Michigan Laws 290.452 – License required; exemptions
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(1) A person shall not engage in or purport to be engaged in the business of a wholesale potato dealer or advertise as a wholesale potato dealer, unless that person is licensed by the director to carry on that business.
(2) A grower or grower cooperative who buys or receives only seed potatoes from another grower or grower cooperative for the grower’s or grower cooperative’s own planting use is exempt from this act.
Terms Used In Michigan Laws 290.452
- Director: means the director of the department of agriculture and his or her authorized agents and representatives. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- Grower: means a person engaged in the business of growing and producing potatoes. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- Grower cooperative: means an organization of growers or a division of an organization of growers, or a federation of cooperatives of growers engaged in the marketing, bargaining, shipping, or processing functions of potatoes on behalf of its members or nonmembers who are the producers of potatoes. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
- Person: means a corporation, company, association, cooperative organization, partnership, individual, or other legal entity. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- Potatoes: means any variety of Irish potatoes in fresh form included in the species solanum tuberosum. See Michigan Laws 290.451
- Wholesale potato dealer: means a person who buys potatoes in wholesale lots directly from a grower or grower cooperative or who sells or handles those potatoes in wholesale lots for the purpose of processing or resale to other wholesale potato dealers, retailers, restaurants, hotels, institutions, or hospitals. See Michigan Laws 290.451
(3) A wholesale potato dealer who does not sell or handle potatoes in wholesale lots for the purpose of processing or resale to other wholesale potato dealers, retailers, restaurants, hotels, or institutions and who buys an aggregate amount of less than 30,000 pounds of potatoes during each calendar month of a calendar year is exempt from this act for the following calendar year.