includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. See 1 USC 4
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3
• vessel: includes every description of water craft or other contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation in water, but does not include aircraft. See 19 USC 1401
• Weigher: means any person employed, licensed, or authorized by the Secretary to weigh and certify the weight of tobacco. See 7 USC 511
• whoever: include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals. See 1 USC 1
• Wood rosin: means rosin remaining after the distillation of steam distilled wood turpentine. See 7 USC 92
• Wood turpentine: includes steam distilled wood turpentine and destructively distilled wood turpentine. See 7 USC 92
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1