§ 4-4-101 Title
§ 4-4-102 Department to establish egg grades and standards — Authority to make and enforce rules
§ 4-4-103 Definitions
§ 4-4-104 Unlawful acts specified
§ 4-4-105 Maintenance of candling records — Inspection of records
§ 4-4-106 Retailers exempt from prosecution — Conditions for exemption
§ 4-4-107 Exemptions from regulation
§ 4-4-108 Packaging for small producer

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 4 > Chapter 4 - Eggs

  • Adherent yolk: means the yolk has settled to one side and become fastened to the shell. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affected entity: means :
    (i) a county of the first or second class in whose unincorporated area the area proposed for annexation is located;
    (ii) a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class in whose unincorporated area the area proposed for annexation is located, if the area includes residents or commercial or industrial development;
    (iii) a special district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Special Districts, or special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act, whose boundary includes any part of an area proposed for annexation;
    (iv) a school district whose boundary includes any part of an area proposed for annexation, if the boundary is proposed to be adjusted as a result of the annexation; and
    (v) a municipality whose boundaries are within 1/2 mile of an area proposed for annexation. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Agricultural operation: means a farm, ranch, or animal feeding operation. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Agriculture: means the science and art of the production of plants and animals useful to man, including the preparation of plants and animals for human use and disposal by marketing or otherwise. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Agriculture water: means :
    (a) water used by a farm, ranch, or feedlot for the production of food, fiber, or fuel;
    (b) the return flow of water from irrigated agriculture; or
    (c) agricultural storm water runoff. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Albumen: means the white of an egg. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Alternate: means a substitute for a district supervisor if the district supervisor cannot attend a meeting. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Animal feeding operation: means a facility where animals, other than aquatic animals, are stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any 12-month period. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Annexation petition: means a petition under Section 10-2-403 proposing the annexation to a municipality of a contiguous, unincorporated area that is contiguous to the municipality. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Best management practices: means practices, including management policies and the use of technology, used by each sector of agriculture in the production of food and fiber that are commonly accepted practices, or that are at least as effective as commonly accepted practices, and that:
    (a) protect the environment;
    (b) protect human health;
    (c) ensure the humane treatment of animals; and
    (d) promote the financial viability of agricultural production. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Black rot: means the egg has deteriorated to such an extent that the whole interior presents a blackened appearance. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Black spot: means mold or bacteria have developed in isolated areas inside the shell. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Blood ring: means bacteria have developed to such an extent that blood is formed. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Candling: means the act of determining the condition of an egg by holding it before a strong light in such a way that the light shines through the egg and reveals the egg's contents. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Certifying agency: means :
    (a) an agency authorized under the laws of a state, territory, or possession to officially certify seed and that has standards and procedures approved by the United States Secretary of Agriculture to assure the genetic purity and identity of the seed certified; or
    (b) an agency of a foreign country determined by the United States Secretary of Agriculture to adhere to procedures and standards for seed certification. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Commission: means the State Tax Commission. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Commission: means the State Tax Commission. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Commission: means a boundary commission established under Section 10-2-409 for the county in which the property that is proposed for annexation is located. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Commission: means the Conservation Commission created in Section 4-18-104. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and food. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Complete record: includes seed samples and records of declarations, labels, purchases, sales, conditioning, bulking, treatment, handling, storage, analyses, tests, and examinations. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • Contiguous: means :
    (a) if used to described an area, continuous, uninterrupted, and without an island of territory not included as part of the area; and
    (b) if used to describe an area's relationship to another area, sharing a common boundary. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractual franchise fee: means :
    (a) a fee:
    (i) provided for in a franchise agreement; and
    (ii) that is consideration for the franchise agreement; or
    (b) 
    (i) a fee similar to Subsection (2)(a); or
    (ii) any combination of Subsections (2)(a) and (b). See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • 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.
