Terms Used In Idaho Code 22-3710

  • Commission: means the Idaho cherry commission. See Idaho Code 22-3703
  • Dealer: means any person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative or other business unit or device who first handles, packs, ships, buys or sells cherries or who acts as sales or purchasing agent, broker or factor of cherries. See Idaho Code 22-3703
  • Grower: means any landowner personally engaged in growing cherries, a tenant personally engaged in growing cherries or both the owner and tenant jointly, and includes a person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative organization, trust, sharecropper, or any and all other business units, devices and arrangements that grow cherries. See Idaho Code 22-3703
  • Person: means any partnership, association, corporation, cooperative or other business unit or device. See Idaho Code 22-3703
  • processing plant: means every person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative or other business unit or device to whom and every place to which cherries are delivered for drying, freezing, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting, cooking and for use in producing a product or manufacturing a manufactured product. See Idaho Code 22-3703
  • 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
There is hereby levied upon all cherries grown annually in this state and all cherries packed as Idaho cherries an assessment of twenty dollars ($20.00) a ton. Provided, however, this section shall not apply to cherries shipped to a processing plant for processing, nor shall it apply to any person, dealer or grower who sells less than one thousand (1000) pounds of cherries in any marketing year. Provided, however, the exemption for shipment or sales to a processing plant for processing may be eliminated by a referendum mail ballot vote conducted by the commission among the cherry growers of this state, and provided further, the vote is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the growers of fifty percent (50%) or more of the acreage represented in the voting. All moneys collected hereunder shall be expended to effectuate the purposes and object of this act.