As used in the act, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1)  The term "peas and lentils" means dry peas, lentils, chickpeas and garbanzos grown in the state of Idaho except it does not include wrinkled varieties of peas grown for seed or chickpeas or garbanzos grown south of the Salmon River.

Terms Used In Idaho Code 22-3503

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
    • (2)  "Commercial channels" means the sale of peas or lentils for use as food, feed, seed, or any industrial or chemurgic use, when sold to any commercial buyer, user, dealer, processor, cooperative, or to any person, public or private, who resells any pea or lentil product produced from peas or lentils.
    (3)  "Commission" means the Idaho pea and lentil commission.
    (4)  "First purchaser" means any person, group, association, partnership, or corporation that buys peas or lentils from the grower in the first instance, or any lienholder, public or private, including the commodity credit corporation, who may possess peas or lentils from the grower under any lien.
    (5)  "Grower" means any landowner personally engaged in growing peas or lentils, a tenant of the landowner personally engaged in growing peas or lentils, or both the owner and the tenant jointly, and includes a person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative, trust, sharecropper or any and all other business units, devices and arrangements, who has grown or marketed peas or lentils in either of the preceding two (2) years.
    (6)  "Sale" includes any pledge, mortgage, trade, or contract device, or delivery of peas or lentils for sale or payment after harvest to any person, public or private.
    (7)  "Deliver" means placing of peas or lentils into the primary channels of trade.
    (8)  "Dealer" means any person, group, association, partnership or corporation which acts as principal or agent or otherwise in selling, marketing, warehousing, or distributing dry peas or lentils not produced by such person, group, association, partnership or corporation.
    (9)  "Processor" means any person, group, association, partnership or corporation which acts as principal or agent or otherwise in processing dry peas or lentils not produced by such person, group, association, partnership or corporation.