  • County executive: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • County legislative body: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • customer: means the person who is obligated under a contract with a telecommunications provider to pay for telecommunications service received under the contract. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • De minimis amount: means an amount of taxable energy that does not exceed the greater of:
    (a) 5% of the energy supplier's estimated total Utah gross receipts from sales of property or services; or
    (b) $10,000. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Delivered value: means the fair market value of the taxable energy delivered for sale or use in the municipality and includes:
    (i) the value of the energy itself; and
    (ii) any transportation, freight, customer demand charges, services charges, or other costs typically incurred in providing taxable energy in usable form to each class of customer in the municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Food created in Chapter 2, Administration. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • End consumer: means a household consumer, restaurant, institution, or any other person who has purchased or received shell eggs for consumption. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • End user: means the person who uses a telecommunications service. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Energy supplier: means a person supplying taxable energy, except that the commission may by rule exclude from this definition a person supplying a de minimis amount of taxable energy. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Expansion area: means the unincorporated area that is identified in an annexation policy plan under Section 10-2-401. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Feasibility consultant: means a person or firm with expertise in the processes and economics of local government. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Franchise agreement: means a franchise or an ordinance, contract, or agreement granting a franchise. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Franchise tax: means :
    (a) a franchise tax;
    (b) a tax similar to a franchise tax; or
    (c) any combination of Subsections (7)(a) and (b). See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing body: means collectively the legislative body and the executive of any municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Gross receipts from telecommunications service: includes a charge necessary to complete a sale of a telecommunications service. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • hazardous materials: means the same as that term is defined in Section 19-6-902. See Utah Code 10-11-1
  • Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Label: includes a representation on an invoice, bill, or letterhead. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Legislative body: means the legislative body of the municipality. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Livestock: means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, poultry, domesticated elk as defined in Section 4-39-102, or any other domestic animal or domestic furbearer raised or kept for profit. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Lot: means a definite quantity of seed identified by a number or other mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform within recognized tolerances for the factors that appear in the labeling. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • Mall intersection: means any intersection of a street constituting a part of a pedestrian mall with any street which intersection is itself part of a pedestrian mall. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Mining protection area: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17-41-101. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Mobile telecommunications service: is a s defined in the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Moldy: means mold spores have formed within the shell. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Municipal selection committee: means a committee in each county composed of the mayor of each municipality within that county. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Municipality: includes every city or town within this state. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Municipality: means :
    (a) a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class;
    (b) a town, as classified in Section 10-2-301; or
    (c) a metro township as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-403 unless the term is used in the context of authorizing, governing, or otherwise regulating the provision of municipal services. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Pedestrian mall: means one or more streets or portions thereof, on which vehicular traffic is, or is to be, restricted in whole or in part and which is, or is to be, used exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Peninsula: when used to describe an unincorporated area, means an area surrounded on more than 1/2 of its boundary distance, but not completely, by incorporated territory and situated so that the length of a line drawn across the unincorporated area from an incorporated area to an incorporated area on the opposite side shall be less than 25% of the total aggregate boundaries of the unincorporated area. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Person: is a s defined in Section 59-12-102. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • Person: means a natural person or individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, company, association, receiver, trustee, or agent. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Personal property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Planning advisory area: means the same as that term is defined in Section 17-27a-306. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • Pollution: means a harmful human-made or human-induced alteration to the water of the state, including an alteration to the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of water that harms the water of the state. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • real property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Road: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Rural real property: includes any portion of private real property, if the private real property:
    (A) qualifies as rural real property under Subsection (1)(j)(i); and
    (B) consists of more than 1,500 total acres. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • service address: means :
    (a) if the location described in this Subsection (8)(a) is known, the location of the telecommunications equipment:
    (i) to which a call is charged; and
    (ii) from which the call originates or terminates;
    (b) if the location described in Subsection (8)(a) is not known but the location described in this Subsection (8)(b) is known, the location of the origination point of the signal of the telecommunications service first identified by:
    (i) the telecommunications system of the telecommunications provider; or
    (ii) if the system used to transport the signal is not a system of the telecommunications provider, information received by the telecommunications provider from its service provider; or
    (c) if the locations described in Subsection (8)(a) or (b) are not known, the location of a customer's place of primary use. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Small producer: means a producer of shell eggs:
    (a) having less than 3,000 layers;
    (b) selling only to an end consumer; and
    (c) who is exempt from 21 C. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Sowing: means the placement of agricultural seed, vegetable seed, flower seed, tree and shrub seed, or seed for sprouting in a selected environment for the purpose of obtaining plant growth. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • Specified county: means a county of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Street: means any public road, street, highway, alley, lane, court, way, or place of any nature open to the use of the public, excluding state highways. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Sustainable agriculture: means agriculture production and practices that promote:
    (a) the environmental responsibility of owners and operators of farms, ranches, and feedlots; and
    (b) the profitability of owners and operators of farms, ranches, and feedlots. See Utah Code 4-18-103
  • Taxable energy: means gas and electricity. See Utah Code 10-1-303
  • telecommunications provider: means a person that:
    (i) owns, controls, operates, or manages a telecommunications service; or
    (ii) engages in an activity described in Subsection (9)(a)(i) for the shared use with or resale to any person of the telecommunications service. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Telecommunications service: means :
    (a) telecommunications service, as defined in Section 59-12-102, other than mobile telecommunications service, that originates and terminates within the boundaries of this state;
    (b) mobile telecommunications service, as defined in Section 59-12-102:
    (i) that originates and terminates within the boundaries of one state; and
    (ii) only to the extent permitted by the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U. See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • telecommunications tax or fee: means any of the following imposed by a municipality on a telecommunications provider:
    (i) a tax;
    (ii) a license;
    (iii) a fee;
    (iv) a license fee;
    (v) a license tax;
    (vi) a franchise fee; or
    (vii) a charge similar to a tax, license, or fee described in Subsections (11)(a)(i) through (vi). See Utah Code 10-1-402
  • Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Town: means a municipality classified by population as a town under Section 10-2-301. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Tree and shrub seed: includes seed of woody plants commonly known and sold as tree and shrub seeds in this state. See Utah Code 4-16-102
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Unincorporated: means not within a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Unincorporated peninsula: means an unincorporated area:
    (i) that is part of a larger unincorporated area;
    (ii) that extends from the rest of the unincorporated area of which it is a part;
    (iii) that is surrounded by land that is within a municipality, except where the area connects to and extends from the rest of the unincorporated area of which it is a part; and
    (iv) whose width, at any point where a straight line may be drawn from a place where it borders a municipality to another place where it borders a municipality, is no more than 25% of the boundary of the area where it borders a municipality. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Urban development: means :
    (i) a housing development with more than 15 residential units and an average density greater than one residential unit per acre; or
    (ii) a commercial or industrial development for which cost projections exceed $750,000 for all phases. See Utah Code 10-2-401
  • white rot: means putrid or rotten. See Utah Code 4-4-103
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5