Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 60.13 - Processor and preparer liens for agricultural products

• Agricultural product: means any unprocessed horticultural, vermicultural and its by-products, viticultural, berry, poultry, poultry product, grain, bee, or other agricultural products, and includes mint or mint oil processed by or for the producer thereof and hay and straw baled or prepared for market in any manner or form and livestock. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Commercial fisher: means a person licensed to fish commercially for or to take food fish or shellfish or steelhead legally caught pursuant to executive order, treaty right, or federal statute. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Delivers: means that a producer completes the performance of all contractual obligations with reference to the transfer of actual or constructive possession or control of an agricultural product to a processor or conditioner or preparer, regardless of whether the processor or conditioner or preparer takes physical possession. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• 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.
• Fish: means food fish or shellfish or steelhead legally caught pursuant to executive order, treaty right, or federal statute. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• 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
• Preparer: means a person engaged in the business of feeding livestock or preparing livestock products for market. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• Processor: means any person, firm, company, or other organization that purchases agricultural products except milk and milk products from a consignor and that cans, freezes, dries, dehydrates, cooks, presses, powders, or otherwise processes those crops in any manner whatsoever for eventual resale, or that purchases or markets milk from a dairy producer and is obligated to remit payment to such dairy producer directly. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Vinifera grapes: means the agricultural product commonly known as Vitis vinifera and those hybrid of Vitis vinifera that have predominantly the character of Vitis vinifera. See Washington Code 60.13.010
• Wine producer: means any person or other entity licensed under Title 66 RCW to produce within the state wine from vinifera grapes. See Washington Code 60.13.010