New Jersey Statutes 4:10-34. Definitions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 4:10-34
- 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.
- 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 corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- Secretary: means the secretary of agriculture. See New Jersey Statutes 4:10-1
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(a) “Potatoes” means all varieties of the tuber (Solanum Tuberosum L) commonly known as Irish Potatoes.
(b) “Secretary” means the Secretary of Agriculture of the State of New Jersey.
(c) “Board” means the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture.
(d) “Person” means a natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or any other business enterprise.
(e) “Closed packages” means all containers of any description, containing potatoes, which are enclosed on all sides and includes hampers, baskets, boxes, crates, cartons and bags of any size or material.
(f) “Open packages” means all containers of any description, containing potatoes, which are open on at least one side or end and includes hampers, baskets, boxes, crates, cartons and bags of any size or material; but does not include storage or display bins of potatoes in bulk.
(g) “Used packages” means all containers of any description which have been previously used for packing potatoes or other commodities.
(h) “Grades” means the official grades as promulgated from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States as United States Standards for Potatoes, commonly known as U.S. Grades.
(i) “Unclassified” –as applied to potatoes for the purpose of this act means any lot of potatoes which fails to meet the requirements of U.S. No. 2 Grade but contains an aggregate of not more than 15 per cent, by weight, of potatoes which are seriously damaged, including therein not more than 5 per cent which are frozen, or affected by southern bacterial wilt, ring rot, late blight, soft rot or wet breakdown, and further including not more than 3 per cent which are frozen, or affected by soft rot or wet breakdown.
(j) “Culls” –as applied to potatoes for the purpose of this act means any lot of potatoes which contains:
(1) More than 3 per cent of potatoes which are frozen, or affected by soft rot or wet breakdown, or
(2) More than an aggregate of 5 per cent which are frozen, or affected by southern bacterial wilt, ring rot, late blight, soft rot or wet breakdown, or
(3) More than 15 per cent, by weight, of potatoes which are seriously damaged by any cause.
L.1963, c. 116, s. 1.