Washington Code 16.49.015 – Definitions
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Terms Used In Washington Code 16.49.015
- 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.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- 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: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
(1) “Department” means the department of agriculture of the state of Washington.
(2) “Director” means the director of the department or the director’s designee.
(3) “Custom farm slaughterer” means a person licensed to slaughter meat food animals for the owner of the animal through the use of a mobile unit.
(4) “Custom slaughtering establishment” means the facility operated by a person licensed to slaughter meat food animals for the owner of the animal at a fixed location.
(5) “Custom meat facility” means the facility operated by a person licensed to prepare uninspected meat for the owner of the uninspected meat. Operators of custom meat facilities may also sell prepackaged inspected meat to any person. This chapter does not prohibit the operator of a custom meat facility from being licensed to prepare at the facility and sell inspected meat to any person.
(6) “Inspected meat” means the carcasses or carcass parts of meat food animals which have been slaughtered and inspected at establishments subject to inspection under a federal meat inspection act.
(7) “Uninspected meat” means the carcasses or carcass parts of meat food animals that have been slaughtered by the owner of the animals, a custom farm slaughterer, or at a custom slaughtering establishment.
(8) “Household user” means the ultimate consumer, members of the consumer’s household, and his or her nonpaying guests and employees.
(9) “Person” means any individual, partnership, association, and corporation.
(10) “Meat food animal” means cattle, swine, sheep, or goats.
(11) “Meat food bird” means a ratite, such as an ostrich, emu, or rhea.
(12) “Official establishment” means an establishment operated for the purpose of slaughtering meat food animals for sale or use as human food in compliance with the federal meat inspection act.
(13) “Prepared” means smoked, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise processed.
NOTES:
Savings—1987 c 77: “This act does not affect any existing right acquired or liability or obligation incurred under the sections amended or repealed in this act or under any rule, regulation, or order adopted under those sections, and does not affect any proceeding instituted under those sections.” [ 1987 c 77 § 12.]